Shirley Itani

I come to the massage world from the art/creative fields. I studied art in college and graduated with a BA in painting from Boise State University. Throughout my life I have worked in various creative jobs, including hair styling, fine art gallery/framing, floral design, and jewelry design (with beads and metals). I left Boise for a job in creative San Francisco, After a number of years working there, I met my husband, David, and moved back to Idaho. At that point in my life, I knew I was being called to become a massage therapist, because I had always dabbled in massage, and I had been fascinated with and drawn the body structures in school, and then I had trained in chair massage while working for Aveda Corp in the Bay Area. So, shortly after returning to Boise in 2004, I enrolled in the Idaho School of Massage Therapy and haven’t looked back. While I do all types of massage, my passion is deep tissue work, helping to restore function and balance to bodies that have become imbalanced, painful and overworked. I use various modalities (trigger point therapy, myofascial release, cross-fiber work, and neuromuscular techniques) to achieve my goals of helping restore wellness. I have a good working knowledge of human anatomy and how our muscles work together. I do my job with the understanding that we are complicated beings: Mind, body and spirit. What affects one part, affects the whole.