Redding Massage School

Sarah Stroup is a 2019 graduate of NHI Redding campus. She spent the first two years of her career in the spa industry, working for Glamorous Day Spa. After the spa closed due to COVID-19, she expanded into working fully in her private practice. She is now an exclusively mobile massage therapist. Sarah has a passion for understanding anatomy and kinesiology, and intuitively applying it to her work, to see clients set free from pain. She is excited to be back on the Redding campus as a teacher and mentor. “What is firmly rooted cannot be pulled out.” – Tao Te Ching

Mathew Carlisle is a veteran of the USAF who served as military police. Mathew loves helping people. He started at the NHI Sacramento Campus in 2017 as a student. After completing the Core program Mathew went into the ANMT program and graduated in 2018. Mathew worked as a full time massage therapist mainly doing Sports and Swedish massage. He is happy to say that he is now a mentor at NHI Redding Campus. "I can’t wait to share the welcoming atmosphere I experienced at my time at NHI."

Fred graduated from the Swedish Institute in New York in 2002. While thriving in the spa industry, he also focused on medical and myofascial massage working with chiropractors, acupuncturists and physical therapists. Fred also specializes in shiatsu and has had much success helping folks through the healing process with that method of bodywork. He is also a reiki practitioner, certified in facelift massage (lymph drainage for the face), hot bamboo massage and has a few other tools in his tool belt to benefit to assist in achieving client-centered work. After all these years he’s still in love with profession and is excited to share his knowledge and skills with future massage therapists.