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Body Masters

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bodymasters.jacobcole.net is the legacy address for this connectordoc curated list.

Amazing bodyworkers, yoga teachers, qigong teachers, physical therapists, chiropractors, osteopaths, acupuncturists, etc. Started by jacob@ideaflow.io. Synced from the canonical Google Sheet on 2026-04-29.

Adjacent lists: health/Meditation Masters · health/Chronic Pain · health/SI Joint · health/Sleep · projects/Qigong Network

Bay Area focus. Also Santa Cruz, NYC, Seattle, and a few remote/online practitioners.

Yoga

  • Elise Miller (teacher and studio) — Mountain View — worlds expert on yoga for back pain and scoliosis. Highly recommend Iyengar style, which emphasizes precise alignment and props #backPain
  • IYENGAR YOGA INSTITUTE OF SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco (Fillmore) — incredible place to learn yoga; a variety of extremely skilled teachers. Highly recommend Iyengar style, which emphasizes precise alignment and props #backPain
  • Raven Fitness — San Francisco (SoMa) — aerial yoga/antigravity yoga #backPain
  • Karyn Bristol — Santa Cruz — Karyn Bristol – Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor, Santa Cruz
  • Aaron Regeneration Class at Stanford

Qigong / Tai Chi / Nei Gong

  • Catherine Burns, L. Ac. — Los Altos — beverley kane — 📧 Realhealth7@gmail.com
  • Tony Wong — Mountain View and other locations?
  • Joe Deishar — Palo Alto
  • Annalise Schaffer — Redwood City, flexible — Massage (Especially Sports), Tai Chi, Martial Arts
  • Rudi — Remote
  • Malcolm Dean — SF
  • Eli Cohen — San Rafael
  • Cynthia Li, MD — berkeley

Massage / Bodywork

  • Barbara — #domincanrepublic — <> tan
  • Nathan Jones — Bay Area, flexible — great massage therapist, really knowledgeable about occupational issues like repetitive strain injury/carpal tunnel syndrome. He is available almost anywhere in the Bay Area; does most of work via Soothe app
  • Svaroopa Embodyment — Downington, PA; San Diego, elsewhere
  • Bina Walker — Palo Alto, Mountain View — Relaxing massage; has energy awareness, iyengar yoga background
  • Stewart Alsop III — Redwood City, flexible? — #Posture
  • Kieran Haller — SF — known as "the leg guy" – cured my friend's debilitating knee pain -- patellar tendinitis
  • Alex Regalbuto — Santa Cruz
  • Emily Pugh — Santa Cruz
  • Daniel Sanson*
  • Nazelah* — Ask me again later to get correct spelling on her name

Chiropractor

  • Dr. Michael - revitalize integrated body system — Menlo Park — gentle , revitalize integrated body systems
  • Dr. Aaron Vanderhoof — Palo Alto — intense, highly up-to-date and technical chiropractor with clever solutions. Intense style, often works on people like he works on preprofessional football players
  • Dr. Raines -- raines chiropractic — Redwood City — old school thoughtful chiro
  • Anja Huq — Redwood city — Pretty good, and skilled at gentle SI adjustment techniques like Webster
  • Dr Masi Bayless — Santa Cruz
  • Alistair Moresi — woodside
  • Eric Rubin*

Physical Therapy

  • Taylor — Los Altos — brilliant general PT
  • Lisa - Diablo PT Menlo Park — Menlo Park
  • Tina Madison — Menlo Park — NKT and more as well
  • Jake Bauder — Santa Cruz
  • Harvey Deutch*
  • Janet Perrino — Incredible mastery of the sacroiliac joint -- can even assess and guide you through self adjustment over zoom. Generally extremely clever and passionate

Osteopathy / Craniosacral

Fascial Counterstrain

  • Miho Urisaka, PT, DPT, OCS — NYC — Have you heard of fascial counter strain? This is the most intense MOST traumatally releasing bodywork ever!!
  • Melynda macintosh — Seattle

Acupuncture

  • Gina Lee — LA (Torrance) + sister, beverley hills — https://www.caredash.com/doctors/gina-lee-vf74m <> Sherryl
  • Isaac Silver-Mann — Oakland — Body wizardry, the whole package
  • Eunhan Lee — Palo Alto — really good
  • Angela Lee — SF — angela lee is brilliant — also a very skilled qigong practitioner / a master of external qi/energy healing (which isn’t covered by insurance fyi)
  • Jo Birns — Santa Cruz
  • Deming Huang — redwood city
  • Brie Wieselman

Energy Work

Pilates

  • Marian - Reach Pilates — Palo Alto

Orthobionomy

  • Jim Burn* — Orthobionomy #gentle

Meditation

  • Jonathon Harrison #meditationTeacher — ending stress — https://www.amazon.com/Ending-Stress-Practical-Meditation-Transformation-ebook/dp/B00A51NFW4

Emotional / Truth Work

  • Manfred — dealing w emotional pain — https://www.google.com/search?q=manfred+radical+truth&oq=manfred+radical+truth&aqs=chrome..69i57.7976j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Other / Uncategorized

  • Linda holiday #Aikido #BodyMaster — #SantaCruz #Todo #taichimaster
  • Name — Location — Notes — 📧 Email
  • Meenal Mujumdar — Los Altos — SI specialist PT
  • Sean T Fox — SF
  • Fumi Sasa — San Francisco
  • Active Care #pt — Sf
  • (unnamed) — Emily Pugh Therapeutic Massage Emily's Wellness Massage provides deep tissue massage, swedish aromatherapy massage, and nurturing therapeutic massage. Addressing neck pain,shoulder pain, back pain,migraine relief, carpal tunnel relief, stress management, insomnia relief emilypughmassage.massagetherapy.com
  • Daniel Nazarian
  • John maxwell — Not pro, but healed own rsi with amazing trigger point self massage
  • Kiran
  • Margarita* — At the same office as Eric Rubin #gentle
  • Minda
  • Paul Lienhart, DC / Functional Medicine - San Jose
  • Stuart Alsop III

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