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Tend Tacoma Licensed Massage Therapist, Educator; Relational Practice Hi! I'm Adele, and I'm a holistic massage therapist and mind-body mediator.

I help people figure themselves out. We access the power of touch to solve your mind-body puzzles with my practical, nurturing support. It's like having a scientist specializing in YOU, but instead of invasive tests, we use sensational experiments to decode your personal formula for vibrant health! My own health challenges inspired my research to recover my health, decode my own unique chemistry and neurology, and share the knowledge I gained with other explorers. All the best learning experiments are Hands-On... so I became a Licensed Massage Therapist and worked with naturopathic inpatients, supporting cancer recovery, opioid addiction, chronic pain, trauma, and other complex challenges. My clients told me, during weeks and months of intensive procedures and interventions, I was their favorite practitioner because I was often the only one to help them feel better RIGHT AWAY. These days, I practice independently alongside Dr. Jill Dawrs Family Chiropractic, where I focus on helping people with pain, anxiety, and other neurological conditions. I do my best work with people wanting support with:

-Specific Health Challenges. Who is attending to your comfort? Listening to your experience? Remembering to focus on you and what you’re going through?

-Unknown Conditions. Who is helping you adjust to mysterious pain, stress, or limitations? Who is open to your experimental ideas? Shaking loose a new clue?

-Vague Sense That Something is OFF. Who can help check if your discomfort, fatigue, or restlessness is normal? Who checks in with all your body systems together, looking at the big picture? I believe everyone deserves to get to know themselves, and many of us need a guide to help ask the right questions and recognize the body’s answers. If you share my clients’ desires for practical, nurturing support, reserve a time to talk to me about your hopes for treatment. Or, Book an Appointment to check in with your whole body, assess existing pain, stress, and tension, and dive into understanding the subject you already know best: Yourself!

This month, our inspo is Ember Season: all about cozy warmth, with a focus on head, neck, and face massage.🕯 Small, heat...
10/24/2026

This month, our inspo is Ember Season: all about cozy warmth, with a focus on head, neck, and face massage.

🕯 Small, heated stones contoured for the face provide a deep, soothing sensation that eases tight jaw and facial muscles, opening sinus pathways. As the warmth penetrates the surface, lymphatic drainage moves stagnant fluid smoothly, while the cozy aroma of Cinnamon Leaf fills the room with autumn comfort.

Why face focus? Local vasodilation, loosening fascia and relaxing facial muscles that hold expression stress. Calm hands + thermal input prepares the underlying tissue for delicate scalp massage and fluid drainage, creating an ideal state for deep nervous system relaxation.

😌 You don't need to hold everything together on your own. Allowing yourself to receive care is a vital act of self-preservation.

When you take care of your own nervous system, you return to your life with more patience, clarity, and presence for those you love.

Book your session through the link in our bio and give yourself permission to slow down, soften, and receive care 🍂✨

I am thrilled to announce that Tori Bond LMT has joined Tend Tacoma as a resident practitioner! ✨Tori brings exceptional...
10/21/2026

I am thrilled to announce that Tori Bond LMT has joined Tend Tacoma as a resident practitioner! ✨

Tori brings exceptional skill and intuitive warmth to her sessions. Her starting rate is $110, and as a special welcome, my existing clients can enjoy that first appointment $59 discount price (again!) when booking with her.

🕯 Ready to experience Tori’s work? Book your session with her and give yourself the restorative care you deserve.

We have expanded our 3rd floor at Tend Tacoma! ✨Tucked away behind a secret staircase lies our attic space overlooking C...
10/17/2026

We have expanded our 3rd floor at Tend Tacoma! ✨

Tucked away behind a secret staircase lies our attic space overlooking Commencement Bay.

I’d love to see you again soon, or I’d love to introduce you to Tori, my dear friend and new partner in healing work 💛

The door at Tend Tacoma is always open whenever you are ready to land.

🕯 Giving yourself permission to pause and be held is a powerful practice that positively impacts everyone around you.

Come settle into your own little sanctuary at Tend Tacoma. 💛 Book your session through the link in our bio.

You ever notice how much tension you carry in your temples and forehead without realizing it?💆🏻‍♂️ Light, rhythmic strok...
10/13/2026

You ever notice how much tension you carry in your temples and forehead without realizing it?

💆🏻‍♂️ Light, rhythmic strokes across the brow, jawline, and neck gently encourage fluid movement, easing puffiness and sinus pressure. Coupled with targeted scalp work, warm facial stones, and the comforting scent of Cinnamon Leaf, this technique quiets mental chatter and restores a felt sense of lightness to your entire head and neck.

The facial and cranial tissues hold an incredible concentration of sensory nerve endings. When we apply feather-light lymphatic strokes alongside focused scalp work, we send a direct signal to the cranial nerves that it is safe to downshift. This reduces micro-clenching in the jaw, allowing trapped fluid to clear naturally, for a beautiful sense of space…

🕯 Ready to release the tension you’ve been carrying?

Book your session through the link in our bio.

Smooth facial strokes glide over delicate contours, draining stagnant lymph and softening tension… then slow scalp work ...
10/10/2026

Smooth facial strokes glide over delicate contours, draining stagnant lymph and softening tension… then slow scalp work releases stored mental fatigue. 💆🏻‍♂️

🍂 Wrapped in the rich, warming spice of Cinnamon Leaf, you receive the message: autumn is here and it is safe to rest.

Gentle lymphatic drainage around the face and scalp encourages the movement of fluid through delicate pathways, supporting immune function and easing sinus congestion as the season turns. Warm facial stones melt superficial fascial tension before the deeper scalp work begins, while Cinnamon Leaf provides a unique spicy-sweet, warming aroma that quiets the sympathetic nervous system.

💛 You don't have to wait until you are fully run-down to seek warmth and care. Tending to yourself early in autumn stores up resilience for the dark months ahead.

Secure your session through the link in our bio.

Cold Snaps; Coming in Cozy 😌As October brings crisp air and bracing shoulders, Ember Season invites you into soothing wa...
10/07/2026

Cold Snaps; Coming in Cozy 😌

As October brings crisp air and bracing shoulders, Ember Season invites you into soothing warmth.

✨ This month marks a deeply meaningful milestone: our 1st anniversary in the Healing House here in Tacoma. I am filled with profound gratitude for this community. Watching you step onto the table, trust this space, and allow yourself to be cared for over the past year has been one of the greatest privileges of my practice.

So this fall, let’s settle in deeply together.

🕯 Carrying everything alone takes a quiet toll on the body. Our table at Tend Tacoma is a sanctuary where you can set down the weight of expectations and simply receive.

Booking link in bio.

Frankincense essential oil contains compounds that are known to support emotional regulation and neurological repair pro...
09/26/2026

Frankincense essential oil contains compounds that are known to support emotional regulation and neurological repair processes.

🕯 This makes the structural and vibrational work more effective by ensuring your system is responsive.

If you’ve been waiting for a "better time" to book, remember that your body lives in the present; there is no better time than now to address what you’re carrying.

On the table, you’re practicing the vital skill of being cared for, which makes you so much more effective when you return to caring for others 😌

✨✨✨ Here is to a bright, grounded end to your September. ✨✨✨

Looking ahead to October? Advance bookings are now open. Secure your session through the link in our bio. 💛

Some sessions unlock something big. Others are quiet and steady. Both are doing the work. Your body knows what it needs…...
09/23/2026

Some sessions unlock something big. Others are quiet and steady. Both are doing the work. Your body knows what it needs… we just follow its lead.

See what a session can do for you. Booking link in bio.

Can you remember a smell that immediately made you feel more present in your own skin?🧴 Frankincense is ancient, groundi...
09/21/2026

Can you remember a smell that immediately made you feel more present in your own skin?

🧴 Frankincense is ancient, grounding, and undeniably centering. It fills the room and sets the scene. As the vibration of the tuning forks settles your system and the structural work releases the brace, this scent acts as the sensory anchor, a favorite of ancient royalty. Their nerves needed a lot of support too!

By the end of September, the transition into a new rhythm can leave us feeling frayed. Scent signals your brain, “it is safe to be soft.”

💛 I’ve used Frankincense to ground and center myself through some of my own heaviest seasons; a reliable, resinous friend that always leads me back to center.

Ready to experience your own moment of grounding? Book your session through the link in our bio. ✨

So much of our lives are spent in "go mode," but your body needs a sanctuary where the only requirement is to receive ✨💆...
09/19/2026

So much of our lives are spent in "go mode," but your body needs a sanctuary where the only requirement is to receive ✨💆🏻‍♂️

In our session, you don’t have to fix anything or explain anything. You just have to be here.

🕯 Wishing you a week of steady ground and clear vision.

Book your session through the link in our bio. 💛

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223 N Yakima Avenue
Tacoma, WA
98403

Opening Hours

Wednesday 9am - 6pm
Thursday 9am - 6pm
Friday 9am - 6pm
Saturday 9am - 6pm

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+18667822565

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