Our Approach
Every session begins the same way — with listening. To what your body is holding, where it's guarding, what it's ready to release. Underneath chronic tension there's often a restlessness — a kind of rapid, quiet trembling that lives in the tissue. The residue of a life lived fast. The body still bracing, still chasing, even on the table.
The work starts there. Staying with it. Communicating through touch — you're safe now, you can stop running. And slowly, it responds. The trembling settles. The breath deepens. The muscles stop waiting for the next thing.
This is the belief everything here is built on: you cannot heal what you won't allow to move. If your body is guarding, it doesn't matter what technique is used — it will resist. So we don't fight it. We bring it to safety first. And once the body feels safe, it knows exactly what to do. It is brilliant like that. It just needs permission.
Services & Pricing
Relax & Reset
Long, flowing strokes that move through the whole body like waves. Soft, unhurried touch designed to improve circulation, ease the nervous system, and bring you into a state of deep, pleasant relaxation.
This isn't about fixing or correcting — it's about letting go. No specific tension work, no postural focus. Just full-body softness that leaves you feeling calm, renewed, and back in your body.
(Swedish massage)
60 min – $130 | 75 min - $150 | 90 min – $175
Senior/Veteran: 60 min – $115 | 75 min - $135 | 90 min – $150
Therapeutic bodywork
This is focused, intentional work — not a general full-body massage, but a deeper conversation with the areas that need the most attention. Every session begins the same way: grounding, connecting, listening. What does this body need today? From there, the right approach unfolds — drawing from deep tissue, myofascial release, acupressure, assisted stretching, and more. The techniques follow the body, not the other way around.
Breath is an essential part of this work. Each exhale is an opportunity — to soften, to release, to let something move that has been held for a long time. Whether that's physical tension, emotional weight, or simply the accumulation of a hard week, the breath is what allows the body to finally let it go.
Domi works slowly and deliberately, staying with each area until it genuinely shifts — never forcing, never rushing the process. JJ brings a broader, more dynamic touch, with the same deep attunement — reading the body in real time and letting that guide every move.
Two different styles. The same philosophy: your body leads, we follow.
- Juan Jose: 60 min – $155 | 75 min - $180 | 90 min – $200 | 120 min - $275
- Domi: 60 min – $170 | 75 min - $200 | 90 min – $240 | 120 min - $310
Massage with Stretch
Where Therapeutic Bodywork invites you to fall inward, this session wakes you up.
Massage with Stretch is an active, participatory experience — combining targeted massage with assisted stretching and PNF techniques that require your engagement. We move together, communicate throughout, and work within your body's real range — never pushing past what feels right.
The result is something that's hard to describe until you feel it: joints that move more freely, muscles that feel longer, a body that feels lighter and more spacious.
This session is especially beneficial for:
— Athletes and physically active people looking to perform and recover better
— Anyone dealing with stiffness, limited mobility, or repetitive movement patterns
— Desk workers carrying tension from hours of sitting
— Older adults wanting to maintain freedom of movement and joint health
— Anyone who simply wants to feel more at ease in their body
60 min – $160 | 75 min - $160 | 90 min – $210 | 120 min - $275
Tune-up session
For clients who already know their body — and know what needs attention.
Because we already know your patterns, your history, and your trouble spots, we skip the assessment and get straight to work. These sessions are designed for returning clients who want consistent, targeted support between longer appointments — without always committing to a full session.
Ideal for neck and shoulder tension, lower back discomfort, forearm strain from desk work, or simply maintaining what we've built together.
Think of it as regular maintenance for a body you want to keep moving well.
*Available for returning clients only. Please note that since our practitioners travel to the studio, we occasionally need to consolidate our schedule. If your Tune-Up is the only appointment booked that day, we may reach out to suggest a small time adjustment. We deeply respect your time and will always give you advance notice and flexible options.
Couples Reset
Some of the best things in life are better shared.
This session brings two people into the same space, the same slowness, the same permission to let go. Each person receives their own massage — fully tailored, fully present — followed together by an immersive Sound Lounge experience where low frequencies move through the body like waves, dissolving whatever the day left behind.
No agenda, no rushing. Just two people dropping in, side by side, and coming back to themselves — and each other.
Perfect for couples, close friends, or anyone who wants to share something that goes a little deeper than dinner.
sound lounge experience
There's a moment that happens for most people — usually quietly, when they least expect it. A drop. The body stops holding and begins to melt into the table. The low frequencies move through you like waves, carrying the mind away from wherever it's been stuck, until all that's left is the music and the present moment.
This is the Sound Lounge — a fully clothed, deeply immersive experience where sound and vibration do the work. No touch required. The frequencies resonate through the body, gently balancing the nervous system, easing anxiety, and creating a stillness that's difficult to reach any other way.
Choose from a curated library of meditative frequencies — designed around themes like grief, transformation, and chakra balancing — or bring your own playlist. Anything with deep bass, low tones, and rich sound becomes something else entirely when you feel it moving through your whole body.
30 min – $40 | 45 min – $60 | 60 min – $80
Available as a standalone session or a beautiful way to open or close your massage.
*Booking by request only.
IN-HOME & MOBILE MASSAGE
Moon Waves Bodywork now offers in-home massage therapy and mobile bodywork sessions, bringing relaxation and healing directly to you.
Service Areas:
- Walnut Creek
- Lafayette
- Concord
- San Francisco
Booking & Availability
To schedule an in-home session, please call, text, or email us directly.
Availability depends on travel distance and scheduling.
Travel Fee: $30–$50 added to your massage service (based on location).
Senior and veteran discounts do not apply for in-home visits.
Why Choose In-Home Massage?
- Experience professional bodywork in the comfort of your own home
- Perfect for seniors or clients with limited mobility
- Convenient for busy professionals and parents
- Deep relaxation without the stress of driving after your session
Gift Certificate
Give someone you love the gift of time — time to slow down, drop in, and be fully taken care of.
A Moon Waves gift certificate is an invitation to receive. To put themselves first, even just for an hour. Choose any amount, redeemable for any of our services.
*To redeem, contact the studio directly via email, call or text
Our Team
Domi
Domi's path into bodywork began with a gift — a single massage from a dear friend who saw how much stress she was carrying. She had never had one before. What she felt afterward wasn't just relaxation. It was a revelation. She knew in that moment she wanted to create that experience for others.
In school, she fell in love with the mechanics of the body — posture, movement, range of motion. She trained across a wide range of modalities: deep tissue, myofascial release, Swedish, Thai, assisted stretching, acupressure and more. The techniques fascinated her. But something about the way they were often applied didn't sit right — pushing against the muscles, forcing change. The body, she noticed, would brace and resist. There had to be another way.
It took her own unraveling to find it. When life brought loss after loss and she had nothing left to carry, her body simply stopped releasing — no matter who worked on it. What she needed wasn't stronger hands or a different technique. It was someone who understood that the body can't heal while it's bracing. She couldn't find that person. So she became her.
That experience transformed everything about how she works. She still draws from the full range of what she knows — but safety comes first. She reads the body, earns its trust, and lets that guide which technique belongs in this moment, with this person. The result is work that doesn't fight the body. It moves with it — and the body, finally feeling met, allows itself to change.
Juan Jose
Juan José came to massage therapy through one of life's most tender experiences — watching his grandmother navigate Alzheimer's disease. In moments when words couldn't reach her, touch could. He discovered early that his hands had a language of their own, and that this language could offer something nothing else could. That discovery became a calling.
Originally from Spain, he arrived at massage school already knowing things that take others years to learn. The intuition was there — born from years of simply being someone who reaches for touch when someone is hurting. His love language has always been physical presence, the instinct to help through contact when he sees someone in pain or moving with limitation.
School sharpened what was already innate. His externship at a chiropractic office deepened his understanding of how the body moves, compensates, and holds injury. And his time at StretchLab revealed something he hadn't expected — how profoundly people respond to assisted stretching and mobility work. Clients didn't just feel better. They felt free. He became known for it quickly, and it became a cornerstone of how he works.
Today his sessions draw from deep tissue, therapeutic massage, and advanced stretching techniques — always guided by what the body in front of him needs most. Warm, powerful, and deeply intuitive, he brings full presence to every session. Clients often leave feeling not just relieved, but genuinely cared for.
Ezra
Ezra's path into bodywork began with their own healing. They know firsthand what it means to need a space that feels safe — to need someone who meets you where you are before asking anything of you. That experience didn't just draw them to massage therapy. It shaped everything about how they practice.
Trained in the intensive 800-hour program at the National Holistic Institute, Ezra works across a wide range of modalities — combining techniques intuitively and adjusting in real time to how the body responds. There is no fixed routine, no predetermined plan. Each session is built from scratch, guided entirely by what the person on the table needs in that moment.
At the heart of their approach is a belief that regulation is the doorway to restoration. Before the body can release, it needs to feel safe. Before tension can shift, it needs to be met — not pushed, not rushed, not forced. Ezra creates that quality of presence naturally. Calm, warm, quietly precise — they bring a stillness to the room that makes it easy to stop bracing and simply receive.
Their work is deeply restorative. The kind of session where you drift inward, lose track of time, and surface feeling genuinely held. Not just physically lighter — but more settled in yourself.
For Ezra, this work is reciprocal. Helping others regulate helps them stay connected to their own sense of safety and groundedness. That mutuality is what makes their presence so authentic — they're not just offering care. They're living it, session by session, alongside the people they work with.