Are you ready to start your journey towards healing and recovery? Let’s talk.
the practice
When we hold stress, grief, pain and trauma in our bodies, bodywork is a beautiful way to release that tension and unwind long-held patterns. Coupled with trauma recovery coaching, you’re able to shift your mindset, improve the way you feel, and how you perceive the world around you.
All sessions and retreats are thoughtfully tailored to meet the client's therapeutic needs and support their goals for a healthier, more grounded life.
To deepen this work, we offer retreats along the Camino de Santiago to reconnect the body, mind, and spirit in a more immersive way. Explore our retreats.
We offer four wellness services:
• Massage
• Coaching
• Integrative massage and coaching
• Camino Retreats
the founder
Tye Burrell is a Registered Nurse, Licensed Massage Therapist, Reiki Practitioner, Certified Trauma-Informed Life Coach and a Certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner.
Her specialty is back, neck, and shoulder pain management and pain relief. She specializes in working with clients who are experiencing pain due to injuries, physical and emotional trauma, stress, and aging.
The goal is to eliminate or minimize pain and bring balance back to the body and mind.
COACHING
Are you ready to achieve balance and take control of your life?
Are you ready to reclaim your voice?
Are you ready to feel more at ease with yourself and in your relationships?
Are you ready to reconnect back to your body and find your joy again?
MASSAGE
Are you ready to get rid of nagging back, neck, and shoulder pain? Whether it is chronic pain, repetitive stress, pregnancy aches, or injury related, we can help.
With extensive anatomical knowledge and by integrating a variety of techniques such as medical massage, deep tissue and energy work, together these modalities help relieve stress, pain and create and improve a sense of overall wellness.
Massage & Coaching
This integrative session brings in the coaching conversation blending it with body-focused techniques such as massage, Reiki, Polarity, Reflexology, Breathwork and acupressure to explore the root cause of how your pain, stress, emotions, grief and trauma manifests in your body, showing you ways to heal through tools and exercises.
“I have had severe neck and upper back/shoulder pain for several years now since being struck from behind in my car and getting whiplash. I had tried everything to gain mobility especially in my neck. Chiropractors, etc. After starting massages with Tye, I am FINALLY getting relief for my constant neck pain! After every massage my neck is that much more flexible and a little bit less painful! As Tye is also a nurse, she really understands what is going on inside my neck area physically and targets each session according to how my neck has been feeling. I can't believe how much relief I am finally getting! I very highly recommend Tye and Sankofa Massage!!”
- Charlie C
"I entered the life coaching experience with Tye with an open mind. I did not know what to expect; I just knew that I felt very “stuck” in my life and could not find a way out. With Tye’s encouragement, each coaching session built upon the previous one. I was able to start identifying goals, even simple ones which started to open doors leading to endless possibilities. My feelings morphed, surprisingly, into action words that instilled more confidence and focus. My time with Tye has been life changing.“
—Linda H.
"I started seeing Tye on a regular basis after having back surgery. Her professional training as a nurse, provided me with the comfort that she really understood my healing process and provide real therapeutic assistance vs. general massage. I love Tye, she listens to my body, goes "all in" with each visit with care, attention and kindness."
- Maryellen L.
“I’m so grateful I found Tye. With her guidance I have been able to identify where my work was needed and create a plan moving forward that has been more successful than I’d ever imagined. I love knowing she is on my team!”
—Christy C.
“Tye is amazing. Our work together has been magical. I didn’t even realize how much I needed this until we started working together. Tye’s diverse talents as a nurse, massage therapist and healer, combined with her extensive and deep life experience, make her one of a kind. I love how she integrates so many modalities and truly appreciates the mind/body connection. She believed in my potential and saw right through my limiting beliefs. Tye will make you laugh and grow while holding encouraging and safe space. I cannot recommend her highly enough.”
—Rev. Rebecca B.
“Tye Burrell of Sankofa Massage is an exceptionally knowledgeable and talented practitioner who is well-educated in both traditional Western medicine and other traditions. Her flexible approach has helped me manage back, hip, and leg pain due to spinal stenosis. I can now walk, stand, and sit much more comfortably and the chronic muscle spasms that are part of the condition have been greatly reduced. She’s not only very effective, she’s great to work with: practical, focused, and kind.”
- Patricia H.
“Tye has been my coach off and on for a number of years now. She has supported me through some very tough times in my life. Due to my childhood trauma, she has helped me to replace some of my deep limiting beliefs with new healthy ones. By her deep thought-provoking questions, I was able to look within myself to find the answers which lead me to right where I am supposed to be. Working with Tye gave me the confidence that I needed to address some difficult situations but had been procrastinating due to fear. She helped me to see and know that I am not broken and perfect just the way I am. I feel like I can breathe for the first time in my life. I do not know where I would be without her support.”
—J.D.
“My first session with Tye, I went in with so much stress & tension in my shoulders, I was unable to put my arms behind my back! I left being able to move both arms easily and I felt light and as if I was walking on a cloud.”
- Amy T.
“My upper but especially my lower back has been giving me much pain within the last six months. I noticed an amazing decrease in my back pain, especially my lower back pain after my first massage with Tye! It was noticeable! She really knows what muscles she needs to massage in order to alleviate pain in different parts of the body. It was amazing to me that by massaging my thigh muscles it took some pretty severe lower back pain away within hours! I HIGHLY recommend Tye and Sankofa Massage & Coaching!”
- Maureen C.
