Sanctuary Massage and Sauna

Sanctuary Massage and Sauna Rene has over 22 years of experience in Massage Therapy. She has also trained with Chiropractors, Sports and Physical Therapists, and Medical Professionals.

Located in Louisville, Colorado offering targeted myoskeletal therapy, fascia release, trigger point therapy and full spectrum infrared sauna, to help your body realign, rebalance, and feel its best. She was Certified from the Aveda Institute in Minneapolis in 1999, became a Board certified therapist (NCBTMB) in 2009 (BCTMB) 2015 and is insured through ABMP. Modalities of treatment include Trigge

r Point Therapy, Deep Tissue Massage, Myo-Facial Release, Sports Massage, Reflexology, Soft Tissue Massage, Active and Passive Joint Manipulation, Prenatal and Geriatric Massage. Each treatment is customized per client per treatment to address either Chronic Pain patterns, recovery from injury (to add to a clients Physical Therapy protocols) or just a relaxing deep cognitive and emotional unwinding. For Rene, massage is more than a livelihood as she grew up with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis, and has first hand experience with chronic pain. She knows the remarkable benefits of massage and nutrition. She believes that continuing education is imperative to her practice and skill. Rene continues to study numerous manual therapies to address chronic pain, experiments with nutrition, and challenging her physicality which she brings to her practice. That dedication to health and wellbeing is why, now in 2014, she is introducing Sunlighten Full Spectrum mPulse Infrared Sauna therapy as a Sister business. Sunlighten offers the only patent technology, clinically backed that produces results, wIth 6 pre-programmed settings. Clients will experience a full body, Deep Tissue Sweat Detox, Weight Loss, Blood Pressure reduction, Anti-aging and Skin Purification, Cell Health, Wound Healing, Stimulate Blood flow to twice the rate for better circulation and so much more! And this is all sitting down in a hypo-allergenic wood Sauna in a comfortable ergonomic seat while enjoying a relaxing farm setting away from the hustle and bustle of town. Rene's practice deals largely in rehab for clients suffering from injury and deep chronic pain so you can imagine her excitement that she can finally offer another deeply therapeutic treatment for a wide range of cases. Rene's philosophy stems from the words of Leigh Hunt
"The Ground Work For All Happiness is Good Health" and she is dedicating to providing her clients a high standard of treatments and long term care.

07/31/2026

Neurology and connective tissue are intimately interdependent systems and are critical in regulating many of the body’s systems. Unlocking their multifaceted relationship can transform clinical understanding of the mechanisms involved in ...

Interesting!“So what are manual therapists really doing?So after all of this analysis, are we any closer to understandin...
05/30/2026

Interesting!

“So what are manual therapists really doing?
So after all of this analysis, are we any closer to understanding what manual therapist are actually doing when they carry out their work? Can we answer two of Greg’s key questions, which are “by what means can your hands actually mold, shape or cause some change in fascia?” and “why can’t they do this in muscle, which is the far more responsive tissue to stress?”

“Well, as detailed above, we can see that Schleip proposes a model in which manual therapy or fascial manipulation involves stimulating intra-fascial mechanoreceptors, which then causes changes in the afferent input to the central nervous system, which in turn causes an reduction in the level of muscle activation of specific groups of motor units.”

So the answer to Greg’s two questions in the Schleip model would be that the hands are stimulating specific mechanoreceptors in the fascia, that cause afferent feedback to the brain, which then signals the muscles to release. The effect does not occur in muscle in the same way because the receptors are of different kinds in each tissue.”

“Of course, there remains a great deal of work to be done to understand the limitations and benefits of this model but it certainly helps to address many of the issues that Greg raised with the idea of the fascia being physically altered.”

Below is a guest post from Chris Beardsley in response to a recent post of mine that questioned the possibility of any manual intervention (this includes foam rolling) influencing the physical properties of fascia. It is also questioned how relevant is to pain and dysfunction.

Rise and Shine!I bet when you woke up this morning, you were thinking to yourself, geez I really wish there were more th...
05/29/2026

Rise and Shine!

I bet when you woke up this morning, you were thinking to yourself, geez I really wish there were more things I can add to my daily tasks.
Well, I gotcha, boo!
Here are couple links from Instagram.
Rehab-ish routines to increase hip flexor and pelvic floor stability.

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Enjoy!
Remember, go SLOW, never force a move and remember to take deep diaphragmatic breaths.

Ok, have a delightful weekend!

✨Kicking off our this morning’s workout. 👇🏻✨

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✨I didn’t add the band today. I opted for form and function.
If you’re like me and have tight hip flexors, this will definitely take practice-patience and time.✨

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✨Full disclosure- I’m shooting for a second round this evening with these glute techniques.
A band will be added and most likely some cursing. ✨

05/18/2026

This little light of mine… ❤️🐾🐶

Life has gifted, through my professional life as a Massage Therapist, blessings, lessons, stories, inspiration and famil...
05/02/2026

Life has gifted, through my professional life as a Massage Therapist, blessings, lessons, stories, inspiration and family.
The healing works both ways.
None of what life has put before me is taken for granted.

04/30/2026

That rosy, after Infrared Sauna, glow up. ✨

04/29/2026

How do you keep your arms from being sore… learn to squat and engage hip flexors and glutes ALL day long and fascia blast my arms. Using my own Chill Out Muscle Gel.

04/26/2026

Homecomings are the best! ☀️

04/25/2026

Typical Saturday before a full day of Massage. 🙏🏻
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Address

1075 E. South Boulder Road Suite #125
Louisville, CO
80027

Opening Hours

Tuesday 10:30am - 7:30pm
Wednesday 10:30am - 7:30pm
Thursday 10am - 7pm
Friday 10:30am - 7:30pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm

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