Kristin Maddox-Brown is a Registered Massage Therapist and founder of Free Movement Massage Therapy. She graduated in 2007 with honours from the Okanagan College of Massage Therapy. Since then, she has practiced in New Zealand, Squamish and now Salmon Arm, BC. Kris lives with her husband and their two children up near Larch Hills. They coach for the XC Ski Jr Race team and can adventure right out their door!
Kris has an adventurous spirit and open mind. She doesn’t shy away from tricky cases and believes strongly in the resiliency of the human spirit for healing. She uses education from arts and science together, not as separate entities, but as informing each other. Expect a thorough interview and health history, deep listening skills, experienced hands and palpation skills, functional analysis, bio-mechanics, logic and intuition. Expect to take an active role in self awareness and self-care and bring a willingness to adventure into your own healing journey.
Background:
Kris grew up running, skiing, horseback riding, dancing, canoeing, kayaking and rock-climbing in Thunder Bay, Ontario. After completing university studies in an interdisciplinary arts and science program at the University of Guelph, she bridged into Environmental Science. A love for wild places, especially oceans and mountains, drew her west to work in outdoor education and expedition leadership. She fell in love with ocean sea kayaking on the rolling swell of the outer west coast and the with the peaceful feeling of “balancing over stone” while scaling tall granite cliffs. After years of work and travel through wild places she shifted her focus to massage therapy. Now she uses her navigation skills to guide her clients through their own healing journeys. Her work explores movement, the bodymind connection and the nervous system to help people free up their potential for healing.
