Be With Your Body

An invitation to be with your body.

Mekayla Melahouris standing with her eyes closed and her hands at her heart in a sunlit studio.

The invitation

What have you been carrying?

This is bodywork for coming back down. Nothing here is done to you — everything is offered.

Trauma-informed massage therapy with Mekayla Melahouris.

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Los Angeles & Orange County

Sessions

Three lengths.

60 minutes

Unwind

$150

One region, focused. When you know where it hurts.

90 minutesMost chosen

Release

$210

The whole body, with time to actually drop in. Start here.

120 minutes

Integrate

$270

Slow and unhurried; for deep holding patterns.

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Mekayla Melahouris outdoors, looking toward the camera through the branches of a silk tree.

Meet Mekayla

I believe every person has the ability to build the life they truly want — sometimes they just need someone to help them find what's missing.

I meet people where they are, listen without judgment, and work alongside them to uncover the link between where they are now and where they want to be.

Be With Your Body is a gentle, safe space for deep healing, created in 2018 for anyone whose body is carrying more than words can say. Through trauma-informed care, therapeutic Swedish massage, and acupressure, I design each session around what you need in this exact moment. Consider this a gentle invitation to come home to yourself, carry your weight a little lighter, and simply be with your body.

What trauma-informed means here

  • You will know what is coming before it happens.
  • You can change or stop anything, at any point, without explaining.
  • You never have to talk. You also never have to be quiet.

Mekayla is a California Certified Massage Therapist (CMT #76710). She practices in a trauma-informed way — she does not diagnose or treat trauma, and bodywork is not a substitute for mental health care.

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What a session is like

No surprises. That's the whole design.

  1. Before you arrive

    A short intake form

    Sent by text. Two minutes, so your first ten aren't paperwork.

  2. First ten minutes

    We talk

    What's going on, what you want, what's off the table. No need to produce a reason for being here.

  3. The hour

    The work

    Built for you, not run off a menu. Pressure is a conversation, and I'll ask.

  4. Last five minutes

    Coming back slowly

    Water, a minute to sit up, nobody hurrying you toward the door.

Questions

The ones people are too polite to ask.

Do I have to undress?
To your own comfort, including not at all. You are draped the entire time, and only the area being worked on is uncovered.
What if I cry?
It happens more often than you'd think, and it's welcome. Nothing changes unless you want it to.
I've had a bad experience before.
Then tell me that first and we'll go slower. We can stay clothed, stay on one area, or spend the first session doing very little.
Deep tissue, or gentle?
Either. Pressure is chosen together at the start and can change at any point — just say so.
Cancellation policy?

I ask that you reschedule or cancel at least two days before your appointment.

Between 48 and 24 hours before, cancelling or rescheduling means losing 50% of your original payment.

Less than 24 hours before, it means losing the full payment — unless you're moving to a different time on the same day, which is a $25 rescheduling fee if there's availability to switch.

No-call, no-shows lose the full payment and the ability to reschedule.

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Booking

Choose the time. I'll build the rest.

  1. Length
  2. When
  3. Before you arrive
How long do you want to be here?

Every session is built for you, not run off a menu. The only choice you make ahead of time is how long you want.

Unsure? Choose 90 and we'll adjust.