ForResting the Soul

Awareness Coach, Author, Fascial Release LMT, AccessBars & Cacao; I help people learn to feel again. Hi, I’m Christy. I’m returning to Peru in December 2025.

I’m a massage and fascial release therapist, specializing in emotional fascia release—a bodywork approach that helps untangle the emotional stories our tissues hold—along with being an Awareness Coach, Access Consciousness Bars® Practitioner, Cacao Practitioner, author, and plant medicine advocate. I’m based in Springfield, Missouri, USA, where I’ve been rooted for over 20 years. My passion for fa

scia work deepened after studying with Maria Alfieris of Magical Hands Physical Therapy, attending her transformative two-day workshop in Orlando, FL (July 2024) and again in Atlanta, GA (February 2025). Earlier in 2025, I also completed Paul Chek’s Holistic Lifestyle Coaching Level 1 course, further integrating movement, nutrition, rest, and joy into my personal life and client sessions. In January 2025, I became Secretary of the Board for the Psychedelic Society of the Ozarks, an organization committed to education, community, and safe practices around psychedelics. This role is a natural extension of my long-standing advocacy for plant medicines. That advocacy deepened even further later that spring, when I traveled to the Peruvian Amazon for a 10-day dieta, sitting in ceremony with Ayahuasca five times—a sacred experience that continues to influence my work and personal path. I hold four life coaching certifications, but I prefer the title Awareness Coach because my work isn’t about telling people what to do—it’s about guiding them to become deeply present to their own lives and choices, and this comes from personal self-awareness. I’ve been a licensed and nationally certified massage therapist for over two decades, and my work continually reinforces a truth I hold close: our physical health is inseparable from our mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. My own journey through—and alongside—addiction has shown me that the only person we can truly rescue is ourselves. That’s why I believe self-care is not selfish; it’s foundational. You can’t pour from an empty cup. Life before massage therapy taught me a lot about what I didn’t want. I worked in the legal industry—IT, administration, even managing a branch with 14 attorneys in Chattanooga, TN—before returning to Missouri and co-owning Life Essentials Wellness Center in 2004. Since then, my path has woven through community service (helping utilize a $2 million community transformation grant for walkability projects, reviving a 15-year-old garden program for the local food bank), publishing the Ozarks’ first holistic wellness directory, teaching massage business courses, and co-founding the Queen City Beard & Moustache Federation, which has raised over $120k for local causes. Outside my work, I’m happiest near water—paddling a canoe, kayak, or paddleboard—or moving my body through yoga, gentle kundalini practice, or long walks in nature. I’m a fire sign with a deep love of music, dance, and travel, and I’m on track to visit all 50 states before my time here is up. If you’re ready to reconnect to your body, your emotions, and your own inner wisdom, I’d be honored to walk beside you. Your relationship with yourself is the most important one you’ll ever have—and it’s the only one guaranteed for life.

07/28/2026

Happy Tuesday, friends! I wrote another book! This one has been in the making for nearly three years now. I guess, realistically, the material has taken me most of my life to fully understand and accept. The first draft was written two years ago, and thanks to time in the jungle, therapist friends, colleagues, and mentors, it has become what it is today.

As many of you know these last couple of years, I've been on some pretty big journeys, and it wasn't until February of this year that I fully understood the importance of DAILY ritual.

While I won't be able to leave with my friends tomorrow for Peru again, Amy and I are planning our own intentional time here in the concrete jungle.

Destination retreats are great, but I've come to realize it's really what you do afterward that matters most. It's in the mundane, day-to-day routines where patterns are revealed, and people get triggered. It's up to us to listen, respond, and maybe even change course.

Amy S Wallace has been on her own journey back to self for over a year now. While we've been learning and expanding in different ways since our first trip to the jungle of Costa Rica, we couldn't be more aligned and ready to invite others to walk alongside us for the next six weeks to explore The Wisdom in the Trees.

Beginning next week, Amy will be using this How to "Become an Aware Wolf" book as a companion guide during her morning live videos in her group. Each week, we'll focus on unlocking a new skill. Easy TO do, easy NOT TO do.

We'll gather on 8/11 at the Den for Wisdom in the Trees with Amy & Christy to share more about the program and have open discussion. Then, on 8/22, we'll offer Sunrise Sacred Connection with Amy & Christy as a halfway point celebration.

Then we'll be on the Buffalo River the weekend of Sept 1-13 for our final celebration!

How do you join us? Great question. It's super easy.

1. Fill out the registration form here: https://forms.gle/D5f7Uj5dvGFZj6TB7
2. Purchase your copy of the book; available in print and via digital download. (info & pay links in the form above)
3. RSVP for the events you'll be joining us for, and
4. Show up LIVE with Amy in the mornings or catch the replays!

That's it. The goal, keep it simple and fun.

07/26/2026

This gave me chills. Then, it reminded me of Aditya Prema - Adi’s call and response with our voices last Tuesday night. 🙏🏼🪶✨

07/24/2026

Now that we've added more classes to The Den schedule, we want to make it as easy as possible for you to drop into any of them. As soon as they arrive, we'll have 10-class punch cards available for $100 ($103 if paying by card). You can reserve yours via the payment link in the comments and we'll have it ready for you at the studio. You can also purchase them in class. Let us know if any questions arise! 🙏🫶☀

07/22/2026

Such a great time at the Women’s Drum Curcle tonight! Thank you, Aditya Prema - Adi!!

Next up - we are meeting at the Springfield Nature Center parking lot tomorrow morning around 8:45am, walking long trail at 9am! This is our new Wednesday morning thing! Here are a few of the faces you’ll see! 😁🤭🐺🌳☀️

07/21/2026

Thank you, Robin Lee & Shine Yoga Studio, for opening your space and sharing it with our community for as long as you did. And thank you for listening to yourself when it was time to close that door. That takes its own kind of courage, and I see you sister!

Your yoga mat holder, foam rollers, and lacrosse balls have found a new home with me, and I promise: they're in good hands. They'll keep rolling. They'll keep serving bodies in this town.

Speaking of thise rollers….fascia classes. For those who have been asking. Friday mornings. 7 AM. Beginning August 7, we’ll be rotating Caroline Bogema & Christy Claybaker teaching fascia classes.

Both have different styles.

Christy will lead a class WITH TOOLS, inspired by Maria Alfieris & Magical Hands Physical Therapy Continuing Education Company (Aug 14 & 28)

Caroline will be leading her Release & Restore class, that was on Tuesday mornings. (Aug 7 & 21)

This will give everyone an opportunity to try both classes, and then we can gauge interest and play with the schedule a bit more as our fall schedules start falling into alignment.

✨Both classes being offered can easily be done without getting sweaty, so you can go straight to work or on with your day without having to shower!✨

07/03/2026

Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend from the middle of the northern Atlantic Ocean. Please enjoy this beautiful sunset with me from the Azores. I’ll be back in the states by the end of next week and getting ready for all kinds of beautiful things happening within The Aware-Wolf Den and our greater community. Much love to each of you.