Return to natural.
Melt stress. Loosen stiffness and pain. Feel at home in your body.
I’m Jason Bartlett, LMT. My method is a distinctive form of gentle, attentive bodywork that listens to the body and follows its own movement toward natural balance, easing the places where things have grown tense, stuck, or depleted.
This way of working is informed by a traditional understanding of the body’s vitality. The three treasures, jing, qi, and shen, point to its foundational essence, its animating energy, and the clarity of mind and spirit. The five elements offer a way of sensing how these move and relate. Together these frameworks shape how I listen with my hands and where I bring my attention, including the emotional tones that so often travel alongside physical holding. The aim throughout is a simple one: to support the body’s own return toward ease and natural function.
Much of this work is a kind of allowing. I listen and follow the quiet movements and releases the body offers on its own, giving long-held patterns a chance to soften and let go. Sometimes as the body unwinds, an emotional quality comes with it, and there’s room in the session for that to move through at its own pace. The body has its own intelligence, and when it isn’t being forced or hurried, it knows how to settle and restore itself.
If you’ve been carrying tension, restlessness, poor sleep, or ongoing stress, this work may help. It can also ease stiffness, sore spots, sluggish circulation, and everyday aches and pains. The touch is light, the pace unhurried, and each session simply makes room for what your body is ready to release. Sessions run 60 to 120 minutes, with 90 a good place to start.