Smiling person in a gray quilted jacket with hand on head.

Person standing at the entrance of a cafe with a wooden sign reading 'BŌL Superfood Cafe'; surrounded by plants.

Person smiling and holding a bowl with granola and fruit

Collage featuring Yoga Tree sign and details about muscle energy bodywork by a therapist named Chelsea.

Smiling person wearing glasses and a green top

Person wearing glasses and a lab coat with a name badge, smiling.

Close-up portrait of a woman with light brown hair, wearing a red garment, looking directly at the camera.

Smiling woman in front of textured wall with 'MOTHER', 'in good company', and 'Ingrid & Isabel' text.

A pregnant woman smiling and holding her belly.

Mother and child playing with watermelon outdoors

A smiling woman wearing a hat holds two young children, one toddler and one baby, in her arms at an outdoor setting with tents in the background.

A smiling adult and two children wearing winter clothing with digital crowns and a heart decoration added to the image.

A woman laughing while standing over a person lying face down, covered with a white blanket, in a room with a plant and wall art.

A smiling woman wearing a purple beanie with two young girls outdoors, one wearing a cap and patterned shirt, the other in a floral jacket. Background features greenery.

I’ve always been fascinated by the human experience of transformation, not the before + after photo snippet, I’m talking about the deep tectonic plate shifts that crack us open. The moments that swallow us whole as we dissolve into its force. On the journey to reclaiming ourselves piece by piece, we get to choose what stays, and what goes.

Along my path, I’ve chosen to reclaim big and little parts of myself to find my truest way in the world. Each of those experiences has left an imprint on my body, and I’d venture to guess, yours too…

My world really opened when I was a television producer in NYC, working for over a decade in the industry. Life was big, and the work rigor and my workaholic tendencies affected my health. At 28, after multiple fibroid surgeries, I was advised to have a hysterectomy. Instead, I sought out alternative methods and found healing through Acupuncture and ancestral eating. I now have two healthy daughters. I heard a voice that day, when I was given my diagnosis and treatment options, I felt in my bones there was another option.

This body awareness stirred a passion for the Healing Arts and led me to study at The American College for Traditional Chinese Medicine in San Francisco. A few years later, I transferred to Five Branches University so I could specialize in their Five Elements program. In 2014, I opened my private massage practice on Valencia St in San Francisco while working as a Massage Therapist at Refuge Spa in Carmel.

Years later, after journeying through three pregnancies and two births, life moved miraculously, and I heard a voice deep within, whispering me back to the path of wellness.

Through the Kresser Institute, I became a Functional Health Coach. This intensive program brought me back to myself. It stirred my dedication to health advocacy and brought me back to Bodywork. Through massage, Five Element Chinese Medicine, and Functional Medicine I navigate a pathway for clients that focuses on making choices to create more EXPANSION.

My two-hour bodywork sessions are containers that allow for transformation — you bring what needs to be alchemized. Your body knows the way, it’s time to start trusting it again. It’s time to create your body revival.

Chelsea lives in West Marin, California, with her two daughters.