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Avodah Massage Therapy

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Avodah Massage Therapy

Avodah Massage Therapy is a space for all to find healing, wellness, and release with massage therapy.

We offer, infant, prenatal, postnatal, oncology, and integrative massage and bodywork for the entire family.

12/21/2025

Coming to Lexington, SC January 6th!

Now booking for:

🌸 Craniosacral Fascial Therapy (individual and family appointments)

🌸 Infant and Pediatric Bodywork

🌸 Facial, Buccal, and Neck Massage (includes intraoral work)

🌸 Mom & Baby Session

See you on the table ✨

- Shannon

12/17/2025

As bodyworkers, here are a few things we’d love to see as the norm 👇

✨ having body hair (and not apologizing for it!!) everyone has hair and we don’t care, it isn’t gross or off putting if you didn’t remove it

✨ postpartum ends when you want it to end and not a moment before! If you need extra support and you’re a year out from giving birth, book that postpartum massage we will not judge you

✨ massage is INDICATED for the first trimester! It will not cause miscarriage and it is completely safe and can help alleviate the first trimester symptoms (don’t go somewhere that isn’t up on the research!)

✨ massage and bodywork are health care. Full stop.

What would you like to see normalized in the body worker world?

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Hi I’m Shannon, a licensed massage therapist specializing in whole family care, and I’m spending the next 24 days sharing the heart of my work so you can understand what I do and why it matters.

12/15/2025

One thing that people often misunderstand about our work is that massage and bodywork are so effective!

It may not look like much or feel like it’s important enough but our results speak for themselves

We have helped clients through issues where they’ve reached the end of their rope because no one has been able to give them relief

We have eased pregnancy pains, helped postpartum recovery, and released infants’ and children’s tension

We have seen behaviors improve, bowels move, and lives become easier all from the power of massage and bodywork

It’s more than a luxury, it is health care.

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Hi I’m Shannon, a licensed massage therapist specializing in whole family care, and I’m spending the next 24 days sharing the heart of my work so you can understand what we do and why it matters.

12/13/2025

The things we hold as true in our work are

👉 Investing in postpartum bodywork costs less than most monthly mortgages and will have a bigger impact on your wellbeing

👉 Bodywork for infants and children is not a luxury or only for children with “obvious” issues

👉 You deserve to have a village of practitioners who are there to help you through every stage

At Avodah we strive to do all this and more 🫶

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Hi I’m Shannon, a licensed massage therapist specializing in whole family care, and I’m spending the next 24 days sharing the heart of my work so you can understand what I do and why it matters.

12/10/2025

I actually love being the one to tell you this 🤗

When clients schedule an appointment especially for their infant or child and we only get a small amount of time in for bodywork I start to see them visibly stress

BUT there is no reason to worry! Bodywork, because it involves human touch, is very regulating to the nervous system even if it is in small doses

If you need the research to back this check out the article and linked studies below 👇
https://www.amtamassage.org/about/news/research-supports-massage-for-mental-health/

No need to stress when the massage is short because it is never unproductive

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Hi I’m Shannon, a licensed massage therapist specializing in whole family care, and I’m spending the next 24 days sharing the heart of my work so you can understand what I do and why it matters.

12/08/2025

And here’s why

Working on the brain and body together brings our clients so much more peace, deeper healing, and relaxation instead of just mashing muscles

Watching formerly fussy, tight, not happy babies melt is the most satisfying for not only us but their parents who searched out bodywork as a last resort for other treatments that didn’t work

The perinatal period is such a unique time of growth that is so many times overlooked or pushed through in society and we get excited to support our moms through all of it

Building community is what we’re here for so you never have to go through hard things alone or feel like you’re the only one!

Learning new ways to help clients is so exciting, we love taking extra classes beyond our requirement for our licenses to stay up to date on information and serve our clients best

Collaborating with other practitioners to give our clients the best wrap-around care truly excites us! We love our referrals and building relationships with them so our community knows they’re getting the best

Real results from our clients truly excites us. We celebrate when we get those “they finally pooped!” Texts or “my headache/back ache/etc has gone away!”

Finding, researching, and utilizing tools that work for our clients is and always will be a top priority for us, which is why it’s always exciting to add a new tool since we are very picky about what we use for our clients

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Hi I’m Shannon, a licensed massage therapist specializing in whole family care, and I’m spending the next 24 days sharing the heart of my work so you can understand what I do and why it matters.

12/06/2025

Here’s what this moment represents for us as postpartum bodyworkers

Regulating mom and baby’s nervous system -> allows for greater connection -> allows for deeper rest -> makes the postpartum period more magical ✨

We can solve more postpartum frustrations or issues when we regulate mom and baby’s nervous system and allow time and space for rest and connection 🫶

Hi I’m Shannon, a licensed massage therapist specializing in whole family care, and I’m spending the next 24 days sharing the heart of my work so you can understand what I do and why it matters.

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12/04/2025

And here’s why I encourage you to 🙉

So many times I have heard parents say that they’re pediatrician/friend/mom/mom group/etc say that what their baby was going through was “normal” or that they would “grow out of it” when it is just not true.

💩It is NOT NORMAL to go a day or more without pooping (even if your baby is breastfed!)

😮‍💨Your child will not grow out of snoring (also snoring is NOT NORMAL) and is a symptom of bigger issues

⛽️Your baby won’t grow out of being colicky or gassy, it is a symptom of bigger issues

🙂‍↔️ Side preference is NOT NORMAL or something your baby will “grow out of” and is a sign of underlying tension

🩻 Rolling over before developmentally appropriate is NOT NORMAL or sign of a “genius baby” it is 100% tension in the body

🏃‍♀️ don’t walk whenever someone tries to tell you this is “normal” or that they’ll “grow out of it” and get your baby or child evaluated for tension and into bodywork and chiropractic care ASAP

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Hi I’m Shannon, a licensed massage therapist specializing in whole family care, and I’m spending the next 24 days sharing the heart of my work so you can understand what I do and why it matters.

12/03/2025

Here are 5 boundaries that guide how we support families as bodyworkers

🌸 No one-size fits all treatment plans - we cater each session specifically to your or your child’s needs so that you know you aren’t wasting your time with treatment that doesn’t work, doesn’t fit with your schedule, or your budget

🌸 We listen to your body and value your lived experience - yes we can feel out the tightness in your body but only you know where and how it impacts you and how it feels inside your body. We will always work with you and your nervous system to give you the best treatment possible

🌸 We won’t judge you for your choices - what works for you works for us, we are all living our lives for the first time and no one has the most right or perfect way to do it 🫶

🌸 We will always make care as accessible to you as possible - need a home visit? We’ll be there! Need help affording services? We have a Community Impact Fund for just the occasion! We are here to serve you and give as many clients access to our services as humanly possible

🌸 We will collaborate with your care team and refer out if something is outside of our scope - unfortunately we can’t do it all but we have built an amazing network of trusted providers who can fill the gaps where we can’t and will gladly send you over to them!

Which boundary means the most to you as a client?

Hi I’m Shannon, a licensed massage therapist specializing in whole family care, and I’m spending the next 24 days sharing the heart of my work so you can understand what I do and why it matters.

12/02/2025

A myth our clients believe about prenatal and postpartum bodywork is it is a luxury

Think about it…

These 9 months and 4th trimester are the biggest changes your body has gone through since CHILDHOOD! And in a shorter period of time

Not only that but it takes a huge toll on your body that last a lot longer than the 6 weeks that are “standard”

Bodywork can help your body prep for birth, support you through those aches and pains, and help you recover faster and make your body feel like your own again.

This is why we always recommend

➡️ higher frequency of massage in 2nd & 3rd trimesters
➡️ created an in-home postpartum care option for greater access to care
➡️ and why our massages start at 75 minutes and include abdominal massage, somatic face massage, and scalp massage

Because you deserve to be supported during the perinatal period

Hi I’m Shannon, a licensed massage therapist specializing in whole family care, and I’m spending the next 24 days sharing the heart of my work so you can understand what I do and why it matters.

12/01/2025

If you’d asked me years ago what I’d end up doing, it wasn’t this.

The real reason I became a holistic family focused massage therapist and training others to do the same work is

👉 I needed me when I had postpartum anxiety and a baby who didn’t sleep and was “colicky”

👉 because babies and children deserve care and not to be told to “get over it”

👉 because healing starts with the family

👉 because postpartum lasts more than 6 weeks

👉 because as moms we shouldn’t have to carry it all and not get actual results

Hi I’m Shannon, a licensed massage therapist specializing in whole family care, and I’m spending the next 24 days sharing the heart of my work so you can understand what I do and why it matters.

Address

1533 Richland Street
Columbia, SC
29201

Opening Hours

Monday	8:30am - 2:30pm
Tuesday	8:30am - 2:30pm
Thursday	8:30am - 2:30pm
Friday	10am - 7:30pm
Sunday	1pm - 7:30pm

Website

http://avodahmassagetherapy.com/

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