Amy Pierce

Wamyous1@yahoo.com

I am a N.C. Licensed Massage and Bodywork Therapist, having graduated from Coastal Carolina Institute’s Massage Therapy program in September 2002, where I became certified in Swedish and Deep Tissue Massage. Since then, I have treated a wide variety of clients and have enjoyed a busy practice.

My curiosity and awe of the body has forever inspired me to seek more and more knowledge of it, and the many therapies that influence it. Through nine years of professional dancing, I received massage, acupuncture, and chiropractic which essentially kept me “on my toes”, and sparked my interest in the workings and pathologies of the human musculo-skeletal form. Since setting foot on the journey of massage therapy, I’ve discovered that my dance experience adds fluidity to my massage strokes and sequence and gives me an innate understanding of how the body moves and how the muscles work to create that movement. I bring these unique qualities to my massage work, as well as caring, honesty, sensitivity and intuition. I have found assisting others in their healing processes through therapeutic massage to be overwhelmingly rewarding.

Since 2004, I have been certified in Orthopedic Massage and have treated many athletes preparing for and recovering from events and healing from injuries. In the same year, I completed certification in Nurturing the Mother® Fertility, Pregnancy, Postpartum, Infant Massage and Labor Massage.

In 2008, I began seeing only maternity related clients, their partners and their babies. My new business name is Peaceful Beginnings: Massage for Pregnancy, Birth and Baby. I regularly collaborate with prenatal yoga teacher, Heather Till, to offer pregnant couples’ workshops focusing on yoga and massage techniques for childbirth. In addition, we send out a monthly e-newsletter, Nurturing Body, Mind and Baby, to over 300 local clients, friends and colleagues. Also in 2008, I became certified in Baby’s First Massage® , and have become deeply inspired to educate my community and beyond in the many important benefits of Newborn Massage. I teach the class as part of our pregnant couples’ workshops, an ALACE birthing class series, group classes at various venues, and privately. I look forward to expanding my role with Baby’s First Massage® by becoming a coach, so that I may train other professionals to teach, thereby spreading the information farther.