Precision Bodywork for Pain, Tension & Restricted Movement

Milwaukee-based bodywork for chronic pain, stubborn tension, and active bodies, with a thoughtful, nervous-system-aware approach that goes beyond a typical massage.

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What This Work Helps With

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TMJD, Headaches & Neck Pain

The jaw, head, and neck are deeply interconnected. I offer both external and intraoral TMJ work to address the source of jaw pain, chronic headaches, and neck tension.
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Low Back, Hip Pain & Sciatica

Bodywork focused on the hips, low back, and related tissues can relieve nerve irritation, release deep holding patterns, and supports stronger, more comfortable movement day to day.
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Chronic Tension & Postural Dysfunction

Persistent tension and postural strain from desk work, athletics, or just the load of daily life respond well to strategic manual therapy that targets the root patterns, not just the symptoms.
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Hypermobility, Fibromyalgia & Sensitive Systems

Nervous-system-aware bodywork for sensitive and complex bodies. Attuned techniques help calm reactivity and reduce widespread discomfort without overwhelm.

THE PERSON BEHIND THE PRACTICE

Meet the Owner and Bodyworker

Hi, I’m Sage, founder of Soma Sanctuary and a person who gets genuinely excited about muscle attachments, tension patterns, and helping you get out of pain. I bring over 1,000 hours of body-based training, nerdy enthusiasm, clinical curiosity, and a bit of humor into every session.

My work is precise and clinical, and I’m equally focused on creating a space that feels safe, calm, and respectful of your limits. I believe how your body feels in the room matters as much as what happens in it. I love helping people connect the dots, understand their pain patterns, and feel genuinely cared for in the process.

Clients come to me because I listen closely, ask questions, and treat your body like a system trying its best, and not a list of symptoms to chase. Whether you’re managing chronic pain or recovering from training, I’m here to help you understand your pain, feel more at home in your body, and experience care that’s both technically and emotionally aware.

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What to Expect at Soma Sanctuary

Getting to Know Your Concerns

Every session starts with a conversation and assessment of what’s bothering you, what you’ve already tried, and what you want to get back to doing. For returning clients, we check in on what has changed since your last visit and adjust the plan from there.

Personalized Treatment

Hands-on work targets your areas of tension, limited movement, or discomfort, while also considering other involved structures. Pressure and pace guided by your feedback throughout. Whether you’re recovering from training or working through something persistent, each session is tuned to what your body needs that day.

Understanding Your Body

Pain and tightness rarely come from one spot, so part of each session is helping you see the bigger picture. I’ll often pull out my anatomy books to show you the muscles we’re working on and how they move together, along with how your habits, routines, and past injuries connect to what you’re feeling.

Your Milwaukee Bodywork Resource

Soma Sanctuary Bodywork provides high quality care close to home, serving Milwaukee, Glendale, Whitefish Bay, Shorewood and other surrounding neighborhoods.
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Modalities & Methods

My toolkit for chronic pain, stubborn tension, and bodies that need more than a standard massage.

Neuromuscular & Trigger Point Therapy

Focused work on the tight, tender spots in your muscles that keep pain going. These spots can send pain to other areas, which is often why a headache, sore shoulder, or aching hip hasn’t improved when treated on its own.

Fascia-Focused & Structural Work

Informed by Anatomy Trains and myofascial principles, this work eases the connective tissue patterns that shape your posture and movement. I look at your whole body and how it works together, which often uncovers why pain keeps returning to the same place.

Cupping & Mobility Therapy

Cupping, assisted stretching, and sports-focused bodywork create space in stuck, overworked tissue. This helps you move more freely, recover from training, and feel stronger in the activities you love.

Breathwork Integration

How you breathe directly affects how your muscles hold tension. I weave breathwork into sessions to support nervous system regulation and address the deeper holding patterns that breathing mechanics create.

Real people, real outcomes

Client Reflections

“Sage of Soma Sanctuary provided me therapeutic massage during a very stressful season of my life before and after a cancer prevention mastectomy. … Sage is confident. She has a strong and kind presence… Her technique is unique -- intuitive but therapeutic… She provided incredible care and therapeutic benefit for me…”

- Lauren

"Sage is an excellent massage therapist! … Sage made sure to take extremely good care of me and asked in detail the spots I was having issues with. She did an excellent job helping me relieve pain. … I will definitely be going back again!"

- Aditi
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