Mary Casale - Massage Therapist

Mary’s training in massage therapy was completed in 2003 at the Body, Mind, and Spirit Learning Alliance and she has been working as a professional massage therapist ever since. Mary works with Swedish massage, deep tissue massage, reflexology, and acupressure.

Prior to her work as a massage therapist she spent 10 years working as a personal trainer, which has given her a deeper understanding of how to read the body. Her experience has also prepared her to give advice to clients that they can take with them to make healthier changes in their exercise and daily routines.

Mary’s primary goal as a healing arts practitioner is to hold a peaceful, loving, and non-judgmental space so that each client can feel safe enough to allow their personal healing to take place. She works to empower each client and help them to see their own true divine essence. This allows them to take back control of their life and create a life of peace, harmony, and joy.

During a session Mary may incorporate various modalities in addition to massage therapy. This is dependent on a client’s individual needs and may include: Reiki, Angelic I.E.T., Reflexology, Qi Gong, Gemstone Healing, Intuitive Guidance, or Aromatherapy.

Mary believes that healing truly begins when a client is ready for it on all levels- mentally, physically, spiritually, and emotionally. When trauma occurs, whether on a physical or emotional level, it becomes trapped in one or many of our energy bodies.  This is especially true if the trauma is too painful to be dealt with at that time. This is why, so often, a tightness or pain in the body may be temporarily relieved through massage or medication, only to return later, and sometimes worse. Only by treating a condition from a more holistic perspective can true healing happen, which is why Mary incorporates other modalities with her massage work. The massage work treats the body while other modalities help the spiritual, mental or emotional aspect of the pain or distress.

We often use the term “healer” for simplification in this area of work. Ideally, though, the healing comes from the client allowing the process of healing to occur. If you are resistant toward something, you block it from coming through. If you are skeptical toward something then your mind is closed, thus blocking growth or understanding of it. So anyone in the healing arts is ideally a facilitator for healing. It is up to the client to take responsibility for his or her own life and allow the transformation to begin.

It is good to understand ahead of time that Mary always begins a session with the intention of working with a client’s spirit guides and angels to bring about what is best for the client’s highest good. So you may feel tension in one area, but Mary may be guided to work elsewhere on the body to release a deeper blockage that is at the root of that tension. Also, if emotions come up in a session, allow them to release. For it is through the releasing of these emotions that transformation can occur, creating a new space to be filled with pure love and pure joy.