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A holistic health practice offering therapeutic myofascial bodywork, structural integration, and massage. This practice was created to contribute to the rich and multiple alternative medicine offerings in the Berkshires, offering unique and specialzed modalities of bodywork to the community.
At the heart of this practice is a commitment to providing personal, non-surgrical, non-pharmaceutical approach to the treatment of health concerns including chronic and acute pain symptoms, structural imbalances in the body, as well as physical, mental, or emotional trauma.
treatments
To schedule your treatment, please fill out the contact form below or reach out via email or text.
Accepted methods of payment are cash, check, venmo, and bank transfer.
Craniosacral Therapy
60 minutes $180
CranioSacral Therapy is a light-touch healing technique that releases tensions deep in the body, relieving pain and correcting dysfunction. It was pioneered and developed by Osteopathic Physician John E. Upledger after years of clinical testing and research at Michigan State University where he served as professor of biomechanics.
Sessions are fully clothed,and clients can expect gentle, hands on techniques to release those problem areas and relieve undue pressure on the brain and spinal cord.
**If pricing is an impediment to receiving treatment, please email me to inquire about a sliding scale of payment.
Myofascial Therapy
60 minutes $180 90 minutes $220
Myofascial therapy is a technology of touch originating from the teachings and principles of Ida P. Rolf and the students who have advanced her work in soft tissue manipulation. Unlike traditional relaxation or Swedish massage, in which rubbing and kneading the muscle bellies themselves induces a state of relaxation, myofascial therapy releases restrictive holding patterns in the body and mind by releasing, spreading, and lengthening the broad planes of soft connective tissue, or fascia.
Ideal for those seeking treatment for pain, lack of mobility, or discomfort in one or two areas of the body.
Structural Integration
Single: $220 10 Sessions: $2200
We begin with an initial, hands-on consultation session in which we delve into your medical and emotional history, areas of chronic pain, and determine together if structural work is right for you.
The following ten sessions systematically reorient your body’s structural relationship to gravity from calcaneus to cranium. While following a general route towards integration set out by Dr. Ida Rolf, each session is customized to address causative patterns of habituated pain, dysfunction, and injured. Structural work invokes an increase of awareness to the overall relationships between the various segments of the body.
10% discount to pay upfront for all ten sessions
In-Home Treatments
+$50
Ideal for clients for whom receiving treatment in their home makes bodywork more accessible, convenient, or comfortable. The this option is open to residents of the Southern Berkshires from Pittsfield to the Connecticut border
(please inquire by email if you live outside of this radius and are interested in an in-home visit).
About Me
Kayla Robbins is a somonaut, researcher, caregiver, and a licensed massage therapist in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Raised in Boston suburbia, Kayla began her apprenticeship of therapeutics not in the somatic realm, but in the world of the mind. She earned her MA in Theology at the University of Edinburgh in 2019, followed by an MPhil in Theology, Religion, and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Cambridge in 2021. In graduate school, it was the question of how our concomitant experiences of love and wounding relate to each other that drove Kayla towards philosophical inquiry with such ardent power and investment.There, she encountered the English medieval mystical tradition, German Idealism, post-Marxist critical theory, trauma theology, Kierkegaardian existentialism, and Latin American Liberation Theology; all of which yielded a powerful set of tools to work with the question of human suffering and how it gives rise to our understanding and experience of what love is.
After returning to the United States, Kayla continued to chase that question - but this time with her hands in the form of direct care. She has spent the remainder of her twenties so far working in suicide prevention, elder care, children’s religious formation in the Anglo-Catholic tradition, and care for youth and adults with disabilities.
For Kayla, this pursuit of study and direct care work and has culminated in training in myofascial bodywork and structural integration, which she undertook in 2023 at the New England School of Therapeutics under Richmond Dickson, who introduced her to the potency of human touch and trained her to wield that tool with specificity and skill. She also trained in Craniosacral Therapy with the Upledger Institute, adding a gentler and softer modality of healing, listening touch from the Osteopathic medical tradition.
She is currently working through the Upledger Institute towards the highest certification level offered, and she is honored to be a Fellow at the Western New England Institute of Psychoanalysis in their two year Scholar’s Programme where she continues to study the links between body, memory, touch, trauma, and mourning.
As a bodyworker, Kayla continues to pursue care work and research around bodywork, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and Marxian economics of care. In her clinic, she brings to the table an approach that is intimately responsive, intuitive, and specific. Employing movement and breath in her bodywork, Kayla seeks not only to be an excellent healer but pedagogue; in receiving bodywork from Kayla, you receive first and foremost an education, quite literally, in how you feel. Equipping clients with tools to become better acquainted with their material selves, Kayla facilitates the possibilzation of agency towards wholeness through deliberate, attentive, and slow conversation between her body and that of her clients.
Words in Response
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Kayla brings that rare combination of personal depth and technical excellence to her work. Working with her has brought a renewed sense of agency in my own body as the sensitivity and curiosity of her touch lends itself not only to being worked on (and at that she is tremendous) but to being handed the keys to take up residence in my own body. Being with her has been like learning a new language I hardly knew existed and I"m hard pressed to imagine a better conversation partner than Kayla
Ben C.
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Kayla is the most intentional and compassionate bodyworker I've ever experienced; never once did I feel like just a body on the table. She created a space of deep saftey and care that supported my healing in profound ways.
Yoni G.
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I've had a handful of massages before, and my experience had been a felt sense that my body craved care and healing in the form of physical touch (especially in a touch-averse world, at that), but at the same time skepticism of what was really available in the world of massage therapy. Kayla completely broke that assumption. She demonstrated profound trustworthiness and skill, and what before I experienced as something closer to a haircut, with her became a new experience of physical dialogue, and a new possibility of intimacy with myself I never anticipated. Thank you Kayla!
Jack S.
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Kayla Robbins’ entire presence, in my experience, is one of healing. It is almost indescribable the difference I have felt before getting on her table, and after getting off. She has helped me to find a patience for and curiosity about my body through her touch, encouragement, and her ability to model those values for others. She goes out of her way to ensure every touch is fully consensual, and expected. She has helped me to find ways to achieve a body/mind connection that allows me to continue to heal even when I’m not on the table. I cannot recommend her work enough, especially to those with chronic pain or who are seeking a trauma-informed practitioner.
Nesh M.