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Yvonne Horner , CMT, BCTMB
Specializing in Integrative and Intuitive Massage and Bodywork.
Yvonne is a Nationally recognized Board-Certified Somatic Massage Therapist. She was voted "Best Massage Therapist" in 2024, "Best Massage Therapist - Runner Up" in 2023 and "Best Massage Therapist" in 2022 with Good Times "Best of Santa Cruz County."
Her journey into the healing arts began in 2006 while working as a Student Counselor at a massage school that her own mother attended. Her mother, Nina Westerlund, was a renowned massage therapist, healing hundreds. Although Nina worked while processing her own congestive heart failure issues, she focused her energies on the nurture of others. When she passed, Yvonne knew it was her calling to continue her work and her talent. Yvonne has been practicing massage on and off for over 18 years, and has been practicing full time for 10 years. After moving to the Santa Cruz Mountains in 2015, Yvonne started a new practice on this side of the hill and has loved supporting this beloved community ever since.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
Deb M.
Yvonne is a highly skilled and intuitive therapist, who both listens to what I know my body needs, and can read my body to learn what I am not aware of. Each treatment I've received has progressed deeper, and relieved more pain, resulting in improving my ability to walk pain free. I've been most surprised by how long the improvements have lasted. In addition to improving my functioning, a massage from Yvonne is serene and deeply relaxing. Her silence is golden. Her presence is peace.
Greg K.
I was recommended by a friend to come see Yvonne and I became a regular. She’s very easy to work with and soothes the needs the body and psyche have. We are making fast progress on deep old injuries that effected my mind and body for too long and I’m enjoying getting work done by Yvonne as I manage to release a lot of my old traumas and realize how her work has effect for the rest of the week for me.
I’m not the only one who finds her work valuable so scheduling appointments ahead of time is crucial as she gets very busy very fast.
Thank you Yvonne !
Ginny K.
Yvonne is gifted! I went to her because I need deep muscle work and she was brilliant at knowing where to go deepest. The space is beautiful, peaceful. The intake process (learning my relevant issues) was thorough but not laborious. And in one hour (!) Yvonne was able to discern insights about my pain and the structural challenges my body has. She gave me useful advice about how to help myself between massages. She really is amazing.
About Yvonne
Many people are under the impression that an ache or a pain in their body just happens. You turned wrong, slept wrong or just have not stretched enough. Having worked on thousands of bodies, I can tell you, it is more than that. Your body tells a story, your story. I observe, listen, and feel the story your body tells, and deliver back the nurturement it craves.
We start our life, every one of us, in a warm safe cocoon of a mothered environment. We are nurtured and nutritionally fortified. We are safe. We are loved.
As we grow, if we are fortunate enough, we continue to get brief moments of mothering touch. It may be a hug or it may be a soft hand circling our back as we fall asleep at night. However we got it, it was powerful. It stole our stress, relieved our troubled emotions, and gave us momentary peace. Magic.
As we tackle life, that touch, that magic, gets farther away, and we get further from experiencing it. Soon our bodies are stiffened with suppressed muscular and emotional tensions. We put troubling situations out of our minds, but our bodies hold them in clenched muscles and strained joints.
It is time for you to experience the almost supernatural touch, a magical mothering touch, in a session designed for you, to take you back to that state of pure nurture and wholeness.
If you have heard of “the horse whisperer”, you can think of me as the “body whisperer.” My thousands of hours conducting massage affirm consistently that your body’s aches, stiffness and limitations, are not that you are getting older, they are access points to emotional and physical responses. It is time to let them go, and I am the therapist to do that with you.
While a magical mothering touch defines my reputation, it also speaks to my legacy. My own mother, Nina Westerlund, was a renowned massage therapist, healing hundreds. Even though she worked while processing her own congestive heart failure issues, she focused her energies on the nurture of others. When she passed, I knew it was my calling to continue her work and her talent. She is my hero. What she stood for is my inspiration.
I offer that to you. Let the child in you reclaim the nurturing you may feel you left behind. More importantly, let your body release its guarded tensions and find the wellness it deserves.
I am Yvonne Horner, and I am here for you.
Contact Me
526 Soquel Avenue, Suite D, Santa Cruz CA 95062 info@yvonnehornercmt.com | Tel: 925-640-5174
