Therapists

Susan Toth Eggener

Susan graduated from Ohio State University with an International Studies major and a minor in Anatomy.

She graduated from the Massage Therapy Institute of Missouri in 2005, and previously taught Anatomy and Sports Massage at the Columbia Area Career Center's Massage School. Her continuing education classes include hip and shoulder stabilization techniques. She has spent several years living abroad, and engaging in such things as jewelry making and book-selling in London, Seattle, Cleveland, and San Francisco. Susan's other interests include participation in a community garden, cooking, yoga, friends, family and an artisan of tea tree- based Swirl Soaps of Columbia. Her children are Gus and Rosalind.

Dawn Flinchpaugh

Dawn attended the Body Wisdom Massage Therapy School in Des Moines, IA in 2008. She specializes in Therapeutic and Sports Massage and also has experience working as a massage therapist in Hospice settings. She listens to your needs and addresses the areas of discomfort with rhythmic, long strides and palpation. A medium to firm pressure is used. From origin to insertion she will provide relief.

Her philosophy of massage: "Our body carries history, each person deserves empathy."

Dawn graduated from Buena Vista College in Iowa with a BA in Elementary Ed, as well as receiving an Art Endorsement and Coaching Certificate. She has coached girls softball and boys basketball. She has raised two daughters and lives on a farm in Missouri with her husband where she helps with sheep, gardening, and running the Earth/Sun House ABB.

Being grateful, and with good intention, the massage begins.

Ann Marie graduated from the Columbia Area Career Center School of Massage Therapy in October 2018. Throughout her life, massage was helpful support: first for the hard work of farm life, growing up in rural Fayette, Missouri, then through high school athletics, and later, both the extended process of managing a herniated lumbar disc as well as supporting the processes of two pregnancies and natural births. These experiences held information about pain--the sources, the manifestations, and the potential support and solutions. It is the culmination of these experiences which defines Ann Marie's investigation of massage therapy via modalities that help to evolve an injury or pain-restricted moment for every client. Ann Marie is learning Fascial Strain-Counterstrain techniques, which seek the spasming fascia that protects more vulnerable structures, and "glides" along the fascial pathway to dissolve the restriction. Having first-hand experience, then turning it into education and technique that can help others through similar stress and pain, is the crux of her philosophy towards healing!

Ann Marie is willing and grateful to engage each client towards those goals.