ABOUT MELISSA
Finding the root of your pain. Physical, spiritual, or both.
Melissa Loya is a massage therapist, Reiki master, Kambo facilitator, and Somatic Release Breathwork practitioner. She works across massage, lymphatic drainage, energy work, breathwork, sound healing, and ceremonial cacao, with the body and the spirit treated together. Her approach is warm, unhurried, and grounded in more than fifteen years of hands-on work.
HER BACKGROUND
A path that found her.
Melissa started her massage journey in Washington state, where she earned her certification at the Alexandar School of Natural Therapeutics in 2012. But her first clients were horses. She has worked with them since she was eight, and that is where her energy work began. Even later, competing in dressage and western trail, the horses stayed at the center of it. She learned to read the body through touch alone, long before words, and traces everything she does now back to those early years.
She competed as a bodybuilder, so she understands training, recovery, and what the body needs to repair. Over the years she expanded her practice: a Reiki master since 2018, certified in Somatic Release Breathwork (SRBW®), and completed Kambo training under an indigenous practitioner. She was always drawn to the parts of healing that go deeper than muscle.
Today she blends all of it. Massage, energy work, and ceremony, depending on what each person needs.
CREDENTIALS
You're in trusted hands.
Melissa is the real thing. Formally trained and certified across bodywork, energy work, and ceremony, with years of hands-on practice behind every session.
Licensed Massage Therapist · 2012
Reiki Master · 2018
Somatic Release Breathwork · SRBW®
Kambo · trained under an indigenous practitioner
Astrology
Zen Acupressure
HER PHILOSOPHY
Melissa believes healing is not separate from daily life. She brings a holistic approach to everything: how you move, how you rest, how you eat, how you carry stress, and how you connect to yourself. The body and the spirit are not treated as two different things here. Small everyday rituals matter as much as the session on the table.
You will find Melissa inside Big Tex Gym in Austin, working with athletes, lifters, and anyone carrying tension they are ready to put down. The space is unpretentious and real. A session here is personal, never rushed, and shaped around what your body is actually asking for.
Moments from the work.
Ready when you are.
No pressure. Just a starting point. Book a session and we will find the root together.