PMT Manager

In 1999, after Renee had 2 years of practicing massage in the spa world, she realized that she wanted more freedom and control over her practice and who she worked on. She found the spa world to be more focused on basic Swedish massage, and with her training in various bodywork modalities, she wanted the freedom to practice more therapeutically to help clients experience better and more lasting results. She started out offering chair massage at Wild Oats in Green Hills and built a private practice from there. In 2000, as she was looking for a new office space to expand, a client who was a web designer came up with the name Practical Massage because he felt that this therapeutic focus was so practical for him and made such a difference in his life...the name stuck! And Practical Massage Therapy was born. We were located on Belmont Blvd for 10 years and fell in love with the Belmont/12th South neighborhood. When our current 12th South location was just a drawing, we jumped at the chance to be in a new building that would be built for us in such a great part of the neighborhood, and moved to 12th South in 2010...the weekend after the flood. As of 2017, we have been open under the Practical Massage Therapy name with our tree of life logo for 16+ years.