Danielle Bryngelson, Massage Therapist

I am using the GI bill to fund my full tuition and partial living expenses. Body Therapy Institute has given me the skills, tools and confidence to gain employment at the Massage Place. I love flexibility - that I can work for myself and set my own schedule.

Kate Goldstein , Massage Therapist

For me SBBTI is continuing education and support for my career. It’s the most healing and integrated of all the Santa Barbara massage schools. The Trigger Point course with John Harris eliminated my chronic low-back pain. SBBTI is THE radical massage school you are looking for, and the school responsible for many people’s success in this field!

Kate Goldstein
Owner of Table to Table: In Home Dining and Massage

Kelle Evans , Massage Therapist

“What brings me joy? Helping others. When I step into my healing studio to help a client I feel immediately better myself. Sharing my knowledge with others gives my life purpose.”

Kelle Evans is a strong believer that there are many different paths to healing. Over the years, she has explored many types of energy and bodywork methods to provide comfort, balance and relief to her clients. Although Kelle enjoys working with all ages, she has a special affinity for alternative senior health care.

Her journey began several years ago when she decided to leave a successful corporate career for a more holistic profession. Her first step was to become trained as a professional massage therapist at the Santa Barbara Body Therapy Institute. She now offers such services as Hot Stone, Aromatherapy, Sports, Barefoot massage and more. Kelle is also trained as a Hospice Volunteer and in her spare time, she is studying to become a Red Cross trainer as well as learning nutrition, herbal treatment and druidism.

Always looking for new healing methods, Kelle turned to energy and vibrational medicine, which is providing positive and powerful transformational results for many. She has been trained as a Reiki Master, Quantum Energetic Disciplines Practitioner, Creative Life Sciences Practitioner, Pan Harmonics Practitioner and Multi-Dimensional Healer, and has recently obtained her 9 shamanic rites.

These services and more are featured at The Healing Portal, Kelle’s alternative health studio in Ventura, California. In the near future, she intends to introduce Restorative Yoga, Color Healing, Reiki Instruction and Animal Wellness at the center. For more information, please see her website at www.healingportal.net.

Nelson Olivera, Holistic Health Practitioner
For me, there is a sense of calling and mission in massage. I enjoy tremendously working in a meditative state of mind. It is similar to the meditation that Thich Nat Han talks about, but by using my hands and feet. Clients say it doesn't look like I am working, but having fun. To fully be there for the client is a wonderful experience and sometimes we witness what I call active serendipity. It is when you get results by releasing the soft tissue when others have given up on the body’s complaints of discomfort and pains or after effects of surgery. Clients experience empowerment and wonderment. I work about fifteen hours a week with private clients and as an independent contractor at local spas. I go to clients’ homes and hotels. I have the free time to go to the gym, study a lot and take wonderful vacations where I exchange massage and further my studies. This is fun and a great tax write off! I just got back from Prague and some other cities in the Czech Republic. I enjoyed the baths in Budapest, Hungary. It’s been wonderful learning about massage in new places and I will further my studies in India and Thailand. My goal is to breathe more, have better posture and increase range of motion. In other words: A younger me every year!

I started my training at SBBTI three years ago and plan to keep learning because it is a journey. I love the people and the classes at SBBTI. The staff is very supportive, fair and knowledgeable about the dynamics of massage. I am very grateful to John Harris for having me as a teaching assistant many times and for teaching me how to keep myself free of lower back pain. There is a tremendous sense of empowerment we experience once we find we find ways to deal with soft tissue pain and discomfort in areas such as lower back, shoulders and neck. I retain the best strokes from different modalities and integrate them into my session for relaxation and muscle release.