Why I started doing the With Ease Massage Practitioner Trainings
We just celebrated three years of offering the With Ease Massage Practitioner Trainings, and I thought it would be a great time to share a bit more of the story on why I started offering these trainings in the first place.
Our community has now grown to over 100 people, with many of them stepping into the world as professional massage practitioners. It’s been an incredible journey, and today, I want to take you back to where it all began.
My journey with massage
Massage has been a part of my life for over eight years now (since 2017), and it all started with an Ayurvedic Therapeutic Training in the Himalayan mountains of India. There, I learned about herbal medicine, Ayurvedic treatments, and the ancient practice of Abhyanga massage—a warm herbal oil massage designed for deep healing.
I was surprised by how much I loved giving these sessions. It felt as if I had discovered an entirely new language—one that allowed me to connect deeply with another person without words. I could feel them, their energy, their tension, their emotions.
Over the years, I immersed myself in different massage and other therapeutic modalities, including Counseling, Ayurvedic Therapy, Meditative Touch, Thai Reflexology, Reiki, and Access Bars. Through working with so many different bodies, I’ve come to deeply understand a few fundamental truths—not just intellectually, but through experience.
Safety & relaxation
The entire purpose of massage is to bring the body back to a state of safety and relaxation.
Throughout life, we experience countless events—some of which we are able to fully process in the moment, while others remain unresolved, stored within us. Our ability to release an emotion depends on whether we felt safe enough to express it at the time.
For example, imagine you were a child who got scared by a barking dog. If your mother was there to comfort you, allowing you to process the fear, the emotion moved through you and was released.
But what happens when we don’t feel safe enough to fully experience and express an emotion?
We hold onto it. It stays trapped in our bodies, creating tension, discomfort, or even illness over time. Think about a time when someone said something hurtful at school, but instead of crying, you kept a straight face. That emotional energy didn’t disappear—it just got stored inside.
I often observe this as a holding type of energy—one that keeps people "keeping it together," constantly in a state of alertness, never fully relaxed.
Read more about how to create a safe space for others in our other story here.
What happens when we feel safe?
During a massage session, we guide the body into a deep state of relaxation and safety.
Instead of holding everything in, the body is finally able to release and let go. But muscles won’t relax simply because we want them to—they relax only when the person feels truly safe. Otherwise, it’s like pushing against a defense wall, trying to force our way in.
To me, this is the heart of what I teach in our massage practitioner trainings—not just techniques, but how to create a safe space where someone can truly relax their nervous system and release what has been stuck for so long.
It’s a deep sigh out.
The world needs more safe spaces
I truly believe that we need more safe containers for people to come home to themselves.
Because someone who is deeply connected to their own system is a force to be reckoned with.
Someone who is brave enough to relax and open up—held by someone grounded and capable of holding space for them—can change the world.
It's in the constant holding, bracing, and keeping everything together that people move through life feeling defensive, disconnected, and unfulfilled. That’s why this kind of deep work is more essential than ever.
If you feel called to explore massage as a healing art, or if you’re simply curious to learn more, you can check out our upcoming trainings here:
Would love to see you there. 💛
“Because someone who is deeply connected to their own system is a force to be reckoned with.”
