Amanda Gerace, LMT OBMT #11441 I offer my services as a way to cultivate healing, resiliency, and connection to self and community, weaving a tapestry of healing arts to assist in our collective journey towards wholeness and wellness. Grassroots Wellness was established in 2008 and it is my goal that my offerings can be a restorative, nurturing balm for body and soul. I received my massage training from the Phoenix Therapeutic Massage College in Flagstaff, Arizona, graduating in 2003. In the years since, I have extensively studied many additional modalities to deepen my understanding of the body, heart and mind, always aiming to learn and grow as a bodyworker, plant medicine initiate, and death/grief doula.
My doula training, (both birth and death) has been a powerful experience and strengthened my belief that these are sacred transitions: beautiful, raw, vulnerable, painful, transformative. My healing arts practice has been influenced by these lessons, including the importance of listening, being focused and present in the moment, creating a deeply nurturing space- both physically and emotionally, establishing my client's trust, and using intuition to guide our work together. I am not practicing as a birth doula, but I am offering my services as an end of life/grief doula, and I would be happy to answer any questions regarding this service.
Outside of work, I enjoy exploring nature, mycology and mushroom foraging, music, dancing, Muay Thai kickboxing, paddleboarding and traveling. My son, Tristin, was born in 2007, so these past years have also been an adventure in motherhood.
I look forward to working with you, and please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have.