SierraFaye.com

Sierrafaye’s Bio

Welcome to Sierrafaye.com, the Web presence for the massage healing practice of Sierra Faye Kennedy, LMP.

Sierra Faye Kennedy, that’s me.  I’m a massage practitioner, specializing in Injury Treatment.  Injuries of all sorts have been healed with the same hands that type out this little Bio.

I started my career at the age of 11.  After dealing with constant lower back pain, I found a great Chiropractor who was able help me heal the pain.  From this experience, I was inspired to become a Chiropractor myself, and decided to start with massage first and explore the complete schooling requirements later.

I enrolled at the Brian Utting School of massage in 1998.  I was interviewed to get into the school, but the admission turned me away because I’d never received a professional massage and I woke up with numbness in my hands almost every morning.

During the “Dot.com” boom of 1998 and 1999, I worked as a Temp in beautiful downtown Seattle.  I even had a short stint with Kosmo.com, one of the most well-known  Dot-com companies from way back when.

In 1999, I found an injury treatment specialist who was a massage therapist. After receiving treatment, my hands no longer went numb all the time.

I went through massage school, and was told I had incredible talent and adeptness.  I was hooked and I loved it.  Massage and I fell in love.

And we have been married for the past 10 years.

I graduated and received my Massage license in February of 2001.  For the first few years I had a business under my own name and eventually became “True Balance Massage.”

During those first years I worked at massage clinics—showing great aptitude for healing injured clients’ even at that early stage.  It was the Brian Utting School that prepared me out of the gate to be a superior massage practitioner.  Mr. Utting’s motto was:  “Teach students how to be “Superior massage therapists.”

Over the years, I worked for chiropractors as well.  In my experience, some of them are good and some are bad, just as in every profession.  I’ve worked for both but I will not name names, and I’ll only recommend health professionals that I trust.

By 2005 I’d settled into a cozy growing practice of clinics called Monroe Therapeutic Massage. These massage clinics began in Monroe, and soon spread out all over Seattle and the East Side.

After leaving this clinic (it was time to move on…) I opened Massage Freek, which is a name that inspired many great connections and missed opportunities alike.

I’d decided I needed very badly for my SELF to be the focus of the way I grew my practice and attracted my clients. I wanted people who I understood, and who “got” me.

It was a great motivator, that practice name.  I grew and expanded my ideas of business and healing practice.  I’m rooted in who I am and know how I like to live.

Now, I’ve retired the practice name because something bigger calls me.  I don’t need my business to be about me in the same ego-centered way it was when I called my practice massage freek.  I’ve made my statement and I realized that I was making it more to myself than anyone else.

That’s why I’m having my buddy Russell C. Smith write the copy on the sierrafaye.com website and writing my own Bio.

I want him to leave this copy more or less intact, with some professional polishing.  The rest of the site is my message but presented in a way that I could never write.

I’ve found that my voice is clunky when I try to write something for marketing copy.  I know what it needs to sound and look like, but I can’t commit the time to it to make it beautiful and fit right.  So I leave the experts to what they do best.

I’ll continue to do my best—to make it easy to find me on the Web, and to make myself seem less scary to approach for something as intimate as massage.

Massage is one of those rare things/services in life that asks us to go deeper within ourselves and look at How and Who we Really are.

Here’s a big lesson I’ve learned over the last 9 years of massage and injury treatment practice—this healing work is not “mine.”

I don’t even know if it belongs to my clients.  I do know that it is ours somehow.  Healing is weird.  The people who do it well are very  weird, but they are also incredible and intense.  I admit it, I’m one of those people.  I know I look like a nutball to most people who know me well or are close enough to catch some of my life stories.

But I’ll you this, ye old webby site cruiser: I’m good at massage.  You would be well served to the depth of your physical, emotional, and spiritual core to work with me.  This is  what clients have told me from their own experiences. (Please visit my Client Testimonials page. See what clients have to say about my services.)

I’m here to be myself in service to those who visit me.  I give all that I am able to in every session and I don’t overbook myself so that I can always deliver power and subtlety in every session and every stroke.

Please consider receiving a massage to make your life better today.  Consider yourself already safe, already accepted and already honored by me and if we work together, because it would be my great privilege to do so.

May many great insights be granted to you, on your healing journey.

April 16th, 2009
Sierra Faye Kennedy