I'm Samantha "Sami" Sanchez — the one behind Dynamic Body Therapies.
I didn't wake up one day and decide to become a healer. I became one because my body broke, my life shattered, and no one could fix either one. So I learned how to do it myself. And then I learned how to help others do the same.
The Accident That Changed Everything
In June 2014, my family and I were rear-ended at a stoplight — hard enough that all three of us were taken away in an ambulance. The car was totaled. I took out a whole traffic light on the way. It was bad — like, really bad.
What followed changed everything. I was in a wheelchair on and off for two years. I had to relearn how to walk — and relearn how to do almost everything else, too. At least four people had to step in and help me manage a life I used to run entirely on my own. For about eight months, I couldn't leave the house without help, and I couldn't drive.
Medical providers told me if I just lost weight and ate less, I'd get better. The pain, and the process of being dismissed while I was in it, was brutal. And underneath the physical damage was the trauma of the crash itself — that didn't just go away because the injuries were the louder problem.
Things started to shift when I found a chiropractor who worked with myofascial release. That was the turning point. To this day, I'm still working on healing from that trauma — the accident, and everything that time in my life put me through.
How I Found This Work
I found a chiropractor doing myofascial release, and he set things in motion. From there, I was guided to a shaman, who helped me start healing myself in ways nothing medical had touched.
That changed the direction of my life. I went back to school and became a Holistic Massage Therapist — not just to help others, but to heal myself from the inside out. I kept training from there: deeper into myofascial release, shamanic healing, energy clearing, breathwork, functional bodywork, and more.
I didn't just learn this work. I tried it on myself first, and then I saw how much it could help other people too.
I tried everything. And slowly, piece by piece, I rebuilt myself.
Not because any one thing "fixed" me. But because I learned to work WITH my body instead of against it. To listen to what it was trying to tell me. To honor the pain instead of silencing it.
And in that process, I realized: this is what I'm meant to do.
Why I Do This Work
I started Dynamic Body Therapies in 2017 because I kept meeting people like me — people who'd been dismissed, gaslit, or had their pain and issues brushed off instead of getting the help they actually needed.
People whose bodies were screaming but whose scans looked "fine."
People who were exhausted from explaining themselves to practitioners who didn't listen.
People who needed someone to meet them where they were — not where they "should" be according to some textbook or protocol.
I do this work because I know what it's like to be in that place. And I know what it takes to get out.