Activbodywork

In addition to relieving and resolving soft tissue tightness and pain, I can help you maximize your range of motion for peak performance and reduce the chance of injury - and reinjury, as well as increase flexibility and functional mobility.

We work together to help you re-learn more functional movement using principles of biomechanics as our guide to stop repeated cycles of tightness and pain, helping you use your body the way it was originally designed to move.

New name, new focus with Activbodywork -- focused on client care one-on-one and in a small group setting, to help you find relief from pain and discomfort and to retrain your body to maintain healthy, comfortable movement.

For details about private sessions and mini-workshops for clients please visit activbodywork.com.

My Professional Credentials

I am Diane Gallagher. I have been a Licensed Massage Therapist since 2009 in the mountains of western Colorado and from 2004-2012 in Southwestern Ohio. I earned Personal Trainer Certifications in 2007 and 2015 and, like many of my colleagues, have studied a variety of Massage & Bodywork modalities and techniques since I started Massage School in 2002.

Here's a nice article from an interview of several of my students and I, published 18 June 2014: Dayton Daily News on The Rossiter System.

Much of what I now do incorporates bits and pieces of a variety of ways of helping others, while still maintaining a clothes-on therapeutic bodywork practice that can be done just about anywhere - and has, over the years.

My former clients, students, friends and colleagues looking for me will have known my Ohio practices as Massage in Glendale and Bodywork with Sole, and my former Colorado Rossiter practice as Rossiter Stretching. You'll find my contact information at Activbodywork.

Are You in the Wrong Place?

If you landed here looking for a Rossiter Workshop or a Rossiter Practitioner, a quick google of "The Rossiter System" or "Rossiter Stretching" will get you there. I googled "Rossiter Stretching" on April 7, 2021 and 32 Rossiter websites were listed before this website showed up, so you'll find where you need to be easily enough that way.

Richard's work is brilliant. I worked with most of the current Rossiter Instructors, who have been practicing and teaching for years, and they're all excellent. I highly recommend this work (under ANY name) as a very effective and efficient way to get out of pain and a wonderful way to help others, especially during these times of physical distancing, and I wish you well on your journey.

My Rossiter History

I have been a Certified Rossiter Coach since 2005, a Certified Rossiter PainSlayer since April 2013 and was a Senior Rossiter Instructor, teaching The Rossiter System from 2007-2015 to massage and bodyworkers, and movement and fitness professionals in the US, Australia, New Zealand and Malta.

I was mentored by the founder, Richard Rossiter, from the beginning (living about 15 miles away made that easy) and helped with everything from assisting him in teaching workshops and doing demonstrations of his work at conventions in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana to editing workshop and marketing materials, for the two years before he trained his first group of Instructors (including me) in 2007.

In 2012 I created and managed a new company website for The Rossiter System, after many hours over about a year of struggling with the president of the website design company for help, to no avail. I managed the workshop division of the company - with over 2,500 students and practitioners; created and implemented a viable Instructor Training program, a distance learning certification program and a couple of small workshops to help practitioners find more ways to reach people in need. In addition, I helped Richard develop workshop content and edited training materials. Three of the current two-day workshops still use the names I came up with and likely much of the content I created and edited.

Basically, I was up to my eyeballs in keeping things going, along with Richard Rossiter and Ruth Nottage, from 2012 to 2015 when Richard and Ruth chose to work with the person now running the company, to take it all on without me.

I transitioned my work over to Richard over a period of several months, to ensure my leaving would be transparent to new students, practitioners and my fellow instructors. Those three groups are why I dedicated endless hours to the work. I believed they should not be impacted by the change in management that necessitated my departure.

Going back to early 2010, with Richard's approval, I coined and registered the name Rossiter Stretching, as well as this domain name, as my Colorado private practice name and he pointed me to his logo designer to create the one on this web page, to which I later added, "now ... activbodywork!"

I think it was in 2019, shortly after Richard was suddenly no longer at the helm of the company he created in the early 1990's, that the new CEO of The Rossiter System decided to begin using the name Rossiter Stretching, adding the acronym RST for Richard's work, as well, in place of The Rossiter System and TRS.

The company name has gone through a number of changes in their Wyoming and Ohio registrations since 2015 from The Rossiter System Inc to Rossiter LLC and The Rossiter System LLC. The actively used company name now appears to be Rossiter Stretching LLC.

I am now being told by the current CEO and President of that company that any confusion and loss of potential business because of their adopting an already established business name is my fault for not handing over my business name domain to him. The latest request is for me to shut down my site to help him out, since he does not like the terms I provided to him for purchasing my active domain.

This site is up and running so my clients, former students, colleagues and friends can still easily find me.

As a savvy, experienced business man, it is my belief that he should be doing less finger pointing and blaming and more creative problem solving. I did not create this problem. He did.

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