One of the best massages I've ever had. I deal with serious pain issues due to consistent property…read moreand yard work--and old injuries. I was often suspicious of therapeutic massage when I was younger, but Integrated Orthopedic Deep Tissue has made a believer of me. Client for over 7 years. Can't recommend enough.

Brian was great! After seeing my doctor, and a chiropracter and massage therapist, Brian was the…read moreonly one to provide me with relief! He knew exactly where to target the massage but it was the exercises that he slowly worked me into that did the trick! Loved the massage, but the long-term relief from doing daily (sort of yoga style) exercises was wonderful. My lower back pain was intense and had been going on for 3 months, with medication! After just a few sessions and learning new stretches, my back pain is gone!

I've been to Present Breath twice, once for a relaxation session and once for a massage. Meghan was…read morefull of great suggestions for reducing my stress levels and the massage was stellar. She was great about taking feedback during the massage so I never felt like it was too hard or to soft. Because of construction, the location was a little hard to get to, so just make sure you go around the back of the building. Otherwise the ambiance was very relaxing, and each time I've been was a great experience.

i've dealt with lower back pain since my early 20s, i think mostly from my sedentary lifestyle…read moreprogramming, and have seen multiple massage therapists and physical therapists over the years and this is a very unique experience i'd recommend. i went to present breath for massage- but also agreed after lengthy discussion to add the jin shin service for relaxation at the end. although i certainly recommend the massage, the combination with the relaxation technique is soo good. meghan is so soothing and relaxing, and i would encourage the massage/jin shin for anyone going through a tough time or dealing with a stressful workplace.

Hannah is a truely amazing massage therapist. Her touch is deeply healing. She knows just where to…read moreapply just the right pressure. She has the spirit of a shaman. After a 90 minute massage my chronic hip pain disappeared. I highly recommend her.

The particular lifestyle I live, being an avid yoga trainer/practitioner, involves a tremendous…read moreamount of physical exertion. Not only do I practice as often as possible, but I am also moving quite a bit while I teach, facilitating the efforts of others. The practicing itself is strenuous and in my life currently, my practice is less about building flexibility and much more about engagement and creating a spacious alignment. That being said, every body has its blockages and tendencies and given my self-awareness I do work to improve my practice to hold space for these tendencies, but they remain in some degree regardless of my augmentations as with each and all bodies. I have unique insight into the proper ways in which the body should move and be best utilized as I can see those efforts in others while I teach. I am able to see the common factors in all the varying tendencies of misalignment and while I can always help others be more aware of those blockages, I cannot always become more aware of them within my own physicality as these tools and techniques only breach the walls of the flesh so deeply. On top of that, the emotional and more subtle experience stirring within my students compounds within my practice, finally often being held in my physical... sometimes this entire process of very natural, yet stressful living, all organizes and focuses into one of these areas where I have such tendencies to form blockages. For example, I hold tension in my left shoulder and with many different experiences furthering my understanding of the area effected, I can fully see the connections between opposing muscle groups and the obvious truth regarding their only seeming separation... even more so do I now see how not only are all these physical elements all connected, if even in a chaotic manner, but the more subtle levels of my being are all connected in this way also. I would be a fool to ignore all this insight being brought to bare by my own mind and body, but also through skilled colleagues and friends in the health industry who have helped me to better see how I store and digest stress, and who have helped me facilitate this digestion. Hannah, more than others, has been able to not so much explain to me or educate me on the matters i describe, because she has always displayed trust in my understanding bodily, but not at all surprisingly she was able to truly empathize within the moment of therapeutic massage and connect to my body fully. Her innate skill, unlike others in her place prior, is to really connect and experience my body and in her actions educate ME in terms of utilizing her physical connection to me and the hands on approach to my blockages, all just as an opportunity to tune into the more subtle levels of my traumas and facilitate their digestion. There is a particular baseline of trust and rapport built between us and my energy against hers carries with it a dynamic true to this commentators recollection, but in the end I have worked with hundreds and only few have reached the same depths as she. I believe her ability to achieve this depth comes from her conceptual understanding of unity within mind and body... her understanding of the physical left me feeling trustworthy at every step... but in the end it was her confidence, clearly born from her curiosity to breach the surface and tune in like an antennae, and without fear see past my "knot" or my "past trauma" to attach to the energy and just essentially move it around like in the free-flowing sequence of a dance, but with 33% attention to form and function, 66% is full out empathic sensitization. At the level I practice and facilitate the moving of negative traumatic energies, this sort of integral understanding is absolutely necessary if a therapist is going to successfully manage the natural tendencies of my unique, divine design. I can say, with the utmost honestly and with all hyperbole aside, that this healer, so called Hannah is absolutely incredible at what she does.

I have been to lots of massage therapy places and wow, this place is amazing. It really surprised…read moreme. Life at Boston can be very stressful, so people really need a good full body massage. My first impression is that the place is very clean and neat which is very important. Since I have scheduled everything with David before I got there, I did not have to wait and just directly enjoyed my massage. I got a 90 minutes massage and really enjoy every minute of it. David really knew what he was doing. It felt great.People always saying that you get what you pay for, but at this place, you get more than you pay for. It only cost me 100 bucks with a 90 minutes massage. I'll definitely come to this place regularly.

Marina is delightful. The atmosphere is comfortable. I really wish there was art on the walls.read more

I have gone to see Emily 4 times now. It took about 3 treatments to notice a difference in my…read moreconditions. Emily offers community acupuncture. That means you are being treated with other people in the same room. She also offers a great rate. A sliding scale of $20 - $40. You pay what you can afford that day

What a pleasure having my first appointment with Anne yesterday and receiving an excellent…read moretreatment due to her expertise in listening and experience in treatments.

How did I not discover this paradise sooner? Granted, the…read moreunassuming, small space Looks like a suburban living room, but... You leave feeling like it was a five star spa! Anne is a licensed, master acupuncturist with a very nurturing, empathic personality. THE DEAL: she allows you to stay for as little or as long as you want for each treatment. They also offer us sliding payment scale... Although their prices are already, by far, the cheapest acupuncture in Back Bay Boston!

Full disclosure - I am related to one of the stylists here (Liz). That said, I've gotten cuts and…read morecolor at many salons in the Boston area (including super fancy places downtown) so I feel that I can offer a fair assessment of how the services here compare to others. While I was initially hesitant to have Liz do my hair because I didn't want to hurt her feelings if I didn't like the outcome, I have to say that her cut and color were SO much better than what I've had done in Boston and EXACTLY what I wanted! She has a unique talent for listening to what the client wants and getting it exactly right. Plus, the salon is super cute and cozy. It was well-worth the hour drive, which I will be making regularly from here on out! :-)

I was excited to make an appt. for Beauty Queens. I love the name and that it's an organic salon…read moremade me even happier. The person who greeted me was professional and friendly, putting me at ease. That's where it ended. I really don't think they knew much about cutting hair. I became uncomfortable and ended up leaving before it was styled. Because of that, my leaving, I'm sure that the pieces that are uneven are my fault, but the cutting and styling process was the oddest I've ever had. And the cut, pretty horrible.