Light Spirit Studio, L.L.C.

Since around 2022 I have increasingly specialized my work as a Medical Massage Therapist with those with hypermobility and related conditions: mast cell activation syndrome, autoimmunity, migraine, chronic pain, neurovascular compression syndromes, food/drug/environmental sensitivity, joint instability, dysautonomia, gastroparesis, and more. I have gradually grown into Patient Advocacy as well as a result of seeing how underserved this community currently is. I completed a brief but very high quality training with the EDS Society in Health Advocacy in early 2025. I intend to pursue formal Board Certification in Patient Advocacy also in 2025. As a massage therapist , I work with pain and physical dysfunction related to all of the above conditions. My goals are to: help clients better understand and address their pain by understanding whatever physiological and mechanical principles we can observe, help clients reset dysfunctional movement patterns and gradually replace guarding patterns with more balanced posture, strength, and tone, while mechanically freeing any barriers to relief using scar release, golgi tendon organ techniques, visceral work, neurovascular compression testing and release, postural assessment, and many, many more tools learned or developed in over a decade of manual therapy experience, support clients in working toward further wellness by connecting them with local hypermobility-aware healthcare providers and coaches (physical therapists, occupational therapists, corrective exercise specialized personal trainers, feldenkrais, pilates, and Egoscue teachers, etc.) who can offer more in-depth training as needed–ideally in activities that clients will be inspired to maintain, help clients to reach the right healthcare providers to address any open healthcare concerns –whether we need to look together locally for an appropriately aware provider in the right specialty or far-afield to address less-understood implications of hypermobility. As a patient advocate, I’ve made my mission to improve local healthcare for hypermobility and related conditions by: hosting our local EDS Society affiliated group to share information and other resources and to grow community among those who mutually understand the particular challenges of these conditions and can offer suggestions and connections born of experience, connecting clients with local and distant healthcare providers whom I trust to work well with hypermobility and related conditions, working with clients on presenting often long and long unaddressed history of symptoms such that the big picture won’t be missed for its complexity, bringing healthcare providers’ attention to hypermobility related, presently underdiagnosed conditions connect clinicians with high quality resources on how to best serve those in our community educate community members in a position to screen for hypermobility and related conditions before they become health crises: midwives, doulas, teachers & athletic coaches…. facilitate the involvement of advanced specialists in offering local training to grow needed expertise in our own community. This mission is a labor of love. I have seen too many family members as well as clients go with unaddressed healthcare concerns for years, navigating very difficult situations for themselves since too little was known or the right connections weren’t made–in a system that further privileges those with uncomplicated health and resources. We’re entering a season in which to begin to build the manual for caring for the hypermobile, sensitive body from the start. I believe our sensitivity is a gift and that as we use it to understand our own better care we’ll better the world as well–bringing more of ourselves to all the good efforts we dream of. I’m glad to offer a brief free consultation for advocacy or bodywork services, and you can also connect for free by asking to have your email address put on our local group’s email list. In order to maximize accessibility I offer a sliding scale and I work with insurance wherever possible. Though credentialing opportunities are limited for massage therapists, I’m currently able to work with Cigna and Mi Via. I’m working toward being able to work under VA funding and with HSA and FSA payments. If superbills, receipts, or other documentation helps you to get reimbursement I’m glad to provide it.