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Discover Thai Massage, Deep Tissue, Iridology, AlphaBiotics and more..

With over 1,000 hours of combined training and professional sessions..

You can rest assured that Nina’s well-rounded experience is something you can rely on to bring your body back into balance. It’s time to take the step toward wellness. Explore her modality options and training history below.

Bodywork Modalities

Nina’s 6 core offerings for better wellness.
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  • Deep tissue massage is a specialized massage that targets the deeper layers of muscles and tissues within the body. It involves the application of slow, firm pressure to release chronic muscle tension and knots.

    C. Benefits of Deep Tissue Massage:

    1. Pain Relief: Deep tissue massage can alleviate chronic pain, including back and neck pain and fibromyalgia. By targeting deep layers of muscle and tissues, it helps to release tension and reduce discomfort.

    2. Improved Flexibility: By focusing on deeper muscle layers, deep tissue massage helps to improve the range of motion and flexibility. It can benefit individuals with restricted mobility or stiffness.

    3. Stress Reduction: Deep tissue massage promotes relaxation by releasing muscle tension and reducing stress levels. It can calm the mind and body, helping individuals unwind and find relief from everyday stressors.

    4. Rehabilitation and Injury Recovery: Deep tissue massage plays a crucial role in rehabilitation by increasing blood circulation, reducing inflammation, and breaking down scar tissue. It aids in healing injured muscles and tissues, facilitating a faster recovery.

  • Thai massage is a traditional Thai bodywork technique, Thai massage – also known as Thai Yoga Massage, or informally as 'the lazy person's yoga’- that combines elements of yoga, acupressure, and stretching. It involves using the therapist's body weight and hands to apply pressure, stretch muscles, and adjust joints. This modality improves flexibility, releases tension, and promotes energy flow throughout the channels of the body.

    This massage is practiced in loose fitted comfortable clothing, and takes place on a thai massage mat on the floor, and incorporates little to no oils and salves.

  • The Alphabiotic alignment is a source reconnect process. 

    https://alphabiotics.org/what-is-alphabiotics/

    Alphabiotics allows you to escape from an off balance, energy wasting stress state. You are then better able to connect with your own inner strength. You function in a more proper, whole-brain way. This actually enables you to dramatically reverse your downward spiral into premature decay. Quality of life improves. It empowers you to be more alive, awake, and aware. It’s a real way to release, increase, and sustain greater life energy expression, to maximize your potential, to make your life work better, and it gives you a competitive edge. Being in Alphabiotic Alignment is the key to gaining incredible results during this program.

    Alphabiotic Workout 

    A specialized localized workout that strengthens every muscle group of the body, in just about 15 minutes. Starting and ending with an alignment to engrain the work into the nervous system, this bio-hack is perfect for people who are on-the-go, unmotivated to work out, or just don’t have the time to get a work out in on the regular. It has been shown to build lean muscle, improve circulation, amongst others. 

    https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Wga953O7dFlvEIj7ifdYVi6H7MiOEhc2

  • Iridology is the science and practice of analyzing the iris, the most complex tissue structure in the human anatomy. Iridology reveals the presence of tissue inflammation in the body, where it is located, and what stage it has reached-acute, subacute, chronic, or degenerative.

    The iris reveals the level of constitutional strength, inherent weaknesses, state of health, and the transitions that take place in a person’s organs and tissues according to the way he lives.

  • EDGU (pronounced "edge-you") is a self-empowering practice of Evolutionary Spinal Maintenance designed to gently exercise and maintain the health and pliability of the intervertebral disks, promoting a balanced and healthy spine and body. This movement exercises the intervertebral disks to avoid disk degeneration by maintaining their inherent strength, pliability and absorbency.

    http://www.edgu.org/

  • Cupping therapy, a traditional Chinese medicine practice, involves creating suction on the skin using cups, aiming to increase blood flow, relieve muscle tension, and potentially reduce pain and inflammation. Cupping treatments can be very relaxing as well.

More Certifications & Training

Shiatsu

A deeply relaxing form of Japanese bodywork that uses finger pressure along energy meridians to restore balance and vitality. Ideal for stress relief, pain reduction, and overall well-being.

Acupressure

This gentle, non-invasive technique stimulates specific points on the body to promote natural healing, relieve tension, and support emotional balance—without the use of needles.

Myofascial Release

A targeted technique that works on the fascia—the connective tissue surrounding muscles—to relieve chronic pain, improve mobility, and restore postural alignment.

Pregnancy Massage

Designed for all stages of pregnancy, this nurturing massage relieves tension, reduces swelling, and supports both physical and emotional well-being during a transformative time.

Yoga and Alignment

Personalized yoga sessions that focus on posture, breath, and body awareness to improve alignment, flexibility, and inner balance—on and off the mat.

Nutrition & Health Coach

Holistic guidance tailored to your body and lifestyle, combining nutritional insights with actionable wellness strategies to help you feel energized, clear, and empowered.

Considering Modalities?

Read more below to understand what modality is best for you.

Thai Massage

Perfect for active individuals, athletes, or anyone seeking improved flexibility and energy flow, Thai Massage combines assisted stretching with rhythmic pressure to awaken the body. It’s ideal for those who want deep release without the use of oils or a massage table. Nina has studied over 200 hours of Thai massage, including advanced courses, and she brings in the element of heat and cleansing with Herbal Thai compresses, which with inflammation and aid in detox.

Spa Deep Tissue

Best suited for those with chronic muscle tension, high stress, or physical labor jobs, this massage reaches deep layers of muscle to relieve stubborn knots and restore ease. It’s especially beneficial for those seeking full-body rejuvenation and lasting tension relief.

Iridology

For the curious and health-conscious seeking deeper insight into their body’s internal condition, Iridology offers a non-invasive look at systemic health through the eyes. It’s ideal for those wanting a personalized roadmap to holistic well-being.

EDGU

Designed for those recovering from injury, dealing with back discomfort, or looking to maintain spinal mobility, EDGU is a standing spinal movement practice that re-educates posture and energy flow. Great for anyone wanting gentle, meditative movement with lasting benefits.

AlphaBiotics

Ideal for people experiencing mental fog, emotional overwhelm, or nervous system imbalance, AlphaBiotics is a gentle realignment process that helps reset the body’s stress response. It’s for those ready to shift from survival mode into greater clarity and balance. This modality is especially important in modern day, because of the amount of complex stressors that we as humans deal with on a daily basis.

Cupping

A powerful option for people with stagnation, chronic pain, or sluggish circulation, cupping therapy uses suction to stimulate blood flow and release deeply held tension. It’s perfect for those wanting visible, fast-acting results from an ancient healing practice.

Trainings and Certifications

This training held at the Santa Barbara Body Therapy Institute, was a year long and literally paved the way for my career in bodywork. It included Swedish as the base modality. Stemming from that was Anatomy, Physiology, Spa Deep Tissue, Myofascial, Cranio-Sacral, Pregnancy Massage, Shiatsu, Reflexology, Cupping. This was my first dive into bodywork, the training that changed and paved the course of my life.

California Massage Therapy Certification

550 Hours

This training included the history and theory of the yogic practices, emphasis was on Hatha Yoga. And a large part of this training emphasized Alignment and strengthening aspects of yoga. Yoga has been such a foundation for my life, and doing a deep dive was very nourishing and deepening for my practice.

SOMA YOGA INSTITUTE - Yoga and Alignment Certification

200 Hours

IIN (Institute of Integrative Nutrition) - Health Coach Certification

6 Month Program

This training laid out the principles for proper nutrition and lifestyle consulting, and helped pave the way for my knowledge and curiosity in what I consume, and how to inspire those around me.

ALPHABIOTICS Training Academy - Alphabiotics Certification

200 Hours

Alphabiotics is a specialized technique that takes a year of training to even come close to perfecting. This training taught me about the nervous system, the connection of the brain, body, and spirit'; and how modern day stressors are causing all sorts of ailments to occur. We learned about recognizing specific holding patterns in the body, and how to restore balance, for optimal healing to occur. In many ways, this training has saved my life, my nervous system, and has helped the intricate weaving of how I interact with the world in all of it’s stimulus.

My very first training in Thai massage was in Bali, at the international school in Changu, owned and operated by two Thai therapists. Here I learned the basis of what would become my most passionate offering. Incorporating specific energy line work and stretching to bring clients into a rejuvenated state of balance, this training is what paved my direction into the deeper aspects of what this ancient modality has to offer to humanity.

REEVA International Spa School - Thai Massage Certification

45 Hours

This training taught me the history and theory of Thai Massage, and Sen (Energy) Line work. With over 100 postures, this training paved the way for my mastery of the Thai massage practice. Many thanks and praise to Dr. Shivago, the founder of this modality; and to all of the teachers that have descended from his teachings.

SPIRIT WINDS School of Thai Massage - Thai 1/2

85 Hours

INFINITE IRIS - Iridology Certification

55 Hours

Learning from the leading Iridologist in the world, Ellen Jensen, at her private home in San Diego, is an “eye opening” experience. Here I learned all about the structure and the colors of the eyes, the pre-conceived genetic dispositions you can find by analyzing the Iris, the emotional and spiritual aspects that are present in the eye, and so much more. This is a fantastic non-invasive diagnostic tool that many do not know about.

SPIRIT WINDS - School of Thai Massage

Thai 3/4 (Advanced Energy Line Work) Certification - 55 hours

Jap Sen Certification - 45 Hours

Spirit Winds School of Thai Massage, run by the amazing Janice Gagnon, is a probably one of the most authentic and detail oriented school of Thai massage in our country, at least I would assume so. Janice spent countless years studying under the masterful women of Northern Thailand. I have taken two advanced courses so far, and plan to continue learning this modality as it feels like I live and breath it through my existence. Brining Yoga, massage, and energy work into one modality, Thai massage is hands down the most impactful form of massage on my body. The techniques learned in the advanced classes are potent and thorough for a wide breadth of ailments.

EDGU Certification - Vitalist Institute

55 Hours

Going hand in hand with Alphabiotics nervous system alignments, EDGU is an evolutionary spinal maintenance program, that I now can offer to students as a way of mainting their optimal spinal health. They say a healthy spine is a healthy body, considering that all of the nerve information from the brain to the rest of the body, must run its course through the spinal chord. This movement program is fun, and extremely life changing. It’s a maintenance program that I am so happy to have in my own life and excited to share with others.