Two Hearts Bodywork

Two Hearts Bodywork 🤲🏼 Massage & Bodywork Couple
🌊Based in Petoskey, Michigan
🌿 Supporting, Educating & Inspiring Bodyworkers to grow + thrive in their practices (and online!)
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06/19/2026

When I’m not yappin’ about massage I’m yappin’ about making money online. Drop your questions 👇🏼👇🏼✨

06/18/2026

1. I no longer rely on only massage for my only source of income. It’s not my only source of making a living. I make money online (still within the massage & bodywork industry that I love) and this allows me for more wiggle room and freedom to breathe.

2. Because of my online income I only take clients 15 days per month. The other days in the month I’m able to rest and do online work, which I can do from anywhere and requires less time to money trading. I no longer have to take clients 4 weeks out of every month with limited days off and having to accept not making as much if I’m sick, need a vacation, or a mental health day.

3. I no longer identify as just being a massage therapist. I’m an entrepreneur. I’m a growing business owner. I have the skill and the talent of massage therapy, but it’s not the core of what I do. The core of what I do is help others. Whether that be through massage therapy or through digital products- I’m an entrepreneur and I solve problems, which makes me $$$$$.

4. I don’t take clients on my days off from massage. I simply say no. & it’s easier to do so knowing I have an entire different stream of income that doesn’t rely on me showing up our massage studio.

If you’re feeling burnt out from bodywork and you’re wanting to diversify your income online, comment “online income” for our course that will walk you through everything you need to know in order to create it for yourself 💕

06/12/2026

What most people call a knot is a trigger point. And a trigger point is a motor endplate stuck in the ON position.

Every muscle fiber has a motor endplate. This is where the nerve meets the muscle. Normally the nerve fires, releases acetylcholine, the muscle contracts and then relaxes.

But sometimes the nervous system doesn’t complete that cycle. Stress, repetitive patterns, protective guarding, or trauma can cause the endplate to stick in the ON position. It is a neuro-chemical condition, not just some tight muscles that we can “break up”

When you force it with more pressure, you’re not releasing anything. You’re fighting the nervous system. Oftentimes the body tightens more in response.

What actually moves it from ON to OFF is getting the nervous system out of Fight or Flight and back into a sense of calm and safety.

Some people’s bodies respond to firm pressure. It gives them a sensory input that says “okay, we can release now.”

Other bodies need gentleness, safety, and time to soften. Their nervous system needs calming and patience, not more force.

This is exactly what we’re breaking down on June 24th inside the Collective.

This is a live training that covers the mechanisms at play, the research, and how you can implement this understanding into your practice.

Comment KNOT so we can notify you when the training is live! đź’•

When we started our practice, we had no clients, no local network & no idea what we were doing! We built it from scratch...
06/11/2026

When we started our practice, we had no clients, no local network & no idea what we were doing! We built it from scratch in a town where we knew nobody.

Now we are fully booked with a waitlist, we just welcomed a massage therapist to our team and she’s almost fully booked thru August & we are raising our prices for the first time in a while because this practice has grown into something we are genuinely proud of.

Thank you for trusting us with your bodies! It means everything.

New pricing takes effect July 1st. Comment WAITLIST to get on the list or book with Megan while she still has a few openings left.

06/09/2026

What most people call a “knot” is almost certainly a trigger point, & a trigger point is not a physical tangle of tissue. It is a neurological event.

Every muscle fiber is controlled by a nerve. Where that nerve meets the muscle fiber is called the motor endplate. When everything is working normally, the nerve fires, the muscle contracts then releases. But sometimes the motor endplate gets stuck in the ON position, so it keeps releasing acetylcholine, the chemical signal that tells the muscle to contract.

The sarcomeres (the tiny contractile units inside the muscle fiber that actually do the shortening) cannot complete their cycle. So they stay locked. Sustained contraction compresses local blood vessels, cutting off the ATP supply the sarcomeres need to release. No ATP means the actin and myosin filaments cannot detach from each other. They stay stuck.

Imagine a fist. A clenched fist is not a structural deformity. You cannot fix it by forcing the fingers open. You fix it by giving the nervous system a reason to let go.

So the trigger point is not a knot. It is the neurological consequence of sarcomeres that cannot let go. Which means you cannot mechanically break it up, because there is nothing structurally broken to break.

We are talking to the nervous system. Through gate control, through descending modulation, through conditioned pain modulation & more.

Actual fascial adhesions & scar tissue? yes, structure matters there BUT even those mechanisms are not what most therapists think. For fascial adhesions, sustained mechanical load signals fibroblasts to remodel collagen over time, a process called mechanotransduction. For scar tissue, techniques like cross friction create a controlled stimulus that encourages collagen to reorient along lines of tension. BOTH are slow & cumulative. Not a one-session fix.

Going deep on all of this on a live call coming soon inside the THB Collective- trigger points, adhesions, scar tissue, what massage is actually doing, & how to talk to your clients about it with confidence and accuracy.

Comment KNOT below & we will add you to the list to be the first to know when registration opens for non-members.

06/08/2026

There’s A LOT that goes into being a massage business owner 💕 but we wouldn’t have it any other way.

You can join a collective of supportive massage therapists doing the same dang thing, juggling it all. Comment “collective” to learn about our membership for bodywork entrepreneurs growing their businesses ✨ The THB collective is a gold mine of marketing + business resource that actually help you grow your practice & income.

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