Make the commitment to your health & wellness with Kristen Allen, Licensed Massage Therapist & set up your FREE CONSULT, today! 

Your journey to health & well-being with self-care is unique to you. 

If improving your Range of Motion, Health & Wellbeing, while Reducing Restrictions through gentle yet effective manual therapies to promote relaxation sounds great to you, then consider a massage to assist in getting you back into balance!

Let the energy of massage take you away to embrace the calm, and encourage a relaxing state of being for today, and days to come.  

Holistic Massage incorporates the whole body. 

Health is having good physical condition.

Wellness is the state of being in good health.

Through my Education & Training;
an Associates Degree In Science: Holistic Massage Therapy,

I've come to acknowledge and understand the importance of using various modalities to maintain physical health and wellbeing.

 As your Holistic Massage Practitioner, I'm here to help guide you in your approach to Holistic Alternative Therapies, through Massage Therapy!

Some holistic practices that were part of my education are decades old, while others are centuries old and still in practice today! Such modalities I was initiated into understanding (but am not a practitioner of) include Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Natural Herbal Preparations, QiGong, Yoga, Homeopathic Remedies using Cell Salts and Tap Therapy, and as my education evolves, so too do the acquired knowledge of, and discovery of more healing modalities! 

As a massage therapist, My Goal Is To Assist my clients in their personal healing journey, to help loosen muscles or soft tissue restrictions, and promote relaxation to attempt to improve sleep, range of motion or reduce pain, as well as assisting to realign soft tissue fibers, or fascia, to promote function, flow and cohesiveness of all systems of the body!

I discovered my passion for massage therapy, after an arduous road of trauma, loss, grief, and my own personal struggles with depression and anxiety. 

 My journey towards becoming a massage therapist was filled with determination and perseverance. I enrolled in a reputable massage therapy program and received my Associates Degree in Science : Holistic Massage.  I learned various techniques, anatomy, and the power of touch to heal. Throughout my training, I witnessed firsthand the transformative effects of massage on individuals dealing with a range of physical and emotional challenges.

 During my  practicum, I worked with diverse clients, many of whom were battling chronic pain, stress, addiction as well as the burdens of daily life, and some mild to moderate traumas. As I provided the soothing touch and therapeutic manipulations, I witnessed the remarkable changes and known benefits that were enhancing the quality of my clients' lives.  My style draws from a plethora of skills, understandings, and experiences. I strive to always cater to my client's specific needs and draw from my expertise in the field of Massage Therapy. 

I do not believe that pain is required for massage therapy to be effective.

I encourage an open connection with every client to ensure quality service, and that their goals and expectations are met. 

I am a Wife, Mother, Daughter, Aunt, and Massage Therapist who treasures all her relationships, prides herself on her work, and strives for understanding and awareness in everything she does. 

My clients are always a top priority. 

"I promise to provide a safe space for you, so that you may receive the maximum benefit of Massage Therapy. Your self-care choices, and life choices, will be respected. With integrity, this company will provide equal care to all people without discrimination, bias, or misrepresentation. We are of the same beginning, together, under one sun. We are all human, and compassion for your state of being is essential to heal, grow, and move forward with ease..

Let my hands, help you ease into a relaxed state of mind, assist in relaxing soft tissue restrictions, and forget about the worries and stresses of life during your massage...

I would love to get to know more about you, your massage goals, what's troubling you, and how I can help you with massage therapy." 

My Personal Self- Massage Journey:

As a Mother of 4, you can imagine the trauma my body has endured. 

I worked diligently honing in on my feelings of varying applications, pressures, and releases. With the knowledge of muscle attachment sites, and their kinesthetic capacity, I worked overtime at balancing my hips, shoulders, and abdominals to break up the scarring and adhesions from my abdominal surgeries. The effects for me were astounding. 

I could breathe better after Trigger Point Releases in my ribcage!  My serratus anterior, and intercostal muscles were restricting my breathing capacity, but not for long! I had a chest tube procedure in 2013, so you can imagine there was alot of work to be done after 7 years unmanaged! 

With regular movement through massage, my back aches became less frequent and aggressive. I started balancing my hips with lighter work, then deeper work into the deeper hip flexors, internal rotators and external rotators of the hip with massage techniques, yoga, and breath work!

My experience allowed me to re-align my musculature back to having a full range of motion in my shoulders, neck, and lower back, which in turn alleviated my back pain by rebalancing and stabilizing the major abdominal muscles after multiple surgeries associated with my personal experiences with 2 C-section childbirths in 2018 & 2021, and a chest tube procedure from 2013! Let's just say I had a lot of catching up to do when I realized the waterfall of issues I just ignored for so long!

I repositioned my gait in stance position to be more parallel and balanced my hip stabilizers with Touch Therapy Techniques, breath work, yoga, strength training, and stretching.  

I boosted my immune system with consistent manual lymphatic drainage techniques to keep my neck, shoulders, and upper back loose from carrying twins around, amidst the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic! And let's not forget the self-massage on the legs! Whole muscle belly movement, to release holds in varying positions with breath work and stretching did WONDERS for my aching lower back! 

All of my issues may not be your issues, and finding the right way to work the muscles will be unique to your body, as everyone moves differently, with different stresses, motions, and gaits. Movement from within, in conjunction with movement from outside the body is imperative to a good massage if its goal is to restore function and mobility.

  Awareness of systems within the body plays a huge role in knowing where and where not to avoid manual pressure application, and I would love to be a positive resource for you to trust in knowing that your wellness is just as important to me as it is to you!

  My goal in our sessions is to assist you in getting your muscles, circulation, and the overall function, movement, and pliability of your muscles back into their natural, balanced state with general massage practices and some mild breathing techniques.

My Practice is due to my practice.

With time on my hands and to continue on my journey of massage during the COVID-19 pandemic, I used a few case studies throughout the lockdown to take time and really feel the applications I was taught. What do I mean by that?

I wanted to understand the feeling of applications, techniques and releases, as well as trigger points, knots, and all the other terminology involved with massage. I wanted a full understanding of feeling from the inside AND out when modalities were applied. I did this by honing in on my 8th sense; Interoception. I did this with the help of my mentor (the Late) Sarah Y Cunningham, LMT, and OMT.

I'd love to share this understanding with you so that you may better develop a relationship with yourself, geared towards better self-care massage practices that you can use whenever you are dealing with tension, pain or soreness! By tuning into your internal awareness, you'll gain a deeper connection with your body, allowing you to intuitively respond to its needs and optimize your self-care routine.

Massage, Body Mechanics, Holistic Self-Care Practices, and Awareness of Alternative Health Modalities are the foundation of my practice. I was educated to have an understanding of the whole self regarding how the body works relative to the various systems of the body, up to and including the various layers of soft tissue, organs & the anatomy of a cell. The holistic approach to Massage Therapy is assessing the whole self in congruence with all the basic anatomy, daily activities, signs, symptoms, and other qualities of the body during a Massage Session and using that information to reduce problem areas of discomfort or pain to enhance relaxation.