Feeling good is not frivolous. That idea is more or less the foundation Anthony Garuccio built his practice on, and he came to it the hard way.
He was working a high-stress tech job and ignoring everything his body was telling him. Bodywork, yoga, meditation and therapy got him listening again, and he describes what came out of it without any hedging: a freer, more joyful, more embodied life. He trained at the Pittsburgh School of Massage Therapy and now practises as Radical Self Love Bodywork at 5627 Hays Street in East Liberty.
He also built this directory, which seems only fair to mention on his own listing.
What a session is like
His line is that a good massage is a conversation, not a monologue. So whatever your body does in response — a sigh, a change in breath, a belly rumble, the sudden urge to talk — none of it counts as an interruption. It’s all part of the exchange.
The work itself blends deep, slow pressure with myofascial holds meant to signal that it’s safe to let go. Every session opens with a check-in about your goals and what’s been going on since last time, and he follows your lead from there. An hour on your head and neck is a perfectly good answer. So is full-body Swedish.
Underneath it is something he’ll say straight out: the body is interconnected, and much of massage’s power lies in reuniting the parts that anatomical labels have artificially divided.
Rates and the walk up
Sixty minutes is $110, ninety is $160. There’s street parking, and the 71A and 87 both stop nearby. The studio is on the second floor of his home, up a flight of stairs. Thirty Google reviews at a 5.0 average.