If I could give Beth more than 5 stars I would. This woman is the real deal. I went in there…read morefeeling hopeless and she gave me tools to use to handle my PTSD. And the reiki session was amazing. Her energy she used to heal me was beyond measure. I left relaxed, centered and overall feeling the best I've ever felt. If you get a chance to go to a reiki healing this is the place to go. Thank you again . I will be back.

Beth is amazing! I've been working with her for about 2 years now. She's an expert in reiki and I…read morealways leave feeling so calm and relaxed. I see Beth once a month for reiki + coaching. She has helped me through so much. Thank you Beth!

What a pleasure having my first appointment with Anne yesterday and receiving an excellent…read moretreatment due to her expertise in listening and experience in treatments.

How did I not discover this paradise sooner? Granted, the…read moreunassuming, small space Looks like a suburban living room, but... You leave feeling like it was a five star spa! Anne is a licensed, master acupuncturist with a very nurturing, empathic personality. THE DEAL: she allows you to stay for as little or as long as you want for each treatment. They also offer us sliding payment scale... Although their prices are already, by far, the cheapest acupuncture in Back Bay Boston!

I've been a loyal client of Lisa's for many years and have written reviews before, but I felt the…read moreneed to write another. I've had an ongoing issue I've seen my doctor and chiropractor for, and Lisa always helps me feel better. She's incredibly intuitive and explains how the body works as a whole. My recent 90-minute massage brought real pain relief while also leaving me deeply relaxed. I can't recommend her enough!!!

Lisa was very thoughtful in getting to know the location of the pain I was experiencing from a…read moreterrible fall. She massaged and did Reiki in problem spots and left painful places untouched. Perfect. Although I was experiencing soreness after the treatment, she assured me I would be better the next day. She was right - I feel better today! I will see her again as I continue to heal.

Alex is completely amazing. My first time doing a guided meditation was very fulfilling…read more Alex is also an extremely compassionate and caring person who truly goes well beyond her clients' expectactions.

Short version: Yes! If you are considering reaching out to schedule a FREE consultation or to book…read morea session - do it. Long(er) version: I first came to Alex at Empowher You last August. I was considering attending one of the Meditation/Group Reiki classes that I had found on Meetup and reached out to schedule a free consultation (not a requirement to attend one of her classes). Alex got back to me quickly and we met for a consultation that week! During our initial meeting, everything felt right and I chose to receive my first healing - Life Activation. My life began to shift immediately! I got a new job, was finally able to move out of an apartment that I'd felt stuck in for years, and felt ready to begin to address issues that were keeping me from growing and connecting with my higher self for years. Since receiving Life Activation, I have gone back to Alex for Ensofic Ray, Spirit Activation, Negative Energy Clearing, Shamanic Aura Healing, and Soul Retrieval! In my experience, each service is like a little (or giant) booster that helps me to power through blockages and accelerate my healing and growth. You still have to do the work, but Alex will help you to remember that you can and that you're worth it! About 8 months into my healing journey I am amazed with the progress that I have made. I am so grateful that I have made the decision to heal and continue to make that choice; I do not believe I would be where I am today without the support and guidance that I've received from Alex at Empowher You.

I'd been curious about Reiki for a while, and finally decided to give it a go with my partner for a…read morecouples session. It was really beneficial- much more than I anticipated, and a really fascinating experience. I appreciate everyone probably has a different takeaway, but for me it felt like what my body always wants a massage to be - I was able to relax my body while also releasing some stored up energy/ emotions. Lillie provided a safe and comfortable space, and we were both able to process and relax together. I will definitely book another session (partner would also do again!) and we would both highly recommend Lillie to work with. Thank you!

What an amazing, life changing experience! I was a little skeptical at first, but I was interested…read morein learning more about Reiki and figured time for relaxation and breathing would be beneficial regardless of anything else I experienced--and this was so much more! Lillie was kind, professional, welcoming, trauma-informed, and truly gifted. I was able to enter a deeply meditative space almost instantly with her that allowed me to safely process and release a lot of emotions and memories that I hadn't realized were hanging so heavily on me. This was intense, but she kept everything feeling safe and manageable by offering numerous options and gentle conversation throughout the session to guide me. I left feeling more myself than I had in months, and both contentedly tired and thoroughly energized. I don't understand Reiki still or how it "works", but I'm a believer now! I cannot wait for my next session with Lillie--I feel like I was able to advance my life and relationships in important ways after the first session with her, and I'm excited to see and feel what happens next time.

The physical space, the environment overall and the process were all top class. I would highly…read morerecommend the healing experience with MR! Tara is exceptional with her technique for both the routine and athletic recovery.

I've gone to Makia Rising for a few years since I've lived in Boston and every time I go I leave…read morefeeling rejuvenated and healed. She really works wonders and she can sense what's going on in your muscles and what you're holding onto and release it. Highly recommend, 15/10

It's really hard to put into words what working with Claire has done for me and my life. I have…read morefound deep and lasting healing in every area of my life and see the world through new eyes. Claire's love for God and for the Earth ignited the same in me and now I am filled with so much meaning, purpose, and joy. It has been the blessing of a lifetime to work with her.

Words will be hard to find to express my deep gratitude I have for Claire and her work. I began my…read morehealing journey with Clair at a very difficult and transitioning time in my life. I was in my late twenties and had come face to face with my trauma and it's impact after years of just ignoring or disregarding my need to work through it all. I had never experienced Reiki before so, at first, I was cautious (of course) but then Claire connected with me in a way I've never felt more safe, more seen and more heard. After our first session, that was it, I knew I needed her energy guidance. I cannot recommend Claire enough if you are struggling in your purpose or in your relationships or if you just simply crave a deeper relationship with yourself. She is quite literally magic in human form for me.

Lindsey is an amazing massage therapist and and overall amazing human. I am 14 weeks pregnant and…read morecalled on a Friday morning almost in tears because I had such horrible lower back pain and pretty much begged for an appointment. Lindsey scheduled me for that afternoon even though she wasn't planning to stay later. She was so nice and did an AMAZING job. I left feeling like a new person! Thank you Lindsey!!

Lindsey does an incredible job and creates a wonderful, relaxing experience! The facility is very…read moreclean, calming, and welcoming.

Hannah is a truely amazing massage therapist. Her touch is deeply healing. She knows just where to…read moreapply just the right pressure. She has the spirit of a shaman. After a 90 minute massage my chronic hip pain disappeared. I highly recommend her.

The particular lifestyle I live, being an avid yoga trainer/practitioner, involves a tremendous…read moreamount of physical exertion. Not only do I practice as often as possible, but I am also moving quite a bit while I teach, facilitating the efforts of others. The practicing itself is strenuous and in my life currently, my practice is less about building flexibility and much more about engagement and creating a spacious alignment. That being said, every body has its blockages and tendencies and given my self-awareness I do work to improve my practice to hold space for these tendencies, but they remain in some degree regardless of my augmentations as with each and all bodies. I have unique insight into the proper ways in which the body should move and be best utilized as I can see those efforts in others while I teach. I am able to see the common factors in all the varying tendencies of misalignment and while I can always help others be more aware of those blockages, I cannot always become more aware of them within my own physicality as these tools and techniques only breach the walls of the flesh so deeply. On top of that, the emotional and more subtle experience stirring within my students compounds within my practice, finally often being held in my physical... sometimes this entire process of very natural, yet stressful living, all organizes and focuses into one of these areas where I have such tendencies to form blockages. For example, I hold tension in my left shoulder and with many different experiences furthering my understanding of the area effected, I can fully see the connections between opposing muscle groups and the obvious truth regarding their only seeming separation... even more so do I now see how not only are all these physical elements all connected, if even in a chaotic manner, but the more subtle levels of my being are all connected in this way also. I would be a fool to ignore all this insight being brought to bare by my own mind and body, but also through skilled colleagues and friends in the health industry who have helped me to better see how I store and digest stress, and who have helped me facilitate this digestion. Hannah, more than others, has been able to not so much explain to me or educate me on the matters i describe, because she has always displayed trust in my understanding bodily, but not at all surprisingly she was able to truly empathize within the moment of therapeutic massage and connect to my body fully. Her innate skill, unlike others in her place prior, is to really connect and experience my body and in her actions educate ME in terms of utilizing her physical connection to me and the hands on approach to my blockages, all just as an opportunity to tune into the more subtle levels of my traumas and facilitate their digestion. There is a particular baseline of trust and rapport built between us and my energy against hers carries with it a dynamic true to this commentators recollection, but in the end I have worked with hundreds and only few have reached the same depths as she. I believe her ability to achieve this depth comes from her conceptual understanding of unity within mind and body... her understanding of the physical left me feeling trustworthy at every step... but in the end it was her confidence, clearly born from her curiosity to breach the surface and tune in like an antennae, and without fear see past my "knot" or my "past trauma" to attach to the energy and just essentially move it around like in the free-flowing sequence of a dance, but with 33% attention to form and function, 66% is full out empathic sensitization. At the level I practice and facilitate the moving of negative traumatic energies, this sort of integral understanding is absolutely necessary if a therapist is going to successfully manage the natural tendencies of my unique, divine design. I can say, with the utmost honestly and with all hyperbole aside, that this healer, so called Hannah is absolutely incredible at what she does.

I had been searching for the right person who could address my painful shoulder, which had flared…read moreup again after October 7th. I knew that I needed someone who understood the emotional aspects of my shoulder pain, in addition to the physical condition of it. I was also drawn to her intuitive skills described on her website, as I knew that there was inter-generational and epigenetic trauma that needed to be addressed. WOW did Sonja deliver! She not only started the healing process for me after the very first visit, the pain pretty much subsided after just 2-3 sessions. I have been to LOTS of healers, body-workers, intuits, massage therapists, etc. over the last 15 years and she is by far the best. Sonja is truly gifted!! I immediately had my daughter go see her and my son and husband are next! Simply cannot recommend her enough!

I have been meaning to write this review ever since the 60-minute massage I received from Sonja…read moreback in November 2023. More recently, I completed a 2-hour Deep Dive & Reset session. On both occasions, it took many months of budgeting and saving to be able to come up with the funds to afford the session. Based on the reviews of Freshwater I saw online, I had suspected that it would be worth the financial sacrifice, and my experience on both occasions proved my suspicions to be correct. I won't claim for a second to understand how any of this works, but I can give you (as a prospective client of Sonja's) a sense of what to expect. Sonja's studio is warm and inviting. Even if you are awkward and unsure of what to expect (as I was), you will find that she works to put you at ease right away, offering a glass of water and explaining how things will work. For the Deep Dive & Reset, the bulk of the session is spent in a supine position on a massage table, relaxing with your eyes closed. There isn't any physical touch, but if your experience like mine then you will certainly feel things-- heat, pressure, a sensation of internal movement?, and other things I lack the vocabulary to describe. Sonja encourages you to relax and not think about anything in particular throughout this process. The energy work/ clearing session is then followed by a debrief in which Sonja shares her insights about what she picked up during the session. She then offers some suggestions of ways to clear stuck or negative energy, tailored to you based on what she observed or felt during the session. She advises you to take it easy following the appointment and if your experience is like mine, you'll find it impossible to ignore her advice: I was completely exhausted for the 2-3 days following. And after that, hopefully you will feel a bit lighter. Freer. Things will bother you and stick with you just a bit less. You will feel more hopeful and a little less foggy. And the words of advice that Sonja offered will stick with you, proving prescient in ways that feel both spooky and extraordinary. All of this defies what I know and understand about the human body. I've long relied on holistic treatments such as massage, yoga, and mindfulness, but my preference is for evidence-based treatments: things we know work based on science and research. I'm not aware of any research backing the effectiveness of whatever it is that I experienced in the Deep Dive & Reset session that I completed. And yet, it was so profoundly healing - in ways that are continuing to impact my life and wellbeing for the better - that I've decided I don't need to understand to know that it works (for me, at least). If you decide to try energy work - particularly if you're a newcomer to this healing modality the way I am - then I heartily recommend entrusting Sonja with providing this service. I'm glad that I did, and I am forcing myself to write this vulnerable review in the interest of helping others find their way to receive her services.