Coda Badamo-Connors He/They
Massage Therapist, NCLMBT #22601
Dance / Movement Instructor
Thai Bodywork and Conditioning Rates:
45 minutes / Thai Bodywork: $50 - $80 // $65 suggested
75 minutes / Thai Bodywork: $80 - $120 // $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 alternate movement-based pathways.
What is a conditioning session?
One-to-one movement based coaching session, including exercises, games involving props, coordination sequences and/or creative movement. Experience with dance/movement is not required.
When combined with bodywork, conditioning works to build awareness of movement patterns through repetition.
It can be helpful to enter this session with a premeditated goal, such as addressing a part of the body, or building a movement capacity, 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 became certified through 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.
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 studies throughout an unexpected 9 month residence in Thailand during 2020.
Other practices:
Coda is a contact improvisation (CI) dancer and facilitator, partnering as an instructor with the Living Arts Collective in 2024. With a passion for balance and coordination study, he leads conditioning classes for memory care patients at residential treatment facilities.
Coda is a member of Triangle Aikido Dojo, where he practices as a novice under dedicated practitioners of Yoshinkan Aikido. He enjoys dancing outside and holding space for outdoor ensemble improvisation. Check out his eco-somatic project, began in 2022 with recent ancestor Dave Heron Hamilton: Feral Ecology Archives.