My Mission
My name is Dana Fletcher and I am the owner of MountainView Therapeutics; a therapeutic massage practice. I am committed to facilitating your journey of healing and self- awareness, through the power of human touch.
My mission is to facilitate your journey in understanding your body, so that you can feel good about yourself and your own healing power. I use the tools that I have learned in over a decade of massage therapy practice to personalize each massage to your body and your current circumstances. Also, I maintain a low-volume practice so that I can focus on your treatment.
I hope that you will join me on the path to better living through touch.
My Story
The power of massage found me, seemingly by chance, as I was finishing a graduate degree in Cell Biology at the University of Colorado. My sister was visiting me and we decided to get massages. Neither of us had ever experienced a massage before and I was very nervous, and self-conscious of my body with some stranger touching it. When I met my massage therapist, I felt instant relief--She was a regular human being! What had I expected?
As she started to massage my legs and feet, I could feel something I hadn't remembered feeling before… an almost spiritual connection to my muscles that I had never experienced. I started to feel that those feet, those legs were not only a part of me, a part of my essential self, but also a part of a living universe. On occassion, I had previously experienced a sense of separation from the world, as if my body was sort of a foreign shell in which my mind was housed. An entity which was somehow separated from the world.
I can remember thinking that this was a connection to something more than just my own body-- this connection was a key for me to connect with something much bigger and to experience my own inner healing. My goal after that one massage was to inspire and facilitate other people to take that journey down their own paths of self-healing.
My Training
After that day, I finished the graduate degree I was working on and enrolled in massage therapy school. The Massage Therapy Institute of Colorado (www.MTIC.edu), provided a 1050 hour program focused in integrative massage techniques, including Swedish massage, Deep Tissue massage, Neuromuscular Therapy and Trigger Point release, Myofascial release, Hydrotherapy, and Structural Alignment principles, among other modalities. The program also included thorough instruction in human anatomy and physiology with a focus on skeletal and muscular detail.
After finishing the year-long MTIC program in August 1998, I opened my private practice, MountainView Therapeutics. I worked in a chiropractic physician’s office and in a hot springs spa setting from 1998 until 2002. In 2002 I had the opportunity to become a teaching assistant at MTIC, where I helped students learn massage therapy and honed my knowledge of structural anatomy. Then in 2003 I had the pleasure of joining the teaching staff at the Golden Institute of Massage where I taught anatomy and physiology.
Wanting to expand my scope of practice, I have taken classes at the Rolf Insitute (www.rolf.org) and with the Milne Institute of Visionary Craniosacral Therapy (www.milneinstitute.com) and am looking forward to continuing my training toward certification in these modalities.
I have been nationally certified since 2001 by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (www.NCBTMB.org ), am a member of Associated Bodywork and Massage Professionals (www.ABMP.com) and am licensed by the State of Colorado (www.dora.state.co.us/massage-therapists).
