About Us

Ritual Therapeutics Massage & Bodywork is located in the heart of downtown Auburn Ca. We offer holistic bodywork in many different styles and modalities, from basic Swedish to Deep Missue massage, Prenatal Massage, Thai Massage, Cupping, Yin Yoga, Infrared Sauna, and Halotherapy. Our focus is to aid each client in their own unique journey to a pain free, peaceful life through comprehensive bodywork and compassionate touch.

Our Philosophy

We believe that holistic bodywork is most effective when it is experienced with regularity... that massage should be a personal practice created to help ease the stresses of everyday life and developed to provide the body with the proper tools needed to heal from physical and emotional trauma and injury. As well as creating a harmonious balance of mind and body, we believe massage and bodywork should be a ritual of self.

Meet Our Practitioners

Brooke Poletti

Brooke Poletti is the passionate founder and owner of Ritual Therapeutics and has been a bodyworker since 2000. Certified in Therapeutic Massage and Massage Cupping, she is also a Prenatal Massage Specialist and DFR Practitioner, she balances her comprehensive knowledge of anatomy and physiology with a compassionate touch to provide a therapeutic yet deeply relaxing and nourishing experience. Brooke believes in whole body wellness and tailors each session to the specific needs of the individual and strives to facilitate the highest level of healing in each unique body. When she is not at the studio, she enjoys hiking and flat-water kayaking, cooking, and creative endeavors like silversmithing and writing. Brooke is available for appointments Tuesday-Friday 9am-6pm and Saturdays 12pm-5:30pm.

Anja Leon-Guerrero

Anja Frydendal has been utilizing bodywork techniques both on the table and the mat for the past 15 years. Clients and colleagues often call her the “muscle micromanager” for her ability to target specific muscle origins, insertions and actions, offering in-depth attention to areas that may be causing dysfunction in the body. She specializes in slow, deep, focused sessions on the table and brings in more full body treatments to her floor work and is a Certified Prenatal Massage Specialist . During Thai sessions on the mat, a more holistic approach to the body is taken, allowing her to find areas of fascial and energetic stagnation in order to bring movement and flow back into them. Anja loves tailoring each session to fit the specific goals of each person she works with. In her off-time, you can find her cooking, camping, and playing with herbs. Anja is available for appointments Tuesdays 10am-6pm.

Laura Kiker- CMT, Restorative Massage Specialist

Laura Kiker

Laura Kiker offers a deeply relaxing and intuitive approach to therapeutic bodywork. A graduate of Career Networks Institute in Orange County, where she completed a 750-hour massage therapy program in 2003, she blends her foundational training with a calming, grounded presence to create sessions that are nurturing, supportive, and tailored to the unique needs of each individual. Her touch is gentle yet purposeful—helping to ease stress, melt away tension, and guide the nervous system into a restorative state.

She believes healing happens when the body feels safe and cared for, and she aims to create an experience where clients can fully unwind and reconnect with a sense of ease and wellbeing. When she’s not in the studio, you can find her enjoying the outdoors and spending time with friends and family. Laura is available for appointments Wednesday- Friday 9am-5pm and sometimes Saturdays 12pm-5pm.