Angelica Kerbrat has been a massage therapist for the last 20 years.
Within the two decades, she has always owned her own business, practicing massage therapy in different buildings. At one point, she owned San Piper Fitness Centre and Warren Wellness, taking advantage of her certification in fitness and nutrition.
“And now I’ve just evolved. I’ve taken all the knowledge over the past 20 years and decided to open up in Stonewall,” said Kerbrat.
Over the last 20 years, Kerbrat has taken many courses in British Columbia and Mexico to continue educating herself, learning skills like acupuncture, reflexology and cupping.
Her massage therapy clinic, 310 Wellness On Main in Stonewall, which opened in October of this year, offers different types of massage therapy with a variety of bodywork. In addition to all the services mentioned, she also provides the sauna, wolf non-surgical deep-tissue therapy and ion footbath detoxes, which help eliminate heavy metals and an accumulation of toxins and chemicals in the body.
Even though her title is massage therapist, she has evolved more into detox and coaching as she tries to respond to the needs of her community.
“I’ve just noticed over the last couple of years a lot of my customers have become extremely ill with inflammation,” she said. “The only thing that I can think of to help bring people’s inflammation down is to find out what exactly caused that damage to their body and to stop it immediately. At the same time, in order for the body to heal, the person needs to eliminate whatever is hurting them.”
“Inflammation creates pain; pain creates discomfort and depression and anxiety. We are living in a society of an inflammation nation — everybody is inflamed.”
With her clinic now in a more centralized location, Kerbrat hopes to be better reachable to those who need to access her services.
“If I can help one person out of 100 — like truly help that person — help that (person) understand that there is more to healing than we can see. Where the mind goes, the body follows,” she said.
Adding fitness and wellness into her massage therapy practice, Kerbrat calls herself a “whole life” coach practitioner, offering a more holistic approach. In addition to all her massage therapy practices, she will also offer health consultations, which she hopes will help get to the root of her patients’ inflammation problems.
“For me, my favourite part about my practice is helping people. I put my whole heart and whole soul into it. To listen to people and help them — this is what I’m here for. We learn from each other,” she said.
With a new space in a new town, Kerbrat hopes to share her experience and expertise with the community to get to the root causes of people’s suffering and trauma to cure and reverse inflammation.
“The people that come see me have been seeing me for years and years, and they can’t wait. They are suffering. People don’t come to see me just for a massage. They come for help,” said Kerbrat.
She acknowledges that treatments and healing are different for everyone, but she wants to take the baby steps with her clients to reach the end goal: comfort.
Although 310 Wellness On Main opened in October, Kerbrat hasn’t fully opened it to the public. By Dec. 1, she said she hopes to open fully.
Later in December, Kerbrat will be hosting an open house at her new location, where her goal is to involve all the townspeople in Stonewall, so they can see the space and what it has to offer. She intends to release further details on the open house in the future.
For now, all who wish to book Kerbrat for one of her many services can contact her via email at angelicakerbrat@gmail.com or 204-861-2114.
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