Sally Boisvert
Massage Therapist • Somatic Bodywork Practitioner • Student of the Trager Approach • Community Weaver
When I left my marriage, I felt inexplicably drawn to yoga.
That pull led me to Humble Warrior Power Yoga, tucked inside a gorgeous old mill building in downtown Manchester. As I began listening to the stories my body told through each vinyasa, I realized I was craving a witness—not a passive observer, but someone who could hold my body with care and help me move the aching parts through and out.
Around the corner from the yoga studio, I found a sign on a closed door:
Kneaded Ease by Sally B.
A massage therapist was working inside the very place I had begun to experience as a sanctuary. So I booked a session.
When I arrived, Sally asked the questions a massage therapist might ordinarily ask: “What brought you in today?” and “What would you like me to focus on?” I imagined most people responded with tight shoulders, an aching lower back, or a troublesome hip.
“I left my marriage a couple of months ago,” I told her, “and I would like help remembering that my body is worthy of care.”
I was no longer trying to hide my weird.
Without the faintest pause, Sally nodded, walked to her wall of essential oils, and selected three for our session. What followed felt like magick.
When I am with another person, I tend to feel their desire—the thing within them reaching toward life. My curiosity is like a heat-seeking missile, except that instead of blowing anything up, it finds passion and shines a spotlight upon it. Even while receiving care, I can find myself instinctively attending to the person who is supposed to be attending to me.
With Sally, I can stop.
She possesses such an awareness of her own presence, attention, and passion—which, very conveniently, is massage—that she can completely contain me for the length of a session. She does not need me to search for her, reassure her, entertain her, or understand her. Within the sturdy cocoon of her attention, my energy can remain with me.
She helps me marinate in my own juice, so to speak, in the very best way.
When I am with Sally, I exhale. My body remembers that it deserves compassionate attention and safe, skillful touch. I can feel things that are often too difficult to feel alone—and once I have felt them, I can sometimes allow them to pass.
Over the year and a half that I’ve known her, I have arrived on Sally’s table with requests such as: “I’m integrating a lot of ideas right now. Could you help me make room in my body?” or “I’m in love with someone who doesn’t love me back. Could you help me work through it?”
Every time, she listens without even the faintest suspicion that I have lost my mind. She chooses the scents, allows my words to be part of the bodywork, and uses her strong, gentle hands until I become a happy, melty, peaceful puddle.
Sally has even joked about placing paper beneath the face cradle to collect her clients’ “drool art.” This tells you something important about her: she takes her work seriously without requiring healing to become solemn. She helps another person feel safe enough to drool, laugh, cry, soften, speak honestly, and temporarily stop holding themselves together.
She has also offered me something particularly rare: a safe place to speak about love, desire, sexuality, and the experience of living inside a body without shame or sensationalism. She does not sever these subjects from healing or treat them as evidence that something has gone wrong. In Sally’s presence, they are allowed to be part of the whole human being lying on the table.
Since meeting her, I have had the privilege of knowing Sally not only as a healer, but also as a friend and community weaver. She notices resonance between people. She makes introductions. Her gorgeous Leo energy extends an invitation toward confidence, warmth, and visibility; people naturally want to gather around her.
I will never forget the night she invited nine witches into her home and gave us the opportunity to discover how far from alone we really were.
Sally also remains relentlessly curious about her craft. Almost every time I see her, she has encountered a new book, podcast, idea, or practice she is exploring and wants to share. She continues deepening her bodywork through study of the Trager Approach, a form of somatic education that uses gentle touch, rhythmic movement, and movement awareness to help the body recognize possibilities beyond its habitual patterns of holding.
Through this work, I have experienced the delightful absurdity of imagining myself walking through tall grass while a dinosaur tail swayed behind me. I giggled. My body loosened. Something shifted. Play is healing, too.
Fittingly, Sally was the first person I interviewed for The Passion Witch Project. Before I fully understood what the show would become, I began with someone who had already taught me one of its central truths: The body is not merely something we carry while the important work happens elsewhere. The body is speaking. Sometimes healing begins when someone with strong and gentle hands is willing to listen.
Book a session with Sally at Kneaded Ease by Sally B.
Watch “Massage Magick with Sally B,” the first episode of The Passion Witch Project.