Some Backstory
Plus our Mission and Vision statements.
Owner/Operator/Educator, Jordan Barton
Nurture the Body, Nourish the Soul.
Jordan has been providing massage since 1994 and has shared his experience from coast to coast working in a variety of venue, including the iconic Canyon Ranch Resort of the Berkshires, in Lenox, MA. He has worked in clinical, sports, multidisciplinary settings as well as in education. Jordan was also appointed by the governor of Oregon to sit on the Oregon Board of Massage Therapy where he oversaw office mandates for public safety and statewide licensing, per the guidelines of the office. Since his return to the west coast he has been the General Manager and Education Director at the Oregon School of Massage. Throughout his career in hospitality, he has also taught, in seven schools across the US, provided core and continuing education to hopeful practitioners, and other professionals. He has been licensed to practice in six states. Jordan’s most recent move- when he returned to Southern California- continues to create new opportunities for his himself and his guests to receive deeply moving experiences.
Myopothecary is the newest incarnation of Jordan’s practice, serving his goal to elevate the industry and service experiences for not only guests, but students and professionals alike. His primary focus for guests is to provide the kind of safe-space to receive body-work and recuperative experiences ranging from physical recovery to emotional balance.
Using various modality that includes Deep Pressure, Craniosacral, Polarity, Swedish, Injury Treatment, Sports training and recovery, Reflexology, Trigger Point therapies, Myofascial techniques, Ayurvedic concepts and more, Jordan brings each session to its unique best experience.
Jordan’s passion for the industry lay in developing content, increasing student and professional engagement, education and growth, that provides for even the unspoken needs of his students and guests. It is his lifelong goal to help elevate the expectations of practitioners, and the public, in order to increase longevity, education standards, state board roles as well as to facilitate a synchronization of state and national organizations holistically.
Mission Statements:
Business: Myopothecary was created to facilitate needed change in the massage industry. Our goal is to provide usable, and accessible training to massage professionals that extends longevity and success in practice. It is our goal to do this through education and community building with unique ‘meet-ups’ and town-hall opportunities for the professionals, students and employers.
Practitioner: To offer unique bodywork that challenges industry norms, providing guests with deeply touching and rejuvenating experiences. It is our goal to facilitate change for our guests by reuniting their sense of holistic joy within the three pillars of their physical self; body, mind and spirit.
VISION: Myopothecary sees the industry of massage therapy as an extended family of skilled, engaged and informed professional seeking local and national organizational awareness. We facilitate growth in the nature of the industry, community engagement, the longevity and success of currently licensed, and potential, massage therapists. We are committed to our industry, and to creating community, balance and a cohesive national identity for practice.