Tracie Eckel, MSc, LMT, CPT, RYT
Anatomist
Movement & Manual Therapist
Board Certified Continuing Education Provider
Hands-on Therapy
Our Philosophy
At our studio, we take a whole-body approach to pain relief and structural alignment, utilizing techniques such as fascia manipulation. Drawing on decades of experience in manual therapy and movement education, along with our commitment to continuing education, we’ve developed a system that looks beyond surface symptoms to uncover and address the root causes of discomfort and dysfunction.
Every session is designed around you—your goals, your lifestyle, and your body’s unique needs. Whether you’re recovering from injury, managing chronic pain, or simply looking to move more freely and feel stronger, we’ll create a treatment plan that helps restore balance, function, and ease of movement.
Our Approach
Your first session begins with a detailed intake, including your health history, lifestyle, and areas of concern. From there, we assess posture, alignment, and full-body movement to understand how your body is working as a whole.
The initial session serves as both an evaluation and a treatment—it allows us to explore how your tissues respond to touch while beginning the process of release and realignment. Utilizing fascia manipulation techniques, we identify and work with fascial adhesions, densifications, and trigger points—areas that often create tension and referred pain throughout the body.
We’ll work together to create a treatment plan that fits your body and your goals. Each session can build on the last, supporting long-term balance, mobility, and lasting relief, while also emphasizing the importance of continuing education in your wellness journey.
Integrating the Work
Your body has an incredible capacity to heal—but it can also slip back into familiar patterns over time. To support lasting change, we create a personalized corrective exercise plan designed just for you. These targeted movements strengthen areas that have been underused or compensating, helping your body integrate the hands-on work and prevent recurring issues. Additionally, our approach includes continuing education on fascia manipulation, ensuring you understand how to maintain your progress.
We also focus on building body awareness—how you sit, stand, sleep, and move—so you can make simple adjustments that support your posture, healing, and overall performance. Small shifts in daily habits often lead to big improvements in how you feel and move every day.
Restorative Treatments
Fascia Manipulation
Structural Integration
Trigger Point Therapy
Fascia manipulation, a key focus in continuing education for bodywork professionals, targets the connective tissue that weaves throughout the entire body, influencing posture, movement, and pain. Using slow, deliberate pressure, we work to release fascia restrictions, restore smooth glide between tissue layers, and rebalance tension patterns. The result is a body that moves with greater freedom and ease. Clients often notice improved alignment, reduced discomfort, and lasting gains in flexibility, resilience, and overall physical performance.
Trigger Point Therapy
Structural Integration
Trigger Point Therapy
Trigger point therapy targets highly sensitive areas within muscle tissue that can cause pain both locally and in referred regions. By utilizing fascia manipulation and applying specific, sustained pressure, we help interrupt abnormal neuromuscular signals, improve circulation, and restore healthy muscle function. Through ongoing continuing education, we ensure that our techniques remain effective and up-to-date. Clients often experience immediate relief and a noticeable decrease in pain, along with improved movement and freedom from long-standing patterns of discomfort that may have persisted for weeks, months, or even years.
Structural Integration
Structural Integration
Structural Integration
Structural integration works with the body’s fascial architecture to improve posture, alignment, and movement efficiency. Through a series of progressive sessions that may also serve as valuable continuing education, we release chronic holding patterns, realign connective tissues, and restore balance throughout the kinetic chain.
Fascia manipulation is especially effective for addressing long-standing tension, postural imbalances, and movement dysfunction. Clients often notice lasting improvements in how they stand, move, and experience their body in everyday life.
Cold Laser Therapy
Restorative Movement Therapy
Structural Integration
This non-invasive treatment utilizes low-level light from the FDA-approved MicroLight 830 laser to stimulate cellular repair and reduce inflammation. By enhancing ATP production at the mitochondrial level, it supports faster tissue healing, improved circulation, and decreased pain. Cold Laser Therapy is often integrated into continuing education programs that focus on techniques like fascia manipulation, making it a valuable option for treating soft tissue injuries, joint pain, and nerve irritation. Clients typically experience quicker recovery times, reduced discomfort, and improved functional outcomes—without any pain or downtime.
Muscle Activation Technique
Restorative Movement Therapy
Restorative Movement Therapy
Muscle activation technique targets muscular imbalances that contribute to weakness, instability, and joint pain. Through precise palpation and resistance testing, it helps activate underperforming muscles and restore optimal neuromuscular function, enhancing the effectiveness of fascia manipulation. As a part of continuing education, practitioners can learn how to achieve improved strength, stability, and movement efficiency. Clients often notice enhanced performance, reduced discomfort, and a greater sense of control and confidence in their body.
Restorative Movement Therapy
Restorative Movement Therapy
Restorative Movement Therapy
Restorative movement focuses on retraining movement patterns to improve function, reduce strain, and prevent injury. Through guided, intentional motion and tactile cueing, it helps clients develop greater body awareness, coordination, and control. Continuing education in techniques such as fascia manipulation enhances these practices, allowing practitioners to better support their clients' needs.
Restorative Movement Therapy is ideal for those recovering from injury, managing chronic pain, or seeking to enhance physical performance. It restores efficient movement mechanics and supports long-term structural and functional resilience.
NCBTMB Board Certified Continuing Education Provider
Hands-on Workshops: Anatomy at Your Finger tips
Enhance your continuing education by learning advanced therapeutic fascia manipulation techniques through integrated anatomy lectures and hands-on practice.
Human Cadaver Dissection: Anatomy Beyond the Textbook
Human Cadaver Dissection: Anatomy Beyond the Textbook
Study human anatomy and the fascial layers up close through cadaver dissection in this continuing education course—an immersive, hands-on exploration of fascia and human anatomy taught with precision, curiosity, and deep respect for the human form.
About Us
Tracie Eckel, MSc, LMT, CPT, RYT Anatomy Educator | Licensed Movement and Manual Therapist
Tracie is a respected leader in the field of fascia manipulation, structural integration, and pain-free movement. With over two decades of hands-on experience, she brings a rare depth of knowledge and skill to both her clinical practice and teaching. Her focus on fascia, the body’s connective tissue network, places her at the forefront of a growing movement to rethink how we understand and treat pain, restriction, and movement dysfunction.
Tracie holds a Master of Science in Anatomy Education from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a Bachelor’s degree in Exercise Science. She has been a Licensed Massage Therapist for more than 23 years and has also worked as a Certified Personal Trainer and corrective exercise specialist for 25 years. Her clinical expertise in fascia manipulation bridges the gap between manual therapy and functional movement, always aiming to address the root cause of pain and helping clients move with greater ease and resilience.
Tracie offers private therapeutic sessions, board-certified continuing education for licensed movement and manual therapists, and accessible workshops for the general public. Whether she’s teaching, treating, or mentoring, she brings clarity, precision, and compassion to every interaction.