Rachel is a graduate of Arizona School for Integrative Studies and a nationally certified massage therapist. Her specialties in massage include: connective tissue, neuromuscular therapy, Swedish, deep tissue, sports, prenatal massage, and CranioSacral Therapy.  Rachel has also completed the coursework for Somatic Experiencing Institute's three year certificate program. Somatic Experiencing is a trauma informed, body-oriented therapeutic model.  

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In addition to having training in a variety of bodywork modalities, Rachel has studied yoga and is a graduate of Salt Spring Centre of Yoga. Rachel will often integrate the knowledge she has gained from yoga into her massage sessions and offers private yoga sessions to interested clients. 

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Rachel also teaches at Sacred Roots Massage School of Montana here in Bozeman. When Health Works Institute was still open she taught there as well and helped supervise student clinic.  

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Her B.A. is in Environmental Studies and Women and Gender Studies. Rachel has worked on organic farms in Washington and Montana, as a kayak and trail guide in Alaska, an experiential outdoor science instructor in Arizona and Montana, and as a Citizen Science Volunteer Coordinator doing ecological restoration work on the Colorado Plateau. 

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Rachel sees all the work she does as fitting into the realm of "reintegration," or restablishing a sense of union or connection to ourselves, our bodies, our minds, and the natural world.