About Janine Moniot
Janine Moniot is an experienced Holistic Health Practitioner with a BS degree in Kinesiology. Janine thoughtfully applies her knowledge from interrelated disciplines to enhance health and functioning. Her recognition of the importance of body/mind balance began as a Childbirth Educator. Her skills and insight have evolved through 30 years of private massage practice and energetic therapies, and the unique opportunity of working in a small town with inter-generational clients.
Excited about bringing healing and community together, Janine has taught Touch for Health classes at local community colleges and currently teaches for Escondido Adult School.
Janine provides massage (primarily Manual Lymph Drainage massage) by appointment. She has extensive experience with people living with cancer and lymphedema. An avid student of communication and compassionate care, she treasures diversity and relies on pragmatism when co-developing individualized care.
Janine’s interest in Kinesiology led her to study and expand her services to include Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy and Buteyko Breathing in addition to her other therapeutic services.
Excited about bringing healing and community together, Janine has taught Touch for Health classes at local community colleges and currently teaches for Escondido Adult School.
Janine provides massage (primarily Manual Lymph Drainage massage) by appointment. She has extensive experience with people living with cancer and lymphedema. An avid student of communication and compassionate care, she treasures diversity and relies on pragmatism when co-developing individualized care.
Janine’s interest in Kinesiology led her to study and expand her services to include Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy and Buteyko Breathing in addition to her other therapeutic services.
In Janine's own words...
I came from a large family so I spent my childhood learning about interdependence, tolerance, moods, differing abilities, how to love and balance multiple relationships at the same time, and my limitations. In a large family, communication is really important, and since I trust that others can teach me skills, I studied (and continue to study) communication—e.g., conflict resolution, grief, relationship, etc. Babies—new lives with the best opportunities—were fundamentally essential to my family. I was one of the older kids, and so I studied childbirth, which necessitated a broad background in multiple disciplines—including body work or how to open up that birth canal—and acceptance of the need for medical interventions.
Touch for Health stretched me further. I didn’t really see myself teaching anything, but I loved TFH so much I wanted to teach, and teach I did—mostly 3 classes a week for years. Life experiences, both challenges and opportunities, added more dimension to me and to my work.
In 1985, I found a mentor and a best friend who was a chiropractor and had spent years as a nurse, and started as a colonic therapist at Edgar Cayce Center while in high school. Neither of us focused on money first; community was first. We worked on each other and we frequently worked on our clients simultaneously. We studied together and divergently. She became a highly advanced cranial sacral practitioner and well-appreciated for her gentle chiropractic work. I learned a lot from her and like to think that her spirit helps me see more—even now.
I learned Manual Lymph Drainage because it was so fascinating and my friend’s leg was swelling up. I kept up with my certification—applied it with spell-binding results to brain injuries from car accidents, strokes and anything else that presented itself. Currently, that is often people living with lymphedema. For 9 years, I provided MLD at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla.
I wanted to work to promote holistic health—to be able to perform multiple roles somewhere to facilitate research—so I studied nursing. Not for me. I switched to exercise science. I wanted a degree to be able to manage grants for the community dream of a greenway through our down-town, and I think exercise is medicine, so I got one in Kinesiology. And I like learning, so I kept studying exercise, and got my personal training certification, a certificate in bio-mechanics, kinesio taping, and several other certs.
I still didn’t know enough, or so it seemed, so I took courses in the study of Myofacial Release, and I continue to participate in an on-going study group to increase skill.
Then I found my tongue, and it was off-center. I moved it, and immediately I breathed better. I was fascinated! I began to search for for somewhere to learn more about tongue therapy, and discovered the Academy of Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy. I took the Basic, took a sleep class, took breathing class. I attended a cranio-facial pain study group in LA. I’m inspired by the importance of the mouth, nasal breathing, and related exercises. I love it!
I, like most massage therapists, have taken a lot of continuing education courses. Unlike many therapists, I have been lucky to work in a small town for many years, and now I treat the grandchildren of clients who were once younger parents visiting my practice.
Touch for Health stretched me further. I didn’t really see myself teaching anything, but I loved TFH so much I wanted to teach, and teach I did—mostly 3 classes a week for years. Life experiences, both challenges and opportunities, added more dimension to me and to my work.
In 1985, I found a mentor and a best friend who was a chiropractor and had spent years as a nurse, and started as a colonic therapist at Edgar Cayce Center while in high school. Neither of us focused on money first; community was first. We worked on each other and we frequently worked on our clients simultaneously. We studied together and divergently. She became a highly advanced cranial sacral practitioner and well-appreciated for her gentle chiropractic work. I learned a lot from her and like to think that her spirit helps me see more—even now.
I learned Manual Lymph Drainage because it was so fascinating and my friend’s leg was swelling up. I kept up with my certification—applied it with spell-binding results to brain injuries from car accidents, strokes and anything else that presented itself. Currently, that is often people living with lymphedema. For 9 years, I provided MLD at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla.
I wanted to work to promote holistic health—to be able to perform multiple roles somewhere to facilitate research—so I studied nursing. Not for me. I switched to exercise science. I wanted a degree to be able to manage grants for the community dream of a greenway through our down-town, and I think exercise is medicine, so I got one in Kinesiology. And I like learning, so I kept studying exercise, and got my personal training certification, a certificate in bio-mechanics, kinesio taping, and several other certs.
I still didn’t know enough, or so it seemed, so I took courses in the study of Myofacial Release, and I continue to participate in an on-going study group to increase skill.
Then I found my tongue, and it was off-center. I moved it, and immediately I breathed better. I was fascinated! I began to search for for somewhere to learn more about tongue therapy, and discovered the Academy of Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy. I took the Basic, took a sleep class, took breathing class. I attended a cranio-facial pain study group in LA. I’m inspired by the importance of the mouth, nasal breathing, and related exercises. I love it!
I, like most massage therapists, have taken a lot of continuing education courses. Unlike many therapists, I have been lucky to work in a small town for many years, and now I treat the grandchildren of clients who were once younger parents visiting my practice.