Amanda Brooke is a licensed massage therapist who completed her training at the Florida School of Massage in 2023. A proud Ocala native, she’s spent most of her life soaking in the town’s rich blend of nature, art, and community. Amanda is passionate about massage therapy, holistic healthcare, and helping others feel their best. Her approach is centered around listening — not just to her clients, but to the body itself. By tuning into the muscles and tissues, she allows them to guide her hand...
Amanda Brooke is a licensed massage therapist who completed her training at the Florida School of Massage in 2023. A proud Ocala native, she’s spent most of her life soaking in the town’s rich blend of nature, art, and community. Amanda is passionate about massage therapy, holistic healthcare, and helping others feel their best. Her approach is centered around listening — not just to her clients, but to the body itself. By tuning into the muscles and tissues, she allows them to guide her hands and shape each session with care and intention. She specializes in Myofascial Release and Soft Tissue Mobilization, working to release deep-seated tension, address compensation patterns, and improve overall mobility. Her goal is to create a sense of ease and balance throughout the body. Clients often describe Amanda’s space as safe and welcoming — a place where they feel truly heard and respected. She prioritizes active listening, honoring each person’s boundaries, and tailoring every session to their specific needs. For Amanda, massage therapy isn’t just a service — it’s a way to support healing, restore comfort, and hold space for transformation. She considers it a privilege to be part of her clients' wellness journeys and brings both skill and intuition to every session. Amanda is deeply committed to helping people reduce pain, move more freely, and feel more at home in their bodies.
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Massage Therapy
This modality is known to be useful for treating skeletal muscle immobility and pain by relaxing contracted muscles, improving blood and lymphatic circulation and stimulating the stretch reflex in muscles. This modality uses the technique of light pressure touch to palpate stiff areas, or trigger points. The trigger points are known to limit muscle and joint movement and can be culprits for wide spread muscle pain. A very slow paced stretching technique is done to the "taught" area of fascia that is found. This modality is so effective for increasing range of motion and freeing up muscles from adhesions.
A modality that blends several different modalities together for an effective treatment plan for sore, overworked muscles. "Sports Massage integrates Swedish Massage, Neuromuscular Therapy, flexibility guidelines and specific techniques catered toward athletes. This style of Massage can be used on all bodies, not just those that are athletes. It can energize or relax and provide rest to the muscles. Its really a diverse modality."
Cupping therapy is a therapeutic technique that utilizes a vacuum force created beneath a small vessel applied onto the skin's surface. This approach focuses on blood and autologous healing substances in a specific area, stimulating metabolic activity, improving immune function, and stabilizing blood biochemistry. I personally like to use "manual pumping" cupping- the cups are compressed by hand or with a mechanical device and are subsequently and swiftly placed onto the skin. The pressure release creates a vacuum, pulling the skin into the cup and creating the desired suction effect. Cupping is known to improve blood flow and circulation, helps with pain management, reduces scar tissue deep within muscles and connective tissues, and decreases swelling and muscle knots. The suction applied during cupping can draw stagnant fluids to the skin's surface, facilitating their elimination and potentially promoting detoxification of stagant toxic blood. I have found this to be effective on myself and because of that I try to educate my clients about its benefits so we can use these tools to help allievate trigger points and manage pain in the body.
It is described as "a general flowing technique designed to move blood and lymph and to relieve aching muscles while increasing relaxation and general well-being."
This style "focuses on lengthening the fascial component of chronically shortened muscles allowing the muscles to return to a relaxed state. Chronic postural habits can also be addressed. Clients who receive CTT can enjoy greater range of motion along with increased ease when standing and moving."
I found that this modality is very effective in treatment for tight, taught, hardened muscles and fascia. "It is a form of deep tissue massage that stimulates neurological reflexes related to chronic muscle contraction and pain patterns. Pressure is applied to specific trigger points in the bellies of muscles, causing them to relax, reducing pain and increasing body awareness."
This modality aids in Bodywork by assisting me during Massage to either soften (heat) or alleviate/reduce inflammation (ice) on specific parts of the body that might need a little extra help. Hydrotherapy is defined as "the use of water in any of its forms (water, ice, steam) for health promotion or treatment of various diseases with various temperatures, pressure, duration, and site." I love using heating pads for neck relief and back relief during sessions, and I always have hot towels on hand to use on specific aches and pains that might need a little more relaxing during the massage.