Certified Massage Therapists at the Smuggs Ice Bash!

Imagine walking down from your ice climb to be greeted by soup from “the soup guy” (Doug Millen from NEice!), heading back to the Inn and grabbing a relaxing beverage, and having a MASSAGE right then to work out your sore muscles from the day!

Starting at 6:00pm during Petra Cliffs’ Friday night Ice Bash Kick-Off event and after climbing Saturday afternoon at the Smuggs Inn & Tavern, Certified Massage Therapist Kirsten Wiley and assistant Ginger Camp will be treating climbers to chair massages with a $1 per minute suggested donation.

Check out more about Kirsten’s practice on her website. 

Kirsten and Ginger have been offering clinics and massages at Petra Cliffs for the past several months, teaching climbers how to massage each other and themselves for recovery, endurance, and injury prevention.

Kirsten discovered chair massage in the workplace in 1985, finding not only a relief from intense headaches, but also a boost in energy and morale. After recovering from a serious accident in 1997, Kirsten found massage to be very helpful in the process of rehabilitation. “Massage helped me to be more comfortable in my own body after dealing with pain, anxiety, insomnia and depression. It is my mission now to offer this help to others.”

She trained in Anatomy, Physiology and Massage at the Vermont Massage Institute. Her first practice was in a physical therapy office where she was highly influenced by the skilled PT’s.

Kirsten is Nationally Certified and has continued her studies. In the fall of 2007 she attended a workshop in Beijing held at the Olympic Training Center’s Sports Medicine Hospital. There, she studied a form of Chinese massage, called Tui Na. In the fall of 2010, Kirsten attended advanced Tui Na training workshops in Beijing at the Hospital of Traumatology. She studied specific treatment protocols for cervical spondylosis, L4 and L5 disc herniation, disorders of the shoulder, headaches and insomnia.

In the spring of 2011, Kirsten began studying Oncology Massage with Tracy Walton of Boston.

Kirsten studied Reiki with the late John Harvey Gray in 2008. John was one of the first Americans to learn this Japanese healing energy technique.

From 2005 to 2010, Kirsten worked with Dr. Heather Jerome as a chiropractic assistant, preparing patients for adjustment with massage and soft tissue therapies. She continues to share office space there, seeing clients on Wednesdays in Montpelier.