Care Through Touch Institute

Care Through Touch Institute For over 40 years CTI has provided free seated massage to San Francisco's unhoused and marginally housed communities.

Our work is grounded in dignity and respect offering pathways to healing one person at a time. We believe that the service of caring through touch is a sacred work of compassion, justice, and love. We offer free seated massage by trained massage therapists to San Francisco's unhoused and marginally housed. Our mission is to be present with human suffering and promote healing through human connection. We do this by serving in the spirit of compassion, non-judgment, and love.

05/05/2026

May is mental health awareness month. A shout out to our wonderful massage therapists and volunteers who show up five days a week across the city to provide trauma informed massage to our unhoused and marginally housed neighbors.

After a long day there is nothing like a massage to ease the pain and stress. free massages five days a week across San ...
04/29/2026

After a long day there is nothing like a massage to ease the pain and stress. free massages five days a week across San Francisco. check out our website for the schedule- link in bio.

To know Lisa is to love her. A former client, Lisa now gives her gift of healing massage to others seeking relief and co...
04/18/2026

To know Lisa is to love her. A former client, Lisa now gives her gift of healing massage to others seeking relief and connection. Every week at ladies night in the mission, she offers her joy and humor to clients who return week after week. Here, she shares her thoughts on Holy Thursday on the annual CTI ritual of foot massage on this day. Always by her side is her faithful companion Claude, her pet turtle. Scroll through the photos to meet him and see her keeping him cool in the planter with a little shower. Practitioners like Lisa are the heart and soul of Care Through Touch . @

04/04/2026

The following poem was written by Paul Totah a freelance writer on Good Friday, 2023 after observing Care Through Touch massage therapists providing foot massage at the Healing Well on Holy Thursday 2023

Washing the feet then, just as now,
Is a prelude to something else.
When the women at the well
In the Tenderloin began their ministrations,
They hold bare feet close to their sternum
before cleaning feet unused to tenderness.
The women massaged the fear straight out
Of the flesh and bones, held the longing
In their hands, hoping that the love
Shared would transcend from feet
To heart, then to hands and head,
Run through nerves and veins
Letting these people know they are worthy
Of touch. Only then, can our feet sustain us
When we walk on the hard pavement
Past fallen brothers, sisters who are fast asleep
In the torpor of their longing. Then the memory
Of love's touch, perhaps, will take on new form,
New life, and transcend into something corporeal
And caring. Something real. Something healing.

04/04/2026

Holy Thursday free foot massage, new socks and a bag of treats for Ladies Night at

Treat for the Feet annual foot massage for our marginally housed neighbors in
04/03/2026

Treat for the Feet annual foot massage for our marginally housed neighbors in

Free foot massage and treats for our unhoused and marginally housed neighbors on Holy Thursday.
04/01/2026

Free foot massage and treats for our unhoused and marginally housed neighbors on Holy Thursday.

Every spring, we bring relaxing foot massages, fresh socks, and small treats to our unhoused neighbors across the city— ...
04/01/2026

Every spring, we bring relaxing foot massages, fresh socks, and small treats to our unhoused neighbors across the city— a simple act of care that brings comfort, dignity, and connection.
We’ll be out again on Thursday, April 2 continuing this long‑held tradition of showing up with compassion and community.
A little care goes a long way.

Treat for the Feet is almost here! 💛 Every spring, we bring relaxing foot massages, fresh socks, and small treats to our...
04/01/2026

Treat for the Feet is almost here! 💛 Every spring, we bring relaxing foot massages, fresh socks, and small treats to our unhoused neighbors across the city— a simple act of care that brings comfort, dignity, and connection.
We’ll be out again on Thursday, April 2 continuing this long‑held tradition of showing up with compassion and community.
A little care goes a long way.

Treat for the Feet is almost here! 💛 Every spring, we bring relaxing foot massages, fresh socks, and small treats to our...
04/01/2026

Treat for the Feet is almost here! 💛 Every spring, we bring relaxing foot massages, fresh socks, and small treats to our unhoused neighbors across the city— a simple act of care that brings comfort, dignity, and connection.
We’ll be out again on Thursday, April 2 continuing this long‑held tradition of showing up with compassion and community.
A little care goes a long way.

Human touch is a basic need. Caring,Compassionate trauma informed massage helps reset the nervous system. Restore calm a...
04/01/2026

Human touch is a basic need. Caring,
Compassionate trauma informed massage helps reset the nervous system. Restore calm and relieve pain. CTI offers free seated massage 5 days a week across the City . Check out our website for details ! www.carethroughrouch.org.

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PO Box 720204
San Francisco, CA
94172

Telephone

+14153440302

Website

https://www.instagram.com/carethroughtouchsf/, https://www.linkedin.com/company/care-t

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