Coda Badamo-Connors He/They

Massage Therapist, NCLMBT #22601
Dance / Movement Instructor

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

75 minutes / Thai Bodywork: $80 - $120 // $100 suggested
90 minutes / Bodywork: $100 - $ 140 // $120 suggested

60 minutes / Movement Conditioning: $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 pathways of movement and coordination.

What is a conditioning session? Using exercises, coordination sequences and/or creative movement to explore a painful area, limitation, or desired capacity. Experience with dance/movement is not required. When combined with bodywork, conditioning works to build awareness of movement patterns and sequencing.

Bodywork training:
I was introduced to Thai bodywork in 2015 by Chuck Duff and Doug Ringwald. I became a certified practitioner through their program in 2018, which incorporates muscle energy techniques 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:
With a passion for balance and coordination study, Coda facilitates conditioning for memory care patients at residential treatment facilities, and conditioning for dancers at 9th St. Dance Studio. He is an instructor with Express N Release, bringing therapeutic dance into schools. 

Coda is a member ofTriangle Aikido Dojo, where he practices Yoshinkan Aikido. He enjoys dancing outside and outdoor ensemble improvisation. Check out his eco-somatic project, Feral Ecology Archives, began in 2022 with recent ancestor Dave Heron Hamilton.