We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Martine Breau. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Martine below.
Alright, so we’re so thrilled to have Martine with us today – welcome and maybe we can jump right into it with a question about one of your qualities that we most admire. How did you develop your work ethic? Where do you think you get it from?
Growing up I really loved exploring any topic that interested me. I could get obsessive and go down a rabbit hole if I really wanted to. Massage happened to be something that genuinely interested me and I’m always wanting to learn new skills and more effective tools. Now that it’s my career, I can obsess over details and it honestly feels like play and a creative expression more than work.
Appreciate the insights and wisdom. Before we dig deeper and ask you about the skills that matter and more, maybe you can tell our readers about yourself?
My work began with my own healing. I dealt with scoliosis, hormone imbalance, and chronic tension for years and massage was the first thing that helped me feel at home in my body again. That experience led me to create Her Femina Studio, a boutique women’s wellness and hormone focused massage studio.
I specialize in intuitive, results-focused bodywork that blends lymphatic drainage, myofascial release, deep tissue, and cycle-aware techniques to support both the nervous system and the endocrine system. My work is for women who have been carrying pain, stress, or symptoms they haven’t been able to explain and who are ready for relief that feels nurturing, not forceful.
What makes the studio unique is that we don’t approach women’s bodies mechanically but we treat them with awareness of hormones, seasons, stress, and lived experience. Clients often say they feel “seen without having to explain.” My intuition plays a unique role as well. I’ve created a space where I can connect with the body that allows me hear what it is asking for. Often, we’ve never been taught to hear the body fully. A lot of times my clients think I’m reading their mind, but I’m just reading their body’s signals.
Currently, I’m developing a unique method, a training approach to help other therapists learn intuitive, cycle and hormone aware bodywork.
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
Three qualities that have shaped my journey are intuition, consistency, and the ability to listen deeply.
Intuition guided me long before I had language or strategy. I learned to trust what I felt in my body and in the bodies of my clients and that trust is what makes my work feel personal and not formulaic. It’s feminine energy.
Consistency was the quiet force behind everything. There were many seasons where progress was slow or invisible, but I kept showing up, refining how I touch, how I speak, how I hold space. That daily devotion is what built the studio.
And listening changed everything. Not just listening to what clients say, but listening to their nervous system, their breath, their tension patterns. The body is always telling the truth. When you learn to listen, your work becomes precise, intuitive, and deeply effective.
My advice for those early in their journey:
Don’t rush your mastery. Touch, presence, and intuition grow with time and repetition.
Let your own healing be part of your training. You can only take people as deep as you’ve gone.
And don’t be afraid to do things differently. The work becomes powerful when it becomes personal.
You don’t need to be loud or flashy. You just need to be devoted.
What would you advise – going all in on your strengths or investing on areas where you aren’t as strong to be more well-rounded?
If you would have asked me this a few years ago, I would have said improve your weaknesses. Now I believe we’re meant to lead with our strengths. When we try to become “well-rounded,” we often dilute the very thing that makes us powerful. Our strengths are where our authenticity, ease, and brilliance live. They’re where our work feels natural instead of forced.
For me, my strength has always been intuitive touch and being able to read someone’s body without them needing to say much. Early in my career, I tried to fit into very clinical massage environments where everything had to be structured, standardized, and explained step-by-step. I remember feeling like I had to shrink the most meaningful part of my gift just to appear “professional” or “balanced.”
But the moment I gave myself permission to lead with what I do well, leading with intuition, my work deepened, my sessions became more effective, and the right clients started finding me. I didn’t need to be everything. I just needed to be myself, fully.
That said, there is value in strengthening your weaknesses, but strategically. I work on my weak areas only when they support, protect, or expand my strengths. For example, running a business required me to learn structure, pricing, systems, and boundaries. I invested in those things because they allow me to continue doing my work with presence and capacity.
So my philosophy is:
Lead with your strengths, and support them with just enough structure to make them sustainable.
Your gift does not need to be balanced.
It needs to be honored.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.herfeminastudio.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/herfeminastudio?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/herfeminastudio?mibextid=wwXIfr
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martine-chantal-breau-70b50b218?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app
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