A trauma-informed approach to bodywork.

Our Massage Therapists

Alyssa Hill (she/they)

Alyssa Hill (she/they) is trained in a variety of massage modalities and alternative therapies.  In 2007 she decided to start healing work beginning with Reiki training, a modality she found useful and exciting as she started to learn yoga and AcroYoga.

In 2010 she began officially training in professional massage, starting with Thai Yoga Bodywork and AcroYoga.  She completed an 80 hour AcroYoga Teacher training with AcroYoga Montreal in the summer of 2010.

Her Thai Yoga Bodywork training, an extensive 300 hour training, was completed in 2011.  She holds Advanced Practitioner status through Devanadi Yoga Studio and the Thai Healing Alliance International. She completed a 900 hour Advanced Therapeutic Massage training program at CenterPoint Massage and Shiatsu School in 2015.

She also has 80+ hours of training through Coaching the Body Institute in Chicago, a school focusing on Clinical Thai Bodywork, a massage modality that uses Trigger Point release techniques to quickly release pain and disfunction from muscle tissue. Her other trainings include Craniosacral healing, advanced techniques in Trigger Point release, Chi Nei Tsang (abdominal massage), Fire Cupping and Gua Sha with Kim Hart of Adagio Holistic, Ayurvedic massage, Flower Essences training, Chakra balancing techniques, somatic energy integration, and aura visualization. Currently she is studying Somatic Experiencing through Somatic Experiencing International (with intention to complete training in 2028) and her honing clairvoyant, clairaudient and clairsentient abilities through healing touch and distance healing techniques.

Outside of running a small massage business and teaching AcroYoga, she seasonally harvests wild rice and maple syrup in northern Minnesota. She enjoys weightlifting,  bicycle riding, and sailing.

In the fall of 2017 she shifted into the most important role of her life, motherhood.  She now has two rad little humans (Ursa and Minerva) that she has the elite privilege of co-facilitating into adulthood. 

She firmly believes all bodies are valuable and truly incredible.  She always works to approach life and bodywork from a trauma-informed approach.  She enjoys healing herself, facilitating healing in others, and living life like it is important.

Alyssa is currently not taking new clients.

Avi Marshall (they/them)

Tiger Tuchel (they/them)

Casper Valentine (he/they)

Casper is a Zen Shiatsu practitioner and massage therapist. His interest in healing began at a young age and initially led him to get a degree in psychology. Recognizing the need to incorporate the embodied experience into healing work, he was then guided to study massage, eventually finding a home in Shiatsu and the deep groundedness that comes with working on the mat.

He believes that profound healing requires that our wounds be witnessed with presence and non-judgment, and he is now studying Somatic Experiencing, a modality rooted in this philosophy. He offers bodywork sessions that use Somatic techniques to support more holistic healing. Amongst other benefits, Somatic Experiencing can allow the body to complete “stuck” or thwarted nervous system responses, and find greater stability and regulation in body and spirit.

In sessions, Casper’s goal is to create a safe and nonjudgmental space for receivers to begin to come back into contact with themselves and find relief from chronic symptoms, as well as greater embodied feelings of balance and peace. He is passionate about working with trauma, and aims to create a gentle, intentional space in which receivers feel safe enough to heal. He believes that the relational space between practitioner and client is of great importance to healing, and is available to work with clients to create a space that suits their particular needs and healing goals. He is happy to answer questions or connect before a session if desired.

Ellis Sprecher (M.Ac.C.H.M., L.Ac., M.Ed.) (he/they)

Ellis became an acupuncturist and herbalist after nearly 15 years of chronic illness and chronic pain. Navigating disability and trying to get the right care as a trans person led him to commit to this work. This medicine has been foundational to his journey of coming home to his body and himself, and recovering from illness that conventional biomedicine could not treat. He is honored to be able to help others on their own healing paths. 

Before starting acupuncture school, Ellis completed an ear acupuncture technician training focused on the NADA 5-Needle Protocol for detox support. He received his Master’s in Acupuncture from ASAOM in Tucson in 2023.

Ellis specializes in Japanese Meridian Therapy acupuncture. It is a style that uses fewer and thinner needles, as well as non-insertive tools to bring your body into balance, achieve symptom relief, and clear the way for deep healing. It is effective in treating a wide range of issues, and is accessible for needle-sensitive patients of all ages too. He is especially drawn to helping patients heal from pain, mental health issues, and complex chronic illness like Lyme, Fibromyalgia, Long COVID, and CFS. In addition to acupuncture, he uses modalities including moxibustion, herbal formulas, cupping, and guasha. 

Prior to studying acupuncture, he worked as a high school teacher and an organic vegetable farmer. When he’s not working, he enjoys sewing, knitting, drawing, gardening, and being in nature.

Harper Nelson (they/them)

Harper (they/them) is passionate about supporting people in cultivating a relationship with their bodies.  They approach massage from a trauma informed perspective, and are especially excited about working with fellow queer, trans, and disabled people.  It's important to them that massage be accessible to all types of bodies.  

Harper is trained in relaxation massage, cupping, gua sha, and acupressure.  They started apprenticing with Alyssa in 2022, and finished their therapeutic massage certificate at Northwestern Health Sciences University in fall of 2023. They have trained in Manual Lymphatic Drainage in summer of 2024 and currently off MLD in combination with scar tissue repair.

Harper works in gender care as a registered nurse when they're not doing massage.  They spend their free time connecting with the land they live on through gardening and nature walks with their pit bull Emma, and making things out of clay.

As of September 2025, Harper is currently not seeing clients with Threshold Healing. They moved out of state, if Harper returns to Minnesota their clients will be notified of their availability.