Barbara Helynn ROBLES, LMT
(previously Barbara Helynn Heard, LMT)
MY PROFESSIONAL BIO:
Barbara Helynn Robles, LMT, primarily offers Ortho-Bionomy® modality sessions in her massage practice. She also teaches daily tai chi and qigong classes and offers tutoring for massage students and LMTs who want to improve their quality of touch. She supports these practices with her studies of neurology applied to movement via Z-Health Education classes.
She values how these inter-related practices personally benefit her own health and wellbeing, and she also appreciates all opportunities to support the current new generation of massage therapists develop their quality of touch.
Barbara Helynn began doing massage for family and friends over 50 years ago as a teenager. Her 25-year full time professional massage career practicing and teaching lomilomi, and eventually also full chest and breast massage, began in 1995, and continued full speed until the Covid Pandemic hit in 2020. She then transitioned her focus to teaching online tai chi classes, while continuing for several years to teach occasional lomilomi and breast massage CE classes.
In 2024 Barbara Helynn began learning Ortho-Bionomy which she now has embraced as the current perfect fit for her body, mind and spirit. She holds associate member certification in the Society of Ortho-Bionomy International®, SOBI.
Barbara Helynn graduated from Brian Utting School of Massage in Seattle, WA in 1996 and has since completed about 2000 hours of various massage related continuing education classes, the majority of which are in lomilomi and visceral massage, and most recently in Ortho-Bionomy. Her home and practice are both located in Olympia, Washington.
WA massage license number MA 00009734, AMTA member since 1996 (American Massage Therapy Association)
WHO I AM:
My name, Barbara Helynn Robles, reflects who I am. The name
Barbara was given to me at birth by my parents and means "foreigner".
This concept of foreigner reflects the importance of my
connection with people of other cultures. My middle name Helynn signifies my responsibility
and privilege as a light carrier. Robles, my
husband’s family name means oak tree. Robles is meaningful to me as a reminder to connect with both the earth and the sky, and to develop roots while also reaching for the sun. Taken together, my three names reflect my life as a peace seeker and peace maker.
Having actively studied, practiced and taught lomi lomi for decades, the foundation of the practice became for me a way of life which begins with choosing again each day to live in right relationship with Spirit, with nature and with humanity, and especially to be in right relationship within my own body, mind and spirit.
I danced hula for 25 years with two hula schools: Halau Hula o Napualani and Na Lei o Manu'akepa. My hula training included creating
native Hawaiian crafts such as the clothing and adornments I am wearing
in the hula photo below. Working with natural materials to create
things has helped me be aware of my connection with nature, and my
place in the lineage of humanity and my responsibly to hold space and
maintain connection between those people who came before us, and those
who will follow us.
A BIT OF "TALK STORY"
I live in Olympia with my wonderful husband Rocky.We enjoy gardening together, sharing stories. As a new couple in 2021, we rode his motorcycle on route 66 from Chicago to Santa Monica. I love cats, my home, my two grown children, and the children and grandchildren I gained when I married Rocky. My life is full. I am grateful to live in this auspicious time when people from cultures worldwide are coming together to share our lives and our earth home.
This is a lehua blossom which grows on ohia trees in Hawaii. Ohia trees are one of the first plants to return to an area after a lava flow. The Lehua is related to the sun and to Light, as I am too. Lehua is my Hawaiian name.
E malama pono, take good care,
Barbara Helynn Robles
