About
Hello and Welcome!
I’m Jaimee Mashula, Owner and Founder of Bodhi Massage & Wellness, and I help my clients cross the bridge of pain and distress to a life of ease. Coming from a family of medical professionals, I figured that all pain comes from injury or tension and after graduating the Mount Nittany School of Holistic Medicine with a Massage Therapy Certification in 2009, I had the thought process that I could help ease my client’s pain with a simple massage therapy session or two.
During the early years of my career, I worked in a chiropractic office where my focus was the physical body. Here’s the thing though, something they don’t teach you, in Massage School, is the connections you begin to form with your clients or the stories you begin to hear. In the first few years of practice, as my skills were sharpening, I began to recognize that my clients were coming to see me time after time with the same complaints and I felt like I was failing them by not helping them. Then, I recognized while in conversations with them that when they were on the table, I could literally feel their bodies tensing up when different topics arose. That is when I realized that the pain, they were experiencing was a side effect of the stress that they are holding in their body.
Once I realized that my clients were caught in a cycle of pain and distress, I knew I wanted to do something more to help them. As a student of yoga for many years, I knew that it had been quite beneficial to me in quieting the mind. So, in 2017, I began a bi-monthly commute to Erie, PA for a year and a half to get my yoga and meditation certifications.
I knew that my new perspective in assisting my clients did not align well with the chiropractic office that I worked in. I decided to take a leap of faith, created a home-based office, and decided to leave the chriropractic office in 2018. This became the birth of Bodhi Massage & Wellness, where my goal was to merge the physical effects of bodywork with mental benefits of meditation and yoga. As I began doing this work, I continued to feel that there was still some piece of the puzzle missing, I just couldn’t figure out what it was.
Then, along came Covid in 2020. I am very much a person who enjoys learning new things and taking classes, so during the shutdown, I began looking further into a program that I had flagged for myself to look at several months prior, called the BodyMind Method. As I investigated this further, I realized that this was the missing puzzle piece that I had been looking for and went through the interview process to be accepted into the program. The BodyMind Method taught me how to create a container of support to help my clients find the ease they are looking for, while combining all the modalities that I was trained in.
Since Covid, I have begun integrating the BodyMind Method into my massage practice and those who have worked through the programs with me ended their containers feeling much more at peace in all aspects of their lives. I also have continued my Massage Therapy Education, contributed several articles to the BodyMind Living Blog, wrote a chapter in a collaborative book called Claiming Coach, guested on podcasts, moved my office location outside of my home, created a Support Group for Caregivers, and began working towards getting my International Coaching Certification.
One of my core values in life is connection and I truly hope that we will get a chance to connect soon!
I've seen Jaimee many times over the years for basic stress relief, prenatal massage, and specific massages for severe lower back pain. Jaimee is wonderful at what she does and always professional. I highly recommend her!
K.I.
Gaines, PA
I was trying to live with daily neck pain, Jaimee has worked miracles and I am happy to say I've had my first pain free week! I cannot tell you how amazing she is!!! Thank you!!!
A.S.
Galeton, PA
Jaimee is not only very professional but she is incredibly knowledgeable and magical. Although she asks a few simple questions when you arrive, once she begins to work on you, she can feel exactly what is going on with your body and she adjusts your session accordingly. Some days when I leave her I think she is nothing short of miraculous! I will continue to encourage people to seek her help always!
