Tessa Knight CMP

11/25/2025

A few days left to purchase raffle tickets for the Thanksgiving drawing. Don’t worry, if you don’t win this time, your ticket remains in two more raffles.

$20 for one ticket.
$100 for six tickets.

Your welcome to text 707-223-1014 to purchase by Venmo, or meet in person for a cash exchange.

Thanksgiving raffle: one hour
Christmas raffle: one hour
January 1st raffle: 1/2/3 hour session package.

Holiday raffle's with TessaKnightCMP.com

A warm thank you, and fun way to celebrate the holidays. One free entry for every 90 minute session purchased between Nov 17th and January 1st.

Tickets for purchase
$20 single ticket
$100 six tickets

The intention for this raffle is to spread awareness that Tessa's Deep Bodywork®️ practice includes two, and three hour sessions. Creating excitement and surprise during the dark lull in the season. Raising funds in anticipation in attending a advanced Deep Bodywork®️ hip/shoulder/back class in late January at Esalen Institute.

January winner is at a $840 value.
Gift certificates available

Pricing until 1-1-2026
Hour $100-$140
90 minutes $210
120 minutes $280
180 minutes $420

Text 707-223-1014 to schedule. State cert # 64729. 10090 Hwy 9, Ben Lomond, Suite 3.

11/25/2025

11/25/2025

November 25th-29th schedule for Bodywork is fully available.

11/22/2025

"I can only afford one terrible massage a year." That used to be my motto. Tired of throwing money away on inferior bodywork? So tired that you gave up looking for the right therapist? TessaKnightCMP.com may be the right fit for your, kneads. Searching for a suitable bodyworker can be exhausting, and expensive. Treat yourself (or a friend,) and explore this Holiday Season with Tessa Knight CMP.

Rate Increase 1-1-2026

TessaKnightCMP.com
10090 Hwy 9 Ben Lomond
Text 707-223-1014 to schedule
State Cert # 64729

11/19/2025

What happens during a three hour Deep Bodywork®️ session?

The first few minutes involves compressions over a flannel sheet. This is the practitioner taking in information about your body. Introducing touch, gaining trust. Adjusting limbs, and freshening up your feet with warm towels. Fifteen minutes of Esalen®️Massage, again, gaining trust. Back work, proper draping, using the long stroke, to apply salve along the length of your body. This "introduction" takes about 45-60 minutes.

Chances are we have worked together before and have managed to create a plan in advance. Fulfill an hour and forty-five minutes of your session using this menu.

Feet-30 minutes: includes top of foot, anterior Tibialis, fascia surrounding heel and reaching into Achilles.

Stomach/Core/Psoas-45 minutes: Palpitation of your Quadratis Lumborum, Diaphragm, Psoas, HH adjustment. This work can help with digestion, lung capacity, constipation, and mood uplifting.

Deep Hip-45 minutes: Warm up with Deep Hip phase one, then dive into Deep Hip phase two. This work is preformed with the client laying on their side, supported by a head, and body pillow. Proper, secure and mindful draping is ensured. This session is completed with firm pressure of the Lesser Trochanter. This work will leave you feeling almost reborn.

TMD (jaw)-30-60 minutes: This could mean intra-oral (confirmed in advance) or exterior jaw and face massage. scalp, neck, arms. Carpal Tunnel can be rooted in jaw strain and it may be necessary to address the chain reaction.

Shoulders 30-60 minutes: Shoulders are a globe and your arms start in your lower back. This may involve inter-costals work (ribs), pecks, neck, rotator cuff, traps.

Legs-30-45 minutes: Assisted stretching, knee work, IT bands, Back of knee, Thai compression (Practitioners knees in your glutes and hamstrings.)

Carpal Tunnel- 40 minutes: for lack of a better description, gently and firmly smash your arms like they're in a compression machine, with awareness. Some neck and possible jaw work.

Neck-40-55 minutes: Gentle and firm, cross fiber, hot towel protraction, stretching. Potential for tenderness the next day 98%.

After about two hours and forty-five minutes the session is completed with more soothing Esalen Massage®️, Hot towels on your feet and a Thank You.
Three hours is designed to allow your body to feel completely tended to. Depth, pace, and grace with TessaKnightCMP.com

Located at 10090, suite 3. Hwy 9, Ben Lomond Ca
State Cert #64729
Text 707-223-1014 to confirm your next session.

11/19/2025

Support well rounded, full spectrum, healthy practice. Happy holidays.

11/18/2025

Tessa Knight CMP was raised underneath the belly of a horse (in Boulder Creek, CA) Often having difficulty separating Bodywork from the equine matrix. Learning as a youth to have solid communication with horses, cultivating unspoken sensitivity and intentions.

Touch Over Tools: Fascia Knows the Difference

In bodywork, tools can assist — but they cannot replace the intelligence, sensitivity, or neurological impact of human touch.
Hands-on work communicates with the body in ways no device or instrument can.

1. Hands Provide Real-Time Feedback Tools Cannot Match

Your hands sense:
• tissue temperature
• hydration and viscosity
• fascial glide
• subtle resistance
• breath changes
• micro-guarding
• nervous-system shifts

This information shapes your pressure, angle, and pace.
Tools apply pressure — hands interpret and respond.

2. The Nervous System Responds Uniquely to Human Touch

Skin and fascia contain mechanoreceptors that respond strongly to:
• sustained contact
• warmth
• contour
• slow, intentional pressure

Human touch activates pathways that:
• quiet the sympathetic system
• reduce pain signaling
• soften protective muscle tone
• improve movement organization

Tools stimulate tissue.
Hands regulate the nervous system.

3. The Effect of Physical Contact Itself

Physical contact changes physiology — even before technique begins.

Touch triggers:
• lowered cortisol
• increased oxytocin
• improved emotional regulation
• better proprioception
• reduced defensive tension

Horses and dogs — whose social systems rely on grooming, leaning, and affiliative touch — respond especially deeply.
Tools can compress tissue, but they cannot create that neurochemical shift.

4. Hands Follow Structure; Tools Push Through It

Fascia does not run in straight lines — it spirals, blends, suspends, and wraps.

Hands can:
• contour around curves
• follow the subtle direction of ease
• melt into tissue instead of forcing through it

Tools often pull or scrape in a linear path, bypassing the subtleties that create real, lasting change.

5. Tools Can Override the Body’s Natural Limits

Hands feel when:
• tissue meets its natural barrier
• the nervous system hesitates
• a micro-release initiates
• the body shifts direction or depth

Tools can overpower these boundaries, creating irritation, rebound tension, or compensation patterns.
Hands work with the body’s pacing — not against it.

6. Hands Support Whole-Body Integration

Bodywork isn’t about “fixing a spot.”
It’s about improving communication across the entire system.

Hands-on work:
• connects multiple lines at once
• enhances global proprioception
• improves coordination and balance
• supports the body’s natural movement strategies

Tools tend to treat locally.
Hands treat the whole conversation.

7. Physical Touch Builds Trust, Comfort, and Confidence

Comfort creates confidence.
Confidence nurtures optimism and willingness.

Hands-on work:
• reduces defensiveness
• supports emotional safety
• encourages softness
• creates a more receptive body
• builds trust and relationship

Tools cannot build rapport or communicate safety.
Hands do — instantly.

Additional Elements (Optional Enhancements)

A. Co-regulation: Nervous System to Nervous System

Humans, horses, and dogs all co-regulate through touch and proximity.
Your calm hands shift their physiology — and theirs shifts yours.
This shared state enables deeper, safer release.

B. Touch Enhances Sensory Clarity

Touch refines the brain’s map of the body (somatosensory resolution), improving:
• coordination
• balance
• movement efficiency
• reduced bracing

Tools cannot refine the sensory map with the same precision.

C. Hands Integrate Technique and Intuition

The brain blends tactile information with pattern recognition and subtle intuition.
Tools separate you from that information.
Hands plug you into it.

In Short

Hands-on wins because touch is biologically intelligent, neurologically profound, and relationship-building.
Tools press — but hands listen, interpret, regulate, and connect.

When the body feels safe and understood, it reorganizes more deeply, moves more freely, and heals more efficiently.

The Energy Connection Between Horse and Human: Science and Sensation - https://koperequine.com/the-energy-connection-between-horse-and-human-science-and-sensation/

11/18/2025

Seasons greetings

We have freshly ordered organic flannel sheets. Gift certificates available for purchase. Raffle tickets, three winners, in support of continuing education. Free small essential oil roller samplers, larger by donation. Cozy up in our extra warm bodywork studio, heated table warmer is on, and always optional. Looking forward to working with you during this wispy and cool season.

Text 707-223-1014 to schedule
TessaKnightCMP.com
state cert #64729
10090 Hwy 9, Suite 3, Ben Lomond

Happy Holidays

11/17/2025

Holiday raffle's with TessaKnightCMP.com

A warm thank you, and fun way to celebrate the holidays. One free entry for every 90 minute session purchased between Nov 17th and January 1st.

Tickets for purchase
$20 single ticket
$100 six tickets

The intention for this raffle is to spread awareness that Tessa's Deep Bodywork®️ practice includes two, and three hour sessions. Creating excitement and surprise during the dark lull in the season. Raising funds in anticipation in attending a advanced Deep Bodywork®️ hip/shoulder/back class in late January at Esalen Institute.

January winner is at a $840 value.
Gift certificates available

Pricing until 1-1-2026
Hour $100-$140
90 minutes $210
120 minutes $280
180 minutes $420

Text 707-223-1014 to schedule. State cert # 64729. 10090 Hwy 9, Ben Lomond, Suite 3.

11/08/2025

Schedule in Ben Lomond has opened up full time. Working in a Luxury Resort in Big Sur was a unique and educational experience. Spa massage isn’t Deep Bodywork®️ I would like to stay true to my profession and give it the attention everyone of you deserve. Thank you Big Sur 🌺 Thank you