about two birds

We are privileged to share and provide intuitive Thai bodywork, massage, and relaxation therapies for all. We also instruct hands-on continuing education courses in the Thai healing arts and community classes in self-care. We aim to demystify eastern concepts of bodywork, energy work, and natural healing with western students and clientele. Our goal is to help people feel better in their bodies by accessing their intuitive healing potential through bodywork, massage, and self-care while empowering them with tools to integrate beneficial holistic healing practices into their lives. We encourage our students and clients to feel and experience the body's subtleties so that these therapies we practice can deepen the body-mind-heart connection.

Self-care is a cornerstone of health and wellness. As providers, we need to be free from the burdens of chronic imbalance to be most effective in what we do. Maintaining a healthy daily ritual for self-care is essential for us, and we empower our students and clients with tools to do the same. Studies with our beloved Ajahn Pichest Boonthumme in Northern Thailand have given us a unique approach to our practice and teaching style. We are most grateful for his care, wisdom, and guidance. Our almost effortless style of Thai bodywork is not the most flashy version of Thai massage you'll find, but it is the most therapeutic. Not only will it increase health and vitality for clients, but if done correctly and with the right intention, for the provider as well.   

The Thai Healing Arts are our specialty. We are Peter Bird and Melanie Eldridge, licensed massage therapists and accredited bodywork and massage educators through the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB). We each have over 25 years of experience in practicing and teaching alternative healing art therapies. We have studied with traditional eastern and western teachers over the world. Our backgrounds include traditional Thai body and energy therapies, Zen shiatsu, Ayurvedic and marma therapies, reiki, western-style massage like Swedish, deep tissue, neuromuscular therapy, and myofascial massage, along with chi nei tsang, applied qi gong, vibrational sound healing, herbals and aromatherapy, reusi dat ton, spa therapies, meditation, breathwork, yoga and more. We teach courses in Thai bodywork therapies and courses on the power and influence of intention during bodywork and creating safe healing spaces for therapists and their clients. We co-created, developed, and train Naga Thai massage, which takes a holistic approach to Thai bodywork combined with deep compression therapy for body-mind connection and balance. We also create, develop, and train mindfulness-based spa treatment therapies for Miraval Spas. Since 2016, we've called the north shore of Lake Superior our home, where we opened Two Birds Healing Arts Center and travel to instruct continuing education workshops and spa trainings.   

Two Birds Healing Arts Center in Grand Marais, MN offers Thai bodywork and massage sessions, relaxation therapies, a far infrared sauna, hermit yoga, meditation, sound bowl therapies, and continuing education in the healing arts. We also provide local instructors a space to hold community yoga classes, group meditation, and workshops in the healing arts and wellness space. We handcraft organic herbal infused oils and muscle and skin balms that are used in our services. Every Saturday,  you can find Mel's balms and Peter's artwork at the Cook County Market, June - October in downtown Grand Marais. We are humbled and grateful to our family, teachers, friends, the vibrant healing community of massage, bodywork, and energy healers, and all that have welcomed and helped support our growing business. Thank you for the opportunity to continue serving our north shore community. ☮