Coda Badamo-Connors They/He

Massage Therapist, NCLMBT #22601
Dance / Movement Instructor

Thai Bodywork and Conditioning Rates:
45 minutes / Thai Bodywork: $50 - $80 // $65 suggested

75 minutes / Thai Bodywork: $70 - $100 // $85 suggested
120 minutes / Thai Bodywork + Conditioning: $120 - $160 // $140 suggested
60 minutes / Conditioning only: $50-80 // $65 suggested

Hello ~ thanks for your interest in my practice. I approach bodywork as a careworker, dancer, and martial artist. I enjoy working with clients to identify movement-based pathways for building somatic awareness and movement capacity.

For your first session, please select one of the following:
75 minutes bodywork
90 minute bodywork
60 minute conditioning session

Additional sessions:
45 min bodywork: focused on one or two areas, intended as a follow-up
120 min bodywork + conditioning: ~30 minute conditioning session and ~75 minute bodywork session, with some space for integration.

What is a conditioning session?
1-1 movement based coaching session, adapting curriculum from my dance and movement instruction to your particular goals. Experience with dance/movement study is not required. For those who have taken class with me, in this setting, I can support moving deeper with the curriculum.

These sessions can look like guided stretches, exercises, games involving props, building sequences or creative movement. It can be helpful to enter this session with a premeditated goal, such as addressing a part of the body, or building a movement skill, so that we can focus our time together.

Bodywork training:
I was introduced to Thai bodywork in 2015 by Chuck Duff and Doug Ringwald, and completed their practitioner training program in 2018, which incorporated muscle energy techniques and trigger point therapy into Northern Thai style matwork. This modality, which is now taught by the Coaching the Body Institute, aims to adapt Thai massage to individuals for whom traditional sequences may be contraindicated. This could include those with hypermobility, or acute injuries that may be aggravated by end-range/multi-joint stretches. As such, I have experience practicing Thai bodywork with people who don’t like a lot of pressure or intensity, as well as people with hypermobility and mobility impairments. Even after training in table massage, I prefer to work on the floor, applying Thai principles of leverage and multi-surface contact, while engaging techniques from other modalities.

In 2019, I pursued Thai bodywork and movement arts study in Thailand through programming at the Siam Healing Centre, and with Mikis Taguchi. Practitioners of the TOWARD Centre for Embodied Arts and Transformative Learning supported my practice and artistry during my unexpected 9 month residence in Thailand during 2020.

Other practices:
Coda is a contact improvisation (CI) dancer and facilitator, partnering with the Living Arts Collective in 2024 teaching CI fundamentals and intermediate+ technique in Durham. They enjoy dancing outside and holding space for outdoor ensemble improvisation.

With a passion for balance and coordination research and methodology, he instructs conditioning classes for memory care patients at residential treatment facilities.
Coda is a member of Triangle Aikido Dojo, where he studies as a novice under dedicated practitioners of Yoshinkan Aikido.

Check out their eco-somatic research project with recent ancestor Dave Heron Hamilton: Feral Ecology Archives