Meet the Team
As Body Altar expands, we’re thoughtfully growing our team with experienced, highly skilled therapists who share our commitment to excellence and individualized, results-driven care. Each practitioner brings their own expertise and perspective while adding to the quality, warmth, and intention that clients have come to expect from Body Altar.
With over a decade of experience, Raven brings a multi-modality approach to bodywork that is deep, slow, sinking, and intuitive.
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Founder of Body Altar, Andy brings over two decades of experience and a passion for thoughtful, individualized therapeutic bodywork.
read more about Andy below...
About
Raven Pedano LMT
Raven has been a bodyworker for the better part of a decade. She recently moved to Tucson from Tennessee with her partner and precious dog. Drawing on her passion for the natural world, ecology, and herbal medicine, she approaches bodywork from a holistic, grounded perspective. Fundamental to her belief system is the idea that the body holds an innate wisdom to seek homeostatic balance. We, as bodyworkers, work in a symbiotic relationship with this internal knowledge to help guide the body back into alignment, ease, and overall well-being. Her style of bodywork can be described as slow, deep, sinking, and intuitive. She incorporates modalities such as myofascial release, connective tissue therapy, trigger point therapy, cupping, and gua sha into her sessions. She looks forward to joining Body Altar and working with clients both new and familiar with the practice.
About
Andy Blum LMT, founder Body Altar
After graduating from college, I followed my calling to the Florida School of Massage in 2004. 21 years later, my fascination with the power of this work continues to grow by the day.
My style ranges from deep work like myofascial release and trigger point massage to postural analysis, structural bodywork, cupping and gua sha (instrumented assisted soft tissue manipulation). I also incorporate subtle modalities like ortho-bionomy, craniosacral therapy, Prana healing & Ayurveda. I attended Yoga Teacher Training at The Yoga Tree in SF and have gone on to study Classical yoga Nidra in depth.
I am passionate about massage, fully present during sessions and mindful that this is sacred work. I truly love what I do and the transformations I have witnessed are magical and humbling. The mysteries of the body keep me interested and engaged.
My studies are varied and I would like to honor some of the prestigious bodyworkers that have mentored me along the way: Myoskeletal Alignment Technique Erik Dalton (who trained with Ida Rolfl), Orthopedic massage and pain specialist James Waslaski, deep tissue guru Art Riggs, chiropractor Dr. Eric Rubin, rolfer Marty Morales, somatic therapist Paul Linn, ortho-bionomist Jim Berns, shiatsu practitioner Richard Seeber, ayurvedic practitioner Prashanti de Jager, Reiki master Claudia McGregor and trigger point therapist Mary Jenn.
