To care for another body is to care for our own.
Building a Culture of Consious Touch
These offerings are designed for licensed and experienced professionals seeking to integrate conscious, trauma-informed touch into their existing work. These offerings support skill expansion, embodied awareness, and the creation of safer, more intentional touch-based experiences for clients, patients, and communities.
These trainings deepen somatic awareness, refine hands-on skills, and support nervous-system-centered care across clinical, wellness, and community settings. Programs may be offered as stand-alone professional development or customized for spas, clinics, wellness centers, healthcare organizations, and retreat environments.
Energy Work is also an accessible entry point for those curious about somatic practices or exploring a future path in touch-based professions.
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Our Professional Trainings
Advanced somatic and conscious touch education for professionals in wellness, healthcare, and caregiving.
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Touch of Relaxation is a gentle, nervous-system-centered course designed to support deep rest and regulation. Drawing from Swedish massage, craniosacral therapy, acupressure, meditation, and sensory techniques, this training teaches slow, attuned touch practices for clients experiencing insomnia, stress, trauma, or nervous system overwhelm. The focus is on creating safety, presence, and ease rather than intensity or correction.
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Integrative Therapeutic Massage is a comprehensive, body-led approach that weaves together structural, somatic, and energetic techniques into a cohesive therapeutic experience. Drawing from Swedish massage, myofascial release, Thai-inspired movement, craniosacral work, and conscious touch, this course teaches practitioners how to listen to the body and respond with skill, presence, and adaptability.
Rather than following rigid protocols, practitioners learn to assess the nervous system, tissue quality, and client needs in real time—creating sessions that support pain relief, emotional regulation, and long-term integration. The course emphasizes embodied awareness, pressure modulation, and safe, trauma-informed application across a wide range of bodies and conditions.
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This course introduces a Reiki-informed approach to energy work that integrates intuition, somatic awareness, and conscious presence. Practitioners learn to work with subtle energy as it moves through the body, using touch, awareness, and intention to support balance, regulation, and healing.
Training includes practices for opening and closing sacred space, cultivating intuitive perception, and maintaining energetic and spiritual hygiene before, during, and after sessions. Emphasis is placed on grounding, safety, consent, and attunement—ensuring that energetic work remains embodied, ethical, and supportive rather than dissociative.
Participants explore how energy can become held, disrupted, or stagnant through stress and trauma, and how gentle, intentional practices can support clearing, coherence, and integration. This course can be taken as a stand-alone offering or as a complement to bodywork, healthcare, and other somatic practices.
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The Touch of Peace Method is a comprehensive, integrative approach to bodywork rooted in conscious touch, nervous system regulation, and embodied presence. This method invites practitioners to experience touch as a relational and holistic practice—one that recognizes the body, mind, and spirit as part of an interconnected whole.
Each session begins by gently settling the nervous system, creating the safety and stillness necessary for the body to become receptive, flexible, and open to change. From this grounded state, touch becomes a form of communication—allowing the body to receive new information about its innate capacity for balance, healing, and homeostasis.
The method weaves together practical and subtle dimensions of touch, including:
Conscious Touch — how to touch with presence, consent, and intention
Letting the hands hear — developing deep listening through touch
Fascia awareness and structural responsiveness
Nervous system regulation and the art of “seducing” the nervous system into safety
Pressure and flow — navigating intensity with attunement and adaptability
Pain and pleasure as informative sensations, not goals
Energy work integrated through an embodied, grounded lens
Metta (loving-kindness) and an ACIM-informed perspective that emphasizes wholeness, compassion, and shared humanity
Rather than imposing technique, practitioners learn to listen—allowing touch to emerge from attunement, curiosity, and care. The Touch of Peace Method supports healing at the structural, emotional, energetic, and relational levels, offering a pathway for practitioners to facilitate deep integration while honoring the body’s innate wisdom.
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Expand Your Expertise with Thai Yoga Massage. Upgrade your skill set with versatile Thai Yoga techniques designed for the modern practitioner. This training offers a deep dive into effective bodywork methods and sustainable body mechanics. Learn to provide a transformative full-body experience—or pull specific sequences to enhance your existing services—guiding your clients toward deeper relaxation and peak physical progress.
What People Are Saying
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I loved her approach and combination of techniques that she used! Very easy to talk to as well.
— Amanda B.
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Mishelle has a wonderful healing touch and just the pressure and intuition. She is a kind listener and teacher for personal care. Will definitely be booking with Mishelle again. Thanks!
— Deanie G.
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Best massage I’ve had in months, and I’m old, so I’ve been getting them for a while. She listened to my needs, communicated well, and had me feeling 100% better by the time I left.
— Heather F.
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Mishelle is honestly top of her craft. She is so knowledgeable when it comes to body work and what you need from your massage. She goes above and beyond and is highly professional. I’m already looking forward to my next relaxing and healing massage with her!
— Liza T.
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Mishelle is excellent. She’s clearly very skilled at bodywork, including myofascial release and CST. I’d very much recommend her and will be back.
— Heather G.
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Before coming to Mishelle, I had so many questions about how my ancestors contributed to the world. Through her reading, I was able to gain a lot more clarity and actually feel my ancestors being in alignment with my current life path. Mishelle's wisdom was valuable in that it gave me peace around what my ancestors did, and how to move forward in a way that honored them & myself.
— Amanda C.
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Mishelle has a gift, she can connect to the body effortlessly and is an amazing healer.
— AJ E.
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That was my first massage ever, and it was incredible! Thanks for helping me out, lately I haven’t been able to bend down or put my shoes on without wincing in pain. Up until this session, Thanks again.
— Garrett F.
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Mishelle is amazing. A Skilled and wise practitioner. Go see her. As a frequent and consistent client, I highly recommend visiting her.
— Jenny M.
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Mishelle was amazing, 5 stars all around! She was very friendly and professional, she catered to my needs, and I feel 100% more relaxed and less back pain! If you are needing to relieve stress and pamper yourself, go see Mishelle! Thank you!
— Seika O.