SJO Wellness - Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork

11/18/2025

Grateful to get to share this Third Thursday with you again, Belleville! I hope to see you all from 5-8pm at Garden Fantasy on Main. ✨❄️✨ Stop by for a chair massage, find the moisturizing balms and soothing aromatherapy you need for wintering, and lots of good community care and fun!

Until then - please take good care, stay warm, and be sure to message me to schedule your November and early to mid December sessions while I have availability!

See you soon,
Stephanie

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Stephanie J. Olson, LMT CYT
Holistic Massage & Bodywork Therapist

605-314-5531
www.sjowellness.com

✨ Massage, Movement, Mindfulness, & Holistic Handcrafted Creations ✨

(Typical) HOURS
Mon - Thurs: 11am-7pm EST
Fri - Sat: 11am-5pm EST

Currently located at:
224 E. Columbia Ave., Belleville MI 48111

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P.s. Please bring a non-perishable food item to share with a local food pantry as we Gather and Give in downtown Belleville. 💚💚💚

10/26/2025

Just a gentle reminder as the seasons change: give yourself a moment to look up, breathe, stretch, or just be still.

As the leaves transform and the branches become bare, remember your body adapts and shifts, and changes, too. Give it grace. (And maybe some water. ☺️💧)

Take good care, Dear Ones.

If I can support you in this season, please reach out. I'd love to see you!

Currently scheduling for November and December - reach out and let's get your wellness sessions on the calendar. 🍃🍂❄️✨

Until then, lots of love and care from here.
💚 Stephanie

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Stephanie J. Olson, LMT CYT
Holistic Massage & Bodywork Therapist

605-314-5531
www.sjowellness.com

✨ Massage, Movement, Mindfulness, & Holistic Handcrafted Creations ✨

(Typical) HOURS
Mon - Thurs: 11am-7pm EST
Fri - Sat: 11am-5pm EST

📍 224 E. COLUMBIA AVE., Belleville MI 48111

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10/19/2025

Today is a good day to sCARE away the boo sheet! 👻🩻✨ Please come say hello to myself and dozens of whimsical, spooky, and artistic vendors at the Ypsilanti Freight House in Depot Town. 🩻🚂🎃✨

Really, Dear Ones. No bones about it - this rainy autumn day calls for some good self and community (s)care! Bring your umbrella ☔, your whimsy and magic (or find some here)✨, and be haunted with delights.🎃👻🩻💚

I'll be there with:
🌱Freshly made balms (like, these were just made in the witching hours FRESH)
💚Aromatherapy
🩻Chair massage
💞and a good hug if you need one.

Look for a tent with greens, flickering candles, and the water drop with ripples - because that's how we do it. 💧✨💚

Lots of love and gratitude,
Stephanie

Hope to see you and your ghourdeous, beautiful selves there! ✨✨✨

10/16/2025

Today I'm wearing denim blue and pink because they were two of my mom's favorite colors. While breast cancer caused her death, she lived her life with zest, kindness, care, and a fierce determination to make the world just a little bit better. Undoubtedly my love of community comes from her. 🩷🩷🩷

So stop by tonight to say hello, share a hug, buy some goodies, or receive some bodywork. A portion of my products sales tonight will go toward continuing community care in my mom's memory. 🩷💞💙

And if no one has told you lately, take good care, Dear Ones. 🩷🩷🩷

Love,
Stephanie

Hope to see you at Garden Fantasy on Main 🌱🩷💙🌿 from 5-8pm!

10/14/2025

✨*Art Appreciation and Upcoming Events!* ✨

Life is full of art. In nature, in ourselves, and in what we create.

Just like massage and bodywork is an art form, I'm so grateful to live in and near communities that value the myriad ways in which art enriches our lives and wellbeing.

It was a gift to get to briefly stop by the Belleville Area Council for the Arts - BACA annual art show at the BYC - Belleville Yacht Club in Belleville this weekend. Thank you all for sharing your heart and art. Here's a glimpse of the displays, and hopefully some encouragement to go enjoy and create whatever art you can. 💚



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Please mark your calendar for these events this week to encourage your artistic eye, creative spirit, and community and self care:

FIRST:

Thursday October 16th 5-8pm
Third Thursday at Garden Fantasy on Main Main Street in downtown Belleville 🌿

Florists know the art of working with plants and flowers to help us grieve, feel cared for, and to blossom. This Thursday, get inspired to create your own bouquet. Sign up for chair massage, get some self care goodies, and help me in remembering those we've lost to breast cancer while cheering for the continued support and research to help folks live their fullest lives possible. 💞 A portion of my product sales will go toward sharing community care in memory of my mom. Thank you in advance for helping me honor and remember her. 💞

NEXT:

Sunday October 19th 1-9pm
The Holy Bones Artisan Markets at the
Ypsilanti Freight House in Depot Town, Ypsilanti

If you appreciate the liminal spaces and macabre, the spooky and the skeletal, the mystical and magical, this might be a perfect market for you. There is always an incredible variety of art and craft in this 8-hour market! Come say hello, receive bodywork, and choose the aromatherapy and balms to soothe your soul into the -ber months and beyond. ✨

FINALLY:

October 2025
I have a few dates and times still available for Massage and Bodywork sessions in October. Let's chat about scheduling your session(s) to relieve pain, stress, and create some space for ease. 💚🍂🌿🌱

I hope to see you soon, Dear Ones. Until then, remember you are a wonderful work of art.

Warmly,
Stephanie

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Stephanie J. Olson, LMT CYT
Holistic Massage & Bodywork Therapist

605-314-5531
www.sjowellness.com

✨ Massage, Movement, Mindfulness, & Holistic Handcrafted Creations ✨

(Typical) HOURS
Mon - Thurs: 11am-7pm EST
Fri - Sat: 11am-5pm EST

📍 224 E. COLUMBIA AVE., Belleville MI 48111

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09/30/2025

🌌🌊Something beautiful from the northern hemisphere tonight: the Aurora dancing over the Great Lakes.

I'm so grateful for folks who create live streams and offer access to witness these incredible phenomena.

Search for "Northern Michigan Aurora Cam" to listen to the sounds of the waves and witness the dancing northern lights.

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Breathe, Dear Ones.
Listen to be waves.
Give yourself a little space for some magic.

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https://www.youtube.com/live/_Oyo-d0ooos?feature=shared

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Camera is facing north over Lake Superior from Marquette, Michigan - Will have some passing clouds tonight... hoping for some intermittent aurora between the...

09/24/2025

When I first read this review, my eyes welled with grateful tears and my heart overflowed.

Taking good care of one another is a love language, and I'm so grateful I get to do this meaningful work.

Here's what Naomi had to say after one of her many sessions with me:

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"During my most recent massage, while swooning because all the problem areas I mentioned were getting exactly precisely the care and relief they needed, I was trying to figure out how to write a review for Stephanie that would communicate just how skilled and loving she is.

I’m a massage therapist myself. I’ve gotten worked on by MANY other folks. I have really high standards and a lot of body challenges that I’m always working to mitigate and smooth out.

Friends. I wanted to weep with relief while Stephanie was working on me and on the way home. My spirit and body feel 1000% confident in her care. I am SO GRATEFUL to know her and be cared for by her.

Recommended with
out reservation!"
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It's one of the greatest compliments to have a seasoned colleague offer their glowing recommendation.

Please know I'm here to support you, too, Dear Ones. 🌱

Learn more about my practice at the website below, and please reach out via text or voicemail to ask questions and get your session scheduled.

💖 With Gratitude,
Stephanie

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Stephanie J. Olson, LMT CYT
Holistic Massage & Bodywork Therapist

📱📞 605-314-5531 📱 📞
www.sjowellness.com

✨ Massage, Movement, Mindfulness, & Holistic Handcrafted Creations ✨

(Typical) HOURS
Mon - Thurs: 11am-7pm EST
Fri - Sat: 11am-5pm EST

📍 224 E. COLUMBIA AVE., Belleville MI 48111

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Please reach out via text or voicemail to get your session scheduled soon.

💚➡️ Know someone who could use support as they navigate pain, trauma, grief, stress, and/or body challenges? Please feel free to share this or tag someone below. I'm grateful to see how I can help! 💚

09/17/2025

Wishing these small businesses and many more in Belleville a wonderful evening tonight! ✨ Thanks for all you do in taking good care of our community. Have a wonderful time with the Belleville Area Chamber of Commerce!!! ✨✨✨

Mr. Muffler
Harlow House
734 Beauty Lounge
Milton’s Pharmacy
Garden Fantasy on Main
Creative Confections by Maria

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🎉 Announcing our Small Business of the Year Finalists! 🎉

LIVE voting for the Winner will take place during our Annual Member Awards on Wednesday, Sept. 17th.

Join us at the event and VOTE for your favorite local business.

Register here, dinner/drinks included: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/annual-member-awards

*Chamber Members and Nominees will receive a discount code via email in the coming days.*

For more information, please contact bacc48111@gmail.com

09/07/2025

Do you have certain practices for inviting rest into your body and mind?

Sometimes, the most grounding and nourishing thing for me is to notice what's nearby. (It's usually a tree, a plant, the sky, a piece of art, Lucci's sweet face, etc.)

What magic can I see in this moment? What's breathing, moving, resting, synthesizing? What color, shape is it?

I find myself taking photos, capturing this moment's essence into my nervous system and memory, while knowing it'll change, grow, evolve, dissolve.
And that's okay.

It's both a noticing

and a letting go.

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We do this in bodywork, too.
Noticing what's present.
Being with it.
Seeing and acknowledging it.
Inviting both stillness and movement. Embracing the present, however it shows up, and embracing change, and how we can gently welcome it.

When I say it's a gift to share space with you, I mean it. We get to witness what's here, now, together.

Being a human can be exhausting.
But there's magic, too.

When we slow down, we get to welcome rest and ease into our bodies and minds.

So thanks. I'm grateful you're here with me. (And Lucci. He says hi. 🐾)

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To Rest and the things that nourish us,
Stephanie

Ps. So much nourishment from time in Ypsi this week. I got to attend Death Cafe with the Michigan Deathcare Collaborative at Bloodroot Herb Shop on Wednesday, The Healing Feast with Growing Hope on Thursday, and got to be a vendor at Holy Bones Artisan Markets on Friday for The Bones and the Bees market.

To everyone who showed up to be in community, to share grief, to celebrate joy, to support local artists and makers, and to each of you who shared time with me and got to take home some balms or aromatherapy, you're the bees knees! 🐝🌿💖 Thank you. I'm so grateful you're here. 💚💚💚

09/05/2025

Hey Busy Bees! 🐝🌿Stop by tonight to soothe your aching bones and buzzing minds. I'll be at the Ypsilanti Freight House in Depot Town from 5-9pm for the Holy Bones Artisan Markets "The Bones and the Bees", joining local artists and makers in their ode to the pollinators and all things nature and anatomy. 🐝✨🌿 🦋

It would be lovely to see you! 🌿💚🌿

In gratitude for art and the folks who help us gather,
💚 Stephanie
SJO Wellness - Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork

Shop local, support small, and take a moment to appreciate the big/little things. 🐝🦋🌿

09/02/2025

🌱 Reflections on Rest & Labor 🌱

When I think about rest and labor, I try to honor them each as a dear friend. A confidante. A safe space. A healer. A wellspring.

Rest holds us.
Fuels us.
Revives us to step into our work.

We need these things - to be held, to be well fueled and supported, to be revived in big and in small ways.

Rest (and labor) is and can be:
Physical
Mental
Emotional
Sensory
Creative
Social
and
Spiritual

In all facets,
We need rest.

WE NEED REST from the demands - and for the labors - of living.

We need rest:

From the onslaught of bad news.
From the busyness of life.
From back to school
and back to work
and back to the thousand things no one knows you're navigating but you.

And as community, we need one another to be able to show up for our own rest.

I too, need rest and support and spaces to be cared for. You all help me tremendously to do that.

When you schedule a session
or order a gift
or ask me for guidance,

You nourish my spirit in ways innumerable.
You make it possible for me to pay my rent, to order supplies, to take my pup for a pup cup and partner for a date, to support the small businesses and makers and creators and organizations who nourish and nurture our communities.

Your rest can be my labor, and my labor offers rest. This cyclical and sustaining relationship fuels me, and fuels us. ♻️

And especially now, this is important.

We might hear how rest is resistance.

Resistance to what?

To burnout
To hopelessness
To overwhelm
To injustices
To the anxieties of living on the planet at this point in time
To all of it, for all of it.

We need rest.

REST STRENGTHENS US.

To feel grounded
To feel safe
To feel supported
To navigate all that life brings
To show up in our own work.

Rest is a good friend.

So please Dear Ones, take good care of your whole, remarkable selves

today and every day.

Let's make more time and space for rest.

💚 With love and care and gratitude,
Stephanie

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🌱Can we schedule a Massage and Bodywork session?

🌱Can I make unique gifts for your teachers/friends/neighbors/family/team, or craft custom self care favors for an upcoming event or holiday so you have more time to yourself?

🌱Can we work together to create a remedy for your pain, headaches, soreness, anxiety?

🌱Would it help to have someone guide you in gentle movement, mindfulness, and breathwork - in person, or virtually?

I'm here.
Let's chat about creating more rest.

Please send me a text or leave a voicemail at 605-314-5531✨ I'd love to support you.

Stephanie J. Olson, LMT CYT
Holistic Massage & Bodywork Therapist

605-314-5531
www.sjowellness.com

✨ Massage, Movement, Mindfulness, & Holistic Handcrafted Creations ✨

(Typical) HOURS
Mon - Thurs: 11am-7pm EST
Fri - Sat: 11am-5pm EST

📍 224 E. COLUMBIA AVE., Belleville MI 48111



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Thank you for being here, and for helping me to do this meaningful work.

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I hope you had a meaningful and restful day, Dear Ones.

It's okay to rest.

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08/21/2025

💚 TONIGHT is THIRD THURSDAY! From 4-8pm, come say hello at Garden Fantasy on Main. 💐 I'll be there with chair massage, aromatherapy, balms, and great company! 🌿🏵️🌼 Make your own bouquet, magnets, jewelry and more with several local vendors, and enjoy and shop the green space and garden goodness of our host, Garden Fantasy. 🌿💚🌿











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See you soon!

💚 Stephanie

Stephanie J. Olson, LMT CYT
Holistic Massage and Bodywork Therapist
SJO Wellness - Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork

605-314-5531
www.sjowellness.com

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