What is it?

Catherine Poland is a new mom to an amazing little girl and Neuromuscular Massage Therapist. She started working in the Sports Medicine world as a sophomore in high school. She attended Cabrillo College to get her degree in Kinesiology to become an Athletic Trainer until a drastic shift in her life led to massage therapy. Catherine ended up attending the San Jose branch of the National Holistic Institute College of Massage Therapy, where she completed roughly 900 hours of training in both Western Medicine (Swedish, deep tissue, sports Massage, etc.) and Eastern Medicine (acupressure, Thai massage, hot stones, etc.) And another 500 hours in Neuromuscular and Trigger Point Massage. Through all of that training, Catherine has had the honor of working not only in high school sports (Harbor High, Santa Cruz High, and Soquel High) but also in college (Cabrillo College), minor league (Santa Cruz Warriors and San Jose Barracuda) as well as professional sports (San Jose Sharks). All of this has led to her newest adventure at Cirque, Tumble, and Cheer, where she hopes to bring her healing abilities to the circus community. Due to a severe car accident leaving Catherine unable to walk, let alone stand for several years, on top of so many other sports-related injuries over the decades, Catherine has developed a unique way of looking at each individual to help assess what is going on and bring function back into everyone's daily life whether your an active athlete or a weekday warrior, your pain and/or discomfort should never go unnoticed.