In January of 2000 I started massage school at Trocaire in South Buffalo. I received an associates of applied science with massage therapy certification in may of 2002. Over the past 22 years I have worked with chiropractors, clinics working with no fault insurance cases, spas and salons, yoga studios and now more recently 2019 I found my way to my all time favorite place to work, the beautiful Buffalo Holistic Center. Since living in buffalo I have done quite a lot, 3 beautiful children, me and a business partner took over Dolci Bakery where I made desserts for dozens of restaurants, made hundreds of wedding cakes, developed a gelato and sorbet business from scratch, and made thousands and thousands of cookies and our famous chocolate chip cookies of which you can still find at sheas performing arts (close to a half a million).

As a manual therapist in the practice I have developed over the past 22 years I’m not thinking about miracles or universal messages, but I am most certainly focused on ones pain and discomfort, that is the miracle for me, that I can assist in the process of just simply feeling better than you did before you stepped a foot in the door. I watch my clients walk, I listen to their words, and then I listen through my hands, and it becomes a dance and a flow where I interweave western and eastern massage techniques as well as applied stretching, active release, and other yoga style principles. My technique has become an intuitive flow where the best I can do is lend my ear to listen closely, with the aim and intent of one leaving with less pain and discomfort, a lighter being and hopefully a bit happier. After a 3 year hiatus and recovery from injury that I healed myself, I am happy to return to Katrina’s Buffalo Holistic Center! Baraka bashad…may the blessings be!