When you have car problems you go to someone who understands automobile mechanics. If you have issues with your body it's a good idea to find someone who understands body mechanics. Mindy Richards has a lot of knowledge in her head about how everything is connected. She has a lot of schooling behind her including a class where she saw up-close and personal how the body works. She started out as an athlete who wanted to become an athletic trainer, but somewhere along the way discovered massage was her calling.
| Editor's note: I met Mindy because we are taking the same class. What does a photojournalist and massage therapist have in common that they would need the same class? Well, we're both starting our own business. There are about eight of us in Gary Svetz's Small Business Jump Start program. This is the first of what I hope is a series featuring those in the class and other businesses around town. |  |
Richards admits even though she did her high school senior project on message therapy, she did it because she thought it would be easy and her mom knew a practitioner. But looking back, what she learned seemed to set her on a path. The 2004 Franklin High graduate got her massage therapy degree from Pitt-Titusville two years later. She took a cadaver's class and knows exactly where the muscles attach and what they look like from the inside. "I have seen the muscles," she said as she worked on long-time client Liz Kruck of Grove City.
She continued her education and in 2013 earned a bachelors degree with a concentration in health and fitness. The mother of three knows what muscles are doing and why they ache. More importantly she has learned how to relieve those aches and pains for others.
"Whereever she goes I will follow," said Kruck who joked that moms are Richards biggest clients. Richards does have a lot of mom clients, but also athletes and others who need help feeling better. Over the years she has worked on several athletes including an 11 year-old russian gymnast when she lived in Colorado. She has been working for a few years in Meadville, but is starting venture out to get her own clients and bring her know-how to Franklin.
Last week she opened up her own studio on the second floor of the Liberty Vault building at 1243 Liberty Street, where she is now accepting new clients.
"Whereever she goes I will follow," said Kruck who joked that moms are Richards biggest clients. Richards does have a lot of mom clients, but also athletes and others who need help feeling better. Over the years she has worked on several athletes including an 11 year-old russian gymnast when she lived in Colorado. She has been working for a few years in Meadville, but is starting venture out to get her own clients and bring her know-how to Franklin.
Last week she opened up her own studio on the second floor of the Liberty Vault building at 1243 Liberty Street, where she is now accepting new clients.
To learn more about her services and how she utilizes Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique (SMRT) to help her clients feel better visit her website at https://www.repairmassage.com/home. Booking can be done online. She also shares a lot on Facebook and you can follow her here.
Side note of interest in the businesses supporting business category. Richards uses olive oil that she get downstairs and around the corner at the Olive Vault.
Side note of interest in the businesses supporting business category. Richards uses olive oil that she get downstairs and around the corner at the Olive Vault.
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