Welcome to ESSENCE K

ESSENCE K offers advanced manual therapy for body balance and well-being.

We believe that conventional healing massage is insufficient in improving your postural alignment or releasing chronic patterns of tension.  Your body changes every day, every minute, just as your emotions do.  Adapting manual therapy techniques and choosing the most effective therapy for each client based on their daily condition and goals are the key to the best treatment.  We offer a private, safe, casual, and relaxing space that you can visit regularly to improve your body and health. 

Meet Your Practitioners

Kay Akahane

Licenced Massage Therapist (NYS)

Board Certified Structural Integrator (BCSI)

Certified Rolfing® Practitioner

Kay is a Licensed Massage Therapist, certified in Rolfing® Structural Integration and also the first Board Certified Structural Integrator (BCSI) in Tokyo.

Kay has been a healthcare provider in Tokyo since 2000.  She began her career as a relaxation therapist (Body and Facial Aromatherapy & Reflexology) then became a licensed Massage Therapist after graduating from the Swedish Institute in New York City in 2007 and also became a Rolfer™ after completing a specialized course of study at the Rolf Institute of Structural Integration in Boulder, Colorado in 2018.

She believes our minds and bodies demand ease and healing to re-align themselves in their natural state.  The best healing starts with listening to one's mental and physical self, and then allowing them unconditional space and freedom to re-harmonize.