About :
My name is Olivia Johnson. I was born in Salt Lake City, Utah.
I am a Licensed Massage Therapist and Local Artist in the Salt Lake City Area.
I graduated from Healing Mountain Massage school. Trained in Swedish massage, Deep Tissue/Tiggerpoint Therapeutic massage, Shiatsu, Craniosacral, Chakra alignment and more.
I am also Reiki Level 2 certified.
Personal History/ Background:
Massage, bodywork, and artwork has always come easily to me. My mom is also an LMT and works with the same modalities as I do. My dad was an artist. I’ve learned a lot from both of them.
Growing up I frequently felt like an outcast and different than kids my age. I had deeper feelings than most, saw colors and details of things that the majority of people never noticed. I felt deeply connected to nature, and often felt the emotions of other people, eventually even began to feel their physical ailments as well. My mom and Dad were my best friends. Although they divorced when I was 3. My dad would take me out to look at the stars at night and talk about the other realms and worlds. We would discuss aliens and ghosts. Where we go when we die, there was nothing I couldn't talk about with him. My mom would always take me out in nature, She would take me on hikes in the Wasatch Mountains outside of Salt Lake City, as well as down to the desert in southern Utah and Arizona. I love the desert and the expansive energy of the red rocks as well as the incredible views from the mountains. I was always aware of nature being a part of me. It has a lot of influence on the setting of my art and my bodywork. and the space created inside people and paintings. My dad used to paint and always encouraged me to do so. He signed me up for a drawing class when I was 8 years old. We learned to draw parts of the face, the eyes were always my favorite. My mom used to paint as well, she always would purchase me art supplies and encourage me to draw, paint, and make things with clay. I could get lost for hours in my creations. I worked with colored pencil, charcoal, and pastel in my younger years. When I was about 16, I began painting with oil and acrylic paint, I took every art class I possibly could in high school. I fell in love with art. My pieces were my escape. They made time dissolve, and still do to this day.
Mission:
One thing that has always haunted me is the thought of death, it haunts me and frees me at the same time. Its also given me an immense amount of wonder, depth, creativity, and appreciation for the present moment. The fact is nothing is permanent every form of energy dissolves through time. This breaking apart of and dissolving of form is what we will all have to face time and time again during our existence on this planet. We live in a realm of duality. The pain creates the joy. The loss creates the gain, our unconscious creates our conscious, shadows are created by light. and the emptiness creates the form. Sunyata. When we realize that all things are connected, there really is no separation, this only occurs in our minds,. we move into our hearts, into unity; and transcend time and space. We merge with the source we all came from. My mission as an artist and a bodyworker is to allow the unconscious to become conscious. To shed the light of awareness on the darker spaces within us. All is divine, even the shadows.
My name is Olivia Johnson. I was born in Salt Lake City, Utah.
I am a Licensed Massage Therapist and Local Artist in the Salt Lake City Area.
I graduated from Healing Mountain Massage school. Trained in Swedish massage, Deep Tissue/Tiggerpoint Therapeutic massage, Shiatsu, Craniosacral, Chakra alignment and more.
I am also Reiki Level 2 certified.
Personal History/ Background:
Massage, bodywork, and artwork has always come easily to me. My mom is also an LMT and works with the same modalities as I do. My dad was an artist. I’ve learned a lot from both of them.
Growing up I frequently felt like an outcast and different than kids my age. I had deeper feelings than most, saw colors and details of things that the majority of people never noticed. I felt deeply connected to nature, and often felt the emotions of other people, eventually even began to feel their physical ailments as well. My mom and Dad were my best friends. Although they divorced when I was 3. My dad would take me out to look at the stars at night and talk about the other realms and worlds. We would discuss aliens and ghosts. Where we go when we die, there was nothing I couldn't talk about with him. My mom would always take me out in nature, She would take me on hikes in the Wasatch Mountains outside of Salt Lake City, as well as down to the desert in southern Utah and Arizona. I love the desert and the expansive energy of the red rocks as well as the incredible views from the mountains. I was always aware of nature being a part of me. It has a lot of influence on the setting of my art and my bodywork. and the space created inside people and paintings. My dad used to paint and always encouraged me to do so. He signed me up for a drawing class when I was 8 years old. We learned to draw parts of the face, the eyes were always my favorite. My mom used to paint as well, she always would purchase me art supplies and encourage me to draw, paint, and make things with clay. I could get lost for hours in my creations. I worked with colored pencil, charcoal, and pastel in my younger years. When I was about 16, I began painting with oil and acrylic paint, I took every art class I possibly could in high school. I fell in love with art. My pieces were my escape. They made time dissolve, and still do to this day.
Mission:
One thing that has always haunted me is the thought of death, it haunts me and frees me at the same time. Its also given me an immense amount of wonder, depth, creativity, and appreciation for the present moment. The fact is nothing is permanent every form of energy dissolves through time. This breaking apart of and dissolving of form is what we will all have to face time and time again during our existence on this planet. We live in a realm of duality. The pain creates the joy. The loss creates the gain, our unconscious creates our conscious, shadows are created by light. and the emptiness creates the form. Sunyata. When we realize that all things are connected, there really is no separation, this only occurs in our minds,. we move into our hearts, into unity; and transcend time and space. We merge with the source we all came from. My mission as an artist and a bodyworker is to allow the unconscious to become conscious. To shed the light of awareness on the darker spaces within us. All is divine, even the shadows.
