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Certified Trager® Approach Practitioner

Oregon LMT #17639

Located in Bend, Oregon, Barrie is a Certified Trager Practitioner and Licensed Massage Therapist, Barrie's practice supports clients seeking to move better, feel better, and enhance a sustainable, healthful lifestyle. She brings a genuine passion to her offering of gentle, supportive, and effective movement-based bodywork. Contributing to clients' greater wellness, ease, and comfort remain steadfast goals. She has the ability to work sensitively and effectively with people with pain, trauma, injuries, surgeries, pain conditions, repetitive stress injuries, neuromuscular disorders, and stress disorders. The result is effective, deep work that is enjoyable and pain-free to receive.

Through studies in the Trager Approach, Thai yoga massage, and Shiatsu, Barrie's style has evolved to incorporate gentle movement into most sessions, listening with her hands, and orienting toward ease. She often incorporates abdominal massage for its long reaching benefits on digestive, stress-related, and mobility issues. Sessions are highly individualized and focused on restoring balance, alignment, mobility, and physical ease. She is described by clients as sensitive, intuitive, knowledgeable, and curious. Ever curious about the mind-body connection and its effect on health and vitality, she remains a lifelong learner. When she's not working or studying, she enjoys riding her mountain bike, hiking with her dog, and furthering her quest to master the arts of relaxation and rejuvenation in the beautiful Northwest.