Meet Benny Saint James
a wild healer with a grounded soul.
Benny is a healer, artist, and ceremonialist devoted to the sacred art of remembering.
The Body is the Altar. My Work is a Devotion.
I believe the body holds the map—not just to healing, but to wholeness. My soul’s work is to help you come home to yourself. Not by overriding or fixing, but by listening—deeply, reverently—to the language of your tissues, your breath, your energy, and your longing.
I see healing as a collaboration with the sacred intelligence already within you. Every session I offer is a prayer in motion—a somatic ceremony designed to honor your story, regulate your nervous system, and awaken what’s been waiting.
My Journey
I began this path at six years old, when I fell in love with movement through dance. That passion led me into a 20-year professional career, performing across the globe and studying the body through every possible lens—discipline, joy, injury, recovery, and resilience. Dance was my first teacher in physiology, anatomy, kinesiology, and the subtle body, and it laid the foundation for everything I offer now.
As my time on stage ended, a new calling emerged: to help others reconnect to their own living body. Not as a machine to push harder, but as a sacred ecosystem to tend with care and awe.
My Training & Experience
I have spent the last 30 years studying kinesiology and physiology through dance, movement, and body-based therapies. Over the last 17 years, I’ve worked as both a yoga therapist and Reiki practitioner, deepening into energy medicine and becoming a Reiki Master.
My formal massage education took place at one of the most comprehensive programs in Colorado—known for providing more training hours than any school in the state and emphasizing technique, therapeutics, and clinical excellence. There, I was trained in over 15 modalities, including:
Swedish, deep tissue, neuromuscular therapy, myofascial release, athletic massage, prenatal, lymphatic drainage, acupressure, shiatsu, ashiatsu, raindrop therapy, cupping, scraping (gua sha), hot stone, hot bamboo, facilitated table stretching, MELT method, aromatherapy, and crystal therapy.
This path has made me a highly trained and experienced therapist with decades of integrated wisdom across holistic, energetic, and anatomical disciplines. My work is truly world-class and unlike what anyone else is currently offering.
I don’t offer cookie-cutter sessions—I offer presence, skill, intuition, and care that meets you exactly where you are.
Work With Me
If you're looking for a quick-fix massage, I may not be your person. But if you're seeking true restoration—something truly holistic that touches your nervous system, your spirit, and your body—I invite you into this unique space.
My two-hour signature session, The Prime, is a custom blend of bodywork, somatic unwinding, energy recalibration, sound healing, and sacred space holding. Every session is different because you are different each time you arrive. I simply respond to your is-ness through careful listening and curate the path that would best serve you in that moment.
Let’s work together if you’re ready to feel deeply met, supported, and brought back into coherence. Let’s work together if you’re done bypassing, and ready to move forward feeling grounded, clear, and alive.
Benny lives, works, and heals in Keokuk, Iowa where he experiences every aspect of his life like sacred art. With mountains in his soul from being raised in Colorado, he now bleeds muddy waters as a true alternative wellness fixture of the tri-states (SE Iowa, SW Illinois, and NW Missouri) area communities.
“Every session, every retreat, every sound offering is a living altar. And every body I work with is holy.” -Benny
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In addition to his healing practice, Benny is a visual artist whose work explores relationship, ritual, and the layered landscape of transformation. His creative process is inseparable from his path as a healer—each canvas, like each client session, is a portal for remembering what the world tried to make us forget.
Benny’s clients come to him not for quick fixes, but for sacred realignment. They come when they’re ready to release performance, to drop into stillness, and to begin listening again—deeply, honestly, and with devotion.
The Healer’s Gate
My Sacred Statement of Practice
I am not here to save you.
I am not here to fix you.
I am here to walk beside you as you remember who you are.
My work is not a transaction—it is a transmission.
Of presence. Of permission. Of possibility.
In this space, all of you is welcome.
The tender parts, the tired parts, the tangled and trembling parts.
I will not rush them. I will not silence them.
I will not turn away.
I am a practitioner of precision, pattern, and prayer.
I have studied the body’s stories for decades—its aches, its arcs, its quiet cries for more.
What I offer is not just massage.
It is remembrance through touch.
Recalibration through rhythm.
Resurrection through sound and stillness.
I work in partnership with your body’s intelligence.
With the ancestors who walk with us.
With the earth beneath the table.
With the spirit of breath, the clarity of vibration, and the wisdom of pace.
And I hold this vow:
To stay in integrity with my gift.
To honor my capacity.
To speak truth with love.
To keep my field clean and sovereign.
To never promise what I cannot hold.
To never extract what you do not offer freely.
To honor your healing as holy, not performative.
If you step through this gate,
you are saying yes to a different kind of care.
To healing that is real, slow, and sacred.
To a remembering that begins in the marrow and echoes beyond words.
Welcome to the work.
Welcome to the return.
Welcome home.