Vibe Wellness Lounge Launches on Central Avenue - Flathead Beacon

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Since Jessica Cooney became a licensed massage therapist 2 decades ago, she has worked with chiropractors, naturopaths, acupuncturists and different holistic healthcare providers. While she was surviving successful Chicago astir 10 years ago, she worked astatine an all-natural healthcare installation that housed a assortment of antithetic practitioners.

“It opened my eyes to what a installation similar that tin bash for people,” Cooney said. “When I moved backmost here, I truly wanted to unfastened up thing similar that here.”

This summer, Cooney launched Vibe Wellness Lounge connected Central Avenue successful downtown Whitefish, which provides services including massage therapy, acupuncture, occurrence cupping, Reiki and quality treatments similar facials and waxing from licensed estheticians.

Dr. Amy Rupprecht provides acupuncture astatine the facility, wherever she practices a benignant of massage called tui na, which combines acupuncture, cupping and martial arts.

“It’s an energetic yet relaxing massage,” Rupprecht said. “People locomotion retired reasoning they’re not going to beryllium relaxed and past they extremity up saying they are ace zenned out.”

Cooney included “vibe” successful the branding arsenic an ode to vibrational medicine, which she says focuses connected vigor enactment and interaction arsenic a signifier of healing.

“That vibration tin beryllium thing from massage to acupuncture to Reiki and works essentials,” Cooney said.

Cooney became funny successful vibrational healing aft she was introduced to Traditional Chinese Medicine erstwhile she was successful her aboriginal 20s. She primitively sought assistance from a psychiatrist to dainty depression, but she soon realized she wanted to effort a holistic attack alternatively of taking medication.

After her sojourn to the psychiatrist, Cooney went to a doc of Traditional Chinese Medicine who treated her with acupuncture and nutrition. Soon afterward, she enrolled successful massage schoolhouse and discontinue her occupation astatine the Chicago Board of Trade. Within a year, she near the metropolis and moved to the Flathead Valley.

In the years since she switched careers and moved to Montana, she has worked to physique a assemblage successful the Flathead Valley and has continued gathering her clientele moving arsenic a massage therapist.

“Every occupation prepares you for the adjacent occupation and that’s however I consciousness similar successful the past 20 years,” Cooney said. “I’ve enactment a batch of clip into this community, which has supported maine for galore years now.”

Before Cooney launched Vibe Wellness, she was moving successful a abstraction upstairs with section chiropractor Tim Dudley. When the 1,700-square-foot basement abstraction became available, she jumped astatine the accidental and wholly remodeled the facility. The abstraction was astir precocious Stumptown Vintage Photo, an old-time photograph studio.

The unfastened plan was transformed erstwhile Cooney built 3 backstage massage rooms, 2 esthetician rooms and acupuncture room. Insulation was added to the ceiling to artifact retired the dense ft postulation from The Toggery straight upstairs.

Vibe Wellness besides has a retail section, wherever a assortment of female-owned earthy products are disposable for sale, including Naamoo, a Blackfeet company.

Other products see integrated assemblage products from JAMUspa, which was founded by section Flathead Valley nonmigratory and massage therapist Kim Collier, Chinese herbs and more.

In the future, Cooney hopes to big wellness gatherings astatine Vibe Wellness Lounge to amended the assemblage astir holistic approaches to healing.

“Our extremity is to get retired into the assemblage much and to bash much continuing education,” Collier said. “We privation to bring successful different practitioners that are astatine the apical successful their tract and to assistance educate.”

For much information, sojourn www.vibewhitefish.com.