Roxanne O'Hara LMT, Herbalist, Educator (she/her)
OBMT license #18908


I have been practicing massage and bodywork since 2001, when I graduated from Heartwood Institute of Massage in the mountains of Northern California. I grew up in a small farm town in eastern California with very little exposure to massage or natural healing — but I was given the gift of spending a great deal of time outside in nature as a young person, and found that I had a strong connection with places and plants.

 

Over the years I have studied somatic approaches, craniosacral therapy, myofascial release, prenatal and postpartum care, and women's health at length. I have also devoted significant study to how trauma is stored within and released from the body, and have worked with many people over the past 25 years to reshape their relationships with pain, their body experience, and their ability to be present in the world — using simple and profound methods of bodywork.

 

Alongside my bodywork practice, I have developed a deep relationship with plant medicine. I spent time as a clinical herbalist in an integrative medical setting and have maintained a strong personal practice of working with herbs throughout my career. Helping people on their healing  path is very much my life's work. It embodies my spirituality, creativity, intellect, and sense of connection. I am humbled and grateful to be able to practice this as a profession.

 

In early 2020 I relocated from Eugene to the Portland area — a challenging but fruitful time of transition. I began teaching massage therapy, ethics, and kinesiology at East West College in July of that year, and founded RituaLuna Wellness as a beautiful, safe, and inspiring healing space to share with the community.

 

My Bodywork

 

For more than two decades I have devoted myself to healing arts practices including subtle bodywork, energy work, embodied anatomy, dance, somatics, and herbal medicine. Over time I have gradually synthesized these influences into a method of gentle and intuitive myofascial bodywork that holds and respects the whole person — always meeting clients where they are while gently encouraging profound growth, deep and lasting change, inner and outer freedom, and a renewed relationship with body, mind, and spirit.

 

I have found that when we are allowed and witnessed in the full depth of our existence, we are able to return to freedom and ease. There are many pieces to put back together to create the wholeness we seek. Thinking, feeling, relationships, livelihood, physical restrictions in the body, biochemical factors, nutrition, sense of place, personal traumas and intergenerational traumas — all of these play a part in our work as humans. The healing journey is complex and ever-changing, but it can also be profoundly simple. We are strong and resilient beings descended from untold generations of survivors. It is in our very essence to become whole, to live life with vigor, greatness, and joy.

 

I am also completing a Masters in Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine on June 27th 2026— I began at OCOM and continued at NUNM following OCOM's closure, and will be graduating at the end of. This training has significantly broadened my understanding of the body and our place within nature in ways I could not have anticipated. I now incorporate knowledge of Traditional Chinese Medicine's channels, points, and physiology into my work, as well as the practical skills of Gua Sha, moxibustion, fire cupping, Enshin (non-insertive work with acupuncture points using a copper tool), and other assessment and treatment methods developed through my clinical training. I will be returning to offering bodywork sessions at RituaLuna Wellness in July and predict I will be licensed as an acupuncturist at the end of the Summer.