About Jodi
Over the last 25 years, Jodi Scholes has put her hands on over 20,000 bodies. She has a deep understanding of the body and the hidden roots of pain. She shares that knowledge as a full-time speaker and educator.
In her wildly popular talk, ‘The Body Blueprint, How Our Pain Tells A Story’, Jodi reveals how pain is actually a messenger. Pain in not just physical. To truly heal we must look beyond the physical to the mental and emotional layers that could be causing the stress. She offers the current research as well as real life examples of clients that finally healed by listening to the story their pain was telling them.
About Jodi
Over the last 25 years, Jodi Scholes has put her hands on over 20,000 bodies. She has a deep understanding of the body and the hidden causes of pain. She shares that knowledge as a full-time speaker and educator.
In her wildly popular talk, ‘The Body Blueprint, How Our Pain Tells A Story’, Jodi reveals how pain is actually a messenger. She offers current research as well as real life examples of clients that finally healed by listening to the story their pain was telling them.
Jodi was awarded a TEDx talk in London England with the title, the Body Blueprint, How Your Pain May be Telling A Story in March of 2021.
However, this story begins when she opened her massage practice in 1994. Her private practice grew into a busy clinic with 20 employees. During that time, Jodi worked as the massage therapist for DC United, Major League Soccer as a part of the medical team, learning orthopedic sports massage and many physical therapy techniques. After soccer, Jodi worked with elite US Track & Field athletes.(Client, Alan Webb pictured in 2011 running 1 mile 3:46) Her career allowed her to travel to do massage at many exciting venues such as the Olympic trials in Eugene, Oregon and World Track & Field Championships in Helsinki, Finland and Osaka, Japan.
After selling her massage clinic, she focused on teaching in the Massage Therapy program at Northern VA Community College.(FT student enrollment 14,000) Currently she teaches a weekly online National Exam (MBLEx) Prep Class to massage school graduates across the country.
Her experience with TEDx motivated her to design a TEDx mentorship program. She hand-picks authors to prepare for the TEDx stage.
Jodi has been named Business Person of the Year by the Tysons Chamber of Commerce(Virginia 2003), Chapter Meritorious by the Virginia Chapter of the American Massage Therapy Association(2010) and she is proud of being voted Rotarian of the Year in 2017 by the Rotary Club of Vienna.
Jodi enjoys tennis and is a retired amateur triathlete. She splits her time living between New Hampshire and Florida.
