About Us
 

Our mission is to serve our community by using our healing gifts, education and experience to create wellbeing throughout our community. We love treating and specializing our therapies to improve the physical abilities of the active clientele in our community, while also striving to reduce injuries and increase performance through maintenance care, non-invasive techniques and manual therapies.

 


Why Choose Us

  • We will never use phrases such as “we can fix you.” We stand by our phrase, “Let’s see what we can do” because we know that the body is very complex and healing takes time.

  • Every client is guaranteed to see their same practitioner

  • We DO NOT rush our time with you. Most sessions are 45 Minutes - 1 hour long

  • We are affordable

  • Some insurances with a doctor’s prescription will cover all or part of your treatments

  • We use tools in-house with our therapies that other practices are currently not using

  • Our main goal is to help create new muscle patterns as well as correct old ones that may be harmful

  • We refer out! If we see that there are bigger underlying issues, we will refer you to another professional in attempt to treat the whole body. We have a wonderful chiropractor and acupuncturist that will take our clients as soon as possible.

  • We put you first. You are all that matters when you come through our door

  • Our success rate is above 90% for chronic pain

  • All of our accreditations can be found on the state and other certified accredited websites

  • Our manual therapy sessions are performed clothes on

Meet the Practitioners

Megan Arndt

Specializations
Medical Manual Therapy
Sports
Deep Tissue

NCLMBT #06862
MMP- Medical Massage Practitioner

Megan Arndt is a native of Catawba County, NC. She grew up in Claremont, and is a 2004 graduate of Bunker Hill High School. After high school she attend CVCC, and was introduced to the professional field of massage therapy. Midway through her education to becoming an occupational therapist, she felt a strong pull and desire to pursue the field of massage; and eventually left CVCC. She enrolled and attended Natural Touch School of Massage Therapy in Hickory, North Carolina. In October 2006 she graduated from the school and received her certificate completing 550 hours of education in the field of massage therapy. Megan then followed to become a North Carolina Licensed Massage and Bodywork Therapist in December of 2006; after passing the state boards. For over a decade she has built a clientele and business around helping and healing others in the community, but with more chronic and pain-related cases continuously knocking at her door, she began to leave the “massage” way of thinking behind to look for more alternative solutions in pain management naturally. In the summer of 2017, after almost 2 years of shadowing in medical manual theories; she became certified as a Manual Practitioner. The course entailed some of the latest scientific techniques to correct unbalanced muscle memory patterns in the body; Ultimately having a success rate in pain management of 98%. In September 2017 Megan became certified after completion in the practitioner program, becoming a certified Medical Manual Practitioner in the field of massage. After completion she went back to her practice to continue her work, and was approached with an opportunity to create Lotus Massage & Bodyworks LLC. 

Outside of work Megan loves to rescue abandoned dogs, to help them find loving and forever home. She also stands with animal rights and activists on issues with providing animals with the best quality of life possible. She works to model a character of good stewardship to all that has been created. Megan is a lover to everything about the 80’s. She loves the music, movies, and memorabilia around that particular time period. Her faith is very important to her along with friends and family. During the summer she loves travel around the United States visiting theme parks as an American Roller Coster Enthusiasts. Megan is also a classic film connoisseur, with a huge heart for the Wizard of Oz. Creating Ruby Red Slippers in her free time. Writing, playing guitar, painting, and watching the Carolina Panthers is also things she enjoys to do. In the future she plans to spend a week in Washington state; fulfilling her ultimate bucket list dream of kayaking in the Pacific with killer whales. A vacation to Ireland is also a place she plans to visit. 

Aaron Carroll

Specializations

Swedish

Deep Tissue

NCLMBT# 19280

Aaron Carroll is a lifelong resident of Burke County and attended homeschool, graduating in 2009.  He completed an Associate in Applied Science degree in Simulation and Video Game Design but found the profession to be more competitive and stressful than he desired.  He spent the following years working in customer service and other service-related jobs until; coming to the realization he wanted to be part of a profession where he could help others, and have more personal freedom by working independently.  

In 2019, Aaron enrolled in Maiden School of Massage & Bodywork Therapy and felt he finally found his profession.  Though the experience was fraught with stress due to the Covid outbreak, and graduation was delayed due to lost time, he graduated and passed his NC licensure exam after completing the necessary 150 clinical massage hours required.  Since his graduation, he has developed strong connections with clients and truly enjoys what he does.

In his spare time Aaron enjoys drawing, art, movies, animation, information about animals or insects, video games and fantasy and roleplaying games such as Dungeons & Dragons.
Aaron is also an aspiring voice actor. He practices many different character voices and hoping to one day to land a role in voicing animated characters.

Emily Reed

Specializations

Therapeutic Massage

Swedish Massage

NCLMBT# 17477

Emily grew up in High Point, NC and moved to Catawba County in 2015. She grew up saying she wanted to be a Massage Therapist but eventually lost sight of that. After moving to Hickory in 2015, she met a friend who convinced her to attend Massage school together.

She Graduated from Maiden School of Massage and Bodywork Therapy in 2018 and completed 700 study hours and 150 hands on massage hours. Emily specializes in Swedish and therapeutic massage with a light to medium pressure.

When she’s not practicing massage or bartending, Emily enjoys spending time with her family, friends and dogs. Emily is extremely blessed with the loved ones and opportunities in her life and owes it all to Christ.