Superior Therapists – Exceptional Massage

Eli Bernstein received his massage therapy degree from the Cypress Health Institute in Santa Cruz, California. He also has advanced bodywork training in Myofascial Release, Craniosacral Therapy, and Visceral Manipulation. His work is deeply transformative and finely attuned to your healing process. Each session with Eli is designed specifically for you. As John Barnes, the founder of Myofascial Release says, “there are ~ 8 billion fascial arrangements in the world, and each one needs to be treated differently”. That is what keeps this work interesting, engaging, and of maximum value. Eli’s work integrates orthopedic techniques that support lasting somatic improvements with a deeply intuitive ability to meet your entire being in the present moment. This is bodywork AND soulwork! This is healing as a path of wholeness! It is Eli’s prayer that “your healing benefits you, your family, your community, the planet and all beings!”

Harmony Oltman has a holistic approach to reaching greater health and well-being. Her client-centered approach involves working with her client’s specific needs and goals. With skill and intuition, she offers a wide variety of modalities including Deep Tissue, Myofascial Release, Biodynamic Craniosacral, Trigger Point, and Intrinsic Touch Therapy. She has a gift of “listening through her hands” to the body’s subtle rhythms and patterns of inertia, reading the story of the body. Supported by her knowledge of human anatomy and physiology, her bodywork can decrease pain and bring the proper conditions for recovery and healing. Her unique style of Biodynamic CranioSacral Therapy is a gentle method of manual therapy. It encourages the client’s own natural healing mechanisms to dissipate the negative effects of stress on the central nervous system, unwinding blocked emotions and trauma. She enjoys supporting women through their pregnancy with Prenatal Massage and also working with infants and children. Harmony has been nationally licensed since 2005 through the National Massage Therapy Board.  She is a Registered Cranial Sacral Therapist through the Biodynamic Cranial Sacral Association. Furthering her knowledge of the human skeletal system she attended a yoga teacher training in 2008 through Rasa Yoga Institute, bringing mind-body connection into her bodywork. Living close to the land in the beautiful Applegate Valley, she finds herself constantly inspired by the beauty and delicate balance reflected in nature. She enjoys organic farming, food preserving, songwriting, hiking, and time with her family. Harmony continues with her education, advancing her massage techniques and offering her clients change and deeply integrated bodywork.

James Teepe is trained in Structural Integration, a modality based on the teachings of Dr. Ida Rolf. With deep knowledge of anatomy, function, and movement therapy, James strives to work in partnership with people who would like more balance, ease, and freedom in their relation to gravity and themselves. Working as deeply as the client likes, he works to break up adhesions, shift aberrant patterns, and help to restore a more cohesive flow to the physical form. He has studied exercise therapy and rehab as well as learning the relationship between the muscles, bones, and movement. In addition to being a licensed massage therapist, James is a clinical herbalist and a holistic health student who lives on a 20-acre homestead with his wife and daughters. He approaches bodywork with experience and skill balanced with a grounded, earth-based awareness. James looks forward to supporting clients of Siskiyou Massage to attain their goals and move with greater freedom. James greets his clients with respect, knowledge, and awareness. He graduated from The Pacific Center of Awareness and Bodywork in 2005 and returned the next year to be a teacher’s assistant. James has been in private practice for 17 years and looks forward to sharing his experience with the clients of Siskiyou Massage.

Jordan Farah incorporates a collection of skill sets and areas of knowledge including advanced myofascial release and neuromuscular therapy. His work is deep, transformative, and intuitive. With his clients, Jordan helps pinpoint areas of concern regarding body mechanics and postural adaptations and works with them to set achievable goals. Other specialties include Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization (IASTM or Gua Sha), cupping, trigger point therapy, and Shiatsu. Jordan graduated from the Oregon School of Massage in Portland and began practicing therapeutic massage in 2018. As a second-generation massage therapist, holistic health, nutrition, and massage therapy have been integrated throughout his entire life. Jordan has a strong desire to continue learning. He has been drawn to explore how the body maintains mobility and function and understanding dysfunctional patterns. His unique style of bodywork may be attributed in part to his background and interest in construction and engineering. He has calm patience and listens well to his clients; which together with everything else helps create an effective and innovative massage treatment.

Laura Mata graduated from The Hawaiian Islands School of Massage in Kealakekua Bay with 800 hours of Medical Massage training.  Her training included extensive coursework in human anatomy, physiology, pathology and kinesiology.  She has been a licensed practicing massage therapist since 2007.  In 2012 she completed 500 hour Tantra Yoga Teacher training certification. She is an initiated practitioner in Kalari martial arts and holds a BA in Dance Ethnology. She had the cherished opportunity to study traditional Hawaiian teachings and hula on Kaua’i for 7 years.  Two decades of somatic awareness and movement are brought to her keen intuition and highly developed understanding of the body and its bio intelligence. She believes in the innate power of the body to heal and transform itself.  By changing the holding patterns of our bodies we can change the way we perceive, internalize and interact with our environment.  Her dedication to self-inquiry has led her to deeply study the nature of trauma, injury and illness as a whole; evolving her work into a holistic approach with a blend of cross-cultural knowledge and awareness.

Luc Dyssegard is an orthopedic massage therapist with a clinical approach to massage. He specializes in myofascial release and neuromuscular therapy, striving to help his clients move easier and feel better in their movement. Luc is proficient at decreasing pain and increasing mobility by reducing acute and chronic pain. Aspiring to meet the needs of each client, he tailors his work to specific requests, integrating and balancing separate modalities for a holistic experience.

Melissa Scudder’s massage sessions are steeped in multiple effective techniques including Deep Tissue, Myofascial Release, Shiatsu, Trigger Point Therapy, and Cranial Sacral Therapy. Every session is tailored to meet the needs of her clients as they are and with an intention to create space in the body for further healing.  Melissa brings to the table an understanding that every body is unique in its own experience from moment to moment and needs to be treated as such.  Melissa listens to her clients on many levels with great compassion and respect. Being a physical person, her intuitive, knowledgeable touch is the result of life experience as a runner, bicyclist, hiker, remodel carpenter, roofer, painter, farmer, and mother; combined with a deeper sense of our spiritual purpose here on Earth. 

Shasta Lee is a graduate of the Ashland Institute of Massage (AIM). He has been passionate about studying and training and has assisted in teaching advanced bodywork classes at AIM. Shasta has a very focused, educated and intuitive approach to bodywork. Aside from his clinical training in modalities such as myofascial release, neuromuscular therapy, trigger point therapy, deep tissue and Swedish massage, Shasta brings his previous experience as a personal trainer to his sessions. In addition to working with clients at Siskiyou Massage, Shasta is pursuing a pre-med degree on the path to becoming an osteopathic doctor. During his bodywork sessions, it is Shasta’s intention to facilitate and hold a space for each client to find his or her optimum state of balance and well being. In his personal life Shasta practices martial arts and meditation, loves the outdoors of every season, and thoroughly enjoys exploring fantastical landscapes with his son. Shasta’s Articles: Traveling aches and pains: what can we do about it?

Sherice Snee is an orthopedic and sports massage therapist with specialties in neuromuscular work that includes myofascial release, trigger point therapy, and muscle energy techniques. Other tools she works with include craniosacral therapy and she is a Reiki Master. She has a passion for bodywork; after experiencing multiple motor vehicle accidents, she got busy healing herself. Frustrated that she could not find the therapist she needed to holistically aid in healing and compliment the muscular-skeletal work she was receiving from her chiropractor, she decided to become a massage therapist and help those who need assistance in their healing process or to just feel good in their skin. She studied orthopedic and sport massage therapies at the Costa Rica School of Massage Therapy. She became Kinesiology tape certified and has continued studying neuromuscular therapy; in particular, she has a strong interest in trigger point therapy. She loves helping others achieve their goals of health and vitality and offers therapeutic touch and education as a means of understanding their body’s path to wellness.

Travis Skrine has been living in the Applegate valley for eleven years and practicing bodywork for the last seven. He studied at the Pacific Center for Awareness and Bodywork, in Kauai, and was part of Lee Joseph’s final graduating class. Travis specializes in Structural Integration, a modality based on myofascial release and originally taught by Dr. Ida Rolf.  The depth of the work is unique and is a reputable catalyst for physical and emotional change. The scope of work is a non-symptom-specific treatment of the entire body allowing a sort of “where it is, it is not” ideology approach to healing. The focus is on aligning oneself with gravity and allowing for free-moving bodies. Single sessions can be tailored to areas of specificity, and Travis enjoys creating mini-series, or multiple sessions of shorter length, to start one’s healing journey. Travis is looking forward to branching out into the greater community and working with this well-respected and professional practice.

Zellene Struble’s bodywork is supported by the belief in the unfolding wisdom of our own bodies to align toward optimal health when given the proper support. She offers a safe space to release held stress as she uses keen sensing and tracking to find and alleviate tension patterns held within the body. Zellene has an integrative style of bodywork which includes varying degrees of pressure, traction and stretching, joint mobilization, craniosacral holds, meridian pressure points, and cupping therapy. Clients should expect to feel a reduction in pain and discomfort and emerge with a new sense of well-being. Zellene completed her training in 2003 at Synergy Healing Arts Center & Massage School, in Blue Ridge Summit, PA. There she studied the foundation of touch-therapies and energy work. She earned her certification through the highest level of accreditation standard set by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB), which is maintained through the upkeep of continuing education credits. Zellene enjoys work and study in the field of health and wellness, which has included organic farming, yoga, home birth midwifery, EMT, and wilderness first aid training. She is excited and honored to meet with you to work toward your goals of renewed health and wellness!