Gary Mendelson

Gary Mendelson is an advanced neuromuscular therapist and health educator with a background unlike that of any other massage therapist. He was a professional theater artist for 25 years, as a dancer, singer and actor who performed in many major Broadway productions. During his two years in CATS, his body sustained many injuries, and the production company always provided therapeutic massage to the cast as needed. He was awed and amazed that massage therapy could get him out of pain and back to work the same day. That’s when the seed was planted to heal others through touch. But it would still be a few more years until he rode that dream to reality. He continued his acting career, and between show stints, opened and built a successful chain of candle stores in New York City. Having sold the candle stores, Gary moved to San Francisco and his ultimate dream of healing and helping people through touch came to fruition. 

Since 2009 he has been a California Certified and Licensed Advanced Neuromuscular Therapist and Health Educator, a “body mechanic”, as he calls himself.

Gary’s therapeutic massage techniques encompass the nervous system and muscular systems together. He isolates where the pain is coming from, and then uses several massage modalities to re-educate and realign the muscle fibers to go back to their normal position. He also retrains the nerve movements of the brain to actually get rid of the pain. Gary’s massage techniques are also a great complement to physical therapy, chiropractic, acupuncture, and other healing systems (https://themassagegarage.net/tune-ups-2/ ).

In addition to global video health education, Gary serves the entire San Francisco Bay Area. His office is located in the Lower Haight neighborhood, which allows clients easy access from Cole Valley, Duboce Triangle, the Castro, and Twin Peaks to come to him. Give Gary a call at 415.845.7143 or have Gary contact you (https://themassagegarage.net/contact/ ) to setup your initial appointment.