Therapeutic Bodywork

Welcome to Inner Sanctum. You are invited to a sanctuary offering skilled, artfully rendered holistic treatments and health education. Experience a respite from the grip of daily demands or support for a life of balance.

Inner Sanctum offers a spectrum of services and treatments, from holistic skin care, massage and bodywork therapies, to Bach Flower Essence consultation.

Providing service and support through creatively personalized treatments is my life's work. It is my hope that a visit to Inner Sanctum will provide a uniquely pleasant experience that will linger with you far beyond the time we spend together.

In practice since 1984, Carolyn Ricey Clapp is a licensed massage therapist (NC-LMBT #6240), esthetician and physician assistant. With a Bachelor of Science degree, cum laude, from the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, she has worked as a physician assistant in practices dedicated to integrative medicine as well as to osteopathic manual medicine. In her search to investigate life's persistent questions and to address people in their wholeness, she has studied many forms of massage and manual therapy, spa therapies, and aromatherapy. Ricey is certified in Lymph Drainage/Complex Decongestive Physiotherapy (Chikly Method), Zero Balancing, the Dr. Hauschka method of holistic skin care and Bach Flower Essence Consultation. Her experience as a medical professional, as well as an independent holistic practitioner, has enabled her to bridge the best of conventional and complementary approaches to healthcare.

In addition to maintaining a practice in Asheville, North Carolina, Ricey maintains a part-time practice in manual therapy and integrative bodywork at Crossings: A Center for the Healing Traditions in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Ricey is a professional member of the American Massage Therapy Association, Bach Foundation Practitioner Registry, National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy, and the Zero Balancing Association. She is certified by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork and the National Commission for Certification of Physician Assistants.

For more information about therapeutic bodywork,

please visit: www.innersanctumwellness.com