About Us
Body of the Earth is a proudly black & queer owned natural, holistic health care clinic featuring hands-on healing therapies and other modalities of therapeutic bodywork as well as a range of complimentary treatments. We strive to be attainable for all people and embrace patients of every shape and size, age and diverse racial, ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds. We treat illness but pride ourselves on being champions of prevention. We teach lifestyle skills for vitality during all stages of life. We offer patient-oriented care for acute and chronic conditions, as well as for general wellness and stress relief. We foster a holistic approach, considering the body, the mind, and the spirit in tandem. We work cohesively with conventional Western Medicine, and also brilliantly with other complementary and alternative options. All are welcome here.
Our Team
Crafting spaces for community!
Ty (he/him or any pronoun) is a resident of Minneapolis where he builds his own vibrant community overflowing with loved ones, creation, & inspiration while advancing his professional wellness skillset to best serve his Ikigai (and, in turn, You!).
Tyler has no shortage of world experience. His introduction to adult life began in the Navy as an Aviator. After 7 years of service he continued on to the corporate sector & earned his MBA.
Through all of that travel & experience, Ty found himself increasingly on a path of mindfulness & intention. He solidified his own intentions & direction by earning his Massage Practitioner Certification* in 2018.
He truly understands the implications that stress can have on a person. His focus in practice is to help the client restore &strengthen the mind/body connection through a broad offering of Therapeutic, Integrative Bodywork approach.
TL:DR Tyler believes that every individual comes to the table with different needs, goals, & experience.His goal is to join you in your own personal journey towards health & wellness and provide aide however he can, within the scope of his practice.
Integrated Healing to Bring You Home
My name is Devin A. Brown, my work lives at the intersection of body, earth, and story. As a licensed massage therapist and healing artist, I help people reconnect with their bodies in ways that feel grounding, restorative, and deeply personal. My foundation blends therapeutic deep tissue, myofascial release, stretching, cupping, and intuitive craniosacral elements — all aimed at releasing patterns, easing inflammation, and restoring the nervous system to a place of safety and balance.
My private practice, DABCMT, centers body autonomy, nervous-system literacy, and sustainable wellness, inviting clients to understand not just where they hurt, but why, and what their body is asking for next.
Joining Body of the Earth feels like a natural extension of that work. I’m honored to be part of a queer-, BIPOC-, and neurodivergent-led collective committed to making care accessible, affordable, and rooted in community.
BOTE’s belief that wellness is a birthright — not a luxury — mirrors my own philosophy. In this shared space, I bring a trauma-informed, client-centered approach that honors each person’s lived experience, identity, and capacity. Whether someone comes in for deep therapeutic work, gentle grounding, or a moment of quiet in a demanding world, my goal is always the same: to help the body find its way back home.
Outside the treatment room, I’m a mother, kayaker, endurance athlete, and storyteller. My connection to water and the natural world informs how I understand the human body — always in motion, always adapting, always capable of healing. My work is shaped by the communities I serve, particularly North Minneapolis, where I’m committed to widening access to holistic care and creating spaces where Black and Brown bodies feel seen, safe, and supported.
I’m grateful to be moonlighting with Body of the Earth while continuing my private practice, and I look forward to holding space with you.
Learning from life's journey!
Dakota (he/him) seeks to bring harmony to the body and spirit to individuals from all walks of life, with a focus on the Black population. Recently studied at Northwestern Health Science University with a background in tech, he relishes addressing the problems presented to him. He recognizes that each person and their body is unique in their histories, issues and needs and takes it as an opportunity to learn and about them and see each encounter with new eyes.
Practicing Swedish, Therapeutic, Trigger Point therapy, Reiki and more to come, Dakota aims to provide that in a safe, open space in order to help you heal and to facilitate your progress into a more comfortable life. He believes we live in a society deprived of healthy, judgment free touch and wants to change that!
Sweetness and solidarity, sweet family!
An introduction from Junauda Petrus (she/her): I’m an artist, writer, creativity coach and intuitive tarot reader. I come from an ancestral cosmology of African-Caribbean-Diaspora-Witchiness that I have spent most of my life re-wilding myself back into alignment with through my own spiritual journey. Tarot, meditation, astrology, and spiritual readings have been supportive and healing for me at times of great change and uncertainty. I’m so grateful to offer these sessions to my community.
I’m so happy to be joining the Body of the Earth team as Witch in Residence and to be giving readings. I’ll be utilizing tarot, intuition, embodiment and creative consultation for clients both in person and virtually. This is a part of my creative and intuitive consulting practice I call EBT Creativity & Consulting.
Explorative Black Tarot (EBT) Creativity & Consulting supports individuals with personal guidance centered on embodiment, ancestral listening, intuition, emotional grounding, and tarot divination.
In these sessions you can come with a question, issue or project that you would like meaningful, healing insights and loving, intuitive divination support with. These sessions are a soft space to ground and explore yourself and your sacred and unique offerings to the world.
Whether for personal, spiritual or professional reasons these sessions will cultivate understanding and empowerment for you and your path towards self-acceptance and personal liberation.
Healing Is No Triffling Matter
Imagine Joy (any/all pronouns):
As a professional dancer, yogi, and certified body/energy worker (Reiki Level 2), I’m deeply passionate about the subject of holistic well-BEING. I offer a number of different modalities to create an optimal experience. Whether Swedish, myofascial release, deep-tissue, kneading, and/or other techniques (including stretching), I customize each session to address specific concerns.
I approach body/energy work as an art form and spiritual practice. Each experience is unique, as I invite myself to be fully present to wholeheARTedly communicate with the vessel I am supporting. The body houses memories and as someone that experienced many traumas early-on in life, I understand how important it is to provide a safe/brave space to contain (and transmute) the various things that may come up in a session--as Toni Cade Bambara once wrote, "wholeness [healing] is no trifling matter."
My primary intention and focus is to co-create experiences that heal and empower Black community as well as QBIPOC communities; however, my work is available to all bodies/identities as I am happy to share my love for justice. Community organizing and social activism brought me to this work: radically caring for myself and others is one of the many ways I fight back against set systems of domination.
I also have certifications in the Gyrotonic Method as well as Gyrokinesis: both are movement methods that focus on three-dimensional spinal motion and incorporate principles of yoga, dance, and Tai Chi. Alongside Thai Massage, I engage the knowledge (particularly breath work) from said practices to help the body, mind, and spirit experience more ease.
I am present with you.
I meet your body where it’s at in each moment.
Rebecca Benstead (she/her):
Living in the modern world, many of us have lost contact with our bodies. Accustomed to unresolved trauma, complicated emotions and pain, we feel disconnected and scattered, living so much in our minds we forget they’re connected to a body at all.
As a multidisciplinary practitioner, I honor both Eastern and Western modalities—and believe in both preservation and progress.
By using ancient bodywork traditions alongside modern massage techniques, I help people connect to themselves and each other.
As an Asian-American woman, I know self-care cannot solve systemic issues—especially those like ancestral trauma, grief and fear that disproportionally impact people of color and historically marginalized bodies and minds.
However, through powerful lineage practices in movement, stillness and bodywork, I can help you find a deeper sense of home within your own body. If you’ve never been home, let’s explore what that feels like together!
Simplicity through skill.
Jensina Mart (she/her):
I graduated from Centerpoint School for Massage in 2009. I am a deep tissue expert and a 4th generation Shiatsu practitioner.
I have recently returned to bodywork after dealing with burnout in the tech industry. My time as a software engineer has taught me how easy it is to get stuck in your own head and neglect your body.
As a bodyworker, I have training in a wide range of modalities, and have worked with a variety of people with different needs. From those dealing with fibromyalgia, to pre-natal and even geriatric care, I believe touch is an important part of the human experience.
I believe in the value of the simple approach. Life is stressful and full of decisions, and sometimes you don't know the type of massage you want. I like to sit down with my clients to discuss their needs, and determine the best approach forward.