Licensed Therapeutic Bodywork
Licensed massage therapy informed by myofascial techniques, lymphatic support, abdominal care, jaw and buccal massage, pregnancy massage, Ayurvedic-inspired bodywork, and personalized therapeutic touch.
The Alchemist Behind the Work
I'm Laura.
Licensed Massage Therapist · Holistic Practitioner · Educator · Founder of Gaja Bohème
I create intimate, personalized experiences for people who have spent so much time holding everything together that they may no longer remember what it feels like to be held.
Gaja Bohème was not born from a certification—it was born from survival, curiosity, and the deep knowing that the body is not an obstacle to healing. It is the archive of it.
Before the Work
Successful on Paper.
Disconnected Within.
For more than ten years, I worked in corporate marketing—and I was good at it. But being good at something and feeling alive inside it are two different things. I could show up professionally while quietly disappearing from myself: dissociating, sleeping under my desk, and moving through days that looked functional from the outside.
My work was only one layer. I was navigating personal relationships I did not yet have language for, carrying weight rooted in childhood, and living with a depression I had become skilled at hiding. Medication and therapy mattered, and I still believe deeply in integrative care. But even with support, I sensed there was something in me asking for a different kind of attention.
Survival had shaped the way I moved through the world. I could read a room before I knew how to read myself. What I needed was not another performance of being fine, but a way back into honest relationship with my own body and life.
The Turning Point
Creating My Way Back to Myself
The turning point was not dramatic. In the middle of the chaos—finally alone, finally mine—I started making things. Candles. Jewelry. Room sprays. Creating felt like proof that I was still present, that something in me remained curious and capable of beauty.
That opening led me to Reiki. Something shifted before I had language for it. Coworkers who knew nothing about what I was carrying would tell me they felt good around my energy. I began studying, received my Reiki certification, and then trained in massage therapy.
In 2022, I opened a studio of my own. What began as a quiet creative impulse had become a practice—one rooted in touch, attention, ritual, and the possibility of meeting the body without judgment.
The Alchemy
Nothing Was Wasted
Over time, I began to view my past through a different lens. I started asking not only why these things had happened, but what they had taught me that no classroom could.
I began to understand that the awareness I developed through years of scanning rooms and reading people had not disappeared. With healing, discernment, and training, I learned how to relate to that sensitivity differently—and eventually use it with intention.
The corporate years taught me how to listen beneath language and make complex things understandable. The difficult years taught me what it feels like to function while disconnected. Creativity reminded me that I was still here. Education gave me structure, scope, and tools. None of it was wasted.
That realization became what Gaja Bohème is today.
My Philosophy
I Am Not Here
to Fix You.
I do not believe healing requires a hierarchy. You are not broken, and I am not the authority over your body.
My role is to listen, notice, create space, and offer tools that may help you reconnect with what your body has been communicating.
I bring training, intuition, lived experience, and careful observation into the room—but your experience, comfort, consent, and inner knowing remain central to the work.
I have never felt entirely comfortable with the word healer. I would rather meet you as a collaborator: someone who can hold space with care while you remain the central voice in your own experience.
In the Room
What You Can Expect From Me
Every experience begins with listening. I do not approach your care as a fixed sequence or assume that intensity is the same as effectiveness.
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I will listen before deciding what your experience should include.
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I will explain your options and invite your feedback.
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I will honor your boundaries, comfort, and pace.
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I will never require emotional disclosure.
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I will make room for science, intuition, tradition, and your own knowing.
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I will treat your care as personal, not procedural.
Trauma-aware care here means consent, communication, choice, pacing, collaboration, and respect for physical and emotional comfort. Emotional disclosure or release is never required.
Training and Practice
What Informs the Work
Energy, Sound and Ritual
Reiki, sound healing, spiritual cleansing, energetic practices, intentional ceremony, and subtle-body work offered with respect for each client’s beliefs, comfort, and preferences.
Herbalism and Whole-Person Care
Herbal preparations, infused topical applications, traditional wellness practices, holistic coaching, and body-centered reflection. This work considers how stress, lived experience, nervous-system patterns, beliefs, and physical tension may interact—without reducing every symptom to an emotional cause.
Teaching and Practitioner Education
Founder of Sacred Alchemist Academy and creator of the Vortex Somatic Compass™, a five-direction framework supporting personal reflection, embodied awareness, and practitioner education.
“Healing is not a straight line. It is a spiral—and every time you return to the same place, you are meeting it from a deeper awareness.”
Begin Where You Are
You Don't Have to Know Exactly What You Need.
Explore the experiences to learn what is available, or reach out directly if you would prefer to begin with a conversation.