Licensed Massage Therapist · Yoga Teacher
About
Monica Seligmann,
I didn't plan to build a practice around the female body. The female body found me — and then it changed everything.
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heR Story
I came to this work the way most women come to the things that matter most
sideways, unexpectedly, and a little undone.
I was a yoga teacher building a private practice when massage found me — not the other way around. I walked into a studio and knew immediately that this was the next piece. So I enrolled in massage school. And somewhere in the middle of anatomy labs and pregnancy pillows, my own life changed completely — and I found myself becoming a mother.
What followed was an initiation I hadn't prepared for: a pregnancy that was physically fine and emotionally hard. A marriage I entered in good faith and left in survival. Postpartum in a pandemic apartment, away from family, in a fog so thick I didn't know it was depression until I heard myself asking my best friend: Am I a good person?
I knew I needed to leave. I moved home. I started over as a sole parent, built my practice around mothers because I had become one, and began learning — finally, urgently — everything I hadn't known about the body I had been living inside my whole life.
Ayurveda taught me longevity and rhythm. Feminine embodiment coaching taught me to befriend my shadow rather than transcend it. The menstrual cycle — once just a monthly interruption — became a portal. Every month, an invitation to know myself more deeply.
Four years in, even with all those tools, I hit a wall. I had to slow down, take fewer clients, and learn — again, more humbly this time — that the practices I was offering others applied to me too. That being held requires allowing yourself to be held. That receiving is not weakness. It is the most sophisticated practice I know.
My father was an addict. He died when I was 21. He was not at my wedding. He will not know his granddaughter. And his absence has become my devotion — to being present, to being full, to doing the ongoing work of becoming an elder my daughter can lean on as she moves through her own thresholds.
That is why I built The Threshold Body. Not from a credential or a certification or a business plan. From everything that broke me open — and the slow, honest work of integrating what I found inside.
"My work doesn't give women answers. It returns them to the wisdom they already carry."
What This Means for You
When you come to me, you are not a problem to be solved.
You are a woman at a threshold — pregnant, postpartum, depleted, or simply in one of those quiet, unnamed seasons when something is shifting and you can't quite say what. You don't need me to fix you. You need someone who has stood where you're standing, who knows the terrain, and who can hold space while you find your way through.
That is what I offer. Not answers. A return to your own.
Full credentials
Qualifications
Licensed Massage Therapist
MT: 0015128
RPYT
Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher
Reiki Master
Holy Fire Lineage
Doula
Birth & Postpartum Support
Feminine Embodiment Coach
1:1 Coaching
Ayurvedic Practitioner
Longevity & Rhythm
My Approach
How I work
My work is rooted in one belief: your body is not a problem to be fixed. It is an intelligence to be listened to.
I weave together therapeutic bodywork, Ayurveda, somatic practice, and the wisdom of the female cycle into every offering I hold. Not as separate modalities — as one coherent philosophy of return.
Every session, every practice, every word I write is trauma-informed. That means nothing here is a requirement. You are never asked to go further than you are ready to go. I use the word perhaps a lot — because your experience belongs to you, and my role is to hold the space, not lead the way.
The physical, emotional, mental, and intuitive body are not separate layers to be treated one at a time. They are one living system. And when we tend to one, we tend to all.
Ready to begin?
