• Advanced myofascial techniques
• Oncology massage • Chronic pain management • Injury recovery • Stress management • Breathing mechanics • Natural gait function • Trauma release • Craniosacral • Sound therapy • Mentoring and education • MVA insurance billing 
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Structural Listening Touch
Massage & Bodywork with Hamid Shibata Bennett, LMT, CAMT
Bodywork for the 21st Century 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. Optimize sports and dance performance by increasing range of motion and proprioceptive awareness. Myofascial release (MFR) and massage therapy is helpful for reducing stress, anxiety, cancer related fatigue, and post-surgery pain. Hamid has experience with scar tissue, peripheral neuropathy, lymphedema, reconstructions, radical surgeries, scoliosis, post-traumatic stress, and complex pain patterns. Find awareness and comfort in your body! Presence. Touch. Intention. Skill. The story of the body is woven in the river of our fascia. Held in our gesture, our walk, our posture, our breath. Bodywork creates an opportunity for mindful awareness. A kinesthetic conversation. A guided meditation of therapeutic touch and movement. A dance of the nervous system, of muscle, of bone. This is the structural listening touch of advanced myofascial bodywork. Click here to schedule your bodywork session from your computer, smartphone or tablet! Hamid's latest solo album, Impermanence is available on Bandcamp.
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Myofascial Bodywork: Oncology massage for the 21st century
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Advanced Myofascial Techniques in Portland, Oregon with Hamid
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Hamid Shibata Bennett, LMT, CAMT (OBMT #301) is a bodyworker, musician, writer, 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 new approach to the language of massage therapy. His bodywork nurtures awareness with structural listening touch, creative movement, 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, writer, and minimalist runner. He is director of Compassion Arts PDX in SE Portland, Oregon as well as president and co-founder of Taking Care Cancer, a local 501c3 non-profit offering beautiful, meaningful experiences for folks touched by cancer.
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 new approach to the language of massage therapy. His bodywork nurtures awareness with structural listening touch, creative movement, 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, writer, and minimalist runner. He is director of Compassion Arts PDX in SE Portland, Oregon as well as president and co-founder of Taking Care Cancer, a local 501c3 non-profit offering beautiful, meaningful experiences for folks touched by cancer.
Hamid Shibata Bennett, LMT, CAMT (OBMT #301) • 3810 SE Belmont • Portland, Oregon 97214 • 503-975-1259
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