Barbara has been practicing since 1995 and is the owner of Heal Thyself & Co. After 20 years as a professional musician, Ms. Humphrey graduated as a certified massage therapist from the Health Enrichment School of Therapeutic Massage, specializing in neck and shoulder work. Barbara originally started the company out of her home, but when her second daughter came along in 2004, she decided to expand to her present location in Broad Ripple.
Barbara’s post-graduate studies include:
1)Postural correction through Structural Integration
2)Trigger Point Therapy
3)Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization
4)Myofascial Release
5)Repetitive Use Injury Therapy
6)Kinesio Taping
7)Visceral Manipulation
8)Neural Manipulation
9)Strain-Counterstrain (Positional Release)
10)Micro current Therapy with Cold Laser
11)Esoteric Healing
12)Z-Health (a neuro-based rehab therapy)
Ms. Humphrey is the only certified Kinesio Taping instructor in Indiana since 2005. She has spoken in front of numerous state licensing boards on behalf of massage therapists, she has trained athletic trainers for the Colts NFL football team, and has been the keynote speaker for the National Athletic Trainers Convention.
Barbara’s latest efforts include authoring her book: The Illuminated Art of Modern Medical Massage for the 21st Century. The companioning workshop and book have a release date of early 2017. In it she explains her pyramid of wholeness starting with Biomechanics as the base, Neurology, then peaking with Conscious Self Awareness. She explains that so many of us react out of learned conditioning from our parents, our culture and society. We are so distracted with our stress filled lives that we are not fully present in the moment and able to use our Free Will to engage. Instead we react from our Ego Self (subconscious), whose sole responsibility is survival. It does this through PREDICTION, which is based on what we have been taught to believe, our personal experiences (emotional perceptions), and the input from our 5 senses (physical perceptions). What happens when the different information coming in doesn’t match or there has been a kink in the neuro pathways either from disease or disuse making it harder to predict? Our inner “Threat Bucket” gets full, so the brain sends out an action signal called PAIN. By increasing the quality of input to the brain, we can decrease the amount of threat to the subconscious ego and allow our higher conscious self to drive the bus, so to speak. Through specific movement, breathing, nutrition, visualization, and hands-on bodywork we all can become healthy, joyful, pain-free beings.