About Mindy Meyers
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The Dancer
30+ years of professional performance. Mindy doesn’t just know anatomy, she has lived it through her nervous system.
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The Healer
27 years as a Licensed Massage Therapist. Swedish, Myofascial Therapy, Structural Integration, Deep Tissue, Sports, Thai.
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The Teacher
550+ hours of yoga training. Mindy teaches yoga as a somatic practice, breath, alignment, and awareness.
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The Guide
Vedic Astrology. The deeper map beneath the body.
Hi, I’m Mindy Meyers.
Dancer | Massage Therapist | Yoga Instructor | Vedic Astrologer
After decades in Chicago, I followed my intuition to the Pacific Northwest. Now I am celebrating my 10th year in this Sellwood studio where everything I do converges: over 30 years of dance, massage, yoga, and spiritual studies, woven into a single way of working.
Dance is the first and the through line for all of my work. With 30 plus years of professional contemporary dance/performance experience including international tours, I know the value of presence. I bring this to each stage, table, mat and interaction. It can be felt, by me and by you.
The bodywork itself is rooted in Myofascial Therapy, drawing from Structural Integration, Deep Tissue, Trigger Point, Swedish, Sports and Table Thai. What I'm really listening for is connectivity, the way one held place affects another, and how a thoughtful, integrated session can leave you feeling not just relieved but whole. Whatever you bring in, an old injury, chronic pain, a body that just feels off, becomes part of the conversation.
I came to this work through my own body. A hamstring injury I struggled with for years finally began to release through massage therapy, and that experience changed the entire course of my life. I knew then that I wanted to offer the same kind of turning point to other people.
My alignment based yoga practice sustains my longevity as a professional dancer and LMT. I am grateful to still be performing, offering integrative bodywork, teaching yoga and sharing wisdom from these long and varied paths.
My education includes a degree from Western Michigan University in Dance, Chicago School of Massage Therapy, multiple Yoga Certifications (300-hour with Gabriel Halpern in the Iyengar tradition, 50-hour LOAY with Dharma Mittra Yoga, 200-hour at Sellwood Yoga), and I continue to study Vedic Astrology which is a sister science to yoga and another way of healing through the insightful lens of “as above, so below”.
What I've learned across all of it is simple: everyone deserves the chance to live more comfortably, more efficiently, and more fully inside their own body. That's the work I'm here for.
Mindy Meyers, LMT | OBMT # 22076
My Approach
I work the way I move: intuitively, attentively, and never on autopilot. No two bodies arrive in the same shape, and no two sessions should look the same. What you bring to the table differs each time and the work I offer needs to meet you exactly where you are.
Every session begins with listening to what you tell me, to what your body tells me, and to the spaces in between, the held places, the patterns, the small compensations that often hold the real story. This is where the work unfolds. I might draw from myofascial therapy, deep tissue, trigger point, table thai, structural integration or swedish and always with focused presence, whatever your body is asking for that day.
What I'm really after is connectivity. The way one tight hip changes the whole spine. The way an old injury still shapes how you stand. The way breath, rhythm, and emotion all live in tissue together. When the body is treated as a whole conversation rather than a list of complaints, something different becomes possible.
I also know the value of collaboration. You know your body better than anyone, and my job is to help you hear it more clearly, not to override what it's telling you. The most lasting changes happen when you leave a session with not just relief, but a little more understanding of yourself.
This is meaningful work. Careful work. The kind of work that asks both of us to show up fully. Approaching three decades, I can tell you, it's the only way I know how. Learn about all of my offerings here.