Jess Ripley

Specialties

I specialize in regulating and nourishing the nervous system through massage therapy, yoga therapy, and conscious dance. Specifically the parasympathetic nervous system response, which calms us down from «fight or flight» and fosters healthy immune, endocrine, digestive, and lymphatic activity, as well as social connection. Parasympathetic function helps us manage anxiety, stress, illness, and injury with grace. I work with new moms, surgery recovery, and athletic or yogic injuries that have turned into chronic pain.

Meet the Business Owner

Jess R.

Business Owner

I have been dancing, imagining, and playing all my life. I have always felt called to serve others. Bodywork and movement therapy allow me to serve while pursuing my passion and curiosity about the body and how humanity expresses itself through the body: how, why, in what ways the terrain of the body integrates and communicates the experience of being human.

My passion for dance lead me to study dance, sports, and dance/​movement therapy, and work with a mentor and somatic psychologist. I graduated from The Evergreen State College in 2007, and from Port Townsend School of Massage in 2008. My somatic and movement practice and theory is informed and supported by ecology, ecopsychology, natural history, and cultural studies.

I continue to dance weekly, run, hike, bike, and play. I make art, cook and bake, read avidly, write weekly articles, and take classes in various physical disciplines such as Capoeira Regional or AcroYoga.