Haydyn Marina
Esalen® Massage
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Holistic Facelifting
Esalen® Massage • Holistic Facelifting
Heya, I’m Haydyn.
I’m a highly attentive listener interested in humanity, the body, collective well-being, beauty, and the constellation of elements that make up each individual’s wellness.
My specialized bodywork approach addresses the ephemeral needs of a regulated nervous system and an inner sense of beauty and wisdom that reflects outward into the world and shapes how we see ourselves within it.
My approach also addresses the tangible needs of the deep and superficial musculature, fascia, lymphatic system, skin, viscera, and related tissues. I draw from a breadth of deep manual and energetic techniques to support each client in reaching their individual goals and cultivating deeper self-knowledge.
A Texas native, I spent most of my twenties in Santa Fe, NM, writing poetry and living communally with women and the severely beautiful nature of the desert. I moved to Asheville, NC to study bodywork in 2020, a different place deeply connected with a verdant and watery natural world. The timing and location of my genesis in bodywork undoubtedly informed my practice as a massage and bodywork therapist. You can learn more about my decision to start a bodywork practice here.
I’m currently back in the Hill Country, operating a full-time studio in Austin, Texas and offering occasional sessions in other parts of the United States, including New York City and Asheville.
About My Practice
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My practice is meant to increase full-body awareness, minimize discomfort associated with physical touch, and to facilitate imaginative expansion. My style is slow, graceful, artful, and meditative. Approaching the body like sculpture, I bring a multidimensional quality to the session so that my clients can feel truly held. I use a variety of pressures, musculoskeletal techniques, and dance-like rhythms to help clients access their calmer, spontaneous, more connected states of self.
My treatment of deep tissue bodywork follows where my clients’ bodies invite deeper focus and attention. I approach deep tissue intuitively, listening to what the client describes during intake, noticing the non-verbal communication in session, and responding to where the body is asking for deeper connection and unwinding. I am known for helping clients enter a trance-like state of calm, ease, and relief while discovering a rhythmic sense of alignment within their bodily knowing.
Bodywork can be healing, relaxing, or even invigorating. I’m here to help you articulate just what quality of touch is needed to bridge the gaps between your emotional, mental, and somatic experiences.
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Holistic wellness of the face is about bringing your inner beauty and self knowing to the surface, through the embodied portal you are most recognized by, the face, which establishes our countenance and sense of identity.
In February 2026, I received my certificate to practice Lymphatic Drainage Massage through ACOLS. I am also working toward certification in intraoral buccal massage, expected in November of this year, to support my upcoming esthetic skincare treatment of the body, facelifting and countenance.
Visit my offerings page to learn more.
Relevant Trainings:Manual Lymphatic Drainage Certification–Vodder Technique, 30 hours, Feb 2026, Academy of Lymphatic Studies, Austin, TX USA
Intro to Dynamic Cupping for LMTs, 4 hours, Apr 2026, Sepideh Jafari, Austin, TX USA
Intraoral Buccal Massage (forthcoming, Nov 2026)
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All bodies are welcome.
I work with all kinds of people, and welcome anyone seeking to partake in my practice.
With specific training in trauma-informed massage therapy, I’m highly aware of my clients’ needs as I utilize skills in listening, consent, pacing, and careful adaptation to create ease and safety. This approach tends to support women, sensitive individuals, and people who have been exposed to some form of trauma in their lives, however not necessarily. Regardless of how clients identify, I often attract individuals who appreciate a focused, careful, meditative, and committed therapeutic approach, and I work well with anyone who appreciates self-reflection, contemplation, or luxurious relaxing touch.
Many of my clients are connected to the music & visual arts industries, are dancers, business owners, engineers, solopreneurs, and/or creatives in general.
I have a strong commitment to providing accessible bodywork for women; Black, BIPOC, and queer folks; and working artists. I am open to working with individuals living with disabilities as well, depending upon whether or not I have the appropriate training and equipment. Please get in touch with me via my contact form if you would like to inquire about bodywork for those living with disabilities. Additionally, I have hands-on experience with clients at End of Life, and I’m hoping to reach more individuals and families searching for palliative End of Life care. (Learn more about this in the Thanatos section of my blog here.)All bodies welcome.
If we find after starting bodywork together that you are looking for a technique I don’t specifically offer, I am happy to refer you to another practitioner. -
Supporting my somatic approach and philosophy, I specialize in the niche modality of Esalen® Massage, certified in 2021, and am one of only two active Esalen practitioners in Austin, Texas. I am also one of fewer than 100 Esalen Massage Instructors worldwide, currently in training.
You can learn more about about Esalen® Massage on my offerings page, and more about Esalen here.
I am also in training to become a Registered Somatic Movement Instructor through ISMETA.
Recent Coursework:Somatic Movement Educator Certification, 560 hours, Sep 2026-present, Austin Community College and International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association, Austin, TX USA
Intro to Dynamic Cupping for LMTs, 4 hours, Apr 2026, Sepideh Jafari, Austin, TX USA
Manual Lymphatic Drainage Certification–Vodder Technique, 30 hours, Feb 2026, Academy of Lymphatic Studies, Austin, TX USA
Core Medicine Cultivation, 7 hours (through National Certification Board for Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine), Sep 2025, Medicine of the Feminine, Asheville, NC USA
Esalen® Massage Teacher Training, 200 hours, Feb 2025-present, Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA USA and Menjangan, Bali Indonesia
Advanced Esalen® Massage Techniques of the Side-Lying and Supine Positions, 16 hours, Sep 2024, Esalen® Massage and Bodywork Association, Asheville, NC
Esalen® Massage and Meditation, 26 hours, Oct 2022, Esalen® Massage and Bodywork Association, Asheville, NC
Advanced Esalen® Massage Techniques of the Neck & Shoulder, 16 hours, Sep 2022, Esalen® Massage and Bodywork Association, Asheville, NC
An Esalen® Approach to Trauma, 16 hours, Feb 2022, Esalen® Massage and Bodywork Association, Asheville, NC
Diversity & Decolonization Toolkit for Bodyworkers, 8 hours, Sep 2022, Zen Shiatsu, Chicago, IL
Esalen® Massage Certification, 100 hours, Apr - Jun 2021, Esalen® Massage and Bodywork Association, Asheville, NC
Embodiment and Movement Studies
Soma is an ancient Greek term that references the body. The modern term Somatics, coined by Thomas Hanna in the US in the 1960s, means working with physical perception and the body. When I speak of the somatic work I do within the context of my practice, I’m referencing the innermost, bodily-felt knowing and self-knowledge that often manifests as non-verbal experiences and communication. Somatic bodywork, for me, is bodywork that creates space for you as the client to access deeper wisdom stored in your tissues; your physical, neuromuscular patterns; your ancestral wisdom; and your unique frequencies and gifts.
When I begin work with a client, I bring them into a dialogue with themselves, facilitating access to their deeper self-knowing. This is the somatic work.
In session, I may guide clients through visualization, imagination, body scans, meditation, awareness practices, or simple movement practices, before or during the hands-on session. These are tools I use to help clients find opening in their psyche, kinesphere, and energy fields that may be worth exploring during our work together. I may utilize simple movement analysis skills to identify where attention during the touch portion of our work together may be the most effective for transformation.
As my work expands into more group practices, I’m working toward facilitating embodied somatic movement, improvisational movement ensembles, and relational group practices that explore how we experience ourselves in relation to others.
Practice Locations
Austin, TX • New York City, NY • Asheville, NC
Currently, my practice is open for regular business hours in Austin, TX. I still host occasional pop-up studio sessions in New York City, where I practice what I can within the licensing requirements of NY. My Asheville practice is archived; however, previous clients may email me or use my contact form to stay in touch about possible in-home sessions while I visit.
I have plans to expand my somatic touch and somatic movement workshops and movement analysis practice in New York City, Asheville, and other parts of the world. Join my newsletter to keep up with my expansion.