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Therapeutic bodywork
Slow, strong, attentive work shaped around your body, your goals, and the amount of intensity that is useful today.
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Touch • Presence • Movement • Words
Helping people return to themselves.
Bodywork, coaching, and movement education for greater ease, awareness, capacity, and aliveness.
Based in Berkeley, California. Coaching is also available online.
The helm of destiny
Several ways in. One practice.
Touch, conversation, movement, and writing are different ways into the same practice: becoming more present, capable, and alive.
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Presence
Coaching
A steady place to meet your experience honestly and develop clarity, self-trust, emotional range, and choice.
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Movement education
Practice in strength, coordination, mobility, awareness, adaptability, and play—at a level that meets you where you are.
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Eye of the Mountain
Poems, autobiographical writing, and practical frameworks on grief, relationship, adaptation, and becoming more alive.
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Therapeutic bodywork
Strong work does not have to be forceful.
My bodywork is firm, slow, and precise. We may work near the edge of useful intensity, but the goal is never to overpower you. The work remains collaborative.
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Kind words
Depth, precision, and care.
“It felt like you had a deep understanding of my body's map. Every pressure point and the intensity were perfect. It's honestly the best massage I've ever had. My knee has a much better range of motion now, and my whole body feels so much lighter.”
“Tommy is gifted. Intuitive. Deep, pensive work. Allowing for gentle release of tension. A workout, yet healing. Outstanding.”
“My massage put me in the ASMR zone, which rarely happens. That's a sign of just how skilled the massage was. So much control and intention.”
“Great session. Tommy listened to my needs and expectations and followed through. Very firm and effective pressure, with great work identifying knots and tension and staying with the areas that needed attention.”
“Tommy has a good innate sense of what needs to be worked on. He finds what is tight and stays with it.”
“Excellent deep tissue work. My best massage so far. Everything was exceptional.”
“Firm pressure. He brought me right up to the edge of my pain threshold in a very controlled and gentle way.”
“Great. Transcendent.”
“He worked my shoulder so well. I feel so much better. Tommy, you're amazing.”
“Loved it. It went so fast. Tommy is an amazing massage therapist.”
“I feel much more circulation in my wrists and feel incredible. I especially appreciated the long, sustained pressure on tight areas.”
About Tommy
Practice changed my life gradually.
My work grew from decades of movement, touch, grief, relationship, meditation, and practice. I do not believe people are broken; I believe we adapt intelligently, and change becomes possible when we have enough support and choice.
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Begin where you are
Not sure where to begin?
Tell me what brings you here. We can decide together whether bodywork, coaching, movement, or another direction makes sense.