Today we’d like to introduce you to Jenn Jackson.
Hi Jenn, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
Hello! Well, I started my bodywork journey in tiny fragments… working in emergency medicine, learning traditional and holistic medicines and healing arts, exploring alternative healing methods for my own body, etc.
I came to a point in my life where I wanted a career change for myself… something radically different from what I was doing. I knew I loved calm environments, forming one-on-one connections with others, I wanted to do something healing… but not western medicine, and something that allowed me to feel like I was having a positive impact in this world. Massage fit what I was looking to manifest in my world.
So I quit my career and headed back to school. I went to the Utah College of Massage Therapy, full time. While I was there I learned that I really do have a gift with anatomy and most forms of massage… but I was especially drawn to the modalities that focused highly on the fascia in the body… Structural Integration, Myofascial Release, and Cranialsacral. Once I graduated in 2010, and opened my private practice, I continued my education by taking advanced classes in these modalities and others that are seeded into my style. I even received a scholarship to get certified in Structural Integration at the Structural Integration Institute… going through the 10 series had radically changed my own body, and I was excited to learn how to help others in the same way.
Starting my own business was easeful for me, and I am very blessed in that. Everything about my journey felt purposeful and fulfilling. I relied on word of mouth as advertising, which I find keeps the energy of my client base pretty congruent… “like energy draws in like energy”. My people are amazing… everyone from kids struggling with Osgood Schlatter’s and sports injuries, to moms dealing with Thoracic Outlet Syndrome and Anteverted Pelvis’, all the way to pro athletes dealing with a wide variety of injuries and compensation. They are all struggling in their own ways, but they are all showing up and working hard to heal… walking their paths as best they can.
Healing can be rough… it isn’t always a linear path. The amount of respect I have for each of them is massive. THEY are a huge part of where I am today… they trusted me, they showed up, they did the work, they healed, and they told their loved ones about the help I can provide them.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
It has been smooth, AND it has been rough. It’s been up and down… sometimes even sideways.
By and large, it has been very easeful. Though, there have been challenges… COVID-19 really had an impact on my business. I shut down for 9 months, and I waited until after a vaccine had come out and it was disseminated to return. That was hard. I was so worried I wouldn’t have anything to come back to, but people flooded my books as soon as I announced I was reopening.
I also didn’t fully think through what starting a business would entail… I had to learn accounting, bookkeeping, I had to act as my own attorney when I filed with the United States Patent Office for Fusion Therapy®, I was the cleaning crew and the web designer. The many hats I found myself wearing and learning about was almost mind boggling… but I loved it. I was thriving with the challenge and the drive… I had a vision of something I wanted to create and I was passionate about every aspect of it.
We’ve been impressed with Fusion Bodywork, but for folks who might not be as familiar, what can you share with them about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
My style isn’t for everyone. I’m not for everyone. But when it clicks, it’s magic!
My work isn’t for the faint of heart. You are always in control… 100%, but I’m going to push you. It’s intense. I don’t ever do a whole body in a session… I focus on the root of the problem that we are addressing, and that is where all my energy goes. It’s DEEP, and it’s slow.
But it also has this strangely relaxing quality… it’s the soothing environment, the warm stones and bamboo, the custom oil blends that are catered to you based on the medicinal qualities they imbue, the music, the fact that I take my time to really talk to you each session to figure out our goals.
I am Bear River Newe Tribe (Shoshone), Painkwitikka Band (Fish Eaters), Clan of the Silver Tipped Bear… and I practice based on the medicine wheel. I incorporate the four directions, the four elements, the four states of being that create us as a whole… a physical body, an emotional body, a mental body, and a spiritual body all in one. You can’t have dysfunction in one of the bodies without it impacting the others. Thus my style is not only deeply physical but it is profoundly spiritual, mental, and emotional as well. Things like… I call in your ancestors to help guide us, I will use a medicine drum or a singing bowl… at times I will ask if I can smudge with sage.
I’m eccentric… in a way that’s hard to define. But I love it and strive to be my authentic self in each moment… there is something about that, it allows others to be their authentic selves as well.
I really care. This isn’t a business just to make money… it’s my small private practice. Just me. I KNOW my people… I know what is going on in their lives, I know their families, I know what issues they are struggling with in their bodies, I remember the oils they like… I adore my people and I’m truly invested in trying to help them to the best of my ability.
Let’s talk about our city – what do you love? What do you not love?
I love Salt Lake, I love Utah. These were our tribal lands, so my people are from this land. It’s a part of my soul. The sun, the sage brush, the wind… this is home for me, on a profound level.
I love the people here… it’s such a diverse place. I feel like I get glimpses into all sorts of populations, and situations. I love that aspect of this community… it’s big enough to have a vast array of dynamics, yet small enough that it’s easy to find a strong vein of association, of bonding.
Pricing:
- $155 for a 90 minute session
- $205 for a 120 minute session
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.fusion-bodywork.com/
- Other: https://www.massagebook.com/Holladay~Massage~Fusion-Clinic?src=external#reviews
