Are you ready to return to yourself?
Rooted care for release, restoration, and renewal
Longleaf Healing Arts is a therapeutic massage and bodywork practice.
Longleaf Healing Arts exists to support a more grounded, balanced, and harmonious ecosystem within ourselves and our communities.
We offer therapeutic massage, assisted stretching, and scar integration to support pain relief, relaxation, increased mobility, nervous system ease, return to your grounded center, and expansion towards your goals for transformation.
Our approach is rooted care: skilled touch, collaborative communication, consent-based and trauma-informed practice, and deep listening to the body’s wisdom.
Guided by the example of the Southern longleaf pine — ancient, steadfast, resilient, deeply and widely rooted — Longleaf Healing Arts approaches healing as a relational art of loving witness.
Services
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Each session is customized to meet your goals and may include Swedish flow, deep tissue techniques, trigger point work, passive stretching, range of motion, and other approaches based on your goals, comfort, health history, and consent.
Initial Session: 90 or 120 minutes
Anyone new to the practice will begin with an initial session. This first appointment allows time for a full intake, conversation, consent, and bodywork.
The initial session helps us begin with clarity: what your body is carrying, what kind of support you are seeking, what areas need attention, and how we can work together in a way that feels safe, respectful, and effective. The initial session is discounted at 20 percent.
Root & Release : 60 minutes
Available after an initial session, Root & Release is a focused appointment for targeted work rather than full-body massage. It may support one or two areas, such as neck and shoulders, low back and hips, legs and feet, or follow-up work between longer sessions.
Root & Restore : 90 minutes
Root & Restore is a spacious session for restoration: full-body care, focused work, stress relief, pain relief, mobility, and nervous system reset. This is the core Longleaf offering and a good fit for people who want meaningful bodywork without feeling rushed.
Root & Remember: 120 minutes
Root & Remember is an extended therapeutic massage session for deeper unwinding, slow transitions, focused bodywork, full-body restoration, and integration. This session offers more time for the body to soften, release, and remember itself as whole.
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A 4-session therapeutic massage and bodywork series
The Shift Series is a four-session bodywork series for people seeking deeper support with chronic tension, stress patterns, mobility concerns, burnout, recovery, or a desire to build a more consistent relationship with their body.
A single massage can offer meaningful relief, rest, and reconnection but a series allows us to work more intentionally over time. Across four sessions, we listen for patterns, support release, respond to your body’s feedback, and create space for integration.
The series is ideally completed within 4–6 weeks, but timing can be adjusted as needed. This rhythm supports continuity while making room for real life, rest, caregiving, travel, and scheduling needs.
The Shift Series may include four Root & Restore (90 min) sessions or four Root & Remember(120 min) sessions.
First-time clients are welcome to book a Shift Series but are encouraged to do an initial session first.
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Assisted stretching and mobility support: 60 Minutes
Branch & Bend is a fully clothed session focused on breathing, supported stretching, range of motion, body awareness, and returning to more ease of movement.
This offering is for people who feel stiff, compressed, overworked, physically limited, or disconnected from their body’s natural movement. Assisted stretching can help create more space in the body while supporting mobility, breath, and comfort.
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Gender-affirming scar care and tissue integration: 40 Minutes
Changing Grounds is consent-based scar and soft tissue care session designed for people healing after gender-affirming surgical procedures, like top surgery.
This work can begin once incisions are fully closed and the person receiving care has been cleared for scar massage or gentle tissue work by their surgeon. Sessions are designed to support scar healing, tissue mobility, sensation, bodily awareness, and reconnection.
The work moves slowly and collaboratively. We follow your pace, your boundaries, and your body’s responses while staying within massage therapy scope and medical guidance.
Available after initial 90 or 120-minute session.
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Optional supports for warmth, movement, circulation, release, and deeper therapeutic care
Elemental Enrichments may be added to therapeutic massage and bodywork sessions when appropriate. These supports bring in heat, rhythm, suction, smoke, texture, and focused tissue work to support relaxation, mobility, grounding, and release. Each enrichment is discussed beforehand and used only with consent, comfort, health history, and contraindications in mind.
Kindling — Warmth, rhythm, and surface softening
Kindling offerings help the body soften, open, and settle before or during deeper bodywork.
Hot Stones
Smooth heated stones for warmth, grounding, muscular ease, and softening.Heated Bamboo
Broad, steady warmth and pressure to support relaxation, compression, and tissue opening.Percussive Massage
Brief rhythmic stimulation to help wake up tissue, ease soreness, and support targeted muscle release.Current — Circulation, movement, and deeper release
Current offerings work more deeply with areas of restriction, stagnation, or imbalance, supporting tissue mobility, circulation, and release.
Gliding or Static Cupping
Gentle suction to support tissue mobility, circulation, and areas that feel stuck or restricted. Temporary marks may occur and will be discussed before use.Muscle Scraping
A smooth-edged tool with oil or lotion to support focused tissue mobility, release, and circulation. Temporary redness or tenderness may occur.Smoke — Mugwort heat, grounding, and energetic movement
Moxibustion
Moxibustion is a traditional heat therapy that works with dried mugwort, or moxa, held near the body to bring warmth, circulation, grounding, and energetic movement.Smoke-based offerings are used only with clear consent, ventilation, and screening for scent, smoke, respiratory, pregnancy, and heat sensitivities.
Pricing
Longleaf Healing Arts uses a self-selected sliding scale: Access / Sustain / Nurture.
Access
The Access rate is $50 below the Sustain rate and is available for people for whom the standard rate would create financial strain or limit access to care.
To select the access rate, ask me for the Coupon code that you can apply during scheduling.
Sustain
The Sustain rate is the standard cost of care and helps keep the practice steady. This rate is for people with financial stability who can meet basic needs and can afford wellness care and recreation.
Everything on the scheduling platform is priced at the Sustain rate.
Nurture
The Nurture rate is $50 above Sustain and helps support Longleaf’s access-centered pricing. When you choose Nurture, you help make care more available for someone with less resource. This rate is for people with greater financial capacity, savings, inherited wealth, family support, class privilege, institutional resources, and/or the ability to comfortably meet basic needs, pay for wellness care, recreation and leisure.
To select the Nurture rate, select the Nurture Add-on on the scheduling page.
Please choose your rate with honesty and care.
Rates for Services:
Access / Sustain / Nurture
Rootwork Therapeutic Massage
First Time 90 min: $110 / $160 / $210
First Time 120 min: $150/ $200 /$250
Root & Release (60 min): $85 / $135 / $185
Root & Restore (90 min): $140 /$190 / $240
Root & Remember (120 min): $210 /$260 /$310
The Shift Series
Root & Restore Shift Series
Four 90-minute sessions: $777
Root & Remember Shift Series
Four 120-minute sessions: $999
Branch and Bend Assisted Stretching
60 Minute Session: $85 / $135 / $185
Changing Grounds Gender-Affirming Scar Care
Initial Session (90 min): $80 / $130 / $180
Follow-up Sessions (40 min): $38 / $88 / $138
Elemental Enrichments:
Kindling — $11
Hot Stones, Heated Bamboo, & Percussive Massage
Current — $22
Gliding or Static Cupping, Muscle Scraping
Smoke — $33
Moxibustion
Why We Love Longleaf Pines
Longleaf Healing Arts is guided by the Southern longleaf pine — a tree and ecosystem known for resilience, restoration, steadiness, and roots that grow both deep and wide. Longleaf pines remind us that healing is not only about one body, one session, or one moment. Healing happens in relationship: with the body, the land, our communities, and the conditions that help life return.
Root First, Rise Later
Young longleaf pines begin life in what is called the grass stage. During this time, they may look small above ground, but beneath the soil they are developing the roots that will later help them grow tall and strong.
At Longleaf, this teaches us that healing often begins below the surface. Growth is not always visible right away. Sometimes we root first, then rise.
Deep and Wide Roots
Longleaf pines develop strong taproots that reach deep into the earth, along with wide lateral roots that help anchor the tree through wind, storms, and change.
This is part of the inspiration for rooted care: care that supports both inner grounding and wider connection.
Shaped by Fire
Longleaf pine ecosystems are fire-adapted. Low, regular fire helps clear the forest floor, make room for new growth, and sustain the open, biodiverse landscape where longleaf communities thrive.
Longleaf pine teaches that transformation is not always simple, but with the right support, change can take root.
A Living Ecosystem
A longleaf pine is never just one tree. Healthy longleaf forests support grasses, flowers, birds, insects, animals, fungi, and many other forms of life.
This reminds us that healing is relational. Our bodies, relationships, communities, and environments are connected.
Steadfast Through Storms
Longleaf pines are known for resilience in wind, drought, and fire. Their strength comes not from being rigid, but from being rooted, adaptive, and part of a living system.
At Longleaf Healing Arts, this is the spirit of the work: steady, responsive, consent-centered care that supports release, restoration, and renewal over time.
