About Moonstone Skin and Body Care

Moonstone has many meanings and properties, including love, power, protection, healing and luck. Moonstones healing properties which brings balancing, calming, and healing or maintain the yin and yang plays an important role during skin care. Aesthetics or skin care therapy helps balance the yin and yang of our skin. This is why the name Moonstone plays an important role in our name as well as our treatments and products.

Janie Escamilla is the founder and director of Moonstone Skin and Body Care

She is a graduate of San Jose State University. She has over 10 years of experience as a marketing and public relations executive representing well-known technology and consumer companies. In search of work/life balance, she found solace in her local esthetician seeking a place to rejuvenate her tired skin and relaxation. During the process, she found that the treatments effectively cleared up her adult acne and provided a safe haven where she could recharge her mind, body and spirit.
Janie Escamilla as a child
After much reflection and reminiscing about her introduction to the field of esthetics as a child by her beloved Grandmother, Janie sought out on a new path and a new profession that would integrate wellness into her daily routine. At the end of this phase of her journey, Janie received her esthetics license from the Cinta Aveda Institute as well as additional training under Sandra Morrow, MD at Union Street Medspa in San Francisco. However, her story doesn't end there.


Acting from her highest truth and paying homage to her Grandmother, Janie founded Moonstone Skin and Body Care in Novato where her daily focus is on providing the best skin care solutions and body treatments for her clients as well as seeking out natural and organic ingredients to include in all facials and treatments she provides.

When she’s not providing skin care treatments to her clients, Janie can be found hiking with her husband, Barry and their three dogs, Kingston, Henry and Tana.

Annica Menicutch, Certified Massage Therapist and Health Educator

Annica Menicutch CMT, is a proud graduate of the National Holistic Institute in Petaluma, CA. She completed over 720 hours of the extended program and is trained in a variety of modalities like: Swedish, Trigger points, Deep Tissue, Pain Relief, Joint Mobilization, Stretching, Pregnancy, Reflexology, Sports Massage, Acupressure, Shiatsu, Thai, MFT, Polarity (Energy Work), Rocking and Shaking, Hot Stone Massage, Chair Massage and more. She specialize in tailoring your massage to your specific needs using verbal communication before massage sessions, through goal setting, and listening to the body’s tactile cues during massage. She addresses pain, postural deviations, stress, athletic training, injury recover, headaches or just relaxation. Annica has a nurturing touch that zeroes in on just the right spots to help ease pain and stress and restore function to cramped, overused or injured muscles. Her goal is to help clients feel better by working toward improving health, mobility, flexibility, energy flow in the body and peace of mind.

Dave Miller Certified Massage Therapist

Dave Miller has been a certified massage therapist for over seven years and is a graduate of the National Holistic Institute in Emeryville, CA. At the Institute he completed over 720 hours of the Bodywork Program where he trained in Swedish, Deep Tissue, Rocking & Shaking, Pregnancy, and Acupressure/Point work, Sports, Cryotherapy and Zen Shiatsu. Over the years, Dave has served as independent contractor supporting a number of Marin businesses and community, including Evo Spa, Lighthouse Wellness Center and DeSalvo Chiropractic and Wellness Center. Dave believes that massage should be a part of everyone’s health and wellness plan and it’s a perfect complement to any other holistic treatment individual choose in caring of their body. In addition, Dave approach of massage therapy is by providing a healing space of trust, comfort, and peace which in turns gives room to open and empty our minds, tune back into our body’s rhythms, and release stuck energies physically, emotionally and mentally – creating an a healthy alternative healing to our mind, body and soul. Dave is a member of the American Massage Therapy Association and currently offers massage therapy and body assessments at Moonstone Skin and Body Care in Novato, CA.

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