Body Sense Therapist
It makes sense to heal your mind & body through therapeutic care.
Colleen is a licensed massage therapist and the owner of Body Sense Wellness Center, Inc. She is a graduate of Wellness and Massage Training Institute and attends numerous continuing education classes. Her experience includes 15 years of dance instruction and 13 years in martial arts. Since 2011 she has competed in the Ragnar Relay Marathon and the 2012 Berlin Marathon in Germany. In 2013 she competed in the Wheaton College Sprint Triathlon, the Olympic Triathlon in Chicago and the Half Ironman in Racine, Wisconsin. She achieved 2nd place for overall female in the Wheaton College Sprint Triathlon in 2014, and ran multiple half marathons throughout the year and the years following. In 2015, while competing in the London Marathon, she raised money for the Royal National Institute for the Blind. She achieved a Half Ironman in 2016 in Benton Harbor, Michigan. 2017 brought her to Washington, DC, to compete in the Cherry Blossom race, and she ended the year by summiting Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa. In 2018 she graduated with honors from the Travel Agency program at Ashworth College. She now owns "C & See Travels, LLC," a company to further her passion for travel. Though now a travel agent, Colleen remains the full time owner/therapist at Body Sense, ensuring her clients meet the physical goals they want to achieve. Beginning in 2022, Colleen joined the Board of Directors for the Massage Therapy Program at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn.
Sarah has been practicing massage since 2012, when she graduated as Valedictorian of her class from The SOMA Institute of Clinical Massage Therapy in Chicago. Her passion for massage came about from her own experience receiving massage to help her recover from structural issues and injuries, all of which made it difficult for her to either function fully as a mom with young children and as a competitive triathlete. Massage became such a key part of Sarah’s own rehabilitations that she soon knew she wanted to extend this amazing transformative practice to others by becoming a massage therapist herself.
Her modalities are truly unique, and rather than employing one particular modality of massage, Sarah instead fully believes the muscles of the person being worked on are the true guides of “how” she practices on her clients. There are key fundamental physiological laws and elements to HOW our bodies move throughout the day and night, both while we are in movement and in a state of rest. Often times the root cause of a chronic or acute pain (if not from an actual injury) is embedded deep in our muscle memories, and “listening” to the muscles tell their stories is where true change can be affected. So for those who are patient enough with the process, Sarah is a good listener to what a body’s essence is trying to tell, and she can often become an interpreter in the moment, using hands and energies to try and evoke a space for healing to occur.
Sarah is a mom of three kids whom she adores, both as her children and also as good human beings with smart heads on their shoulders and abilities to laugh at life! She is a USAT certified Triathlon Coach with Peaks Coaching Group and has been racing triathlon for close to 15 years herself. Cycling is her true love however, and every year brings new challenges of keeping her body and mind as healthy and grounded as possible so she can continue to find new adventures and challenges on the bike!
Her modalities are truly unique, and rather than employing one particular modality of massage, Sarah instead fully believes the muscles of the person being worked on are the true guides of “how” she practices on her clients. There are key fundamental physiological laws and elements to HOW our bodies move throughout the day and night, both while we are in movement and in a state of rest. Often times the root cause of a chronic or acute pain (if not from an actual injury) is embedded deep in our muscle memories, and “listening” to the muscles tell their stories is where true change can be affected. So for those who are patient enough with the process, Sarah is a good listener to what a body’s essence is trying to tell, and she can often become an interpreter in the moment, using hands and energies to try and evoke a space for healing to occur.
Sarah is a mom of three kids whom she adores, both as her children and also as good human beings with smart heads on their shoulders and abilities to laugh at life! She is a USAT certified Triathlon Coach with Peaks Coaching Group and has been racing triathlon for close to 15 years herself. Cycling is her true love however, and every year brings new challenges of keeping her body and mind as healthy and grounded as possible so she can continue to find new adventures and challenges on the bike!
Associations
Colleen is a member Associated Bodywork and Massage Professionals (ABMP). Body Sense adheres to the highest industry standards
for ethical and professional behavior. We value your trust in us and will keep all information, written and spoken, confidential.
for ethical and professional behavior. We value your trust in us and will keep all information, written and spoken, confidential.