"I’m Safiyah Grace, Licensed Massage Therapist and owner of Iowa Family Massage Therapy."
My mission is to empower you to improve the quality of your life, both physical and emotional. Whether you are struggling with chronic pain, depression, anxiety, or you’re looking for relief during pregnancy or postpartum. I am here to help you feel your best!"
"I’m Safiyah Grace, Licensed Massage Therapist and owner of Iowa Family Massage Therapy."
My mission is to empower you to improve the quality of your life, both physical and emotional. Whether you are struggling with chronic pain, depression, anxiety, or you’re looking for relief during pregnancy or postpartum. I am here to help you feel your best!"
Mental Recovery
Emotional Care
Prenatal and Motherhood
Mental Recovery
Prenatal and Motherhood
Emotional Care
"I went in with persistent back and shoulder pain, and left with none. I have had many different massage therapists, and she's the best."
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"I went in with persistent back and shoulder pain, and left with none. I have had many different massage therapists, and she's the best."
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"I have seen Safiyah a few times for massage and energy work. I’m blown away at how relaxed I feel after a session. She is so kind and intuitive yet professional. Safiyah truly cares about you and your experience, I would recommend her to anyone!"
" I loved my massage! Your feet are a treat It especially helped my hips. It’s rare that a therapist is able to help my hips using just finger/hand strength. Your heels are healing!"
"Safiyah brought such a sweet and gentle energy to our session....And I loved her concrete suggestions for how I can move forward in exploring my soul's desires. Overall, it was a nurturing and energizing session! I had a great experience and am so grateful to Safiyah for sharing her gifts with me."
Have the Iowa Family Massage Experience!
"I have seen Safiyah a few times for massage and energy work. I’m blown away at how relaxed I feel after a session. She is so kind and intuitive yet professional. Safiyah truly cares about you and your experience, I would recommend her to anyone!"
" I loved my massage! Your feet are a treat It especially helped my hips. It’s rare that a therapist is able to help my hips using just finger/hand strength. Your heels are healing!"
"Safiyah brought such a sweet and gentle energy to our session....And I loved her concrete suggestions for how I can move forward in exploring my soul's desires. Overall, it was a nurturing and energizing session! I had a great experience and am so grateful to Safiyah for sharing her gifts with me."
Choose your massage experience!
Therapeutic Massage - A skillful blend of many massage modalities that are designed to decrease muscle tension, relieve pain and stress, improve sleep and can provide support for depression, anxiety, PTSD.
Postpartum In-Home Therapeutic Massage - This is a wonderful in-home service for new mothers! It can be incredibly helpful in easing the transition into motherhood by helping a mom get better sleep, relieve muscle strain, and imbalances associated with childbirth.
Karuna Crystal Reiki - It is ideal for people who are healing negative self-talk and are working on developing more self-love, body positivity and healing from trauma. It can help soothe and transform patterns that block your full enjoyment of Life.
Choose your massage experience!
Therapeutic Massage
A skillful blend of many massage modalities that are designed to decrease muscle tension, relieve pain and stress, improve sleep and can provide support for depression, anxiety, PTSD.
Postpartum In-Home Therapeutic Massage
This is a wonderful in-home service for new mothers! It can be incredibly helpful in easing the transition into motherhood by helping a mom get better sleep, relieve muscle strain, and imbalances associated with childbirth.
Karuna Crystal Reiki
It is ideal for people who are healing negative self-talk and are working on developing more self-love, body positivity and healing from trauma. It can help soothe and transform patterns that block your full enjoyment of life.
Frequently Asked Questions
Massage is shown to help reduce stress hormones like cortisol and promote the release of the hormones that help us feel our best, like dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin. Many people find that regular massage visits every 1-4 weeks helps them manage their symptoms and encourage their nervous system to self-regulate.
In circumstances where there is a history of trauma massage can be helpful for releasing tension patterns associated with the trauma and to encourage the self-regulation of the nervous system.
When using massage for managing symptoms of depression/anxiety/PTSD it is important to remember that a massage therapist is unable to diagnose or prescribe but can hold space and support the body to relax and self-regulate.
There are many studies from the Touch Research Institute, the Mayo Clinic and others that help understand the benefits of massage therapy for these issues.
Below are a few links with further information:
https://mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speaking-of-health/can-massage-relieve-symptoms-of-depression-anxiety-and-stress
https://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug02/massage
http://pediatrics.med.miami.edu/touch-research/depression-studies
Reiki is a healing modality originating from Japan that helps promote relaxation, stress relief and the bodies natural ability to heal itself. It is rapidly gaining acceptance in medical establishments as a cost-effective and beneficial way to manage and reduce pain and stress levels. Reiki can also be beneficial for people seeking a spiritual connection and to integrate more spirituality into their daily lives.
Below are some links with further information:
Frequently Asked Questions
Prior to your session you will need to fill out a health history form. Afterward I will begin by asking you general questions to establish what areas you would like worked on, if there are any conditions needing to be addressed, and to determine if massage is appropriate for you and what type of massage will be most beneficial. I may perform certain assessments and testing to evaluate your condition and to see you have any presenting complaints.
It is important to list all health concerns and medications so that I can adapt the session to your specific needs without doing any harm. It is also important to list any allergies so that I am aware if the cream/oil I am using is safe.
No. It is completely up to you. I offer styles of massage that are fully clothed as well as types of massage that require skin exposure in order to apply massage cream/oil. Both types have many benefits and so whatever is most comfortable for you is what is best. However, if you do choose a style of massage that uses cream/oil then please rest assured you will be respectfully draped the entire time!
Massage is shown to help reduce stress hormones like cortisol and promote the release of the hormones that help us feel our best, like dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin. Many people find that regular massage visits every 1-4 weeks helps them manage their symptoms and encourage their nervous system to self-regulate.
In circumstances where there is a history of trauma massage can be helpful for releasing tension patterns associated with the trauma and to encourage the self-regulation of the
nervous system.
When using massage for managing symptoms of depression/anxiety/PTSD it is important to remember that a massage therapist is unable to diagnose or prescribe but can hold space and support the body to relax and self-regulate.
There are many studies from the Touch Research Institute, the Mayo Clinic and others that help understand the benefits of massage therapy for these issues.
Below are a few links with further information:
https://mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speaking-of-health/can-massage-relieve-symptoms-of-depression-anxiety-and-stress
https://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug02/massage
http://pediatrics.med.miami.edu/touch-research/depression-studies
Reiki is a healing modality originating from Japan that helps promote relaxation, stress relief and the bodies natural ability to heal itself. It is rapidly gaining acceptance in medical establishments as a cost-effective and beneficial way to manage and reduce pain and stress levels. Reiki can also be beneficial for people seeking a spiritual connection and to integrate more spirituality into their daily lives.
Below are some links with further information: