Sanctum Bodyworks - Jordan Swaggerty, LMT

Sanctum Bodyworks - Jordan Swaggerty, LMT Offering Therapeutic Barefoot Massage for nervous system regulation, postural balance, and improved mobility and athletic performance.

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What are you really asking your body to do — over and over again? The body adapts brilliantly.Spend hours in one positio...
02/13/2026

What are you really asking your body to do — over and over again?

The body adapts brilliantly.
Spend hours in one position, and it learns how to stabilize you there. Certain muscles tighten, others lengthen, joints subtly reorganize. What began as temporary support can become a default pattern.

The nervous system learns this way too.
The more a movement pattern is used, the more efficient the neural pathway becomes. “Use it or lose it” works both ways — repetition strengthens familiarity.

None of this is wrong. It’s intelligent adaptation.

But sometimes the habits we’ve practiced for months (or years) are no longer serving the life we’re living now.

Bodywork isn’t about forcing change.
It’s about offering new input — new options — so the body can choose differently.

Awareness is the first shift.
What are you asking your body to practice each day?





Ashiatsu has completely changed the way I work.With my foot, I have broad, continuous contact — far more surface area th...
02/11/2026

Ashiatsu has completely changed the way I work.

With my foot, I have broad, continuous contact — far more surface area than my forearm ever allowed (think 30+ square inches instead of 8 🤯). Instead of moving quickly to “cover ground,” I can cover, for example, half a calf at once and address the entire area at half the speed.

That changes everything.

More contact means more information traveling between my body and yours. I can feel subtle shifts in tissue tone, guarding patterns, hydration, responsiveness. I have time to listen. And because I’m not rushing to complete a stroke, I can respond in real time — adjusting pressure, angle, tempo.

Your nervous system benefits, too. That prolonged, steady input gives it space to soften, reorganize, and recalibrate. 🌿

The results honestly blow my mind sometimes. At the end of a session, I may need to really emphasize — get up slooowly, because I can tell a client's muscle tone has changed drastically.

I’m deeply grateful for this modality. 🙏
It has slowed me down — and made the work more effective than ever.





Behind every session is a real human experience — and I’m deeply grateful when clients take a moment to share theirs. Th...
02/11/2026

Behind every session is a real human experience — and I’m deeply grateful when clients take a moment to share theirs. Thank you. 🙏🤎

Sanctum Bodyworks can now bill your Regence BCBS of Oregon health plan for your massage! Sign up online to enter your in...
01/24/2026

Sanctum Bodyworks can now bill your Regence BCBS of Oregon health plan for your massage! Sign up online to enter your insurance information, or call to have your benefits verified. 🌻

A deep breath is a full-body conversation.🧘On the inhale, the diaphragm descends and the body makes space. Allowing the ...
01/21/2026

A deep breath is a full-body conversation.🧘

On the inhale, the diaphragm descends and the body makes space. Allowing the lower abdomen and pelvic floor to soften can support a greater sense of ease, especially since this area often holds tension during stress or anxiety. 🪶

If that internal sensation feels challenging to perceive, you might notice a gentle downward settling of the perenium at the base of the pelvis — a soft yielding rather than a push.

On the exhale, the diaphragm naturally returns to its resting dome shape. This phase requires no effort. Let it pour out unhurried, and consider extending it slightly longer than your inhale to deepen the calming effect. 🌬

The breath is the most powerful when it is not forced, but intentional. When you listen closely, it teaches you how to settle.

01/07/2026

What I'm doing with my extended lunch break. 🌿

12/25/2025

Our shoulders are designed for freedom — reaching, lifting, rotating, expressing.
But stress, posture habits, old injuries, and protective tension can quietly limit that range over time.

Massage can help restore shoulder mobility by:
• Reducing excessive muscle guarding
• Improving tissue glide between layers of muscle and fascia
• Supporting nervous system relaxation so movement feels safer again
• Addressing related areas like the neck, ribs, upper back, and arm — because the shoulder never works in isolation

When tissues soften and the nervous system feels supported, the body often remembers how to move more easily — without force or strain.

Mobility isn’t about pushing harder.
It’s about creating the conditions for movement to return naturally.

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Sanctum comes from the Latin word for holy.When I chose the name Sanctum Bodyworks, I wanted it to reflect what this wor...
12/07/2025

Sanctum comes from the Latin word for holy.
When I chose the name Sanctum Bodyworks, I wanted it to reflect what this work is really about: helping you settle into yourself and reconnect with the wise, creative, deeply sacred part of you that’s always been there.
Some call it spirit. Some say soul, energy, intuition, or universal consciousness. Whatever the name, it’s the part of you that knows how to heal, how to listen, and how to guide.

It might sound unusual to connect with spirit by going down into the body—but when your attention rests on sensation, you land fully in the present moment. That presence creates the same quiet spaciousness we associate with meditation: a place where insight arises, intuition clarifies, and something sacred becomes accessible.

Western culture often teaches us to “rise up” into the mind to find wisdom. But spirit isn’t only above us. It’s also rooted within us.
The mind–body–spirit connection isn’t linear—it’s woven, cyclical, cascading. You can reach spirit by ascending…but you can just as powerfully reach it by descending: by settling into the body, into the roots of your being.

That’s what I love about bodywork and other embodiment practices.
They invite you down into the deep, steady layers that hold you—like returning to a seed of pure potential. In that grounded place, spirit becomes not something to reach for, but something you uncover. Something that’s been here all along.

What is pain, if not a disruption of energy flow?Sometimes that disruption is physical — muscles firing when they don’t ...
12/02/2025

What is pain, if not a disruption of energy flow?
Sometimes that disruption is physical — muscles firing when they don’t need to, tissue damage demanding metabolic resources for repair, or misalignment requiring extra effort for basic movement. In those cases, the body is expending more energy than the moment may typically call for.

But pain can also be energetic — when the natural circulation of life force becomes disrupted or imbalanced. Sometimes energy stagnates in one area; sometimes it struggles to reach a part of the body that has been ignored or protected.

And often, this energetic disruption is shaped by emotional experiences that never got to complete their rise-and-fall cycle. When natural expression is suppressed, the chemistry of emotion can remain in the body, shaping patterns of tension, posture, and perception long after the original moment has passed.

So I’m curious — where do you notice energy flow gets disrupted in your own body? How does it show up?

Give the gift of deep rest this holiday season ✨When you purchase a gift card in December, you’ll receive 50% off your o...
11/24/2025

Give the gift of deep rest this holiday season ✨
When you purchase a gift card in December, you’ll receive 50% off your own session booked at the time of purchase — a gift for them and a little restoration for you. 💛

Scan the code on the graphic or head to sanctumbodyworks.com to purchase.
Let’s wrap up the year with care, connection, and nourishment.

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11/23/2025

In massage, slow is efficiency. Slow is presence. Slow is communication.

Your body needs time to notice, process, and respond to touch. When we move slowly, your conscious mind and your nervous system both have space to truly tune in.

That’s why one slow, intentional stroke can do more than four quick ones.
Slowness amplifies the neurological relaxation response, increases proprioceptive awareness, and helps your system shift out of overdrive.

It also gives me time — time to feel what’s happening underfoot, make micro-adjustments, refine pressure, and move with healthy body mechanics so you get the best possible work.

Slow isn't only a vibe — it’s a strategy.
And your nervous system loves it. 🐌💛

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Restore.Not back to who you were before the pain or the stress or the overwhelm —but back to the version of you with mor...
11/20/2025

Restore.

Not back to who you were before the pain or the stress or the overwhelm —
but back to the version of you with more clarity, more capacity, more room to breathe. 🌬

Restoration is more than a reset button. Practices can compound.
It’s your body slowly remembering how to function with ease again.
It’s tension unlearning its job.
It’s your system choosing safety over urgency.

This is the kind of work we do together:
quiet, steady, spacious.

A place where your body can soften, reorganize, and welcome itself home. 🪷

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Tuesday 9am - 2:30pm
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