Two hands. Two generations. One recipe.
Myo Glide has always been made by practicing bodyworkers, for practicing bodyworkers. The recipe has passed from one treatment room to another — never to a factory floor.
Nancy Thorpe
Myo Glide began with a request from Nancy's teacher, Donna Bajelis. A physical therapist turned Hellerwork practitioner and the founder of the Institute of Structural Medicine, Donna kept saying the local Structural Medicine community needed a product made close to home — one that could give enough grip for deep, slow work without dragging the skin, and without the wait and cost of shipping something in from out of state. One of the Hellerworkers was already making small batches for his own practice and shared his methods; he wasn't interested in producing it in quantity. Nancy stepped up.
She blended coconut oil and beeswax on her own stove, poured the first jars for that treatment room, and the name Myo Glide stuck — a quiet nod to what the work itself needed. Word moved through the profession the way it moves in bodywork: one therapist telling another. Thirty years on, the ratio hasn't changed. What Nancy started on a home range is what leaves the workshop every week.
Morgan Houghton
I came to Myo Glide first as a practitioner, then as a student of the same Structural Medicine lineage Nancy learned in. A former professional dancer, I trained four years at the Institute of Structural Medicine and have been in practice since 2019, completing my Advanced Certification in 2024.
When Nancy asked me to keep the recipe alive, it meant keeping the same small batches, the same two ingredients, and the same standard that the work itself demands. I still make it from my own treatment room — the same table the product was built for.