Shaina Cantino in Northampton

Shaina is such an incredible massage therapist and person — I have been working with her for nearly two years and am so grateful for the ways in which she has supported and guided my healing.

Shaina uses her hands with intention and grace. When I walked out of her office, I felt a sense of peace of comfort in my own body I haven’t felt for a while. She is professional and a great body work practitioner.

Shaina is a fantastic bodywork practitioner. In addition to her hands-on skills, Shaina's professionalism and communication are excellent. Shaina brings to her work a great depth of knowledge, respect, consciousness, and care for the human body. For me, her work promotes an ever-deepening and enriching sense of body-awareness, which is a profound gift.

Shaina is incredibly skilled as a massage therapist and I especially appreciate her craniosacral work. I’ve been going to her for years and always have positive results. She’s helped ease muscle tension and nerve pain. She is intuitive, kind and supportive. I highly recommend her!

I've been getting massages and cranio-sacral therapy from Shaina for two years now, and although I've always enjoyed massages in the past, I've never before felt compelled to go back to the same therapist every single time I got a massage. To say this is the best experience I've ever had with a massage therapist doesn't even quite describe it since Shaina's approach just seems so completely different--more attuned and holistic--than any other massage I've ever received. She's helped me through a couple aches and injuries, but I try to see her regularly because even if my body feels fine, it's so clear that this is an excellent ingredient in my overall well-being on all levels. I've given friends and family gift certificates for bodywork with Shaina, as well, confident that I'm giving them something really special and necessary. She has a very respectful and gentle presence, and the atmosphere of her studio is also pitch-perfect. I can't recommend her highly enough.

Shaina is such a wonderful bodyworker. I love her combination of Swedish massage, deep tissue, Cranio, and other modalities. I always leave feeling more relaxed, more at ease in my body, more joyful, and more alive. I recommend her work highly!

Shaina is a very very gifted massage therapist. I feel so lucky to have found her. She is deeply intuitive and somehow is able to target my painful areas with great gentleness, almost like washing them away by reconnecting them with the rest of my body. I always used to think that a massage needed to be painful (hard pressure, "working out knots," etc.) in order to be effective, but Shaina has totally changed how I think about what a massage is and what makes it effective. For just one example: last year, over the course of several months, I developed really awful tightness and pain in my neck and lower skull. It was waking me up at night, and it also seemed related to this sudden onset of really bad tinnitus that was also causing me to lose sleep and just generally feel despairing. I finally went to see Shaina and she healed me--I could literally feel the pressure in my neck and skull diminishing, and when I woke up the next day (after sleeping through the night!) my tinnitus was gone. I have really decided that seeing her once a month from now on is a crucial aspect of taking care of myself. Shaina is not only a gifted massage therapist, she is also just a very calm/calming person to interact with. The moment I step into the room, I feel stress start to drop from me. I find her massages to be as helpful mentally as they are physically--she creates an atmosphere of deep quiet and calm where time seems to stop and I find my mind able to wander in ways it normally isn't able to. I wish I knew more of the technical details of what she is actually doing with her hands, because it's so powerful and I would love to be able to describe what actually makes her so different from other bodywork professionals I have seen. I can not recommend her highly enough. Seeing her is always a great experience and I always leave feeling lighter and younger and enormously refreshed.