Meet Our Therapists

Ashlee Dent

The foundation of Ashlee’s beliefs around bodywork include a few pillars:
-You are the utmost authority on your own body.
-Bodywork is a time to experience your body, not escape it.
-Curiosity and listening are vital to embody as I act as a vessel.

Ashlee (she/her) is a graduate of Bay College’s massage therapy program. Communicating with clients and their needs to help guide her intuition, she combines many techniques to leave you feeling refreshed and whole. Compressions ranging from mild to deep, vibration and rocking, range of motion movement for joints, and Thai inspired stretching all combine to create space in your body, allowing tension to release and muscles and joints to increase functionality. In addition, Ashlee offers ashiatsu massage- a deeply therapeutic modality using her feet to administer pressure, flow, and massage techniques. This modality is inherently very deep tissue, for the folks who feel as though they can just never receive the depth they need to administer change. All of her techniques start with a foundation of understanding nervous system patterns, and she works to meet yours where you are and help facilitate healing within that realm.
Curiosity and exploration are at the forefront of Ashlee’s mind when learning massage. Some notable teachers she has trained with include Tracey Windmill, of Colorado, for Nervous System Foundations and Sarga Silks; Al Poliarco of Madison, Wisconsin for Ashiatsu; Oliver Chomarro of Spain for Osteothai, and Sebastian Bruno of Thailand for thai bodwork.
Her intentions are to remind the areas of the body the spaces they can happily inhabit, leaving the body and mind feeling whole and relaxed again. Her goal is that you walk away feeling different than when you arrived, as if you’ve returned to the space that is your comfortable home. We only have one body in this life and we should love existing in it!

Ava Shurlow

Ava (she/her) is a 2023 graduate of Bayshire beauty academy where she completed 700 hours of massage therapy training. She is also certified in reiki 1 and 2 and uses the knowledge of energy work to personalize her sessions to each clients needs. Her focus as a therapist is to integrate mind, body and spirit to optimize healing as well as to promote balance in and around the body.

Emily Schaefer

Emily (she/her) is a 2024 graduate of Five Elements Therapy Academy in Houghton, MI where she completed 650 hours of massage therapy education. Here she gained knowledge on various massage techniques including myofascial release, prenatal, intro to craniosacral, trigger point therapy, and more. She implements a mix of this knowledge with intuition as she works with clients, taking into account everyone’s personal preferences and goals. Her aim is for you to leave feeling renewed mentally and physically, not just in the moment but also as the day carries on! Oftentimes we don’t realize the tension we’re carrying throughout our muscles. Letting go of that weight and feeling the way our bodies respond, in time, has the potential to change more than just muscle tissue.

Jasper Sowle

Jasper Sowle (They/Them) is a Massage Practitioner here to support the regulation of your nervous system as you land into your body and deepen your relationship with yourself. Jasper lives in Marquette, Michigan, graduated with a massage certificate from Institute for Massage Education at Kalamazoo Center for the Healing Arts and has been licensed for 9 years. They’ve taught Anatomy & Physiology for five years and intermittently taught Adaptive Massage, Advanced Massage, Kinesiology, and oversaw clinic orientation at IME. Jasper is trained in various modalities, including Manual Lymphatic Drainage, Myofascial Release, and CranioSacral Therapy, and has years of contemplative and hands-on continuing education. They hold the focus of attuning to you and your body in order to support you as best as possible in each moment in every session. They understand that your body may need different modalities and support at different times. They use their professional training to facilitate each integrative session to support your highest good to the best of their ability. Jasper values discovery, resolution, conversation, warmth, and healing. When Jasper isn’t giving massage, you can likely find them traveling, earthstewarding, creating and selling art, exploring their passions, or educating others in various ways.

Lindsay Shinn

Lindsay (she/they) has been doing bodywork since 2006. A student of renowned elder (& Upper Peninsula native!) Irene Gauthier, who elevated the entire massage therapy profession & was recognized the world over throughout her esteemed career. Lindsay incorporates many modalities into her intuitive sessions including: myofascial release, clinical/medical style, Swedish, energy/subtle-body work, polarity, compression, cranial sacral, hot stone & cupping therapies. She has developed a particular specialty working with tendon/ligament/fascia specific issues as well as knowledge/sensitivity working with connective tissue variance spectrum such as hyper/hypo mobility EDS+. She also has training in Thai massage, cupping & reflexology. Additionally, Lindsay is Level 2 Trauma Touch Therapist certified through the Colorado School of Healing Arts (January 2023). Lindsay deeply appreciates the value of cultivating a relationship with your body & enjoys helping people who might otherwise feel uncomfortable receiving massage or have a complex relationship with their body to gently & mindfully approach a more embodied state. She is LGBTQIA+ safe & is particularly sensitive & passionate about working with gender non-conforming bodies — as well as all the beautiful variations of bodies that we inhabit.