BIG NEWs!

The Arbor is my Passion Project that began in August 2025, when I signed on with a personal trainer at my local gym who had recently moved here from the East Coast with a dream of creating an inclusive ecosystem of wellness professionals.

At the same time, I had been dreaming about teaching trauma-informed bodywork and somatic approaches to anyone curious enough to learn.

Samantha and I became friends and collaborators almost simultaneously. During our training sessions, she was looking at my body through the lens of kinesiology, strength, mobility, and corrective movement, while I was looking through the lens of Rolfing® Structural Integration and bodywork.

Somewhere in the middle, a bodywork-and-adaptive-strength baby was born.

That collaboration has grown into sessions where we can combine our expertise when a client may benefit from more than one perspective—hands-on structural work alongside strength, mobility, movement, and education. For some clients, that combination can open possibilities that neither approach could create quite as effectively on its own.

But The Arbor is bigger than collaborative sessions.

It is the place where our two individual brands meet and where we hope other people can meet, too. Our vision is to create a space where wellness professionals, students, curious humans, and community members can connect, share knowledge, learn from one another, and help each other grow.

We want The Arbor to be a place for collaboration rather than competition, for curiosity rather than certainty, and for community rather than isolation.

A place where people—and ideas—have room to take root, grow, and thrive.

Community and growth are at the heart of The Arbor.

And, frankly, we think that’s exactly what an arbor is for. If you are interested in finding out more, feel free to contact me, and keep reading to

Meet The Team... (so far)

I’m Brooke, a certified Structural Integration practitioner, or Rolfer®, with advanced training in trauma-informed bodywork and somatic approaches. My work focuses on helping people understand the patterns their bodies have developed around pain, posture, movement, stress, and protection—and creating more options for how they move and feel.

I don’t believe in forcing the body into an ideal shape or chasing symptoms in isolation. I’m much more interested in listening to what the body is doing, why it may be doing it, and how we can create greater ease, adaptability, and connection through hands-on fascial work, movement, breath, and somatic awareness.

My continuing education includes pain science, neuromuscular and neurofascial techniques, Somatic Emotional Release, and NARM-informed trauma work. I’m continually refining the way I bring these approaches together so each session can be shaped around the person in front of me rather than a one-size-fits-all protocol. My goal is simple: to help bodies find more ease, resilience, and possibility.

I’m Samantha, a kinesiologist and certified personal trainer with additional training in corrective exercise, pelvic floor health, Ayurvedic wellness, and yoga. My work is centered around helping people better understand how their bodies move, where they may be compensating, and how to build strength in a way that actually fits their individual needs.

I don’t believe fitness should feel intimidating, punishing, or one-size-fits-all. I love helping people feel more capable, confident, and informed in their own bodies—whether that means learning how to use a gym, improving posture and movement patterns, working around limitations, or simply finding an approach to exercise that feels sustainable.

I’m also continuing my education in somatic work and completing my training to become a Licensed Massage Therapist, which allows me to keep expanding the ways I can support the connection between movement, strength, and whole-body wellness.

I’m Maggie, a sweet and calm Border Collie–Lab mix and therapy dog in training at 828 healing. My job is pretty simple: help the room feel a little softer, a little safer, and occasionally remind everyone that lying quietly on the floor is a perfectly valid nervous-system strategy.

Most of the time, I’m happy to rest nearby while sessions are happening. I’m still learning, so my role is always guided and intentional, and I only join sessions when clients are comfortable having me there.

Some people find that having a calm dog in the room helps them settle, feel more grounded, or simply enjoy the experience a little more. Others prefer a dog-free session, and that’s completely okay too.

My specialties include quiet companionship, emotional support, excellent floor work, and being extremely professional right up until I find something interesting to chew on.