By Maggie Beamguard
Earthbound Therapeutics, a small business offering a variety of holistic and alternative therapies, was brought to Seven Lakes in January of 2024 by owner Natasha Baker.
Baker offers services unique to the area including nutrition muscle testing, biomagnetic therapy and thermography.
A military spouse, Baker has lived in the area for 14 years and comes to her current practice from the medical field. She worked up and down the east coast as a flex nurse and as a birth and postpartum doula.
“I’m really passionate about utilizing health and wellness, and when I was in the medical field, I didn’t see people getting better,” she said.
Through her own health challenges, including a diagnosis of lyme disease, and guided by her faith, Baker was led to alternative healing therapies. This higher calling to both physical and spiritual healing birthed the name of her business — Earthbound.
“I felt like I was here to serve the Kingdom of God and to bring his service earthbound,” she said, “but also help not only babies being born but also women being born as new mothers.”
She began exploring midwifery, but she says, “God had other plans.” Her journey led her to explore Chinese medicine and then to pursue massage therapy. Many of her clients benefit from Ashiatsu massage, a deep tissue massage done with the therapist’s feet and body weight.
In addition to her massage services, Baker is eager to highlight some of her unique offerings, particularly thermography.
In thermography, a highly-sensitive, medical infrared camera maps temperature variations in the body, which are then interpreted by a board-certified physician known as a thermologist. Thermography does not require direct contact and does not expose the body to radiation. It can be used to aid in the detection of disease, cancer and inflammation. While the Food and Drug Association says mammography is “still the most effective primary screening method for detecting breast cancer in its early, most treatable stages,” it has cleared thermography among the “adjunctive tools” to primary screenings.
“After a patient’s thermography scan is read and completed by an acting physician, I then consult and educate them on their next steps, discuss a wellness and treatment plan if they choose alternative options in the additional therapies offered in my clinic,” Baker said.
For Baker, who works with a group of doctors, it is all about giving people options.
“It is really at the discretion of the client or patient on what they want to do with the information. This is giving them all the tools in their toolbox of options for treatment.”
Having worked in the medical field for over two decades she sees both sides. “I really feel like the body has the innate wisdom to heal itself basically, but we need the tools to do it.”
Baker is also trained to offer nutrition muscle testing. This therapy uses kinesiology to communicate with the body. According to her website, it is a non-invasive system of analyzing the body in order to determine the root cause of ill health. Neurologic reflexes are tested for information about how the nervous system is doing. She makes nutrition recommendations based on the evaluation.
Earthbound also provides biomagnetic and BEMER therapies.
It is important to Baker to be part of a team that provides support and information.
“I just want to be able to give people options and to have alternative ways to wellness,” Baker said. “They’re not alone, and they have the innate wisdom to heal themselves.”
For information about Earthbound Therapeutics, located at 1163 Seven Lakes Drive, West End, visit www.earthboundtherapeutics.com.
Contact Maggie Beamguard at maggie@thepilot.com.
