Amie's Therapeutic Massage

🙌🏼🥰 Thanks Ben for the lovely words!
It’s been a wonderful year working with you and I look forward to many more.

Working on the glide, slide and hydration of my IT band.

Who is ready to work on theirs???

Yes my rates are going up a bit in July, but I’m not charging more for these types of services. You come in and I give you everything I got to do what I can to make things better.

If you want to try this for the sake of trying it, cool 😎 let’s do it.

I think between the FST ( Fascial stretch therapy) and the MFD ( Myofascial decompression therapy) I’ll need you to come in shorts, tanks, and sports bras. Let’s just be prepared for anything.

Second shot 4/14/21 for those that prefer to wait 2 more weeks.

I’ll probably wait till I’m back from some trainings I’m doing in May before I run the free service contest, but get on my Instagram now and you’ll be the first to hear about it when I do make the offer.

I appreciate being appreciated for being professional 🙌🏼

I recently brought this tool in that I’ve had for some time.
I bought it with the intention of using on clients, but after owning it and using it on myself I felt that my ✋ 🤚 were a much more effective tool.
While my ✋ 🤚 are always going to be my number one ☝️ tool, there are applications for this percussion gun. So I finally brought it in.
This is not an “up charge” , and that goes for any extra trainings and modalities I learn. If I have something that can help you I’m going to use it!
I can’t stand it when I go for a massage and they try to up sell me on every little thing. Just increase your prices and give me the best dang massage you can with whatever tools you think you need to get the job done.
I’ve been asked to pay $10 for the gun, $10 for cupping, $10 for a special cream, $10 for hot pack. Okay, I understand extra for products like CBD as that actually costs more and it’s not something everyone would feel comfortable with, but tiger balm? Sorry, but that’s not expensive. 🤷🏻‍♀️

🙌🏼 For reviews. Helping other people looking for therapeutic body work find me, and helping people that want a “fluffy” massage go somewhere else.
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I literally had a client ask me if people come in to me expecting a more “Swedish” massage and then are disappointed they get a more therapeutic massage.
I said no. It may have happened in my spa days, but I’m 100% capable of giving a very light relaxing massage. Years of working in a spa taught me that. I’d have people come in and say I like light massage and to just relax. In my head I’d be like this is going to be a long hour, and at the end most would say that was the best massage ever.
Why? How?
Well, for one I intentionally have developed my techniques to be a combination of relaxing and therapeutic. For true results the nervous system has to be on board. You and your body need to trust me, and the more relaxed you are the more we can get done in a session.
So, all the “therapeutic techniques” can be delivered at different levels of pressure or subtly done with purely just intention for those that are particularly sensitive to touch.
In the end between my business name, information on my website, reviews such as this one, and my price point. It keeps most people that don’t have an appreciation for truly therapeutic massage designed for results to look somewhere else. Which is perfect for me. I only have so many hours a day I can give myself to my work. I prefer to work with people that challenge me. Please that come unfortunately in pain, but leave with abundant gratitude for that feeling of pain relief.
I thank you client for helping the right people that need me find me by leaving a review 🙏🏼

☀️Looking forward to that first day back in the office.
♥️Looking forward to turning on that hot cabinet full of hot packs and hot towels. ☺️Turning on the table warmer, and the HEPA air filter. Opening the blinds, and the windows to invite fresh air into the room. Turning on the relaxing music of flutes, chimes, and birds.
🌱 Looking forward to hauling my little plants babies outside and giving them some much needed food and water.
🤩What I’m looking forward to the most is seeing your smiling faces, hearing how you have been, and then doing everything I can to make things even better.

I love what I do. I love that I can help people feel better in their bodies, and that make me feel good.

“Relaxing yet therapeutic” that right there is my goal. Therapy happens when you are relaxed and your nervous system is on board.
There are a lot of conditions that I think most people don’t realize massage can help solve like bursitis.
I can’t tell you how many times someone after the fact mentions a condition they have learned to live with just to let me know about it so I don’t aggravate it, but then I work on it and it improves significantly.
Ariel is a hairdresser and all that blow drying caused bursitis in her shoulder.
She experienced significant relief after one treatment and we quickly did a few more treatments back to back to help fully remedy the inflammation.
To this day the bursitis has not returned, but Ariel definitely has! 😉

Thank you 🙏🏼 I’ve been fortunate to work with these two for over a year now every other week.

These two were some of my first very regular clients when I first set out on my own August 2019. I felt blessed to get them as clients then and I feel even more blessed to still be trusted with their health and wellness now!

Tight Adductors? How is your butterfly fly strech?

I’ve got some fun new moves.

FST uses traction to create space in the joint before moving into deeper levels of a stretch. As an FST therapist I’ve been trained to find your tissues edge where the stretch is felt with NO PAIN!
Then we use movement and PNF to get more pain free range of motion.

Don’t know what PNF is? Well book an assisted stretch therapy session and I’ll teach you what it is.

Thank you so much Amanda!

Reviews are a great way to help my little business flourish.

Did you know Medical Massage is now considered “essential”.
Do you consider our work together essential? I do!!!
Want to get a massage, but also play by the rules? Yes! Me too!
Call your Doctor, nurse practitioner, or chiropractor and tell them the benefits that you receive from your massage with Amie. Let them know that you have been directed by your massage therapist to get a doctors referral if you are to continue to receive these health benefits under lockdown.
Feel free to rave about the health benefits in detail! Being specific helps.

Long wonderful week of learning came to a finale yesterday.
Who is ready for the best assisted strech session?

This photo is my teachers and my pod. There were a lot more of us, but we were divided into pods from our region of the states to limit our exposure. It would have been nice to get to know everyone in the class, but our little pod got close and we had fun.
Level 2 is just around the corner!

🙌🏼 YEAH A YELP REVIEW!!! Thank You, Thank You, Thank You....You don’t know how much this means to me!!!!
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As some of you may know Yelp decided ALL 4 of the reviews I had were “not recommended” and are basically hidden and don’t add any value to my yelp listing.
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For over a year two of those reviews were up, then two more left reviews and neither were ever posted even though both had found me via Yelp. That somehow triggered Yelp to move all my reviews to the “not recommended”.
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Yelp is not an honest and fair review site! They are a business. They do things like this so that I’ll pay to advertise and get my reviews back. What likely happened is a competitor paid Yelp to advertise and they decided to try and get rid of the competition....as angry as I’ve been over this matter I’ve been considering paying to “advertise” and get my reviews back.
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From just my two wonderful reviews I had got over a year ago I was getting a healthy amount of calls from Yelp. As a very small business owner this made a big impact.
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I also feel for people/my clients that put the time and energy into leaving me a review, and then for it to not be “worthy”.
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This review is from a “Yelper” that’s someone “they” trust. Someone that has written a handful of reviews. I think is VERY unlikely they will move this review to the “not recommended”, which has got me soooo excited 😊.
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So Favor here. If you have a Yelp account and have written more than 5 reviews. Please help me get my Yelp listing cranking again with more reviews. Pretty please 🙏🏼
If you have a Yelp account, but haven’t written any reviews—-> go write a few for your favorite business and then one for me!
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I know I’m asking a lot! I’m just a woman trying to beat the system...and save $300 a month on advertising. I’ve added a link to my Yelp listing in the comments.
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Do you suffer from Tightness in your jaw? TMJ? Teeth grinding?

I can help!

Not only do I treat the main muscles of the jaw, but all the accessory muscles that you wouldn’t think are affecting the jaw, but play a huge roll.

So far I’ve found this work to be long lasting!

Are you in need of some real results from your massage?

Just a few spots left before I go on vacation. Yes it’s a bit crazy I’m going on vacation after only being back open for a month, but the time was already scheduled before the county opened us back up.

Available appointments:
Tuesday October 27th for 60-90 minutes @1:45pm
Sunday November 1st @12:30 or 2pm

Otherwise I’m taking appointments for when I’m back!

Call or text: 805-836-1961

Today is a crazy busy day today and I’m OVERBOOKED, but I have times available Thursday and Sunday.

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Thank you for taking the time to write a review.
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Writing good reviews for small business that you love really helps them out. Everything on the internet is an algorithm. Each review for a short time boosts my business up in the search ranks, and collectively my ranks stay up the more reviews I have.
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Reviews also help the right clients find me!
Thank you for helping me shine on the google machine!!!

Do you train hard, work too hard?
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A therapeutic massage blended with assisted stretching will set you right.
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Massage has been proven to increase sport performance, and work performance.

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I love hearing from happy clients. Makes me warm and fuzzy 🥰

Please ignore the fact that I look like I’m laughing. I probably am. The model is my husband and there is another person in the room.
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Do you experience regular neck pain? Headaches? Tingling in the fingers?
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Then it’s time to book a massage.
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This is a great description of my massages style.
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When people ask me what kind of massage I do. I freeze. I say “therapeutic” but I think either that term is over used by people that don’t supply therapeutic massage or it just doesn’t sound that Pleasant.
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What words should I use to describe my style?
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I don’t know 🤷🏻‍♀️? What do you think?