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Body Poets Massage Therapy offers you a range of therapeutic and wellness treatments to meet your health goals. Our aim is to help you live the healthiest and most comfortable life you can.
Our therapists can treat specific health concerns due to workplace demands, injury (including sports injury), surgery, or life-stage changes; we also can help you with stress management, postural imbalances, and maintaining overall wellness. We offer classic massage in addition to our specialization in several specific styles of hands-on therapy, all in a client-centred environment. That means we listen to you, and match our treatments to your wellness goals and needs.
To book an appointment, please click the on-line booking button on this page. For more information, please call us at 613-222-0465 or email info@bodypoets.com.
Office: 613-222-0465, Email: esymons@bodypoets.com
On graduating from Kiné Concept Ontario’s 2500-hour registered massage therapy program in Ottawa with an award for excellent hands-on skills, Ellen built on her previous experience as a Thai massage practitioner and yoga teacher, and her background in writing, commerce and law, to create Body Poets Massage Therapy.
Ellen established Body Poets Massage Therapy to provide clients with the kind of high-quality, comprehensive massage therapy care she wanted for herself. Our mission statement at Body Poets is for each client to feel heard, nurtured, and supported while discovering and maintaining optimal health and wellness. Each of us, no matter our health considerations, has an optimal level of well-being. Body Poets Massage Therapy aims to help you live comfortably and vibrantly at that level. The clinic’s dedicated, effective, and skilled registered massage therapists have varied passions and specialities, and a network of links to other health professionals with similar goals, to support you as you build a foundation for healthy living.
In addition to owning and operating Body Poets Massage Therapy, Ellen has been a part-time faculty member in the massage therapy program at Algonquin College. These days, when she’s not massaging or administrating, you’ll find Ellen snowshoeing in the woods, playing with her two cats, or digging in the garden. Her favourite days are when she has time to write a poem.
Office: 613-222-0465, Cell: 613-875-3772, Email: ahenry@bodypoets.com
Angus’ life experience includes a wide range of sports such as running, triathlon, swimming, Ultimate, and road bike racing. Angus believes in looking at the root causes of pain or dysfunction to return the body to a state of balance. His own experience in sport and his work as a massage therapist with other athletes over several years has honed his understanding of the mechanisms of muscle injury and health.
For example, jaw joint dysfunction (TMJ disorders, including grinding) can wreak havoc on sleep, dentition, and sports performance. Angus continues to enhance his knowledge with advanced studies in this increasingly relevant aspect of massage therapy.
To treat IT band and lower back issues, among others, Angus has added Chinese cupping to his practice: using suction cups to increase circulation and soften an area that has become fascially restricted or ‘gummed up’. Fascial restrictions decrease our ability to move and can cause pain and discomfort. The Chinese cupping technique draws blood to an area, immediately increasing nutrition and waste removal and letting the connective tissue (fascia) become softer and more pliable. This is an especially efficient technique because the cups can be placed on one area of the body while the therapist concentrates on another, maximizing the effect of the massage session.
Office: 613-222-0465, Email: lmcnamara@bodypoets.com
After seven years of practice in a wide range of clinics in British Columbia and Ontario, Lindsay is always finding new excitement and challenges in her work. She loves having an active and full massage therapy practice. In addition, teaching in the massage therapy programs of both private and public colleges in Ottawa means that Lindsay continues to learn about the powerful, positive impact of massage therapy on the human body. And in her most recent undertaking as a licenced doula (birth coach), Lindsay is able to bring her skills to work for mothers, their partners, and newborns both in the massage room during pregnancy, and as they go through labour and childbirth.
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