Meet Hillery
Do you feel like your true frequency is buried beneath old patterns that no longer reflect who you are today? My purpose is to guide you back to that authentic self by helping you discover the medicine already within you. My toolbox is overflowing with simple, powerful self-health hacks and skills designed to help you feel better, right now, and keep your vibration consistently high.
Greetings! Meet Hillery Woods
I’m Hillery Woods—a Master Massage Artist and Holistic Change Catalyst dedicated to empowering your health journey.
After two decades in clinical practice and a personal quest that successfully overcame complex issues like fibromyalgia, trauma, and chronic injury, I have distilled the essence of effective self-health. My clients seek authentic, practical tools to solve and prevent health obstacles, and my greatest purpose is to show you your own power, returning you to your inner knowing so you can find the answers within.
My practice offers a whole-person approach to making powerful self-medicine and designing your personal path to homeodynamic health. This goes beyond basic protocols or routines; my focus is on regenerative therapies and building indispensable self-health skills for lasting lifestyle wellness.
Dynamic Care for a Dynamic Life
Your needs change from month to month and season to season—your service should reflect that. Whether you require injury treatment, lymphatic clearing, energetic tune-ups like Jin Shin Jyutsu, or support for hormonal changes, I offer a diverse, dynamic menu of in-person and online services, workshops, and group programs.
I encourage clients to rotate their services for maximum benefit. If you are new here, I suggest starting with my Signature Massage or the Energy Elixir to experience the depth of my work.
I look forward to our paths crossing so I can help you resume your helpful rhythms for a whole, balanced, and vibrant life.
Ready to start? Explore the service menu, or schedule a complimentary Connection Call if you’d like guidance on where to begin.
Movement is My Power Place
From a young age, movement became my sanctuary and strength. Winning a gymnastics scholarship propelled me into a lifelong, immersive study of dance and functional movement. My early experience dancing at The College of Wooster modern dance company introduced me to African dance and planted the vital seeds that saved my young adult life.
This passion led me to pursue a rich, diverse study of therapeutic movement practices, including Somatics, Continuum, Authentic Movement, Feldenkrais, Contemplative Dance, and various forms of yoga such as Tibetan Heart Yoga, Anusara Yoga, and Primal Vinyasa. These modalities—dance therapy, yoga, and massage—were integral to healing my own tailbone fracture, PTSD, and systemic fibromyalgia. This deep, personal understanding of movement’s transformative capacity is what I bring to every class and session..
Nature is My Thru-Line: A Journey of Transformation
My connection to healing began in childhood, playing in the “Fairy Forest” and observing the natural world—a fascination that foreshadowed my life’s purpose: to help transform poisons, whether they manifest as bodily toxins, mental thoughts, or habitual patterns, into medicine.
My path to becoming a Master Massage Artist was rooted in deep personal necessity. After initial bodywork training, unresolved trauma from sexual violation was uncovered, leading to systemic pain and fibromyalgia. Recognizing that I was not yet clear enough to facilitate healing for others, I stepped back from hands-on work. Instead, I focused intensely on self-healing, utilizing Alchemical Healing energy work, self-inquiry, dance therapy, and food consciousness to process and clear this deep sadness.
This profound self-work taught me the key to efficacy: the continual process of clearing and making new pathways, ensuring I never transferred my own trauma story to a client. This commitment—the dedication to empty myself completely in order to truly hold space for another’s healing—is the foundation of my practice. Today, I bring two decades of clinical service to the Healing Arts, channeling that lived experience into powerful, transformative care.