ceremonial massage & meditation
𓆸 three paths of body-based care
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✺ ceremonial deep tissue massage
A slow, intentional deep-tissue experience working with muscles and fascia. Addresses chronic tension and bodily pain within a calm, ceremonial space.
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✺ Chi Nei Tsang (bellywork)
Focused abdominal organ massage that reconnects you with your core. Supports digestion, emotional processing, and full-body balance through firm, intentional touch.
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✺ psychedelic integration massage
There are many ways to integrate. Gentle, intuitive bodywork that supports grounding and integration beyond talk alone.
the art of touch𓆸 to receive bodywork is to return to an ancient and foundational way of being
𓆸 the body understands contact before it understands explanation
𓆸 touch restores orientation, belonging, and safety
my approach
I offer ceremonial bodywork that works with the nervous system and uses touch, breath, and sound to create space for deep presence and integration.
This is not technical bodywork. This is relational, embodied work.
I work with people who want to go deeper. Who know there's more available in their body than tension release. Who are willing to meet themselves in the quiet, in the places where words don't reach.
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.-Lao TzuHi, I’m Emily.
Before I became a massage therapist, I spent over a decade guiding people through unfamiliar terrain, across glaciers, deserts, and mountains. Whether I was leading an expedition up Kilimanjaro or crossing a glacially fed river in Alaska, my role was the same: to read the landscape, read the group, and stay steady when things were uncertain.
Over time, that same way of listening moved from the trail into my hands. I realized that the body is the ultimate landscape. It holds its own weather, its own mountains of tension, and its own deep, quiet valleys of rest.
My bodywork is slow, intentional, and relational. I work with the nervous system, fascia, and the places where tension, emotion, and memory gather in the body. I give particular attention to the core and belly, the sanctuary for much of our deepest holding. My touch is attuned and responsive. I am less interested in fixing and more interested in creating the conditions where your body can soften, reorganize, and remember its own intelligence. My style is simultaneously subtle and deeply specific, combining nervous-system attunement with informed deep tissue work. I follow the body's patterns layer by layer rather than imposing a technique.
“In the dark, touch was how we saw.”
I am a licensed massage therapist and a certified mindfulness meditation teacher. My training includes a 700-hour program at the Sedona School of Massage, along with studies in Traditional Thai Massage and Chi Nei Tsang in Thailand. All of my teachers have shaped not just my techniques, but my respect for the body as intelligent, communicative, and worthy of careful attention.
My relationship to touch comes from a lineage of listening. Touch is ancient. Long before language or artificial light, humans learned to know one another and the world through contact. We fed, soothed, bathed, healed, sang, and grieved through our hands. In the dark, touch was how we saw.
Massage is as much about presence as it is about touch. It is a listening practice. Sessions often unfold quietly, sometimes with emotion, sometimes with deep rest. I trust the body as a way of knowing, and I welcome whatever arises. My intention is to offer a space where you do not have to perform, push, or explain, where your body can be met exactly as it is, and where healing can continue long after the session ends.
✺ ceremonial deep tissue massage
Through ceremonial deep tissue massage, we bring greater alignment to the body-mind-spirit-heart-womb connection. Together, we call upon breath, presence, vibration, and your body’s innate intelligence to heal and unwind.
The pace of your session will be slow and deep, inviting your body to relax and release tension. Each technique is chosen to support your unique needs, blending connective tissue therapy, Swedish massage, neuromuscular trigger point work, and elements of Thai massage, Chi Nei Tsang, craniosacral therapy, and polarity. I also weave the healing power of music into the space towards the end of your session. Through intuitive singing, I guide you into a deeper liminal state, allowing sound and vibration to nurture your being. By inviting melodies to support your journey, we tap into the ancient and powerful technology of sound to deepen your connection to awareness, embodiment, and expression.
This practice is a vehicle for healing and transformation.
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✺ Chi Nei Tsang
Thai abdominal organ massage
Chi Nei Tsang is focused abdominal bodywork that works directly with the internal organs, breath, and nervous system. The belly is the center of digestion, regulation, and emotional processing, and it is a common place where stress and unresolved experience are held. As our original point of connection and growth (the place where the umbilical cord once attached us to our source) the belly is where our magic lies. In this work, we listen closely to the tissues of the abdomen and support the body in restoring balance from the inside out.
Developed centuries ago by Taoist cloud monks to support vitality and internal harmony, Chi Nei Tsang clears the internal landscape to allow for a greater flow of chi, or life force energy. The practice supports the circulation of blood and lymph through the abdomen, helping the organs communicate more effectively and release congestion held in the tissues. Rather than addressing symptoms alone, it works at the source, supporting detoxification, nervous system regulation, and emotional processing as the body reorganizes its natural rhythms.
“Through focusing on the abdomen, Chi Nei Tsang brings about healing from within, from the center, the roots, the origin of life itself.”
A Chi Nei Tsang session involves slow, focused abdominal work that follows a specific sequence while remaining responsive to your body's cues. For some people, the work feels subtle and grounding; for others, it can be intense, emotional, or deeply clarifying. Sessions are 75-90 minutes and include time for a small intake, about 50 minutes of hands-on belly work, and some time at the end for integrative Thai massage on the feet, legs, and neck.
Because this work unfolds in layers, it is most effective when received as an initial series of six sessions, ideally spaced every couple weeks. This allows for an unwinding of long-held patterns and a deeper restoration of your center.
This is powerful, precise work. It is not gentle, but it is deeply respectful.
Preparing for your session
To allow for the deepest work, Chi Nei Tsang is performed on an empty stomach (no food 2 hours prior) and is not practiced during menstruation, pregnancy, or if certain medical devices (like IUDs or pacemakers) are present. You can view a full list of my safety policies and contraindications here.
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✺ psychedelic integration massage
Your body knows what words can’t express
There are many ways to integrate. Some experiences live deep in the psyche, in your nervous system, in you breath, in places beyond the veil where language can't quite reach. When the insights feel too vast to articulate, bodywork offers a way to ground these journeys.
A nervous system-informed approach
The sessions follow the same slow, intentional pace as my ceremonial deep tissue work, honoring the body’s sensitivity and timing. Through skilled touch, nervous system regulation, and a carefully held container supported by scent and sound, the work invites your body to integrate organically.
I do not facilitate psychedelic experiences. All sessions are sober and designed to support you in the days, weeks, or months before or after your psychedelic experience.
For individuals
Based in Boulder, Colorado, I work with people navigating the terrain between profound experience and daily life.
Sessions are 90 minutes plus time for checking in about where you are in your integration process.
For practitioners and facilitators
If you guide others through psychedelic work and want to offer grounded, professional bodywork as part of your integration support, I'm available to:
Provide sessions for your clients or sangha members
Travel to support retreat participants
Collaborate on creating embodied integration frameworks
Two ways to experience this work firsthand:
Deep Dive: 50% off your first 90-minute session.
The Introduction: A complimentary 30-minute session.
This work has grown through relationship, word of mouth, and lived experience. I continue to collaborate with practitioners and communities who recognize the body as central to integration.
𓆸 Ready to connect?
Let’s schedule a brief call to discuss how embodied bodywork can support you or your practice