Aesthetic Maintenance
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I work alone - I work with women only.
This work is best suited for women who:
- value discretion, quality, and experience
- are willing to invest in their well-being
- prefer depth over trends
Modalities
Modalities
The Kumi Method
An original manual therapy developed through years of clinical experience and study. Its foundation includes medical massage, manual lymphatic drainage, post-surgical care, and refined bodywork, informed by somatic and energetic disciplines.
Rather than applying a fixed technique, each session responds to the body in front of me. Its history, rhythms, and capacity for change.
What I provide is a space of safety. In this space, the body feels safe to relax and recover. This work is both therapeutic and aesthetic, supporting recovery, refinement, and lasting vitality.
Manual Lymph Drainage (MLD)
Manual Lymph Drainage is a precise, gentle technique rooted in the Vodder method, working with the body’s natural rhythms. Unlike forceful or deep massage, MLD uses light, rhythmic touch to stimulate lymph flow and guide fluid toward functioning lymph nodes.
This subtle approach supports detoxification, immune function, and recovery without stressing the tissues. By easing excess fluid and congestion, MLD relieves swelling while refining contour and clarity.
The result is both therapeutic and aesthetic: improved recovery, increased radiance, and a softly sculpted appearance — ideal for daily wellness or preparation for important engagements.
Aesthetic and Therapeutic Massage
Through touch, I identify areas of long-held tension and restriction that disrupt the body’s natural flow. My work addresses chronic inflammation, easing persistent pain, supporting digestion, and calming the nervous system so the body can return to balance.
Each session includes personalized self-care guidance to support lasting results beyond the treatment room. Within a safe and comforting environment, the body is guided back toward ease, resilience, and self-regulation.
True beauty arises from physiological harmony. When health is restored, radiance follows.
Post-surgical care is a specialized therapeutic approach designed to support recovery and help you return to your daily routine as efficiently as possible.
Treatments are gentle, non-invasive, and tailored to your body’s unique condition and readiness.
Sessions are focus on reducing edema, bruising, fibrosis, and discomfort while promoting tissue resilience and functional ease. Every initial session includes guidance on post-operative self-care to ensure optimal long-term outcomes.
Philosophy
Philosophy
"Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it"
— Rumi
“Your task is not to seek for beauty,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
— Kumi Method
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The body is inherently intelligent.
When the body’s natural rhythm is interrupted its is often dues to barriers
—physical, energetic, or emotional.
My work is to locate and gently remove these barriers:
Residual wastes, post-surgical congestion, stored tensions and energetic stagnation.
What is no longer needed is released.
What essestial is restored.
Old cells are cleared.
Health emerges through renewal.
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About Kumi
About Kumi
Clara Kumiko Ueki (a.k.a. Kumi), LMT, CLT, CAR, has been providing massage and bodywork treatments in Manhattan since 2006.
A graduate of the Swedish Institute, she was born in Portland, Oregon, and raised between the United States, Japan, and India. Her multicultural upbringing has shaped an original way of seeing human physiology and its possibilities.
She combines Western clinical expertise with Eastern medical philosophy. Deeply in love with New York City, she feels grateful — and quietly humbled — to share her work in the heart of the city she loves.
For My Long-standing Community
I still hold space for our spiritual conversations. I invite you to step into my private community page.
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there." — Rumi
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