ForResting the Soul

ForResting the Soul Awareness Coach, Author, Fascial Release LMT, AccessBars & Cacao; I help people learn to feel again. Hi, I’m Christy. I’m returning to Peru in December 2025.

I’m a massage and fascial release therapist, specializing in emotional fascia release—a bodywork approach that helps untangle the emotional stories our tissues hold—along with being an Awareness Coach, Access Consciousness Bars® Practitioner, Cacao Practitioner, author, and plant medicine advocate. I’m based in Springfield, Missouri, USA, where I’ve been rooted for over 20 years. My passion for fascia work deepened after studying with Maria Alfieris of Magical Hands Physical Therapy, attending her transformative two-day workshop in Orlando, FL (July 2024) and again in Atlanta, GA (February 2025). Earlier in 2025, I also completed Paul Chek’s Holistic Lifestyle Coaching Level 1 course, further integrating movement, nutrition, rest, and joy into my personal life and client sessions. In January 2025, I became Secretary of the Board for the Psychedelic Society of the Ozarks, an organization committed to education, community, and safe practices around psychedelics. This role is a natural extension of my long-standing advocacy for plant medicines. That advocacy deepened even further later that spring, when I traveled to the Peruvian Amazon for a 10-day dieta, sitting in ceremony with Ayahuasca five times—a sacred experience that continues to influence my work and personal path. I hold four life coaching certifications, but I prefer the title Awareness Coach because my work isn’t about telling people what to do—it’s about guiding them to become deeply present to their own lives and choices, and this comes from personal self-awareness. I’ve been a licensed and nationally certified massage therapist for over two decades, and my work continually reinforces a truth I hold close: our physical health is inseparable from our mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. My own journey through—and alongside—addiction has shown me that the only person we can truly rescue is ourselves. That’s why I believe self-care is not selfish; it’s foundational. You can’t pour from an empty cup. Life before massage therapy taught me a lot about what I didn’t want. I worked in the legal industry—IT, administration, even managing a branch with 14 attorneys in Chattanooga, TN—before returning to Missouri and co-owning Life Essentials Wellness Center in 2004. Since then, my path has woven through community service (helping utilize a $2 million community transformation grant for walkability projects, reviving a 15-year-old garden program for the local food bank), publishing the Ozarks’ first holistic wellness directory, teaching massage business courses, and co-founding the Queen City Beard & Moustache Federation, which has raised over $120k for local causes. Outside my work, I’m happiest near water—paddling a canoe, kayak, or paddleboard—or moving my body through yoga, gentle kundalini practice, or long walks in nature. I’m a fire sign with a deep love of music, dance, and travel, and I’m on track to visit all 50 states before my time here is up. If you’re ready to reconnect to your body, your emotions, and your own inner wisdom, I’d be honored to walk beside you. Your relationship with yourself is the most important one you’ll ever have—and it’s the only one guaranteed for life.

01/15/2026
…until you remember who you were before the world told you to forget. 🙏🏼🐺✨If you feel called…join us weekly on Tuesday n...
01/13/2026

…until you remember who you were before the world told you to forget. 🙏🏼🐺✨

If you feel called…join us weekly on Tuesday nights at 6:30 in The Aware-Wolf Den.

Where Two Spirits Become One

In the quiet before names were broken,
the Wolf was already listening.
Not to sound—
but to the way the world breathes
between light and shadow.

Here, night leans into day,
black fur resting against gold,
two spirits pressed together
as if remembering
they were never meant to be divided.

One carries the cold wisdom of stars,
etched in ancient signs
that only the earth can read.
The other holds the warmth of fire,
sun-remembered,
soft as the stories told at dusk.

They touch foreheads—
a ceremony older than language.
No words are spoken,
yet the ancestors gather.
You can feel them
in the hush of your chest,
in the place where grief
turns into understanding.

The feathers woven into their breath
carry prayers from those who walked before—
hunters, mothers, children of smoke and river—
their footsteps still glowing
beneath the soil of time.

This is not a meeting.
It is a remembering.
That darkness is not the enemy of light,
that light is not meant to erase the night.
Together they teach balance,
the sacred middle path
the old ones never abandoned.

If you look long enough,
you will see yourself here—
your fears resting against your hope,
your wounds held by your strength.

The Wolf does not judge.
The Wolf does not hurry.
It stays until you remember
who you were
before the world told you to forget.

And when you finally breathe again,
the spirits will loosen their embrace,
slipping back into story and sky—
leaving behind a quiet truth
beating gently in your bones:

You are still part of the circle.

Artist and storyteller: Aurelia Moon

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For our Kansas friends!
01/12/2026

For our Kansas friends!

✨ The 2nd Kambo Circle | A Different Kind of New Year Reset ✨
Most New Year’s resolutions don’t fail because people lack willpower.
They fail because the body hasn’t been brought along for the change.
Kambo is not about “trying harder.”
It’s about clearing what’s in the way.
This second Kambo Circle is for those who feel ready to reset their nervous system, immune system, and inner compass — not just set another intention that lives in the mind.
Kambo is often sought by people who are: • Trying to restore health after burnout, illness, or inflammation
• Ready to break patterns of stagnation, fog, or emotional heaviness
• Wanting to feel clearer, stronger, and more embodied going into the new year
• Done with surface-level fixes and ready for a deeper recalibration
Think of this as a somatic New Year’s resolution — one that starts in the body and ripples outward.
This is a small, intentional circle, held with care, education, and respect for the medicine and your sovereignty. No pushing. No proving. Just presence, support, and a powerful opportunity to shed what no longer serves.
✨ Release the old.
✨ Strengthen the body.
✨ Begin the year from a place of clarity and resilience.
If your New Year’s intention is health, vitality, and alignment, this circle may be calling you.
📩 For prescreening and registration, contact Matt Brake directly.
Prescreening ensures safety, readiness, and alignment for the circle.

01/09/2026

When the Wolf Remembers

I was born between shadows and snow,
where night and dawn share one breath.
Half of me learned silence from the dark,
half learned mercy from the light.

The ancestors did not teach me words—
they taught me listening.
To the wind that carries old names,
to the leaves that fall like prayers
from trees older than memory.

They said:
You are never one thing.

In my black eye lives the fire of survival,
the hunger that keeps the people alive
when the world turns its back.
In my white eye sleeps the moon,
gentle and watching,
holding grief without breaking.

Feathers brush my face—
not as ornaments,
but as reminders.
Each one a promise whispered
by those who walked before me:
Do not forget who you are.

I am the wolf who walks between worlds,
guardian of the threshold,
keeper of balance.
I carry the songs of the old ones
in my chest,
beating like a drum beneath my fur.

When you stand lost in your own divided heart,
call my name without sound.
I will come in dreams,
in quiet courage,
in the moment you choose compassion
without surrendering strength.

Because the sacred path
has always required both:
the dark that teaches endurance,
and the light that teaches love.

And when the last leaf falls,
and the stars remember your face,
you will know—

You were never alone.

Artist and storyteller: Aurelia Moon

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Things that make you say, hmmmm?! 🫣🤣🤭
01/07/2026

Things that make you say, hmmmm?! 🫣🤣🤭

01/04/2026
Happy NYE, everyone! It’s time to end the year of the snake! Tell me one thing you are grateful to shed as we roll over ...
12/31/2025

Happy NYE, everyone! It’s time to end the year of the snake! Tell me one thing you are grateful to shed as we roll over from 2025 to 2026! I want to hear it!

I will start: I’m excited to shed the story I’ve told myself for my whole life that it/I/the process (or program) has to be perfect before I can share it/myself with others. This year has definitely shown me otherwise and I’ve decided it’s time to let this old narrative go and be seen! 🙏🏼💚💫✨

Spoiler alert, if you’re scheduled to see me soon, you’re getting one of these! I read this book in the jungle and it wa...
12/27/2025

Spoiler alert, if you’re scheduled to see me soon, you’re getting one of these! I read this book in the jungle and it was well worth the short time investment. It’s my hope that many of you will also find and apply the wisdom. It truly is a beautiful shift that creates freedom in ways that will surprise you. Thank you, Medicine Dreamer, for the recommendation. 🙏🏼✨🫂💚

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About Me

Practicing for nearly two decades, I’ve developed a style of massage that’s easily customizable for each individual client. Sessions often include a range of modalities I’ve learned over the years such as basic Swedish relaxation massage, deep tissue and trigger point therapy, Thai yoga massage and cupping. Clients receive the blend of massage techniques their body needs and this often varies each time they are scheduled. My therapeutic massage services are available inside Theta Float Spa, providing optional flotation therapy and far infrared therapy services pre- or post-massage.

Due to an overwhelming influx of new clients throughout 2018, I’m usually unable to accommodate last minute appointment requests. Karen DePriest sees clients in my room on Sundays and is available for anyone looking to schedule right away.

When not in the massage room, I’m assisting with marketing for Theta Float Spa and realizing on my own personal health goals, currently focusing on a rigorous weightlifting program. Having completed a Life Coaching program in 2017, along with help from my mentors and coach, I will begin to offer online coaching programs by the end of 2020. At that time, our daughter will be preparing to graduate from high school, providing me with additional time for coaching and travel.