Holistic Physical Therapy and Wellness

Liz has helped me to strengthen my back, shoulders, and release pain throughout my whole body. After having 3 children I was unable to ride horses which is my passion. Since working with Liz I am able to ride horses again and feel strong. She also helped with my jaw pain when wearing braces. I know she will always take away my pain and make me feel better. I highly recommend Liz.

I found Liz Montagna through an online search for a Holistic Physical Therapist at the advice of my breast cancer coach. An old ankle injury was making movement difficult, and I wanted to take pickleball lessons without re-injuring myself. Through the years I have been to many physical therapists and I believe in the modality, although I have found many physical therapy centers follow a “cookie cutter” structure and I was looking for a more individualized approach. Liz Montagna was the answer and has truly changed my life!

After meeting Liz for the first time, I was impressed with her knowledge of body mechanics and was sold on the idea of Structural Integration – deep body work with my connective tissue to create space by using massage techniques to reposition the soft tissue, optimizing joint movement, and allowing more mobility. I signed up for a series of Structural Integration sessions, along with Yoga movement sessions to augment the structural work.

Since then, I have had several sessions with Liz, and each time I come away feeling better, with more movement and less pain, more settled, and inspired by Liz’s passion for her work, attention to detail (she creates spreadsheets and takes copious notes) and wealth of knowledge in her field. She has a true calling for healing – and has backed up this natural inclination with advanced education.

Liz’s methods are holistic, looking at the body as a whole and understanding how each part affects another to make the body work at its optimum. Although my initial reason for the visit was an ankle injury, Liz has cured other issues that I had at the same time. Recurring neck pain was a frustrating problem for me, and Liz got to the root cause of it, providing me with easy exercises to strengthen the surrounding tissues and eliminate the pain. It’s gone! Liz is also certified in Pilates and Yoga, and we start each session with a brief meditation, which I feel has grounded me. Liz has a beautiful soul -- she is kind, caring, and fun - and I feel deeply connected to her on many levels. Not to mention she has provided a clear path to eliminating my pain and creating a healthier, more structurally integrated person.

After several months of working with Liz, I sustained an injury to my knee and ankle and although this setback was disappointing, I knew Liz was going to make me whole again. We had to stop with the Structural Integration sessions and concentrate on healing my knee and ankle to prevent surgery. I have every confidence this goal will be achieved because I believe in Liz’s expertise.

Hiring Liz Montagna as a Holistic Physical Therapist was an easy decision. You will never find someone as passionate, caring, and knowledgeable with a true calling for healing. Liz is a gift to her clients and to her profession, and if you are looking for a Holistic Physical Therapist, I strongly recommend Liz Montagna.

After years of frustration and little lasting results from PT clinics that simply provide X exercises for Y diagnosis, I was looking for a Physical Therapist who would look at the whole body as a system and get to the underlying causes of my issues to get a lasting result. Liz Montagna is a licensed PT who also brings to bear the trifecta of Yoga, Pilates, and Integrated Body Work certifications to her care. She is incredibly attuned to body mechanics and in just a few weeks has identified and improved the root causes of my various symptoms. Her ability to zero in on the systemic issues and then her super-power of providing the right verbal imagery to help me isolate and correctly work muscles I never knew existed has already improved my terrible posture and many of the ills that brought on, has me walking more easily on a recently fractured foot and is undoing years of tense sitting at a computer. Now several months in, chronic low back pain is gone, and I can get up from the floor without doing 4 point turns with hands and elbows to get up. My legs and feet have the strength and flexibility to get up on their own. The systemic focus extends from her focus on the whole body to her system for treatment - expertly guided yoga, Pilates or PT works in tandem with the deep body work sessions designed to open structural barriers in the body. It is wholistic program designed to build overall, lasting health. My increased balance, flexibility, and strength already has me: increasing the length and speed of my walks, standing/sitting with proper alignment and with more ease, lessening or outright eliminating chronic tightness, weakness, and pain throughout my body. I leave every session- Yoga PT and the body work -feeling amazingly energized
I find Liz to be an empathetic, generous, and deeply caring person. the combination of yoga therapy and the body work in tandem has created real benefits for me. I'm stronger, more aligned structurally and more flexible due to this combination of therapies. I heartily recommend Liz and her approach for a wholistic approach to real and lasting wellness.

I had been enduring back & shoulder pain for many years.  Working with Liz I began a real path to recovery. I met her a few years ago when she helped me with effective massage therapy, and through various restorative yoga and Pilates classes. Her more recent structural integration treatments and exercises have given me profound and lasting relief from the debilitating episodes I used to endure.  She is knowledgeable and deeply intuitive, and is an authentically warm and caring therapist.  I feel I am healing and strengthening, finally resolving even long-term problematic areas.  Liz is a gifted healer, guide and teacher.  I am in very good hands.