Resources
Continue your treatment plan between massage appointments.
On this page, we’ve gathered the links to our favorite resources, including:
Local healthcare practitioners who provide services that our massage clients often seek as supplemental care.
Tools to use between massage sessions.
Additional resources for healing, wellness, and self-care.
We only recommend practitioners we personally know and products we’ve personally tried. These are resources that we feel truly deliver value for our clients.
We support small businesses! We love featuring businesses owned by women, LGBTQIA+ folks, and BIPOC individuals, as well as locally made products. Want your business listed on this page? Contact us so we can get to know each other.
Our Recommendations
Local Healthcare Practitioners
Peter Dills, PT, DPT — Our favorite physical therapist, Dr. Dills practices at Therapeutic Associates, located nearby at NE 80th & Glisan.
Montavilla Community Acupuncture — Skilled, compassionate acupuncture and Chinese medicine, offering affordable group and individual treatments.
The Sugar Mama PDX — Esthetician practice providing holistic, natural skincare, including facials, sugaring, microcurrent, and more. Located in the same building as Cocoon. (Make a spa day out of it, perhaps?)
Self-Care Tools
Although there’s no substitute for a massage or treatment plan from a skilled practitioner, these are the tools we recommend to clients so that they can continue their progress between appointments.
TheraCane — Pinpointed release of stubborn, hard-to-reach knots in the back.
Massage gun — Percussion massage for tired, overworked muscles.
Foam roller — Slow, broad muscle stretching and release.
Muscle roller stick — Like a rolling pin but for your muscles.
Neck massager — An alternative to putting two tennis balls in a tube sock.
Roleo® arm massager — Relieve pain in your forearms, wrists, or fingers due to typing, carpal tunnel, tennis/golf elbow, or other repetitive-use injuries.
Lumbar relaxer — Relieve back pain after being hunched over a desk all day.
SacroWedgy — Simple wedge-shaped tool that elevates the sacrum, opens the hips, and relieves back pain.
Foot wakers — Acupressure hemispheres that release tension in the soles, heels, toes, legs, and glutes.
Local Products & Gifts
Umayglow Aromatic Bodycare Products — Organic bodycare and aromatherapy by our very own Lise, who is not only an LMT but also a scent artist extraordinaire.
Wild Mountain Wax Co. — Soy candles inspired by life in the Pacific Northwest, plus natural gifts, home goods, clothing, and beauty products.
Inner Peace & Healing
“On Being” podcast: Starting point for the exhausted and overwhelmed — Thoughtful audio interviews about resilience, healing, and the human condition, to help with these tumultuous times we are living in.