RUSTY LOFTIN, LMT, LDS, HHP
Lic #OPMT-0305

Rusty is a passionate therapist, committed to helping his clients experience wellness and optimal health through bodywork. His knowledge of Eastern and Western healing modalities and years of therapeutic experience have combined into an ability to minimize his clients’ past and present fears while maximizing their new awareness, new confidence, and the new possibilities and choices before them. He combines meditation, dietary practice, yoga, physical exercise, and various forms of massage and bodywork therapies in his practice—all tailored to his client’s changing needs. 

He begins by assessing your challenges on a multi-faceted level: your first visit will comprise a written and verbal intake to better ascertain the full spectrum of your current physical condition. Both your physical and emotional histories are considered before undertaking any massage or bodywork. Past emotional and physical injuries will dictate the most effective plan to initiate your personal journey to a more vibrant and healthy life.

After the initial assessment, Rusty utilizes a number of bodywork modalities that will gradually peel off the layers of your “somatic amnesia”—layers which have had the opportunity over time to shape your life. Together, you open the door to "somatic intelligence" and begin laying a solid foundation for your own ability to become aware of old body patterns and physical postures that no longer serve your present or future needs.

Rusty has been in and around water all his life–he has immersed himself in just about every water sport. The rhythms of tidal flow and wave movement have influenced his lifestyle in every way and directly affected his therapeutic practice. Rusty believes that we acheive a broader sense of well-being when we acknowledge the fact that we are more liquid than solid. Getting in touch with our bodies and teaching them how to blend more harmoniously between realms of land and sea are important in awakening our full potential.

Rusty’s knowledge of dance movement, anatomy, kinesiology, and many styles of applied soft tissue manipulations and bodywork have morphed over time into what he calls Ocean Synergy Massage. This is his original contribution to massage technology and its use of wave movement facilitates healing by reconnecting his client’s body, mind, and spirit. 

Rusty has an extensive background in the healing arts: as a health instructor in body building, diet consulting, and massage therapy. He attended Touch Therapy Institute in Encino, CA, and from there he worked at the Wells Chiropractic Group for over two years, gaining nearly 2,000 hours of direct, supervised training for all forms of soft tissue treatment of acute and chronic structural and appendecular maladies.

His practice moved to the North San Diego Beach community in 1997. In 2004, he attended the Ashland Institute of Massage, in Ashland, Oregon, for continuing education and then returned to San Diego in 2005 to continue his practice and finish his Holistic Health Practitioner Certification at Healing Hands School of Holistic Health in Escondido, CA.

Rusty is a licensed therapist specializing in Sports Massage, Neuromuscular Trigger Point relief, Tui Na, Thai, and Deep Tissue Massage as well as Electro Lymphatic Drainage, Low Level Laser Light, and Proli-Therapies.