Lance Minnis, LMT

10/04/2026

Affordability is a primary concern.

I have ALWAYS striven to provide massage to everyone regardless of ability to pay...from sliding scales to community days.

Unfortunately, costs are going up for all of us, and it is getting more expensive to PROVIDE massage.

Massage is healthcare. Massage is for everybody. It should be accessible to everybody.
This is my current solution. By stripping away some complexity I can provide an hour of pain relief. Anxiety relief. An hour of parasympathetic activation to get your body off the fight or flight cortisol train.

Come see my in my practice, at the old Good Shepherd School on Wapping St in Frankfort.

Walk out of THIS healthcare appointment actually feeling better.

LINK IN BIO

10/01/2026

For the first time in well over a year, I feel hopeful for the future.
I have talked a lot about challenges with business, but not so much personal.

I lost my father in 2023. Our relationship had deteriorated nearly to the ending point, and with his death no possibility of reconciliation.
In 2024, my marriage began to fall apart.
In 2025, as I attempted to rebrand my business after my life changing trips to Iceland and Finland, the marriage ended, and a bad business decision later in the year nearly ended me.
2026 brought the Louisville ordinance, a divorce, and the sale of the house I'd owned for 15 years, as well as the panicked attempt to move my entire life and inherited household to storage.
Ive been wearing the same 5 tshirts since February.
I wear my scrubs everyday because thats what I have thats not in a box. Ive lived in my empty house with a microwave and electric kettle, ive lived in my bus, and ive lived in the apartments and houses of others.
Im grateful for all of it.

In the midst of it all, Ive tried to keep showing up. For you, for my business, and for myself.
Ive tried to stay professional, offer healing and sanctuary and loving kindness. I hope Ive succeeded, and I am so grateful to you all.

Today, I moved the last of my stored items into MY new apartment. It looks like that second pic for now, but at last i can sit on a chair that remembers me, and put on a jacket I havent seen in 8 months.
I have a beautiful new studio, thats light and comfortable and welcoming.

VERY good things are on the horizon, and Im glad youre here with me to experience them.

Siida Community

09/23/2026

Was an ACL/women's soccer day today.
Had a great session with a friend talking footie and maintaining her performance, who has had an ACL injury.
Then the latest Ted Lasso, which has a major plot point of ACL injury/identity in women's soccer.
Fun to get my brain percolating in that direction again.
ACL United

09/22/2026

Last minute opening TOMORROW Tuesday Sept 22 in Louisville at Louisville Natural Health*.
1:45PM
Last opening in Louisville until October

*LNH is exempt from Lou Metro anti-massage therapy ordinance as a health care facility staffed by a doctor.

09/19/2026

Movement is essential.
Doesnt have to be the gym.
Doesnt have to be yoga, or a class.

Get up. Wiggle your hips. Stretch your arms around. Dance in place like youre 3 years old.
The body is beautiful and amazing and resilient.

09/14/2026

Getting real today, and breaking the fourth wall.
I don't typically like the Insta "business oversharing while sitting in the car holding a lavalier mic" thing, but things have been building up lately.
It's harder than ever as a small business to keep the doors open.
Retail, services, restaurants and bars....they NEED YOUR DOLLARS.
Not your likes...your actual financial support, in buying the things they've worked so hard to learn for, and train for, and offer to us the public.
The machine is killing us.
So I'm asking you to stand up for what makes you human, to stand up for the people and things and businesses you value.
Thanks for listening to my PSA 🙂

09/14/2026

Robert at Louisville Public Media wrote this excellent piece on the Louisville anti-massage ordinance.
It shines a light on some of the muzzy thinking that engendered it, as well as the need to repeal, not amend, it.
I am quoted quite a bit.

Licensed massage therapists in Louisville say they’ve been caught in the crossfire of city officials’ attempt to crack down on illicit businesses linked to human trafficking.

09/13/2026

Hey yall, i have openings for massage this Friday the 18th, at Kentucky’s #1 Choice for Natural Medicine in Frankfort!

Therapeutic massage, injury relief and maintenance, sports and active massage...got you covered!

Kentucky’s #1 Choice for Natural Medicine is a lovely comfortable sanctuary to reset and renew.
Visit The Light Clinic dot Jane App dot com@to schedule!
thelightclinic.janeapp.com

09/08/2026

"You can have a beautiful body, and look marvelous...but if it's not BREATHING it's not ALIVE".
-Freddie Gruber, jazz drummer

09/07/2026

New carpet in the studio/Siida Community Room, y'all!
Look at it POP!!

And hey....old smells are gone, new vibe is energetic and welcoming

And Rex der Ubershophund loves it!!
Siida Community