ABOUT US

Heartwood Healing Collective comprises a group of passionate practitioners serving people on their healing journeys.

We operate by a simple mission: to empower people on their wellness journeys with powerful tools like Thai and Chinese bodywork, acupuncture, visceral and neural manipulation, manual therapy, massage, yoga, meditation, and more. Our experienced and knowledgeable practitioners help individuals maintain a healthy lifestyle and outgrow old versions of themselves.

At the center of our heartwood are wellness champions Todd Richmond and Laura Hulke. Todd and Laura met at Thai Bodywork School in Evanston, Illinois. Each had a budding practice in their respective cities—Todd in Lafayette, Indiana, and Laura in Elm Grove, Wisconsin. They shared a common vision to form a healing collective rooted in personal service, compassion, deep listening, and transformation.

Once they discovered their vision included marriage, the husband-wife team started Heartwood Healing Collective in 2014 to share their passion for Eastern healing modalities and Western science with the public, massage therapists and health enthusiasts.

Heartwood Healing Collective has since expanded to offer bodywork and massage, Thai massage, craniosacral therapy, visceral and neural manipulation, sculptural facelifting, yoga instruction, sound healings, community building events, and self-care education classes.

The team of practitioners has also grown to include Basia Lindberg, DC and LMT. Our team dedicates their professional endeavors to helping individuals maintain a healthy lifestyle and reconnect to their own heartwood. We’re here to educate and remind that relaxation, connection, ease, and movement are natural birthrights. We look forward to working with you!

MEET TODD RICHMOND

Phone: (414) 323-4183
Email: Todd@heartwoodhc.com

My journey began after college while living in the small mountain town of Asheville, North Carolina, where I discovered my love for working with my hands. As a professional artisan baker, feeling the textures of the dough trained my hands to sense subtle differences and variations through gentle kneading and touch. That same sensitivity still deeply informs my ability to listen to and work with clients’ tissues today.

Asheville is also where I started my training in Aikido, a Japanese martial art whose inherent philosophy is the harmonization of energy (Aiki). I currently hold a second-degree black belt. This practice cultivates deep body awareness, sensitivity to energy flow, and the ability to blend with movement rather than resist it. These principles shape how I meet clients where they are, gently redirect tension, and support their body’s natural return to balance and ease.

I am a nationally certified Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT), trained at Teoma Wellness School in Quincy, Massachusetts, and a graduate of Thai Bodywork School in Chicago. I formerly owned and operated Somatic Arts, a Thai bodywork studio in Lafayette, Indiana. I also hold a B.S. in Chemistry from Purdue University.

Through skilled touch and presence, I strive to create a supportive space for my clients. I believe when offered the right conditions and patience working in concert with their natural body intelligence a person transforms. When we wake up something that is dormant in the body tissues or rekindle a connection for information to flow then clients can move beyond old patterns or conditions and embrace new ways of being.

I continue advancing my skills through ongoing training at the Barral Institute in Visceral Manipulation, Neural Manipulation, Listening Techniques for Manual Therapy, Craniosacral Therapy, and Manual Therapy For The Brain. I have also studied clinically-oriented Thai bodywork for muscular trigger point dysfunction and pain at the Coaching The Body® Institute, as well as abdominal and emotional digestive work through Gilles Marin of the Chi Nei Tsang Institute and Felicity Joy.

In my free time, I’m an avid hiker who loves feeling my feet on the ground. I am always up for a good adventure, travel, gardening, and cooking good food.

MEET LAURA HULKE

Phone: (414) 323-4183
Email: Laura@heartwoodhc.com

My personal healing journey with chronic pain and mental health highlighted the importance of massage, yoga, meditation, acupuncture, and nutrition. The personal process of reclaiming my quality of life inspired me to study these practices and dedicate my energy to serving others on their paths of reclaiming their own quality of life. Over the last decade, I have realized how great the need for holistic healing is in our Western society and local community. This has inspired me to teach and support younger manual therapists so they also can meet this need.

I am an L.M.T. and a graduate of East-West Healing Arts Institute in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, and Thai Bodywork School in Chicago. I am a 200-hour certified yoga teacher with Paul and Suzee Grilley and a Reiki Master Teacher. I formerly owned Essential Healing in Elm Grove, Wisconsin, and was the co-founder of Partner Yoga Milwaukee. I also hold a B.S. in Chemistry from Marquette University.

I have continued my education at the Barral Institute studying and practicing Visceral Manipulation, Listening Techniques for Manual Therapy, Neural Manipulation, Craniosacral Therapy and Manual Therapy for the Brain. Through Coaching the Body Institute (formerly Thai Bodywork of Evanston) I have education in special focus in treating musculoskeletal pain in body areas including: Sacral, Hip, Knee, Abdomen, Thorax, Lumbar.

The body of every person I work with has a story to tell about what it needs to function better. As a manual therapist, I listen to the body and body tissues to give voice to these messages. In that listening process, I can support the body in waking up, moving better, digesting better and experiencing more vitality. I believe our bodies are tremendously powerful and can do much of their own healing when given the right support.

The work I do is a type of body-centered inquiry through hands-on manipulation. This process organically empowers clients to feel their body deeply and connect to the parts of themselves that they isolate or push aside. The process leaves clients with a feeling of deep wholeness, rightness, lightness, peacefulness, insight, and clarity. In the space created by these moments, I believe folks can privately encounter the truth of their inner world and feel available personal energy to make change.

I love the non-judgmental, freeing and trusting nature of the work. It is not my job to “DO” something for the person. They already have all the power within to effect change. I assist them in experiencing a deeper sense of integration and wholeness and connecting to that latent internal energy through bodywork, movement, or meditation practices. It spontaneously arises as a by-product of compassionate, mindful care.

I also believe in naps! My favorite adult time-out is a nap is on a hammock in the mid-afternoon sun, when the cicadas are singing, and the breeze is gently wafting.

Our Team

Meet Basia Lindberg, DC and LMT

Phone: (414) 323-4183
Email: admin@heartwoodhc.com

From a young age, I found helping people very rewarding. It started as a child when I would help in the kitchen play doctor with my stuffed animals. As I matured my interest in science and helping people to feel better led to my decision to become a Chiropractor.

I choose Heartwood as a place to develop my practice after exploring my own healing receiving visceral manipulation from Laura. Since then, Laura and I have gotten to know each other and I’ve come to see Laura as my mentor in the healing arts. Laura and Todd are great healers and Heartwood is a great place for healing and to learn as a practitioner.

I am a retired Chiropractor from California. After my son was born, I took some time off to be with my family. When the time came to return to the healing arts, I was drawn back to pursue a license in Massage Therapy. Bringing the lens of chiropractic to my massage studies enables me to support many people in feeling better and living more fully.

Most people think of chiropractic care in the framework of cracking bones. However there are a variety of healing practices that I learned in my years as a chiropractor (e.g. Sacral Occiput Technique or SOT) that are also in full scope for a massage therapists as they don’t require any osseous adjustments. These tools really support my clients seeking improved health and function.

Besides SOT, I use a variety of osteopathic approaches to problem solve for my clients in session and create their best massage and healing experience. These include craniosacral therapy, visceral manipulation, total body modification, somato emotional release work, lymphatic drainage and scar release.

In my free time I enjoy making home and hand made items such as body butters, lip balm, crocheting, cooking and porch gardening. I like to exercise my mind with Sudoku puzzles and then there’s the rare occasion of binge watching movies in my PJ’s all day.