Hi, I’m Natalie!
I didn’t choose this work. It chose me.
I'm Natalie Gentry, a body-centered practitioner and guide based in Denver, Colorado. My work lives at the intersection of the body, the shadow, and the threshold of becoming. I have walked every path I guide others on. And I mean that.
I spent years in talk therapy. It helped, but I always felt like something was missing. It wasn't until I found the body — touch, breath, movement, and eventually shadow work — that I truly came home to myself. I remember receiving my first massage in 1994, genuinely surprised that something could do more than ease physical tension. It lifted my mood. It cracked something open. I had no idea that years later I'd be guiding other women through the same door.
I also came to this work through my own becoming: the hard, unglamorous, necessary kind. I spent a long time making myself smaller to keep the peace. I shapeshifted in a marriage that required me to disappear.
And when the moment came where I had to choose between the relationship and myself, I chose myself. That choice changed everything.
In 2023, after years of building and moving and caregiving, I hit a wall of exhaustion. I stopped pushing. And something remarkable happened: everything opened up. The whispers became a roar. I began doing my own ancestral shadow work, set real boundaries, and started honoring myself the way I'd always honored everyone else.
I am not fixed. I am a beautiful work in progress. And that is exactly what I bring to this work — not a guru, not a fixer, but someone who has walked this path and will walk beside you as you find yours.
When I'm not working, you'll find me dancing, cooking something that takes all afternoon, reading, traveling whenever I can, or out in nature following my body's breadcrumbs. I also never stop learning; classes and workshops are a permanent line item in my life.
My Why
“If you can stand whole in your physical (and emotional) body, there is nowhere on earth you cannot stand whole in your being.”
I offer Maya Abdominal Massage
I offer Maya abdominal massage because too many women are suffering unnecessarily, and no one has told them there's another way.
We are rarely informed about why our cycles are so painful, why fertility can be elusive, why postpartum recovery is so hard, or why menopause hits like a freight train. And we're almost never told what we can do about it that doesn't involve drugs, devices, or surgery. I suffered unnecessarily for years before I started supporting my own health. And when I did, the results were remarkable. I want that for you. I want to help you understand what's happening in your body so you can be your own best advocate.
I offer body-centered shadow coaching
I offer body-centered shadow coaching because we spend decades learning how to have a job, how to drive a car, how to perform every role that's expected of us, and almost no time learning what actually makes us tick.
When you can honor the emotions you've been ignoring — really honor them, in your body, not just your mind — things start to shift. The patterns that kept you stuck start to loosen. And what's underneath them? That's where your actual life is waiting.
I offer individual sessions virtually and in person in Denver, as well as monthly women's healing groups, because some of the deepest work happens when you're witnessed by other women doing the same thing.
I offer conscious movement
I offer conscious movement because the dance floor is a laboratory for the rest of your life.
This isn't about learning how to dance. It's about learning how to be more conscious of how you move inside your own body and finding wonder with that. When you get comfortable moving inside your own skin, something shifts. You stop performing and start inhabiting. And that comfort, that ease with yourself, travels with you everywhere. On the dance floor and off it. In your relationships, your work, your everyday life.
No experience needed. Just a willingness to show up and move.
CERTIFICATIONS, LICENSES, & AWARDS
Licensed Massage Therapist, State of Colorado, #MT.0017211
Graduate, Boulder College of Massage Therapy, 1998
Member, American Massage Association and Maya Abdominal Massage Association
Certification: Arvigo Techniques Maya Abdominal Massage (studied with Rosita Arvigo, founder of The Arvigo Techniques, and other indigenous healers from Belize), 2005
Certification: Transformational Breath, Transformational Breath Foundation, 2010
Certification: Level 1 Spiritual Plant Healing, 2006
Certification: Nia White Belt Training, 2008
Certification: Soul Motion Embodied Leadership Program, 2018
Mentored in life coaching by a former certified IPEC-trained professional coach with over 1000 hours of coaching experience, 2018
Certification: Wilderness Walk Shadow Coaching Program, 2022
Extensive coursework in herbal medicine, aromatherapy, and medical intuition
Finished a close 2nd place, Denver A-List Best Massage 2018
Repeat contributing writer for Voyage Denver Magazine: June 2019, January 2021, November 2023, September 2025
Featured in Chicago Weekly’s series: Top 6 Standout Health Experts of 2024
Guest teacher, Women’s Wilderness Summit Sisters Retreat: 2018, 2023
Member of the Wilderness Walk Shadow Coaching Graduate Association since 2023
Mentor for Wilderness Walk Foundations Program students, 2024
Very first Wilderness Walk Shadow Coach graduate to be recognized as Coach of the Month, March 2024
Certification: Wilderness Walk Advanced Shadow Coaching program 2024