Advanced myofascial & somatic bodywork near Asheville, NC
For pain that's outlasted everything you've tried, and for the system underneath it that never quite settles. Two ways into the same work — and every session draws from both.
Pain, posture, performance
If chronic pain, restricted mobility, old injuries, or postural imbalance keep pulling you out of the life you want — and physical therapy, yoga, or acupuncture have left you empty-handed — this is the path most people arrive on.
The work: myofascial release & corrective manual therapy. Deep and thorough — but not "deep tissue" as most people understand it.
Regulation, release, reconnection
Some arrive with a system that won't settle: stress that lives in the body, emotion that never quite finishes moving through, a sense of being disconnected from yourself beneath the daily noise.
The premise: somatic therapy works with the mind-body connection to reach both physical and emotional holding — deepening sensation and feeling until what the body carries can finally complete itself. The body follows.
The work: nervous system regulation, somatic dialogue, and body-based connection therapy — gentle, trauma-informed, always at your pace. You are in control of the session at all times.
Myofascial Release
Between muscle, bone, and nerve runs the fascia — one continuous web that binds every system of the body together. When injury or stress goes unresolved, it dehydrates and becomes fibrotic, and those restrictions can press on pain-sensitive structures with up to 2,000 pounds of force — invisible to standard tests and imaging.
Traditional therapy works the muscles, and the relief is temporary. Myofascial release works the restriction itself — slow, sustained, deep without force — which is why the changes last.
What it helps, what a session is like, and the questions people ask →
CranioSacral Therapy
The quietest work in the room is often the deepest. CranioSacral Therapy is a gentle, hands-on approach to the membranes and fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord — the body's central axis.
Under this touch, clients often drop into a state between waking and dream, akin to deep meditation — and from there, the body reorganizes from the inside. An opening from within, not a manipulation from outside, with effects that reach the nervous, digestive, and musculoskeletal systems. Can be received fully clothed.
The arc of a series, intra-oral work, and somatic dialogue →
Sessions & rates
Inquire for custom Day & Half-Day Intensives —
so you can go deeper than one session allows.
Ongoing care plans are available for clients in regular treatment —
ask when you apply.
The studio is at 2 South Main St in Weaverville, ten minutes north of downtown Asheville —
and I see clients from across Buncombe County.
From the table
“Daniel has such an intentional, light, and intuitive touch that unfurled some seriously locked up spaces all down my spine. Today I woke up for the first time in months without a painful headache.”— Annika B., client
“I have had chronic pain for 20 years now and I think working with Dan might be the key to finally healing this pain for good.”— Jenn E., client
“I've had so many sessions that end up with the practitioner fighting to knead out the tension. Daniel's approach is a beautiful balance of gentle touch and the insight to apply it where it is most effective.”— Hannah H., client
“He was very intentional and I felt deep layers of myself, from old injuries, releasing. Daniel is a true treasure.”— Abby C., client
If your body already answered,
begin here.