Shaina Cantino

Positive: Communication, Professionalism, QualityShaina is a very very gifted massage therapist. I feel so lucky to have found her. She is deeply intuitive and somehow is able to target my painful areas with great gentleness, almost like washing them away by reconnecting them with the rest of my body. I always used to think that a massage needed to be painful (hard pressure, “working out knots,” etc.) in order to be effective, but Shaina has totally changed how I think about what a massage is and what makes it effective. For just one example: last year, over the course of several months, I developed really awful tightness and pain in my neck and lower skull. It was waking me up at night, and it also seemed related to this sudden onset of really bad tinnitus that was also causing me to lose sleep and just generally feel despairing. I finally went to see Shaina and she healed me–I could literally feel the pressure in my neck and skull diminishing, and when I woke up the next day (after sleeping through the night!) my tinnitus was gone. I have really decided that seeing her once a month from now on is a crucial aspect of taking care of myself.Shaina is not only a gifted massage therapist, she is also just a very calm/calming person to interact with. The moment I step into the room, I feel stress start to drop from me. I find her massages to be as helpful mentally as they are physically–she creates an atmosphere of deep quiet and calm where time seems to stop and I find my mind able to wander in ways it normally isn’t able to.I wish I knew more of the technical details of what she is actually doing with her hands, because it’s so powerful and I would love to be able to describe what actually makes her so different from other bodywork professionals I have seen.I can not recommend her highly enough. Seeing her is always a great experience and I always leave feeling lighter and younger and enormously refreshed.Shaina is a very very gifted massage therapist. I feel so lucky to have found her. She is deeply intuitive and somehow is able to target my painful areas with great gentleness, almost like washing them away by reconnecting them with the …More

Shaina is a very very gifted massage therapist. I feel so lucky to have found her. She is deeply intuitive and somehow is able to target my painful areas with great gentleness, almost like washing them away by reconnecting them with the rest of my body. I always used to think that a massage needed to be painful (hard pressure, “working out knots,” etc.) in order to be effective, but Shaina has totally changed how I think about what a massage is and what makes it effective. For just one example: last year, over the course of several months, I developed really awful tightness and pain in my neck and lower skull. It was waking me up at night, and it also seemed related to this sudden onset of really bad tinnitus that was also causing me to lose sleep and just generally feel despairing. I finally went to see Shaina and she healed me–I could literally feel the pressure in my neck and skull diminishing, and when I woke up the next day (after sleeping through the night!) my tinnitus was gone. I have really decided that seeing her once a month from now on is a crucial aspect of taking care of myself.