HealingTouch by ShayDaGoddess
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Shay-Lin Smith, LMT · Licensed Massage Therapist
Nervous System-Informed Muscle Care
Licensed Massage Therapy • Energy-Aware Care
Customized care is shaped around your comfort, pressure preferences, and preferred areas of focus—from calming relaxation to focused muscle care.
Reset. Recharge. Realign.
Professional • Respectful • Reliable • Quality Products
Transparent massage menu
Prices are shown so you can choose what works for you before reaching out. If travel, a beach setup, an event, or another therapist changes the total, Shay-Lin will explain it before you book.
$250per person
An extended customized full-body massage with more time for relaxation and focused care.
Advance coordination and location approval required.
Request this service$175per person
Personalized full-body massage shaped around pressure preferences and areas of focus.
Minimum of 2 guests.
Request this service$95per person
Focused massage for the back, neck, shoulders, legs, or other target areas.
Minimum of 3 guests.
Request this serviceWorkplaces · conferences · retreats · events
Chair Massage + Workplace Wellness. Bring professional, seated care into the workday or event without asking participants to undress or share private health information. PAUSE IN MOTION™ is available by request for eligible workplaces, staff-appreciation programs, conferences, retreats, hospitality experiences, weddings, celebrations, and other approved gatherings.
$150per hour · per therapist
Two-hour minimum · mandatory 20% service chargeShay-Lin is the primary therapist; additional qualified therapists are coordinated only when the request needs them and availability is confirmed. Travel, setup, additional staffing, and request-specific operational costs may change the total. The mandatory 20% service charge is calculated on the applicable subtotal. Every additional amount is included in the written scope and quote before the organizer decides whether to proceed; any additional gratuity remains optional.
Accepted-request payments
Some SHAYDAGODDESS™ services, gift certificates, and ready-to-fulfill custom orders use request-specific payment rather than ordinary website checkout. If a request is accepted, Shay-Lin sends the exact amount, purpose, terms, private reference, and currently authorized payment method in writing. Available books continue through their verified purchase path.
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Current HealingTouch payment method types may include Venmo, Cash App, and ATH / ATH Móvil. The receiving account, handle, or phone number is provided privately in the accepted-request message. Do not use a public, old, or assumed recipient detail.
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Massage is booked only by final appointment confirmation; apparel production begins only after the approved proof, quote, terms, and verified deposit; a gift certificate is issued only after verified payment; website work begins under its approved written scope.
Access · Comfort · Ongoing consent
Share the practical information that may help the service feel safer, more comfortable, and easier to receive. Requests are reviewed individually because bodies, minds, health needs, locations, and access needs vary.
You may request fragrance-free care, no hot towels, quieter or familiar sound, less conversation, lighting adjustments, extra transition time, positioning support, mobility or setup considerations, and discussion of a support person when appropriate.
You may ask to change pressure, position, sound, temperature, or conversation; identify areas you do not want touched; or pause or stop the session. You do not have to justify a change.
Share relevant access or accommodation needs without unnecessary private details. Shay-Lin may ask follow-up questions or recommend another arrangement when that better supports safe care within professional scope.
Massage through time
Massage did not begin with the modern spa. Long before today’s professional industry, people in different places used forms of rubbing, pressing, oiling, anointing, bathing, and physical tending within their own medical, athletic, family, communal, and sometimes ritual contexts.
Hands have long been among humanity’s most immediate instruments of care.
The histories below are connected by intentional touch—not merged into one universal tradition. Each belongs to its own people, language, knowledge system, and period.
The U.S. National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health notes that massage has appeared across many Eastern and Western cultures and was among the early ways people tried to relieve pain.
Historical scholarship traces Chinese massage traditions and exchange with Indian practices before the eighth century. Modern World Health Organization materials treat tuina as a distinct practice with its own training and safety benchmarks—not as a generic label for every kind of massage.
Ayurvedic sources describe abhyanga as oil massage or anointing within Ayurveda. It is named here respectfully as part of that tradition—not borrowed as a decorative spa term and not presented as a HealingTouch service.
Scholarly study of ancient Greek writing documents rubbing and oil in athletic and physical-care settings. That record represents one historical context; it does not stand in for every culture’s relationship with touch.
HealingTouch today
HealingTouch by ShayDaGoddess does not claim ownership of these traditions or an unbroken lineage from them. Today’s work is licensed massage therapy shaped by current education, consent, communication, draping, hygiene, scope, boundaries, continuing development, individualized care, and responsible claims.
These sources support the historical distinctions above. They are not used to reproduce culturally restricted practices or suggest that all forms of historical bodywork were the same.
Relaxation, deep tissue & focused care
Some clients come primarily to relax. Others prefer focused attention in selected areas. Many appreciate a customized combination of both.
Whole-person, intentional care
Nervous-system-informed pacing shapes pressure, communication, transitions, environment, and client comfort. Energy-Aware Care is an approach woven through the experience—not a separate medical or energy service. Any energy-aware element is optional, requires your clear consent, and does not require a particular spiritual belief.
These descriptions guide consent-based wellness care within licensed massage therapy and remain separate from medical or mental-health treatment.
Locations & planning
Open the details most relevant to your island, property, or preferred experience.
Requests may include individual or couples experiences; villas, vacation rentals, hotels, and resorts; select beach and private beachfront settings; and family, friend, retreat, group, birthday, or wellness-centered gatherings.
When possible, send St. Thomas appointment requests about 48–72 hours ahead so availability, travel, location, setup, and any request-specific needs can be reviewed. Shorter-notice requests may be considered when feasible, but availability is not guaranteed and any additional requirement or fee is confirmed before booking.
St. John requests are personally reviewed, with a preference for two or more guests and about 48 hours’ notice. Individual or shorter-notice requests may be considered case by case when feasible. Travel, timing, location, staffing, and final pricing are confirmed before booking.
When appropriate and available, HealingTouch may coordinate a qualified additional therapist for simultaneous two-therapist service, larger groups, overlapping requests, or other situations where extra professional support genuinely serves the booking. One-therapist arrangements may be considered first when practical. HealingTouch remains the primary point of contact for its own inquiries, and every collaborator, setting, and arrangement is confirmed directly before it is represented as available.
Select beach experiences may be considered where professional services are permitted and the location is suitable.
Requests are reviewed for permission, weather, wind, tide, shade, privacy, draping, access, equipment transport, clean setup, guest count, and therapist availability. An indoor or covered alternative may be recommended.
Water Island experiences are primarily considered for coordinated groups of five or more guests and require advance travel planning.
Tortola, BVI remains inquiry-only. No service is represented as available there unless transportation, border and entry requirements, work permit or work-authorization, trade-licence, allied-health or other professional approval, group size, availability, and final written confirmation are all resolved.
Shared care, private stays, beach requests & gatherings
Each guest receives their own eligible massage experience, one after the other. This is generally the first arrangement considered when timing and therapist capacity allow.
Both guests are settled on separate prepared tables during one coordinated appointment. Hands-on care is thoughtfully alternated, and the structure and timing are explained before confirmation. Published massage rates are the starting point. Two-table setup is subject to availability; an additional setup fee may apply and will be confirmed before booking. No fixed setup-fee amount is published.
Each guest has a dedicated qualified practitioner and both massages take place at the same time. Available by request or when the booking genuinely calls for a second therapist, subject to therapist availability, professional fit, coordination, final pricing, and written confirmation.
Mobile massage at an eligible villa or private stay is reviewed for location, access, timing, setup, guest count, and therapist availability.
Beach requests are reviewed for permission, weather, privacy, draping, safe equipment transport, shade, access, and an appropriate alternative plan.
Trusted qualified professionals may be coordinated when the guest count requires additional support. Include the approximate group size and setting in the request.
The full chair-massage rate, two-hour minimum, guest-flow standards, scent-neutral boundary, and request pathway are listed once in the pricing section above.
For shared and location-based experiences, published massage rates are the starting point; final pricing is confirmed before booking based on staffing, timing, travel, setup, guest count and location needs.
Cleanliness, safety & professional care
Every arrangement is approached with cleanliness, privacy, appropriate professional draping, transparent communication, and location-aware safety.
Separate prepared tables when applicable, fresh linens and towels, clean service materials, careful hand hygiene, and properly cleaned reusable tools and frequently touched equipment.
Adult male clients must have an adult woman present throughout the mobile appointment. Women may book individually. For clients ages 6–17, parent or legal-guardian review and consent are required, and a responsible adult must remain present throughout. HealingTouch may also decline, adjust, or reschedule any appointment when objective location or safety conditions cannot be met.
Requests for clients ages 6–17 require advance parent or legal-guardian review, the guardian’s consent, and that responsible adult’s presence throughout. Service fit and any additional requirements are confirmed before booking.
These are private-pay wellness services, not medical treatment. Before you book, you will receive the full price and any steps needed to confirm your appointment.
Shay-Lin is the primary and preferred therapist. If she is unavailable, you may choose another time or may be offered a separately identified, appropriately qualified therapist, subject to availability and fit. No one is assigned without clear communication and your agreement.
HealingTouch first clarifies the experience you want, then checks current inventory, professional scope, available time, safety, and setting. If an exact option is not appropriate or available, the closest suitable alternative may be explained; it is never described as having the same effect, and you decide whether to accept it.
After your HealingTouch experience
If you genuinely received massage care from Shay-Lin Smith, LMT, use the private-first check-in to share what supported comfort, what could improve, or anything that needs thoughtful follow-up. A public reflection is a separate choice.
Complete a private experience check-in The private check-in comes first. You separately choose whether feedback stays private or may be considered for public display.