Bodywork

Alyssa’s work is deeply healing and sacred. As an intuitive channel and psychic guide she can see and feel into the many layers of your experience to encourage you towards your soul's truth. She gracefully guides clients into the present, helps manage physical pain through energy healing, nervous system regulation, emotional release and intuitively focused bodywork. She is also a medium and can channel messages from those who have passed, ancestors and babies both born and unborn. Alyssa has been practicing massage therapy and healing since 2009. She is trained in chakra based energy healing, biodynamic craniosacral healing, intuitive soul guidance, somatic bodywork, pre/postnatal massage and doula training.

My name is Cara (she/her), and I am in service of helping people come home to themselves. Through various bodywork techniques, breath, and presence, my goal is to help you feel at home in your body. My passion is serving women during the childbearing continuum. This includes preconception work to enhance fertility, bodywork during pregnancy to prepare for labor and birth, and postpartum support to integrate the monumental transformation that has occurred. I believe if all mothers are supported and nourished, the world will begin to heal. I am also deeply interested in pain management bodywork. When we can allow our nervous systems to rest in a calmed state, we give our bodies the opportunity to heal. In addition to prenatal and therapeutic massage, I offer abdominal therapy. This modality is an external, non-invasive, bodywork therapy that helps align abdominal organs and increase nerve, lymph, energy, and blood flow. A typical session is 1/3 abdominal work, and 2/3 posterior work (to reduce tension & restriction in the back & lower spine). Guidance and resources for self massage are given during your first session, so you can continue this work at home between sessions. By improving physical positioning and systemic function, this therapy may improve fertility (for both partners!) Abdominal Therapy may also be a useful tool to prepare for and support IVF & IUI treatments, as it can optimize uterus positioning and vitality.

I teach a weekly prenatal yoga class at YogaDurango, which incorporates elements of community-building, safe and supportive yoga movement and postures, and pregnancy-appropriate restorative poses for deep relaxation. I have been teaching yoga since 2008, leading classes at YogaDurango since 2014, and have been holding space for women on their pre and post-natal journeys since 2020. I am also available for virtual support and classes, as well as privates upon request.

My work is devoted to helping clients release the physical and emotional patterns that create pain and dis-ease in the body. Much of what I do involves meeting people in the tender, often uncomfortable liminal spaces of the human experience—transition, loss, birth, sexual trauma, birth trauma, death, divorce, and other moments of profound change. I offer an accepting, loving, and safe environment where individuals can explore their body’s structures and core beliefs, creating space for greater potential, clarity, and fulfillment.

Whether you are preparing for labor, navigating the fog of postpartum recovery, or managing the complex shifts of perimenopause, you deserve to feel strong, heard, and supported. I’m Melissa Reitman, a Physical Therapist and Woman’s Health and Hormone Specialist with over 30 years of experience helping women reclaim their bodies. In 2021, I founded One on One Wellness in Durango to provide the kind of care I believe in: integrative, personalized, and deeply rooted in the connection between mind, body, and spirit. As a postmenopausal mom of three, I know firsthand that womanhood is a series of profound transitions. My goal is to combine evidence-based clinical expertise with compassionate, holistic healing to help you thrive through every stage. When I’m not in the clinic, you’ll likely find me paddle boarding, hiking the Colorado trails, or recharging with my family and my 4-pound therapy dog, Cholula. Ready to start your healing journey? Book a Consultation at 1on1wellness.com

At Studio Soma, Jen and her team are curious about and committed to supporting moms and babies. Our offerings include craniosacral therapy, fascial release, and Pilates and GYROTONIC© exercises. Each method encourages nervous system regulation, creates coordinated strength and balance in the body, and is gentle and supportive in every stage of development. Craniosacral and fascial release work are gentle, hands on methods that support the mom and baby dyad in simple but powerful ways. Since their nervous systems are wired for connection, working on one affects the other. Nervous system regulation is key for both moms and babies since it sets the stage for…..everything else! Babies often become more comfortable in their bodies which can lead to better sleep and digestion. Sessions can help them express their reflexes into movement like crawling and walking. Softening midline tension can help support oral tie releases and encourage easeful breastfeeding. Moms can experience deep relaxation, relief from pregnancy discomforts, and easier post-partum healing. Additionally, we offer pre and post natal private and semi-private movement sessions. Whether you choose Pilates, GYROTONIC©, or both, you will be working with a teacher who has decades of experience and can thoughtfully customize a session just for you. We will keep you moving safely throughout your pregnancy and postpartum period, helping you to gently strengthen and create space in your whole body. Our passions are pelvic floor and core resiliency, embodied breathing techniques, and moving together in community. We love when our clients leave relaxed, energized, and empowered! We’d love to see you in the studio soon!

I support women and individuals through preconception, fertility, pregnancy, and postpartum. As a licensed naturopathic doctor, acupuncturist, and Somatic Experiencing practitioner, I bring an integrative, vitalistic perspective that bridges modern medicine and ancient healing traditions. I commonly work with hormone and cycle irregularities, fertility challenges, digestive and stress-related concerns, nervous system dysregulation, and the emotional impacts of loss or medical trauma. My role is to tend the terrain, helping restore safety, rhythm, and trust in the body’s innate capacity for healing and life.