Welcome to Catalyst Bodywork Studio in Elk Grove, CA. I am looking forward to helping you achieve decreased pain and improved function.  

 

Why I became a therapist.

 

I used to have horrible migraines.  They were debilitating.  I would have to lock myself in my room, ice my neck, take meds and just try to sleep them away.  After college I worked in a Chiropractic office as a Dr.'s assistant and this is where I was introduced to massage therapy for the first time.  I was told massage could help with my headaches. 

I went into the therapy room and came out free from pain.  I had space and circulation in my body that I had not had ever before.  

I began receiving massage on a weekly basis and the migraines disappeared. Since that first massage session I felt a calling to the field of bodywork.  It wasn't until 2003 that I had the opportunity to go to massage therapy school.

Having a background in kinesiology, anatomy and physiology made the transition to massage therapist very easy.  I started course work at Santa Barbara Bodyworks in 2003 and graduated in Winter of 2003 as a somatic practitioner.  The basics were covered in massage school but I wanted to learn more so I took advanced course work.  

I started my business in Santa Barbara in 2004 and then moved to Sacramento a few years later.   Christina Miranda Massage was started in the Greenhaven / Pocket area of Sacramento in 2007.  The summer of 2018 I made the risky decision to move my massage therapy business into Elk Grove, CA to be closer to home for the family and I renamed my business Catalyst Bodywork Studio.    

I view bodywork as a direct way of improving a client's quality of life by reducing the causes of discomfort and pain. I focus on structural and movement-based bodywork methods that aim to decrease pain and improve function in the body.