BODYWORK to restore HOPE, JOY, & THE NATURAL SELF

Release what’s not working.

Resolve constant pain and stress.

Relax into the moment. 

Respond with easy resilience.

When body & mind work as one, you feel whole again. Healed. 

Break free, movE forward with courage, passion, and purpose all your own.

WHEN WE ARE CALLED TO RENEW OURSELVES

  • Chronic stress

  • Chronic tension

  • Chronic pain

  • Idiopathic pain

  • Overwhelm

  • Low energy, exhaustion

  • Unresolved injury

  • An arduous healing journey

HERE, YOUR PAIN BECOMES WORKABLE, TRANSFORMATIVE EVEN

In the holistic view, pain, tension, stress, and anxiety are the body’s way of saying, “Hey you, something needs to change here!” 

Holistic, restorative bodywork honors the wisdom in the pain, meets it, greets it, soothes it, coaxes the body/mind system back into balance: pain-free, more naturally vigorous, more resilient than ever. 

Those who choose holistic, restorative bodywork develop:

  • Strength … that’s never brittle

  • Resiliency … that’s relaxed

  • Self-awareness … body & mind are one

  • Respect for feelings, sensations, and needs

  • An easy, dynamic range of motion 

  • Fuller self-expression

  • An incandescent sense of the inner life & natural self

  • Heightened wisdom & emotional intelligence

MY CLIENTS LIVE TO DANCE TO THE BEAT OF THEIR OWN DRUM.

Artists of life, they’re uncompromising, individualistic seekers & learners, devoted to serving their highest purpose, acting with integrity, and to personal growth. 

If they had to choose, they’d choose quality over quantity every time.

Personally, I get it. I’m that person too.

None of us would choose to experience pain, stress, and tension. But those things come calling from time to time. And they keep us from enjoying life fully. 

LIVE FREE!

“Olivia is a rare gem. She lives and breathes creativity, intelligence, integrity and kind, empowered living...”

— Milah

HOLISTIC MASSAGE MANIFESTO

I BELIEVE

To receive massage therapy is a meaningful act of resistance to the modern western way of life, that unforgiving machine-like mentality which mindlessly exhausts every natural resource available–including its humans.

I BELIEVE

Massage therapy has the power to awaken and inspire the whole person. The fact is, we are healed whenever we feel whole. Being healed only requires that we understand the perfection in our imperfection. We can never forsake ourselves.

I BELIEVE

Massage therapy is more than touch therapy—it is an education for the soul embodied within. It is liberation from limitations real and perceived. Individual empowerment springs from source energies within.

I BELIEVE

To kindle the spirit & activate a vital inner life is essential to health—mental, emotional, and physical. Without an inner sensibility (“ability to sense”) we cannot feel ourselves, we cannot share our gifts. We cannot live free until we claim the power of our own bodies and minds.

“olivia HAS deep awareness of how to help a body let go of its efforting. I have energy to respond well to life!”

— Tressa

WHAT IS HOLISTIC MASSAGE?

olivia ireland lmt at her studio in olympia wa

MINDFUL PRACTICE FOR NATURAL WELLNESS and healing

Gentle, yet profound, restorative holistic massage therapy and Soma® Structural Integration leverage the body’s physiology & core energetics, restoring the flow of powerful, clean source energy. 

A vitalized body/mind promotes total healing from the inside out, while it serves as the most natural form of preventative health care.

“OLIVIA never fails to help stabilize and ground me to the good Earth.”

— Laurel

RETURN HOME TO YOUR BODY, TO YOURSELF

Holistic massage therapy and Soma® Structural Integration gently and effectively return you back to balance and alignment, allowing your body to heal and naturally resolving many chronic issues–even ones that stymie other treatment providers. 

The concept is simple. A body working efficiently in gravity CAN HEAL itself.

The nervous system shifts smoothly from sympathetic to parasympathetic and back, without ever getting stuck. The right muscles do the right work at the right time–never too much or too little. The joints maintain a healthy range of motion. The bones support and move freely. The core is engaged, keeping us present every moment. 

All this goodness arises from a smoothed, toned fascial (connective tissue) network.

Fascia isn’t yet fully understood, but, as it envelops every cell of the body, it’s easy to see it’s pretty darn important.

when THE FASCIA IS HEALTHY, we feel it. We feel joyful, awakened, relaxed … at home in our bodies, our selves.

Curious about fascia? Read my article about fascia from the IASI Journal.

“my whole body felt like ONE nice deep breath.”

— Kai

WHAT WILL YOU DO WHEN YOU LIVE FREE

Whether your connection to your body, your self needs a little tune up or a complete overhaul, I meet you exactly where you are and help you get where you want to be.

All my sessions bring profound, long-lasting benefits, restoring hope, joy and a more natural sense of self. 

Feel refreshed, easy, loose. Natural source energy flows again, pure and clean.

Freedom in the body translates to freedom of mind and spirit.

Orienting to joy, freedom, ease, flow, innate creativity, power, wisdom is liberating.

Heck, honestly? I want you to get to the point where you demand nothing less than joy + freedom.

“OLIVIA HAS ADDED SO MUCH TO MY LIFE, EVEN OUTSIDE HER STUDIO. I HAVE THE TOOLS I NEED NOW”

—Brian

CHOOSE WHAT’S PERFECT FOR YOU

I offer two tiers of service: Holistic, restorative massage and Soma® Structural Integration.

Which one is right for you?

Both restore the body/mind holistically • relieve pain & injury • both activate natural, easy-flowing energy • work profoundly: deep and gentle, at the same time • get you further along your healing journey

Both are perfect for anyone who can and wishes to receive massage therapy.

The differences:

Holistic Massage sessions last 60 or 90 minutes • can be billed to insurance • are effective for acute pain, shorter-term pain, pain resulting from overwork or overuse.

Soma® Structural Integration sessions run 120 minutes • include bodywork, movement education and coaching • cannot be billed to insurance • are perfect for addressing more chronic conditions, chronic stress, tension, and pain, reduced range of motion, as well as idiopathic pain, old injuries, and pain that chiropractic care, physical therapy, or occupational therapy hasn’t been able to resolve.

MORE ABOUT SOMA® STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION

SOMA® IS NEXT-LEVEL integrative, holistic BODYWORK

Soma®  smooths and strengthens the fascia, sets your body in line with gravity, and optimizes movement patterns, effectively restoring a living sense of vitality, ease, and grace.

Soma® is powerful yet gentle at the same time, because it works over a series of sessions.

It helps • Heal persistent pain + old injuries • Restore vital movement patterns • Activate natural creative energies

It’s an awakening to the body which gives clients the time and tools they need to clear pain, tension and restriction.

New freedom means new choices. New choices mean new chances, new paths taken … a fresh sense of personal integrity and meaning in life. 

Soma® clients feel stronger and more resilient, inside and out.

FLOWING WITH NATURAL ENERGY, WE CAN RELAX. IN THAT MOMENT, JOY TAKES US BY THE HAND.

Breathe more fully. Move from a grounded place, and with grace. Learn to express yourself (and why that’s important for your health). Practice mindfulness. Come to trust + love yourself exactly as you are. Embody a fuller sense of your own agency and individuality.

Soma® takes a whole-body, whole-person approach. By the end of the journey, you will be empowered to live as yourself, doing what you want to do. 

MIDLIFE TRANSFORMATIONS = YES

Good, bad, and ugly—midlife arrives like lightning from the blue. A laughable trope only until it finds you, the classic midlife crisis creates twists and surprises worthy of Dynasty.

Midlife is a journey for the brave.

Soma®—symbolically and actually—gets to the core of YOU, the ever-elusive mystery of the self as it emerges past your programming + limited beliefs.

You can emerge more beautiful than ever before—the kind of beauty which begets more beauty: the beauty of truth to inspire the next generation.

MANIFESTING ON YOUR PERSONAL GROWTH JOURNEY = YES

On a personal growth or healing journey, therapy, coaching?

Investing time and money into becoming a happier, more effective, more secure version of yourself?

Turns out there are many layers to that process. We work through so much pain in the process, as thoughts + emotions must shift to allow grow into a richer sense of life.

Soma® works to establish healthier physiological neural pathways, reconditioning your nervous system so that it helps, instead of hinders, you. It brings into balance the left and right hemispheres of the brain, and activates the core of being.

Your work on yourself works even better!

NEW ENERGY FOR ARTISTS AND CREATIVES = YES

You creatives out there know how challenging it is to tune into the calls of the inner life, when there’s so much judgment, opinion, expectation, and old programming out there.

Though faint at first, the voice of the natural inner self can be attuned to and developed until, at last, it’s the only thing that matters.

Intelligent, integrative bodywork, Soma® increases wisdom + intuition, inborn intelligence.

We must seek out silent places from which we can listen carefully to ourselves—and only ourselves.

SUPPORT FOR LIFE CHANGES, PHASES + STAGES = YES

Foundations, shaken.

Contexts, rewritten.

Plans, imploded … Kingdome-style.

It happens to all of us, yet we can feel alone in our struggles to understand, to heal, to land solidly on our feet again.

This work is made even harder because life doesn’t stop its merry-go-round. Family, work, community, business pull at us, while our personal values urge us on into our unwritten future.

Soma® is sanctuary for the soul, where we can feel balance as a reality again.

INVITING SPIRITUAL AWAKENINGS = YES

Dear Fellow Seekers,

Sometimes the quest feels like a burden. We ask ourselves why we’re doing this, why we’re looking deeper, why we feel impelled to ask the questions, how we can justify reaching for more, when the costs are so real.

Well, it’s because the benefits are real too.

Give yourself permission to receive the peace + beauty of a rich inner life. Self-knowledge + self-acceptance lifts your spirit so you can lift those of others.

DEEPENING YOGIC PRACTICE = YES

For yoginis, new and old, beginners + beginner-minded.

All those fr whom yoga isn’t just a hipster way to get your pump on.

It’s a passion, a lifestyle, a guiding philosophy, inspiring you to get up in the morning, lifting you out of slumps, gently reminding you that you have a right to be exactly where you are.

It teaches you to be tender with yourself, and this compassion becomes you.

Lean further into your yoga.

recliner and reading lamp olivia ireland lmt csp

IT’S HIgh TIME TO Commit to yourself, OUI?

Plan ahead and stay up to date with the regular self-care you need to feel joyful and free.

Set aside time + space for yourself.