About your therapist

Vasily earned his BS and MS in Exercise Science at the State University of Turkmenistan and completed a 1350-hour program at the National Holistic Institute in San Jose, a federally accredited College of Massage Therapy. He has spent the last 20 years in the massage, health, and wellness industry. Vasily is a certified Advanced Neuromuscular Massage Therapist, a certified Orthopedic Massage Practitioner, a certified Clinical Rehabilitative Massage (ACM), a Sacroiliac Joint Specialist Certification: Hesch Method of Manual Therapy.

Vasily’s training is based on medical and orthopedic massage. He incorporates myoskeletal alignment techniques, active isolated stretching, deep tissue and trigger points, sports massage, cupping, and myofascial release into his treatments.

Vasily focuses his work on massage for pain reduction, structural re-alignment, injury recovery, and maximizing athletic performance and injury prevention. He is interested in helping people with structural dysfunction resulting from daily activities or sports-related participation. Modern active or inactive lifestyles can lead to pain issues in the body. Vasily’s techniques address these issues.

Currently, he also works at the Sports Medicine Department in the Athletic Training Center at Stanford University providing sports massage for the athletic teams including men’s water polo, swimming, wrestling, and baseball.