Durham Community Bodywork

Durham Community Bodywork has been nominated for Best Massage of Durham for 2026!

If you want to see us highlighted in the coming year, you can cast a vote for our practice using the link below. We are so grateful to be recognized for our efforts to offer quality accessible bodywork. Our organization is also celebrating 10 years of practice! Stay tuned for updates and offerings.

As always, thank you for your support!

Vote for Your Favorites in Best of Durham 2026 Our annual poll is back! You can cast your ballot now for your local favorites.

Can't make it to our community clinics? You can still receive a pay-what-you-can session!
Did you know ~ you can book PWYC services with any of the practitioners at Durham Community Bodywork?
Through donations to our community fund, we are able to subsidize sessions for community members who cannot pay our sliding scale minimums. Email [email protected] to submit a request. No questions asked.

If you want to support our mission and allow us to continue this offering, you can cashapp us via $communitybodywork, or get in touch for another payment avenue.

Meet your crew from our latest Community Massage Clinic last Saturday - just a part of our 13 member team who put so much heart (and time! and energy!) into these events.

One very sweet part of our clinics that happens behind the scenes is the time we spend together before our first and last sessions of the day. Part of our care for you is a care for each other and this project itself. Before we begin we do somatic practice together, we make requests of each other and offer support, and we close the day together with a recap of celebrations and learnings, refinements for the future. We also take time to connect with why we do this and all the people and experiences that make it possible - including you, including our teachers, including Mel and Megan and Hayley and Gabi who built this model 10 years ago, including all of us. We hope you can feel the love pouring through!



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Coby Jansen Austin



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Feeling big gratitude for and their crew! It feels so good to have our clinics in a place where so much deep, communal, liberatory work is happening. Thank you for being a space for all of this and all of us. ❤️🔥

One more clinic to go this season - December 6! We'd love to complete this season - and our 10th(!!) year - by offering you our sweet blend of massage and rest in the nest of community care.

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Rest is a key part of our community bodywork sessions - to honor the body's need for space, and to be in a community where slowness, safety, and care - where bodies in their unencumbered state - are valued and protected.

We're so grateful to be a part of providing skillful, compassionate care in community. We see this as a form of sustenance that helps us take time, restore, and keep going in the midst of hard times. Our massage therapists and integration guides and front desk welcome crew are all here, working together to make this possible for ourselves, each other, and for you.

We have just a few spots left for our clinic this Saturday - booking in the bio, sliding scale for all sessions and PWYC community fund support available.

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Our next Community Massage Clinic is this Saturday, Nov 1, and we have just a few (mask optional*) spots left - all of which are available for support from our community fund!

We need spaces where we can feel safe enough to slow down, rest, and be cared for - spaces where we can do this together. It's so meaningful to us to be able to provide such a space. Our clinic team cares well for each other, and we bring that collective support to each session with you - working with you to help ease discomfort and stress, and tucking you in for cozy guided rest.

Community massage sessions are sliding scale $55-100 and community funded pay-what-you-can-spots are available. Booking and community fund form are in the you-know-where!

*Fully masked sessions are still available on Dec 6!

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Member Spotlight ✨ Meet Coda! (he/they)
Offering Thai Bodywork and movement based sessions at DCBW
“Sessions are fully clothed on a floor mat, and can include breathwork, joint mobilization, and deep compression. I approach bodywork as a careworker, dancer, and martial artist. My goal as a practitioner is to support clients' experience of new or remembered movement-based pathways that can leave the mat with you.”

You can book with Coda, or any of our practitioners on our website ~ link in bio!

Member Spotlight ✨ Meet Carey! (she/her)
Offering CranioSacral sessions at DCBW

“I offer CranioSacral Therapy for deep relaxation and rebalance, meeting you with compassion and trust. I aim to provide a felt sense of safety, so the nervous system can unwind and release painful restrictions and trauma. Licensed since 2011, trained in CranioSacral since 2014, and always deepening my skills.”

You can book sessions with Carey, or any of our practitioners through the link in our bio!

In the pause between clinics we're taking a moment to appreciate this crew making a nurturing space for you to slow down, receive care, and feel safe enough to rest awhile in community. We're so lucky for the skill and heart in our clinic team and the enjoyment of working together on something we find so meaningful!

Upcoming clinics on November 1 and December 6, Nov 1 is almost full!

And here's our sweet crew from October fourth! (left to right):

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Coby

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Jayden


To get in touch with folks not linked here, email us (in the bio) and we'll connect you!

📷 : at our clinic on 10/4

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Tomorrow (Saturday, October 4)! We have three spots available. Booking closes Saturday morning.

We're preparing for Saturday, a day of collective care. On one level our preparation is ensuring that all of our supplies make it to our host space. On another level we are in the constant practice of being in community.

Community is necessary for healing and creation. We are grateful for the space at to offer massage, rest, and togetherness in this moment. Check out their other events this month! Sharing power is expansive.

NOTE: Our first two clinic sessions this Saturday (11am and 11:45am) will be mask required for clients and practitioners. The 1pm and 1:45pm sessions will be mask optional.

📷 : during one of our recent trainings.

[image description: a group of people review group agreements in a massage clinic space with hardwood floors and soft light.]