What are the opening hours?

Monday 9am - 1pm 3pm - 6pm Tuesday 3pm - 6pm Wednesday 8am - 1pm Thursday 9am - 1pm 3pm - 6pm

Dr. Jess Santos, 1159 King Road, Burlington, ON (2026)

01/31/2026

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡 ⤵️

I grew up hearing I was too sensitive… too emotional — as if those were flaws.
 As if they were something to fix, suppress, or outgrow.

For a long time, I believed that story.

But in this season of my life — and especially through my training — I’ve realized something profound:

My sensitivity is not a drawback. It’s what lets me read people, and their nervous systems with confidently and with ease.

Feel what the body is holding.

Work with layers that can’t be explained — only felt.

I finally understand why the greatest compliments paid to me are that people feel seen, safe, and supported in my space.

And if you’ve ever been told you’re: 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 — as if those were negative traits…

Please hear this:
 Those aren’t flaws. They’re signals of deep attunement. 🫶

This is why I’m choosing to practice chiropractic care, and bring in the energy and somatic work alongside it.

Without my sensitivity, I couldn’t do this work.
 Without my emotional depth, I wouldn’t be called to it.

Because the healer was never me — I just help you remember that it’s always been you. 🤍

01/30/2026

Your body keeps the score ⬇️

This body is the capsule we exist in here in 3-D reality.

When it’s out of harmony, that disruption echoes through the emotional, mental, and spiritual parts of ourselves.

Our ability to handle stress in our lives then becomes increasingly difficult - and transitions us from adaptability and resilience, to overwhelm and break down. You simply can’t reach it.

The nervous system holds our stress, our stories, our survival patterns.

Chiropractic care (as well as some very exciting new offerings in the works!!) helps to restore safety and communication within the body, allowing stored tension and trauma to unwind.

It creates space for YOU to heal YOURSELF. For you to finally regulate.

A regulated body creates space for expansion, healing, and presence.

Don’t neglect your human. This beautiful shell of ours is what allows us to grow, expand and become the highest versions of ourselves. 🤍

Stay tuned for deeper healing.

embodiedhealing

01/26/2026

BUT WHY?!?! 👇✨

Hippocrates lived long before MRIs, nervous system mapping, or modern anatomy… yet he deeply understood one core truth: the body is not a collection of separate parts. It is one intelligent, communicating system.

When he said “When in sickness, look to the spine first,” he wasn’t saying the spine is the CAUSE of every illness. He was saying the spine is the GATEWAY.

The spine houses and protects the spinal cord, which is the main communication highway between the brain and the rest of the body.

Every organ, every muscle, every system receives information through this pathway.

If that communication is disrupted, distorted, or under constant stress, the body can’t adapt or heal as efficiently.

In other words:
- He recognized that function follows communication.
And communication follows the nervous system.
And the nervous system lives in the spine.

From a modern lens, we now understand this even more clearly:

The spine isn’t just structural. It’s neurological. It reflects how healing takes place, and how safe, regulated, adaptable the body feels. Tension, misalignment, restriction, or guarding in the spine often mirrors deeper stress patterns in the nervous system.

So Hippocrates was pointing to something profoundly intuitive:

Before you chase symptoms, ask how the body is communicating.

Before you treat disease, assess the system that coordinates healing.

Before you look outward, look to the centre 🧠

It’s less about “fixing bones”, and more about restoring the body’s ability to listen, respond, and self-regulate.

Which is exactly what nervous-system-based chiropractic still honours today.

01/23/2026

Off to fill my cup in the most aligned way. ✨

First stop: Arizona for my Energy Somatics Certification . This work is all about tuning into self, listening deeper, moving energy, and blending chiropractic care with energetic awareness. It feels like the next evolution of how I support nervous systems… more intuitive, more embodied, and more connected.

Then straight into mom mode. 🌴 Florida with my girls (and my bestie) for all the vitamin sea and vitamin D, to soften, ground, and integrate everything I’ve learned.

Growth, presence, expansion, and rest. So many beautiful new things coming back with me.

LAST DAY FOR ADJUSTMENTS:
Burlington - Mon Jan 26
Guelph - Tue Jan 27

Make sure you get in before I take off ✈️

01/22/2026

Pain is RARELY the beginning.
 It’s usually the last straw - the final way to get your attention if you haven’t been able to recognize the signs your body needs support.

Before pain shows up, the body whispers through tension, shallow breathing, fatigue, irritability, poor sleep, digestive changes, emotional overwhelm, or that quiet feeling of being “off.”

That’s the nervous system asking for support long before it needs to shout.

Preventative care is no different than getting your teeth cleaned twice a year or getting your oil changed.

You don’t wait until something is broken to take care of it. You maintain it so it can function better, longer, and with more ease.

This isn’t about chasing symptoms. It’s about supporting regulation, resilience, and adaptability.

Let’s stop waiting for pain to be our cue. Let’s function better.

10/29/2025

Birth isn’t something to fear — it’s something to prepare for with confidence. ✨

So many parents tell me they wish they had learned how to cope with the intensity of labour — how to understand what’s happening in their body, and how their partner could truly help.

That’s exactly why I love facilitating 𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 — a heart-centered, hands-on workshop to help you feel calm, capable, and connected as you move through birth.

In this class, we’ll explore:
🌿 Practical coping strategies for each stage of labour
🧠 The role of fear — and how it can shift your birth experience
💞 How your partner can bring grounding and support
✨ Tools to calm your nervous system and work with your body, not against it

When you understand your body — and your partner knows how to help — fear softens, trust builds, and birth becomes a shared experience, not something you simply endure.

🗓️ Next class: November 8 | The WOMB Burlington
🤍 Small, supportive group setting
🎟️ Limited spaces available — tap the link in bio to reserve your spot

Because empowered birth begins with trust — not fear. 🌸

10/29/2025

Birth isn’t something to fear — it’s something to prepare for with confidence. ✨

Whether it’s your first birth or your fourth, every single birth is different — and everybody deserves a chance to feel supported, informed and confident walking into it.

That’s exactly why I am so passionate about facilitating 𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 — a heart-centered, hands-on workshop to help you feel calm, capable, and connected as you move through birth.

In this class, we’ll explore:
🌿 Practical coping strategies for each stage of labour
🧠 The role of fear, how it can shift your birth experience, and how we can easily flip the script
💞 How your partner/birthing support can bring grounding and support
✨ Tools to calm your nervous system and work with your body, not against it

When you understand your body — and your partner knows how to help — fear softens, trust builds, and birth becomes a shared experience, not something that you simply endure.

🗓️ Next class: November 8 | 10:30-12:30pm @ The WOMB Burlington
🤍 Small, supportive group setting
🎟️ Limited spaces available — tap the link in bio to reserve your spot

Because empowered birth begins with trust — not fear. 🌸

10/23/2025

Some babies I’ve known long before they were earthside — first as a dream in their mama’s heart, then as a growing life in her belly… and now, in my hands. 🌙

It’s such a privilege to walk that journey — from prenatal care to newborn adjustments — and to witness how quickly these little nervous systems find balance when given the space to do so.

This sweet C came in at one month old:
❎preferring to look mostly to the right
❎fists clenched
❎legs tucked up
❎difficulty burping & frequent back arching
❎early head lifting
❎feeding painfully, and small mouth opening
❎some straining to p**p

Baby C’s whole body was holding on tight.

After one gentle adjustment, everything softened.
Their gaze opened to the left.
Their legs lengthened and relaxed.
Their body remembered what ease feels like.

It’s not that they suddenly “grew” — it’s that their nervous system finally let go.

✨ Babies respond profoundly to chiropractic care because their systems are still so adaptable — when we release tension, they can start to reconnect, digest, feed, and rest the way they’re meant to.

What I want parents to know:
🤍 Babies should not be straining to p**p.
🤍 Breastfeeding should not be painful.
🤍 A strong side preference isn’t “just how they are” and should not be ignored
🤍 If baby is holding their head up consistently before 4 weeks for more then 5-10 seconds at a time, this is tension and not simply “strength”

Tension in the spine — especially through the mid-back — can ripple outward into feeding, digestion, and movement.

Releasing it changes everything.

From dream, to womb, to arms — what an honour to help these little ones find ease in their first home: their body. 🕊️

10/17/2025

When we know better, we do better — and sometimes that means learning how to hold space for stories that are hard to say out loud.

October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, and after a seeing a beautiful story a few days ago, her incredible platform, and subsequent conversation with .doula.life, I was reminded how rarely we in the perinatal world truly talk about this kind of loss.

And both truthfully and unfortunately, I include myself in this collective. But as always, let’s normalize self-discovery and when we realize where we can DO BETTER, then we actually take the steps to BE BETTER.

I see it in practice often — the quiet ache beneath the surface, the guilt, the love that has nowhere to go. And I believe that remembering is one of the most profound ways we can honour these lives🤍

So each month, on the 15th, I’ll open a story box here — The L.O.V.E Box. 💌

You can write in the name (or simply “baby girl” or “baby boy”) of a little one you’re remembering. I’ll share their names on my stories, so that no family has to carry their memory alone.

Grief may change shape, but it doesn’t disappear. And it most definitely does not only exist in October.

Love stays.

💫

10/11/2025

So many people have been told their pain is normal.

That leaking after birth is normal.
That baby reflux is normal.
That constant tension or anxiety is just how life feels.

But here’s the truth ⤵️
Pain is literally the definition of abnormal.

It’s your body’s way of communicating that something isn’t integrating, aligning, or regulating as it should.

Just because something is common doesn’t mean it’s normal.

Your body is designed for balance, adaptation, and ease.
And when that’s not what you’re experiencing — it’s not because you’re broken.

It’s because your system needs support to return to normal function.

That’s where neurologically focused chiropractic care comes in.

We don’t just chase symptoms — we restore communication between the brain and body, so your system can do what it was designed to do: heal. 💫

You don’t have to live with “normal” pain.
You can live in connection again.

05/25/2025

I SAID WHAT I SAID, and I’ll stand on it all day long😤🔥

Spoiler Alert: CRAWLING IS NOT OPTIONAL 💥

In 2022, the CDC removed crawling from its checklist of milestones.

Why, you ask?

It’s reportedly due to the fact that there isn’t enough consistency in research to determine what constitutes “crawling.” But truthfully, it’s hard to believe that it would be removed because of “inconsistent definitions” — I tend to think it’s rather normalizing the impact of the pandemic on our kids.

But here’s what they didn’t tell you:

Crawling is a CRUCIAL part of brain and nervous system development.

It’s not just about movement — it helps integrate reflexes, develop cross-body coordination, and lay the groundwork for focus, balance, reading, and more.

As a pediatric chiropractor, I see what happens when kids skip crawling, crawl incompletely (aka army crawls or scooting), or rush through it: retained reflexes, sensory challenges, coordination challenges, and trouble sitting still to name a few.

It’s not about being alarmist — it’s about being proactive. ⚡️

If your child skipped crawling or struggles with tummy time, I can help assess and support their development with safe, gentle care.

🧠 Want to know more? Message me or book a visit through the 🔗 in my bio.

09/19/2024

You asked, we answered ✨

Release & Reset is back Burlington for a limited time (most likely until January!)

1 hour. 3 services. $150 🫶
All just for you - to help usher in the cooler weather and prepare us for this next season 🍂 🍃 🍁

We’re already over 50% booked, so RUN to save your spot for this amazing offering that we love sharing with our community ❤️

Dr. Jess Santos

01/31/2026

01/30/2026

01/26/2026

01/23/2026

01/22/2026

10/29/2025

10/29/2025

10/23/2025

10/17/2025

10/11/2025

05/25/2025

09/19/2024

Address

Opening Hours

Telephone

Website

Alerts

Contact The Practice

Shortcuts

Share

Category

Monday	9am - 1pm
	3pm - 6pm
Tuesday	3pm - 6pm
Wednesday	8am - 1pm
Thursday	9am - 1pm
	3pm - 6pm