About EWTA
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East West Therapeutic Arts is a Portland, ME based practice, devoted to the art and the science of therapeutic bodywork. It is Meghí ní Domhnaill's response to her understanding that a living flow of health and balance are found in the cycles of nature, and we are all inherently influenced by these cycles. EWTA is Meghí's channel of devotion to a continual journey of physical, emotional, and spiritual balance, for herself and the surrounding world.
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Philosophy
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Informed therapeutic touch, and presence, are some of the most valuable healing tools out there. We are in a time of restoring awareness of our interconnectedness to each other and to all of Nature and awakening to ourselves, while also at the height of the impacts of human folly globally. There is a great need and a calling to seek out our own healing in ways that are deeply resonant, and also radical, as we explore and learn to re-identify with the world that sustains us. By learning how to heal ourselves, we learn to communicate with the world, and vice versa. Bodywork is finally being placed in its proper role as essential to health and healing, and not as a luxury. EWTA is devoted to bringing the very real healing power of the many layers of bodywork to the community, session by session.
The goal at EWTA is for services to be as accessible as possible, so that those who need the work may experience the benefits of periodic bodywork, while also ensuring the highest standards of knowledgability and care are consistent in every session. Please refer to the RATES PAGE to get a sense of the sliding scale philosophy here at EWTA. |
About Meghí Áine ní Domhnaill, BAS, LMT (Ze/ She)
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Hi! My name is Meghí Áine! Please feel free to call me Maggie. I'm a bodyworker of about 16 years, and I consider my work to be primarily orthopaedic with a dose of esoterics, elemental theory, and application of eastern diagnostics and methods. I've collected a range of modalities and professional experiences over the years, and many of my clients come to me for my specialization in injury recovery, but I also love to customize sessions to the person's needs in that moment. I'm passionate about holding massage therapy to a high standard of education and I believe that bodywork, when practiced adequately, has a true role in healing. I'm also passionate about ancestral healing.
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Reconnecting to my own lineage, including considerations of healing along that lineage, has led me to a better understanding of our true place in Nature. Observing the cycles that we each experience in our bodies throughout the year, along with the seasons, I try to allow nature to be the creatrix of our sessions. I'm passionate about decolonizing our somatic experiences, and about showing up for the great callings of our time, such as climate activism and human evolution, from a place of embodied love and empowerment. Most of all, simply belonging and being whole in our bodies, is my main focus in practice.
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A 2008 graduate of the Finger Lakes School of Massage in Ithaca, NY, Meghí (aka Maggie) specializes in zir/ her own forms of structural release methods, rooted in extensive trainings and exposure to medical settings, biofeedback, and continual study of advanced techniques and philosophies.
After FLSM's initial 1,000 hour certification program, Meghí continued on to study medical massage and neural reset therapy with Ralph Stephens, a prominent leader in the bodywork world who holds high standards for education; safety and advanced identification, and palpation and release techniques. In addition, ze/she devoted 6 years to working under the direct supervision of a cross-discipline specialist practice of elder Physical Therapists and Physiologists in Danbury Connecticut, one of whom was closely connected professionally to Janet Travell (of the Travell and Simons Trigger Point research team). The practice in reference is a Physiatrist-owned practice called Team Rehab, whose focus is on non-surgical injury recovery using methods ranging from exercise physiology and movement rehab, to trigger point injections and soft tissue medicine, with a high success rate and a standalone reputation for compassion, listening, exceptionally high standards, and thoroughness.
Zir/her work is also influenced by great healers and teachers of our time, both contemporary and elder, ranging in disciplines from Osteopathy, Cranio-Sacral, structure-function and Kinesiology, and Bio-Energetics.
But the contemporary western scientific model of understanding the body is not always enough. The far more ancient energetic understandings, most specifically what we know as the eastern-based spiritual, diagnostic, and bodywork approach, round out Meghí's understanding of zi's/ her craft. The body functions with a complex and intelligent completeness that is inseparable from the surrounding world, and is very responsive to input, such as changes in environment, diet, movement medicine, and thought systems.
Every session is unique and intended to meet the individual's needs at that moment, with a broad mind and an array of techniques. Ze/ she works with all kinds of people, in all phases of life, on all walks of life. As the client, you may experience the benefits of any of a combination of approaches. Meghí uses a wide range of pressures, and approaches, with intent to meet the client where they are at, to optimize release and relief, relaxation and rejuvenation.
After FLSM's initial 1,000 hour certification program, Meghí continued on to study medical massage and neural reset therapy with Ralph Stephens, a prominent leader in the bodywork world who holds high standards for education; safety and advanced identification, and palpation and release techniques. In addition, ze/she devoted 6 years to working under the direct supervision of a cross-discipline specialist practice of elder Physical Therapists and Physiologists in Danbury Connecticut, one of whom was closely connected professionally to Janet Travell (of the Travell and Simons Trigger Point research team). The practice in reference is a Physiatrist-owned practice called Team Rehab, whose focus is on non-surgical injury recovery using methods ranging from exercise physiology and movement rehab, to trigger point injections and soft tissue medicine, with a high success rate and a standalone reputation for compassion, listening, exceptionally high standards, and thoroughness.
Zir/her work is also influenced by great healers and teachers of our time, both contemporary and elder, ranging in disciplines from Osteopathy, Cranio-Sacral, structure-function and Kinesiology, and Bio-Energetics.
But the contemporary western scientific model of understanding the body is not always enough. The far more ancient energetic understandings, most specifically what we know as the eastern-based spiritual, diagnostic, and bodywork approach, round out Meghí's understanding of zi's/ her craft. The body functions with a complex and intelligent completeness that is inseparable from the surrounding world, and is very responsive to input, such as changes in environment, diet, movement medicine, and thought systems.
Every session is unique and intended to meet the individual's needs at that moment, with a broad mind and an array of techniques. Ze/ she works with all kinds of people, in all phases of life, on all walks of life. As the client, you may experience the benefits of any of a combination of approaches. Meghí uses a wide range of pressures, and approaches, with intent to meet the client where they are at, to optimize release and relief, relaxation and rejuvenation.
Meet Cricket!
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Cricket, above, 2018 & 2022
and the late, great irreplaceable, Laoise, below, 2008 
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Not only friends and family, but long term, regular clients of mine will remember Miss Laoise, a very special soul who blessed my life for over 16 years. Laoise left us sweetly in May of 2017, but lives on in memory. It took a long time for me to begin my search to fill those doggy shoes, but the right pup finally came along in June of 2018. An intelligent, gentle, sensitive being, a nature lover and a people lover, Cricket is just the right fit for the office. There is something special about a canine presence in a healing environment. I hope old and new clients alike will agree. Sweet and gentle with a knack for a sense of humor, Cricket is a wonderful companion, not just in the office but everywhere we go. |
