OpenSpace Massage & Bodywork is a woman-owned business providing relaxing and therapeutic massage services in the Richmond, VA area, with a particular focus on helping clients manage anxiety, trauma and pain symptoms. OpenSpace is a safe, inclusive space, welcoming of everyone, and dedicated to providing sensitive, client-centered care. I hold the firm belief that healthy bodies and minds create healthy communities.

Following an almost 20-year career as a social worker, Erin founded OpenSpace in 2016 to follow a passion to apply the core social work values of service, social justice, dignity and worth of the person, and the importance of human relationships to massage therapy and bodywork in an effort to facilitate healing in a completely new way.

Erin acts out of the firm believe that when you stretch, you open up space. When you physically, emotionally stretch (or allow yourself to be stretched), you create space and allow for greater movement, greater vulnerability and more growth- in every way. This belief is at the heart of her client-centered work.

Erin is a former massage instructor at the Lotus School of Integrated Professions and specializes in treating issues relating to trauma, anxiety and pain. See complete resume here.

Book an appointment with Erin here!

Nellie is a massage therapist with a passion for self-care, yoga, art and mothering. She believes that touch and intention creates a powerful catalyst for healing on a physical and emotional level. She finds purpose in helping people feel their best, and tailors each massage session to meet the needs of her clients. Her practice focuses on therapeutic, Swedish, relaxation, and hot stone massage.

Nellie maintains a regular yoga practice, having fallen in love with Kundalini yoga years back and can often provide the perfect home-based self-care techniques for those that are interested. She believes that every one of us has the power to heal our emotional, mental, or physical pain.

Book an appointment with Nellie here!