Rooted Vessel, owned and managed by Sam

🌈 Sam Burkholder and Rooted Vessel, LLC are proudly queer + trans affirming, neurodivergent accommodating, and continuously working to be anti-racist. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ ✨ 🧠

Hi! I’m Sam Burkholder, LMT, and I am privileged to be able to pursue work that is both interesting and important. I get to be a part of creating the world I want to live in, and that includes facilitating community care, accessibility, justice, pleasure, and curiosity through massage therapy.

I attended Mossmain College of Massage for 750 hours of education, passed the MBLEx (Massage and Bodyworkers Licensing Exam) in the summer of Covid-19. Directly out of school, I worked at the Spa at Sage Lodge in Pray, Montana. After two years there, I moved to Good Medicine Acupuncture and Massage in Bozeman, MT. At the end of 2022, I decided to fully invest in my business — having started it at the beginning of 2021 — and switched my career focus to working solely in and around the Big Timber area. My continuing education includes MyoFascial Release, certifications via the ICTA for Facial Cupping Rejuvenation (FCR), Contemporary Cupping Methods (CCM), and Advanced Cupping Techniques (ACT), and a Gua sha course taught by Arya Nielsen. I am also an active member of ABMP.