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Level II certification in Advanced Myofascial Techniques

​Oncology massage & cancer survivorship
Chronic pain & stress management • Injury recovery
Breathing mechanics • Gait function • Trauma release
Craniosacral • Scar tissue • Pre & post surgery
Visceral & intra-oral bodywork • Myofascial unwinding
Sound therapy • Mentoring & education ​


MVA & Personal Health Plan Insurance Billing 

​Hamid is a preferred provider for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oregon, 
Pacific Source, & Providence

"For credit" sessions for students of Advanced-Trainings.com

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Compassion Arts PDX:
​Myofascial Bodywork for the 21st century

Massage & Bodywork with Hamid Shibata Bennett, LMT, CAMTII

Hamid can help you find an ease in your breath, in your walk, in those every day activities. Change your relationship to chronic pain. Recover from acute injury and motor vehicle accidents (MVA). Optimize sports, dance, and musical performance, exploring range of motion options and proprioceptive awareness.

My myofascial bodywork practice is an advanced form of clothing-on massage therapy helpful for reducing stress, anxiety, pain, and cancer related fatigue. Hamid has experience with scar tissue, peripheral neuropathy, lymphedema, reconstructions, radical surgeries, scoliosis, post-traumatic stress injury (PTSD), and complex chronic pain. Find awareness and comfort in your body!  

What do we hold in our gesture, our walk, our posture, our breath? Myofascial bodywork facilitates an opportunity for mindful awareness. A kinesthetic conversation. A guided meditation of therapeutic touch, movement, and stillness. A dance of the nervous system, of muscle, of bone, engaging the body as a biotensegrity, dynamic, lively, sensate, and wise.

Presence. Touch. Intention. Skill. The story of the body is woven in the river of connective tissue, our neuro-myofascial web. This is the structural listening touch of advanced myofascial bodywork. It would be an honor to walk along your healing path.

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About Hamid

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Hamid Shibata Bennett, LMT, CAMTII (OBMT #301) is a licensed massage therapist and myofascial bodyworker with a Level II certfication in Advanced Myofascial Techniques through Advanced-Trainings.com and has numerous other trainings, including myofascial release (MFR), craniosacral, oncology massage, deep tissue, trigger point, neuromuscular therapy, structural reflexology, inter-oral bodywork, energy work, and more. He blends his additional experiences in the Sufi healing arts, meditation, and sound therapy into unique sessions, designed to unlock the potential for healing held within the human body.

Hamid is also a multi-instrumental musician, singer, recording artist, sound therapist, writer, published photographer, educator, and rare cancer survivor. He has crafted his life to bring a little hope to folks. 

His history of cancer goes back to the atomic bomb. His father, an Air Force fighter pilot in World War II, witnessed one of the atomic bomb blast tests in his thirty year career. That's a flash of light that has followed the family ever since.

Hamid was born in Tachikawa, Japan in 1973 and has lived in Oregon since 1976. His mother was Japanese, with Samurai in her lineage. His father was a small-prop fighter pilot in World War II (his favorite was always the P-51 Mustang), then later was in communications and cryptology with top secret clearance. Hamid's uncles on his father's side were all career military, fighting in World War II, in various branches of the military; they all saw action and they all came home.

In 1991, the year of the Gulf War, after six months of stumping the doctors, Hamid was diagnosed with a rare lymphoma. There were nine documented cases before him. He was the first to live beyond six years.

Hamid has been a student of the human body since 1999, when he started massage school. Early in his career, the myofascial network of the human body became a study of fascination. Hamid brings a modernized approach to the haptic language of massage therapy. His bodywork nurtures awareness with structural listening touch, creative movement, stillness, presence, and mutual intention. The experience is a dialogue of awareness, of letting go... a guided somatic meditation. He has been in private practice since 2002.

Hamid is a licensed massage therapist specializing in cancer survivorship and oncology massage, advanced myofascial techniques, trauma release, gait function, breathing mechanics, injury recovery, and chronic pain. He is also a multi-instrumental musician specializing in improvisation and sound therapy, a recording artist, photographer, filmmaker, and writer. He is director of Compassion Arts PDX in SE Portland, Oregon. In 2015, he began offering sound therapy at Veteran's Affairs as part of the Cancer Care Navigation Team. In 2016, he was appointed to and is the current chair of the Milwaukie Arts Committee, on the platform that the arts and creative expression is an essential element in our health care.


Hamid Shibata Bennett, LMT, CAMTII
3810 SE Belmont Street
Portland, Oregon 97214
Phone/Text: 503-975-1259
E-mail: hamidlmt@gmail.com


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