​Melanie Requet
Holistic Massage
Nervous-System-Informed Care
Restore Balance, Ease,
and Vitality
Based in the Comox Valley
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"My intention is to create a safe and sacred space where the nervous system can unwind, physical tension can soften, the heart can open, and the soul remembers home."
A Bit About Me:
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I am devoted to supporting people in reconnecting with themselves — to feel whole, to feel grounded, and to feel truly at home in their body. My work is rooted in the understanding that healing happens most naturally when the body feels respected, listened to, and met with care.
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I am a holistic massage practitioner and energy worker with over 18 years of full-time practice and more than 3,000 hours of training. Over the years, I have travelled widely to study traditional and contemporary approaches to bodywork, and I feel deeply grateful to have found this vocation. It is a path I walk with humility, curiosity, and devotion.
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As a trauma survivor myself, I hold a deep respect for the role of safety, consent, and choice in the healing process. My work is trauma-informed and grounded in nervous system awareness. Sessions are offered at a pace that honours each person’s unique rhythms, capacities, and lived experience.
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I specialize in holding space for those who give a great deal to others — therapists, healers, caregivers, and highly sensitive individuals — as well as people at many stages of life. Clients come to this work seeking a place where they can soften their vigilance, surrender control, and be held with skill, sensitivity, and respect.
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During sessions, I work with mindful presence, refined body-reading skills, and subtle energy awareness. I listen with my hands, allowing technique and intuition to work together. My intention is to create a deeply connected and nurturing experience in which muscular tension can release and the nervous system is gently soothed.
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My own journey into bodywork has been profoundly healing and continues to be a source of inspiration. I am passionate about self-care and maintain personal practices in meditation, subtle energy work, Qi Gong, and conscious dance, which inform and nourish my professional work.
I am committed to a lifelong path of inner work and to using my place of privilege to support a world that is safer, gentler, and more loving.
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I respectfully acknowledge that the land on which I live, work, and offer this practice is the unceded traditional territory of the K’omoks Nation. I give thanks to the keepers of this land — past, present, and future — and to all of creation that sustains it. May the steps I take upon this sacred earth be guided by peace, respect, and care for all sentient life.
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Professional Development
2007
2026
2007
Melanie is a graduate of the Vancouver School of Healing Arts, where she studied Deep-Flow, Swedish, Reflexology, Deep-tissue, Shiatsu and pregnancy massages.
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2008
She completed her Level I & II Reiki Usui in France and travelled to India for a Month immersion in studies in Ayurvedic massage therapies & medicine.
2009
She graduated from the Spa Therapy Program at the Steiner Training Academy in London, England, where she studied the art of Facials, Body Wraps, Scrubs, Aromatherapy and Hot Stone Therapy.
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2011 to 2013
She completed the folowing Deep Flow trainings: Level II, Restorative Bodywork and Foundations teacher training. Studying Myofascial Release Therapy, Structural Alignment, Restorative Yoga Therapy, Breathwork and Mindfulness Meditation principles.
2013 to 2019
Mystery School, in depth studies in Energy & Shamanic Healing, Meditation, Vibrational Psychology and Ancient Energy Systems with Training In Power Academy.
2016
Lomi Lomi Massage, Heartworks and Temple Style, apprenticeship in traditional Hawaian lomilomi massage & shamanic energy healing arts. With the Shamanic Bodywork academy, in Kauai, Hawaii.
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2019
200 hr. training in Tao Healing Arts for Women in Bali, Indonesia. Focus on facilitating QiGong classes, women's circles, sacred rituals and private woman empowerment sessions.
2020
Took the Qigong Teacher Training in Nelson, BC. with Master Minke De Vos of Common Grounds, Studied QiGong and traditional shamanic Chinese energy healing medicine. Following the lineage of Master Mantak Chia and the Universal Healing Tao System.
2023
Currently in the Kundalini Dance teacher training program with Master teacher Layolah Antara.
This spiritual dance practice is based on a foundation of Shamanic Alchemical Healing Arts.
It's a very intentional form of ecstatic dance, where you are guided on a journey through the Chakras. To balance, harmonize, and align all your bodies, (physical, mental, emotional, ethereal, spiritual.) with your soul essence and purpose.
Through the Kundalini Dance alchemy practices one can transform any ancestral or karmic beliefs that hold them back from shining as an embodied sovereign feminine leader.
