Intuitive Dance, Massage, Yoga & Vedic Astrology in Portland, OR

dancer’s discipline + clinical depth + ancient traditions + intuitive inspiration

  • Mindy Meyers PDX Dancer

    The Dancer

    30+ years of professional performance. Mindy doesn’t just know anatomy, she has lived it through her nervous system.

  • Mindy Meyers PDX Massage Therapist

    The Healer

    27 years as a Licensed Massage Therapist. Swedish, Myofascial Therapy, Structural Integration, Deep Tissue, Sports, Thai.

  • Mindy Meyers PDX Yoga Teacher

    The Teacher

    550+ hours of yoga training. Mindy teaches yoga as a somatic practice, breath, alignment, and awareness.

  • Mindy Meyers PDX Vedic Astrologist

    The Guide

    Vedic Astrology. The deeper map beneath the body.

Offerings

Dance

Mindy Meyers is celebrating 30+ years as a professional dancer based in Chicago and Portland. Her range crosses contemporary, modern, tap, improvisation, experimental, interpretive, avant-garde, Butoh, and somatic movement. She performs, collaborates, choreographs, and teaches.

Mindy is available for collaborations with live music, spoken word, films, festivals, residencies, site-specific performance, touring, and ensemble work. She also has ongoing offers for PTAH, a solo piece based on The Egyptian Book of the Dead, which was passed down to her by her Chicago mentor and choreographer, Nana Shineflug.

Current Projects

  • Pacific Academy of Dance, tap / June 7, 2026

  • New Expressive Works Residency / June 19-21, 2026

  • Capturing Butterflies/ Meshi Chavez/ June 28, 2026

  • Salish Sea Butoh Festival Cabaret/ PTAH/July 29, 2026

  • Verdancy Project / September 19, 2026

  • The Impending Behavior Orchestra/ Rhino Fest/ Chicago/ October 10, 2026

  • Station Four/ Chicago/ Fall 2026

Call or text to inquire about creating with Mindy for a performance or collaboration.

Massage

Mindy Meyers, Licensed Massage Therapist, OBMT # 22076

Mindy Meyers is a Licensed Massage Therapist with 30+ years of massage, yoga, and dance experience, practicing in the Sellwood neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. Her work is clinical and intuitive. She does not follow a set routine. Every session is built in real time around what your body brings that day. She draws from Myofascial Therapy, Structural Integration, Deep Tissue, Trigger Point, Table Thai, Swedish, and Sports Massage, following the connective tissue where it leads. Her approach is rooted in connectivity: seeing the whole pattern, not just the presenting symptom. A restriction in the hip may connect to tension in the shoulder, which connects to how you breathe. Mindy follows the full chain. What sets her apart is the convergence. 30+ years of professional dance means she does not just know anatomy from a textbook. She has lived it through her tissues, through her nervous system, through decades of asking her body to do extraordinary things. That lived knowledge is in her hands every time she works.

This work is right for you if:

  • You carry chronic pain, tension, or restricted movement that other treatments have only temporarily relieved.

  • You are recovering from injury or surgery.

  • You are aging and want to stay mobile.

  • You have tried everything, and nothing has quite worked.

  • You want a therapist who remembers your body, builds session to session, and can explain what is happening and why.

Current Offerings:

  • M Path Massage - 60 or 75 minutes of intuitive therapeutic massage.

  • Vedic Bodywork Session - 90 minutes, one-on-one. Mindy prepares your chart before you arrive, opens with a brief reading, then moves to the massage table. This is where clinical bodywork is merged with what your chart reveals.

Yoga

Mindy Meyers credits her yoga practice for sustaining a lifelong career in dance and bodywork. Her practice began with the Forrest Method and then as an instructor with 550+ hours of training, including 300 hours with Gabriel Halpern in the Iyengar tradition and 50 hours with Dharma Mittra Yoga. She offers classes steeped in tradition and alignment with a sprinkle of Vedic Astrology, a sister science to Yoga. 30+ years of massage, yoga, and dance experience inform every cue, every adjustment, and every sequence.

She does not teach from a script. She teaches the body in front of her, drawing from Iyengar alignment, restorative yoga, and somatic movement practices. Hands-on assists are woven throughout every session. Each class is inspired by the day's Lunar transit, offered as a Vedic Astrological lens for the practice rather than a prediction.

All yoga at Mindy Meyers Massage & Healing Arts takes place in her intimate Sellwood studio with a maximum of four people. Each person receives meaningful, individualized attention from an instructor who can see where your body compensates, explain why, and teach you how to work with it rather than against it.

Current offerings

  • Restorative Yoga w/ Massage & Vedic Wisdom, 75 minutes, small group. Relaxed supported postures held for extended periods while Mindy provides hands-on massage, myofascial release, and craniosacral work to each person individually (with a sprinkle of Vedic Astrology). Monthly by reservation.

  • Hatha, 75 minutes, small group. A practice rooted in tradition, alignment, and breath with more advanced asanas and a sprinkle of Vedic Astrology. Weekly by reservation.

  • Focused Yoga & Movement Session, 60 minutes, one-on-one. A movement education session built entirely around your body. Iyengar alignment, restorative, somatic movement, and hands-on assists. Private scheduling.

Vedic Astrology

Mindy Meyers is a student and practitioner of Vedic Astrology (Jyotisha), the ancient sidereal system of understanding timing, nature, and the deeper patterns that shape a life. She approaches it the way she approaches everything: through the body first. Her study of Vedic Astrology is not separate from her work as a massage therapist, yoga teacher, and dancer. It is another language for the same question she has been asking for 30+ years: how can we best align our soul’s purpose within our earth bodies?

Mindy does not offer predictive readings. She offers insight. A Vedic chart is a map of your inherent nature, your strengths, your challenges, and the timing of your life. Why certain seasons feel expansive, and others feel contracted. Why do certain patterns keep returning? Why your body holds what it holds. Mindy reads the chart and then connects it to your own body wisdom.

She weaves Vedic Astrology into all of her yoga teaching as what she calls a sprinkle: the day's Lunar transit, the Nakshatra, the Shakti of the moment. For clients who want more, she offers a dedicated session that brings the chart and the body into one conversation.

Current offerings

  • Vedic Bodywork Session - 90 minutes, one-on-one. Mindy prepares your chart before you arrive, opens with a brief reading, then moves to the massage table. This is where clinical bodywork is merged with what your chart reveals.

  • Restorative Yoga w/ Massage & Vedic Wisdom - 60 minutes, small group (4 max). A restful yoga practice shaped by the current astrological transits. Not individual chart work, but a collective, embodied experience of how Vedic Astrology informs intentional connection. Weekly by reservation.

  • Chicago Dancer Project. @williamfrederkingphotography

    Dance

  • LMT, OBMT #22076

    Massage

  • Yoga. Photo: Ben Scholz

    Yoga

  • Vedic Astrology

    Vedic Astrology

Movement is the first language. Everything else grew from it.

Mindy has been performing, collaborating, and teaching dance for over 30 years, including international tours with Chicago based companies before her Portland debut. Well versed in Contemporary/ Modern/ Impovisation/ Butoh/Tap/ Somatic Movement/ Contact Improv… She brings the same presence to the stage that she brings to her massage table: full attention, deep listening, and decades of embodied knowledge. Yoga is the glue that keeps it together and Vedic Astrology is the map.

Mindy is available for performance, collaboration, residencies, ensemble work, site-specific projects and films. If you are building something that needs a versatile, experienced mover, she would love to hear what you are making.

Dance with Mindy

Dance | Massage | Yoga | Vedic Astrology

Located in Portland, OR

Massage

Bodywork shaped by 27 years on the table and 30+ years of professional movement.

Four ways to work together

Dance

The thread that runs through everything else. Collaboration, movement coaching, performance support, and embodied consultations for anyone wanting to feel more at ease in their body.

Vedic Astrology

A 5,000-year-old map of who you came here to be. Chart readings that infuse the sky into an embodied experience.

Yoga

Small, intentional, attentive classes, closer to private practice than studio drop-in. For students who want to feel their body, not push through it.

Located in beautiful Portland, OR

Sellwood is the kind of Portland neighborhood with a unique pace, this continues up the stairs to suite 1. My studio has lived on SE 13th for ten years now, a quiet, softly lit room built for one beautiful human connection at a time. The peace settles the moment you step inside.

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What People Are Saying

  • After my first massage with Mindy, she became my go-to therapist in Chicago. Her strength, intuition, and calm, consistent attention never flagged in all of my visits over many years. She has a generosity of spirit, a natural sincerity, and a holistic understanding of health that create a warm welcome, a deeply effective session, and sometimes a kind consultation about the many pieces of life. Mindy has an excellent practice that is rooted in real caring. I recommend her to everyone.

    — Tim Heck

  • Mindy Meyers massage treatments are difficult to describe in words as one becomes self forgetful in the work. As a Massage and Yoga educator, I have received hundreds of massages over the years and Mindy’s work always stands out as exceptionally special. Chicago misses her and Portland is lucky to have her.

    — R. Logan

  • I have undergone several surgeries – including a mastectomy and several reconstruction surgeries. In the midst of all this, none of the surgeons ever talked to me about massages to keep my scars soft & flexible. Instead, over time, the scars tightened, causing me pain and making it nearly impossible to move at times. Mindy worked on my scars – freeing and loosening them, allowing me to move consistently & giving me relief from pain. I am grateful to Mindy for her help & compassion. She is truly a gift.

    — Jane Bailey