Relaxation: Perfect Touch Massage helps customers feel their best - Ravalli Republic

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The physical strains of shoveling snow, winter sports enjoyed during the holidays and the stress of beginning a new year make this the perfect time to enjoy a massage.

Eve Meng, owner of Perfect Touch Massage, wants to help patrons feel their best. She is a licensed massage therapist specializing in gentle therapeutic bodywork customized to soothe aches, invigorate circulation and heal.

Meng offers an eclectic blend of massage techniques to meet the needs of each client. She listens as she works and is able to give a relaxing massage or work on specifics areas or sore muscles.

“I rely on my hands to inform me what’s going on in the body,” Meng said. “Sometimes they are magnetically drawn to the areas that need the work and provide a very slow, even pressure release of muscles and fascia. It’s lovely the way it works. It is satisfying work to be able to offer relief and comfort.”

Meng said providing massage therapy is a lifelong desire.

“For years I was in the office and decided, at age 47, to go back to school to become a massage therapist, which I absolutely loved,” Meng said.

She got her license at the Big Sky Somatic Institute in Helena. The program took her nearly three years to complete and included course work in anatomy and physiology, movement, and bodywork therapies.

“I loved every single moment of it,” Meng said. “It was intense but well worth it and something I’d always wanted to do.”

Meng opened her business in 2003 and has been practicing professionally for almost 15 years. She began in a leased office space, then worked for seven years at Hamilton Physical Therapy. She is now in a private office on Marcus Street in Hamilton.

“I love it here. This building is just amazing,” Meng said. “I love having other body workers upstairs here because we are like a little healing community up here. Most of my clientele are from referrals and repeat clientele that I have had for many years and some since the beginning. I love every single one of them. I learn something every session because it is always a new experience.”

Clients schedule sessions from 30 to 90 minutes and have many options: hot stones, energy healing and cranial sacral work. Meng uses hot rice bags, hot towels and unscented oils because she has clients that are scent sensitive. Her massage therapy room is comfortable and homey with plants, salt lamps presenting a nice warm glow and south-facing windows that look out over the baseball field.

“I give a massage the way I would like to get one,” Meng said. “It’s all whatever the person needs on my table. When people come for a nice, relaxing massage, that is what they get. Quality of touch is really important to me and that the person on the table feels comfortable with me. Our communication is primary.”

Meng said she works on people according to their preference.

“I have people that come to me that don’t like to disrobe, and I will work with people however they are comfortable, Meng said. “They are coming to me because they have a need and I want to work within their comfort zone. It is not about me. It is about them.”

Meng said massage is great for any time: just to relax and ease tensions, before or after sports, to speed healing, ease sore muscles, or while recovering from an injury with a doctor’s release.

Perfect Touch Massage is on Facebook and has a website where clients can book appointments and order gift certificates. Find Perfect Touch Massage at 215 Marcus Street, Suite 211, in Hamilton. For more information, call 406-239-1576 or visit online massagebook.com/perfecttouch.

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