Tomi Knutson, CMT

Tomi is amazing. Caring, warm, and a great listener, Tomi helped my infant son with some nursing-​related problems he was having. She was very sweet with him, and made him feel comfortable and safe. His latching/​nursing problems resolved themselves after two visits! I would definitely recommend Tomi to anyone, and especially for those who need a gentle body work practitioner for their wee ones.

I’ve been seeing Tomi for over 5 years now. I had searched for an intuitive, sensitive person for bodywork for a while, and was so happy to find Tomi! She has really helped me to connect to my inner self in a deeper way through cranial sacral work, and I am very grateful for that. I’ve recommended her to friends and they’ve all been so happy. Tomi is also a very sweet, warm, smart, and funny person in addition to being a very gifted at her work.

I took my 2 year old son to Tomi last week because of a lump he had on the back of his head. It had been there for months, and we did not want the doctors to x-​ray it due to radiation. My son is incredibly shy, and Tomi was wonderful with him. She was introduced herself slowly, had a gentle touch, and really read how he was feeling. Eventually, we both laid down and Tomi treated him for a half an hour — he became extremely calm and relaxed. And with the extra time, I got a treatment as well! The next morning, the lump on his head had completely disappeared.
I highly recommend her to any parents who have toddlers or children that need cranio work. But I also recommend her for parents — she does wonders for the overworked parent’s aches and pains! I plan on returning to Tomi very soon.

My son was treated by Tomi for torticollis at 2 month old. She has such a gentle, calm and confident demeanor and is great with infants which put both my son and myself at ease. The craniosacral treatment has helped significantly. Tomi is very knowledgeable about children and gave us several things to work on outside of treatment as well. We highly recommend her.

Tomi is a extremely gifted massage therapist. While she has many modalities at her fingertips she is a master at craniosacral. I started seeing her for regular massage and quickly became a big fan of the cranio. She has a strongly grounded, caring presence and is a true healer in the deepest sense of the word. Her work goes deep and always leaves me transformed. I have seen many massage therapists in the bay area but Tomi is the best! Once I found her I’ve stuck with her for the past five years. I recommend doing a mix of Swedish massage and cranio and go for a 90 min session if you have the time and cash.
Two months ago I was in a bad car accident and Tomi’s work has easily halved my recovery time. I feel so grateful to have her on my recovery team along with my doctors, great acupuncturists and my physical therapist.

I had my first full Cranio Sacral session with Tomi recently. I didn’t really know what to expect, I’ve had lots of body work, and even some energy work. CST is somewhere in between– physical things are happening but there is a subtle sweetness to the treatments that feels quite profound.
When I arrived I was feeling really out-​of-​sorts and when I left I felt whole and healthy and full of ease again!
I will definitively see her again, especially when I am going through a phase of feeling off balance.

As a fellow bodyworker, I am picky about who I see. Tomi brings a wholeness to the work, where your animal body feels met and nurtured, and your soul feels nourished and listened to. Her cranio-​sacral work is grounded, sensitive and very healing, and even if you are going in for massage, I recommend asking her to mix the cs work in. She is a practitioner that I recommend my own clients to if I am unavailable, which is high praise!

tomi pretty much saved me. i went to see her in some pretty gnarly pain. my SI joint in my sacrum was seriously screwed up from my pregnancy. i could barely walk and getting from lying down to standing or rolling over in bed was torture. literally like being electrocuted in my lower back. apparently your SI joint getting out of whack is pretty common in pregnancy with all that relaxin coursing through your blood, loosening everything up, but if that is the case i don’t understand why women choose to ever get knocked up again. i mean, seriously.
anyway, after the first visit, i felt 30% better. after the second visit i felt 70% better. and by following her instructions and taking it super easy i was back to feeling like my pain had gone down to just 5−10%. and it was no longer like getting shocked, more like just a dull ache. which i will take any day over what was going on in there before.
just had my third visit with her this week and let her know what a miracle worker i think she is. also, you will just like her. she’s sweet and really gentle and knows how to listen to your body to get it back where it needs to be. i’m really not comfortable with chiropractic and have seen a cranial-​sacral therapist before so i knew how gentle and magic it could be. it may not feel like they are doing much, but you will definitely feel a difference in your body.
peace out mamas.

Tomi was the 3^rd cranio sacral therapist i have been to in the last 4 weeks. She is fabulous! She has a confident and mild way about her that made me instantly comfortable. She placed her hand under my sacrum for about 25 minutes. I had no idea what a difference that would make to my body. After the 60 min session, when i got to my feet, it felt like my center of gravity/​my lower tailbone had dropped ¾ of an inch. My permanent stiff arch was now soft and comfy. Seven days later i still feel great. My back is flexible, and my balance so sure! She was also the most affordable with her April promo and is in Oakland!
I highly recommend Tomi.

I have been a bodyworker for 11 years and received much bodywork during that time, and Tomi is one of the best Swedish massage practitioners I have met. Her cranio-​sacral work is also amazing. She is highly skilled and brings a wonderful quality of presence and attention to her work.

Tomi provides a tender, healing touch that always leaves me feeling more grounded, more whole, more at peace. Tomi’s touch heals. Tomi is an attentive and intuitive therapist — she notices deep details and has a careful, amazing feel for what I’m experiencing. I see Tomi for both craniosacral therapy and massage, sometimes a little bit of both — both highly recommend.

This review comes from a bodyworker as well as someone who has received work from at least 15 other bodyworkers in the past.
Tomi is simply the best. i have had a lot of work and most of the work hasn’t even compared to the massage Tomi gave me. Tomi’s cranial sacral work is gentle, powerful and deep. It touches you to your very core. The support starts from the moment you walk into her office and continues until the moment you leave her office. Her presence and spirit are there, 100% for you.
Do your body and your spirit a favor and book a session with Tomi. You wouldn’t regret it.

I’m a CMT myself so tend to be a little picky about massage therapists… but I loved Tomi’s work. I went to see her because stress had created so much neck pain I could hardly turn my head. I left after the massage feeling like a 50 lb had been lifted from my shoulders. She took time at the intake interview to get a good sense of what I needed and then followed through in the massage by focusing in on areas those needs. She was both warm and professional which kept me relaxed and centered throughout the session. I would highly recommend Tomi’s bodywork.

i had never really had much experience receiving professional massage/​bodywork. consider me a convert!
tomi combines a gentle, calming presence with expert hands. she seems well-​tuned to one’s frame of mind, and will often tailor the session to fit your needs. i would recommend both the swedish massage (when your muscles just need some good rubbing) and the cranio-​sacral (when you want the effects to be a little deeper and longer lasting) body work.

I have known Tomi for over a year now. I originally met her because I was reaching out to other practitioners working with children in my community. Being a birthing doula and postpartum doula I thought she would be someone I could connect with. We immediately hit it off and became friends as well as colleagues. I learned about her doula practice and listened to her speak about what her birthing and postpartum doula experience was like and I was floored and totally impressed. Besides being a doula though, I found out she also also does cranial sacral work and massage. I knew that she did pre-​natal work but she also works on people with aches and pains that are not pregnant or connected to that world. I decided to give it a try, as I was in great need of a massage.
My first experience of body work with Tomi was what I think was a swedish full body massage. It was awesome! I felt great. So I decided to try the cranial sacral work that she does too. OMG. Seriously, it was life altering. I have been addicted to it ever since. When I go to see her I have to decide between the two modalities, and I always pick Cranial Sacral. For me its just a personal preference. But the truth is, when I am in a session with her she mixes it up a bit There are times when she does a bit of both, I think depending on what she senses I am needing. Well, whatever she is doing I am happy.
I will leave you with the experience I had that left me a believer for life. I had been going through some pretty tough stuff for quite a while during the time I first started getting the cranial sacral work from Tomi. For several months I had been feeling stuck, just really stagnated around some really big issues. Nothing that I was doing was really helping me feel unstuck either. Then I had the cranial sacral work with her. It was the first energetic movement I had felt in a really long time, and finally something had shifted. I have been seeing her on and off now for months, and some sessions are more life altering than others, but I now consider sessions with Tomi to be an important part of the holistic medicine in my life.