Essential Balanced Bodywork provides the best massage in the Winston-Salem area. We offer a variety of luxurious massage services, including Relaxation Massage, Deep Tissue Massage, Reflexology, Sports Massage, Prenatal Massage, Acutonics Sound Healing, and RoelsMethod™ for pain relief.
Essential Balanced Bodywork in Clemmons was founded in 2013, by the owners and operators Michael and Emily Roels. Combined, they have 40 years of experience as successful professional massage therapists. Michael has also been licensed as a massage therapist in Hawaii since 2008.
Michael developed RoelsMethod™ after he survived a 70-mph head-on collision in 1997. He understands what living in chronic pain is like and has dedicated the last 26 years of his life helping people alleviate their pain. RoelsMethod™ focuses on the cause of the pain (which is typically not where the pain is felt) to create a balanced holistic approach to healing. This technique is very successful with individuals who suffer from chronic pain and have tried traditional methods like physical therapy, chiropractor care, medications, and shots with little to no relief.
RoelsMethod™ can help with individuals suffering from Upper Back Pain, Plantar Fasciitis, Frozen Shoulder, Soreness in the Neck, Shin Splints, TMJ, Chronic Shoulder Pain from Overuse or Surgery, Sciatica, Whiplash, Tennis and Golfers Elbow, Bulged Discs, Disc Degenerative Disease, Rotator Cuff Injuries, Wrist and Hand Pain, Knee and Ankle Pain, Tendinitis, Arthritis, Headaches and Migraines, Nerve Pain, Numbness and Tingling.
We are located in Clemmons, North Carolina, and help people in the surrounding areas, including Winston-Salem, Greensboro, Statesville, Mocksville, Advance, Kernersville, Salisbury, Charlotte, and Raleigh, to alleviate their pain.
Emily Roels
Owner/Co-Founder/Therapist
LMBT #3957/ NCBTMB Approved Provider #452092-12
As a licensed massage therapist, Emily Roels has been practicing massage therapy in Winston-Salem, Greensboro and High Point using a variety of techniques tailored to her clients’ specific needs since 2003. Drawing on over 1000 hours of training in Massage modalities, as well as holding advanced certification in RoelsMethod Structural Bodywork, she is uniquely qualified to meet a variety of needs. Additionally, she offers Acutonics Sound Healing. Growing up as an athlete, Emily came to the study of massage with an interest and first-hand understanding of what stress the body goes through while competing. This piqued her interest in anatomy and physiology as well as nutrition, leading to a more holistic approach to massage and to life. She began her study of massage shortly after the birth of her daughter. She recognized the need that massage could fulfill in bringing focus to busy lives and help clients with associated pain and discomfort caused by injury and surgery that present chronic pain. She brings to her work a calming element that allows her clients to focus on their therapy and move toward wholeness. Emily has a background in teaching as well as in practicing massage. She has trained over 100 licensed massage therapists in the fine art of Swedish massage and the power of intention, in Pathology, and in Asian Theory. As a partner in Essential Balanced Bodywork, Emily is a Nationally Certified Category A Continuing Education Provider, and she teaches Reflexology and Hot Stone Massage to Licensed Massage Therapists.
Michael Roels
Co-Founder/Owner/Therapist
NC LMBT #3174/ NCBTMB Approved Provider #174/ Hawaii LMBT #11077
Michael Roels is the creator of the RoelsMethod Structural Bodywork. In 1997, he was a passenger in a 70 mph head-on car collision. He was diagnosed with herniation of T-12 and all his lumbar discs, whiplash, sciatica, migraines, fibromyalgia, chronic back and hip pain. In chronic pain for three and a half years, he had many different therapies prescribed by his healthcare team, including a brief experience with massage therapy. When he was released, he was told that “if patients’ conditions do not improve after three years, it is not likely their pain would decrease. “He was then instructed to go on disability because he would never work a full-time job since he could not sit or stand for long periods of time. A nurse also told him how long-term use of prescribed pain medications shut down the production of your endorphins, the body’s natural pain relievers. Michael decided that this diagnosis was not acceptable, and went home and prayed. He started walking every day and stopped taking the pain medication he was prescribed. He lived every day with the attitude of “what would you do in your life now if you did not have pain?”After three months, he was a manager of a small restaurant and was experiencing no pain for the first time since 1997! He wanted to help people who suffered from chronic pain any way he could. As he reflected on the brief experience he had with massage therapy, he realized that it was the only therapy that not only did not create more discomfort but that also decreased his pain level. He researched schools all over the country and chose a school that specialized in Neuromuscular Therapy and Structural Bodywork.
Over the past 12 years, Michael has developed and practiced his technique in Charlotte, North Carolina; Santa Monica and Beverly Hills, California; and Maui, Hawaii. This experience includes private massage therapist to popular TV actors, Grammy award winners, professional athletes, musicians and published authors. He has worked with chiropractors, trainers, physical therapists, and doctors who felt their patients benefited from his work.
