About Dana
About Dana
Dana Twigg is a Licensed Massage Therapist with more than 25 years of hands-on experience supporting clients in relieving tension, restoring balance, and reconnecting with their bodies. Her work is especially suited to people who live with intensity, effort, and engagement – those who give of themselves fully in work, movement, caregiving, creative life, athletic effort, or daily responsibility, and who benefit from a space to reset and restore.
Dana’s approach to bodywork is grounded in careful listening through the hands, attention to breath and tissue response, and deep respect for the body’s natural capacity to reorganize and heal. Rather than applying a fixed routine, each session unfolds responsively – guided by what the body reveals and what kind of support is most helpful in the moment.
Over the years, Dana has developed a style of work that blends therapeutic bodywork, nervous system awareness, intuitive felt sense, and grounded professional skill. Her sessions may include massage, breath awareness, aromatherapy, stones, Reiki, red light therapy, Spinal Flow contacts, or other supportive approaches, but the heart of the work remains the same: listening carefully and responding to the body with presence, discernment, and respect.
Her background includes both clinical and high-performance environments, including work with athletes, teams, creative professionals, and people in demanding fields. These experiences have contributed to a refined sensitivity to the body’s patterns and an approach that is both skilled and responsive. Dana’s work is grounded in the understanding that when the body is listened to carefully, it often knows the way back to balance – and how to return there.
Professional Training & Background
Dana’s work is shaped by more than 25 years of hands-on practice, continued study, and deep respect for the body’s natural intelligence. Her professional background includes therapeutic massage, sports massage, hot stone therapy, pregnancy massage, craniosacral therapy, polarity therapy, kinesiotaping, Spinal Flow Technique, Reiki, expressive movement, moving meditation, and somatic awareness practices.
She trained in Hot Stone Massage through La Stone, and studied Craniosacral Therapy and Polarity Therapy through the Life Energy Institute. Her background also includes training in pregnancy massage, kinesiotaping, expressive movement, moving meditation, and Spinal Flow Technique. Dana is a Third Degree practitioner in the Usui System of Reiki and has studied Shri Vidya spiritual practices, meditation, and Vedic philosophy. In addition, she completed undergraduate coursework within the University of California system through the junior level.
This breadth of training allows Dana to bring both structure and sensitivity to her sessions – blending therapeutic skill, intuitive listening, and a grounded respect for each client’s individual needs. Her approach is not one-size-fits-all; each session is shaped by what the body presents, what the client is carrying, and what kind of support will be most helpful in the moment.
Intuition & Felt Sense
My work is guided by a combination of intuition and felt sense. Over many years of practice, my hands and attention have developed a sensitivity to subtle changes in tissue tone, breath rhythm, and the places where the body may be holding tension.
Felt sense refers to the body’s direct experience – the quiet signals that arise through touch, movement, breath, and presence. Intuition means responding to those signals in the moment rather than applying a rigid sequence of techniques.
Together, intuition and felt sense allow each session to unfold in a responsive and individualized way, supporting the body’s natural capacity for balance, release, and well-being.
Breath & Awareness
Breath is not treated as something to perform or control. In this work, breath is often an invitation back into the body – a way of noticing what is already happening and allowing the body to soften from within.
At times, you may be gently guided to bring awareness to your breath, especially in areas where there is tension, sensation, or change. You might simply notice the natural rise and fall of the breath, the quiet pause between inhale and exhale, or the way the body begins to soften when it is given space.
Awareness of breath can become a kind of internal touch – a way of sensing into the body from within and supporting connection between the nervous system and your felt experience. There is nothing you need to do correctly. Your body already knows how to release, regulate, and restore. Breath and awareness simply support that process.
Voice as Vibrational Touch
During some sessions, gentle vocal tones or breath sounds may arise as I respond to what I feel in the body. These sounds are not scripted techniques, but a natural extension of somatic listening – much like the hands responding to changes in tissue, breath, or areas of tension.
Because sound is vibration, the voice can act as another form of touch. Soft tones may support relaxation and deeper breathing, while at times a brief, breath-driven sound can help interrupt a tension pattern and allow the body to reorganize.
This response is not planned or performed. It emerges naturally in moments when the body is already moving toward release or integration. The work remains grounded in therapeutic bodywork and overall well-being.
