Nurturance

It has been some time since I have seen Barbara. But I had to stop and write a review when she popped up on Unilocal.
I had several different types of treatments and types of massage therapies with Barbara. I don’t even know how to begin to describe how healing these sessions were for me. The only word that comes to mind is «profound». Not only did I feel calm, I felt calm like never before. Some of the treatments helped me with severe physical pain, some with emotional pain. If it sounds like I am exaggerating, please let me assure you that I am not.
Barbara is so incredibly knowledgeable in so many areas of health and natural medicine, her knowledge is extensive and hardly fits into these two categories. I can’t begin to describe the knowledge that I gained and the doors of perception that were opened by this knowledge and her skilled touch.
Trust that you will find an amazing, healing experience with Nurturance. After having experienced many, many different massage and health practitioners in my life. Barbara will remain one of my most wonderfully memorable, powerful, and effective health/​massage experiences.

When most people think of massage, they think of the lay on your belly and have someone rub down your shoulders and back like in the movies. Well I’ve got good news for you, massage is not what you think, it’s better!
We now refer to massage as «Massage Therapy» or «Bodywork» and it’s facilitated by a Massage Therapist, not performed by a Masseuse, and there is a great plethora of therapies to choose from for whatever ails you.
Nurturance is such a place where you can receive a vast array of Massage Therapy Modalities and Barbara Loomis is a very knowledgeable and experienced practitioner. I know this because I have been a client for well over three years. I first came to her practice for Craniosacral Therapy for a spinal injury I incurred. Barbara was one of only a few I could find, on the internet, that practiced CST. Over the past three years Barbara has cared for me with many different therapies such as Flower Essence, Craniosacral Therapy (CST), and Chi Nei Tsang (CNT). She has also personally customized massages and prescribed restorative exercises for me as well. On a personal note I will say that I have left her office after a CST session and I have felt high! I was literally tingling and buzzing with a smile on my face. The CST and CNT are my favorites and I have had both regularly about every six weeks, and they make me feel restored, relaxed and grounded in my body. I think I prefer to call this type of therapy by it’s other lesser known name, Bodywork. I like the term Bodywork because it’s an interactive whole body experience of restoration and mindfulness that helps you to reconnect you with your own body. We so often overlook and become detached from our own bodies needs that without this type of reconnection our bodies can become dull and more likely riddled with aches and pains.
Her practice space is very peaceful and relaxing, plus it’s conveniently located in a shared professional building on East Burnside which has its own parking lot, which is totally sweet for when I’m running a little late and I don’t have time to search for a parking space. Nurturance has the most thoroughly informative website I have ever seen for Massage Therapy, and Barbara does a totally excellent blog about all things related to good healthy alignment.
To sum this all up, I think it’s best to say that Nurturance is an excellent option for those in need of restorative and healing Massage Therapies and Bodywork. Please check out her website as she does a great number of other therapies not mentioned by me here that may be just what you are looking for or what your body needs.
Feel Great!