TORI JAYNE POLOSKI

certified massage therapist, craniosacral therapist, intuitive healing artist

Hi, I’m Tori & and I want to thank you for visiting my website! Here’s a bit about me:

I grew up in a small town in MI with a big, loving network of immediate and chosen family members. I am now residing in Sacramento, CA where I love nothing more than to hike, breathe fresh air, be barefoot on the earth, and tend to my garden. It’s in my nature to travel frequently and connect with the world around me in a purposeful way. I aim to live the most highly ecstatic life I possibly can.

Being in authentic connection is what allows me to thrive, and I’m a big believer in the profound power of touch as alchemy. Through my own lived experience of being injured, I know what it’s like to confront deep pain and the feeling of misalignment. I sought out bodywork years after that, feeling that I was ‘all healed up’. At that point in my life, my ability to truly inhabit my body and to trust in my own inner wisdom was not being cultivated, I was disembodied and disconnected from many different parts of my whole self. Although, some part of me knew that I had stored tension, emotion, and energy in my body that so urgently wanted to be acknowledged and released.

I knew that I wanted to study healing arts because I wanted to change the trajectory of my life. Along my journey of coming into greater alignment and receiving several kinds of bodywork, I’ve witnessed the innate healing power of my own body, something we ALL possess as humans. Through experiencing my own body’s intelligence & capabilities, I’ve come to trust our natural wisdom so deeply & I am fascinated by the brilliance of the human body. Each day in my practice, it’s truly an honor for me to hold space for those who desire to expand their awareness, feel deeply, and remember how to access their own inner wisdom.

EDUCATION

Tori graduated from Crestone Healing Arts Center’s Massage Certification program in 2018 located in Crestone, CO, taught by Dan & Sue Retuta. In this live-in intensive massage course, Tori shifted on a deeply personal level while studying several modalities: Intuitive Acupressure, Shiatsu, Swedish & Deep Tissue Massage, Prenatal Massage, Hot Stone, Passive Stretching, & Reflexology. The teachings of these core modalities were paired with an extensive focus on Taoist theory, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Qi Gong, Tai Chi, Kundalini Yoga, Herbalism, Aromatherapy, & Hydrotherapy Applications.

Reiki Level 1 & 2 Attunement received during course of study at CHAC.

Since 2019 Tori has studied with DeAnna Batdorff of dhyana Essentials in Sebastopol, CA. Taking a variety of courses that are based in Ayurvedic bodywork, self-care, & assessment. With a major focus on women’s health, specifically lymphatic breast massage and womb realignment techniques, Tori has gone on to study body mapping, introductory birthwork support, elemental nutrition, & herbalism with both Eastern & Western roots through dhyana Essentials. In the spring of 2022 Tori finished the Ayurvedic Clinical Foundations Course & more advanced classes that delve into providing Pancha Karma therapies, Ayurvedic/ Tibetan Pulse Assesment, & Tibetan Craniosacral Therapy (Thoba Khujatag.) Tori volunteers each year at the Northern California Women’s Herbal Symposium Areola Tent with DeAnna & her team providing clinical Breast & Womb Checks at the camp.

In 2020 Tori began studying Craniosacral Therapy at the Upledger Institute. After a handful of classes there and some experience as a teaching assistant, she found the Milne Institute for Visionary Craniosacral Therapy in 2022 and began studying with Hugh Milne & David Kaminker. She’s been a part of 7 classes over the past three years with the Milne Institute as a student or teaching assistant, each one transforming her work deeply & profoundly.

In late 2023, Tori began her studies at the Swiss International College of Osteopathy. Although based in Sacramento, she travels between CA & Switzerland every couple of months to take classes studying cranial osteopathic techniques, visceral work, & osteopathic manual treatment of the whole body. She is studying to become a non-physician osteopath.

CMT #76391 in California / LMT #MT0021978 in Colorado