Where Is The Center for Thai Massage Located and How Do I Arrange a Visit?

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The Center for Thai Massage & Oasis Healing Arts is a private, by-appointment studio in the Lucas Valley hills of Marin County, California — about 1.5 miles from Highway 101 and roughly 17 miles (15 minutes with no traffic) north of the Golden Gate Bridge. Because it is not a walk-in spa, you arrange a visit by contacting the studio through thaimassagecenter.com to request an appointment before you go.

Where the studio is

The studio sits in the open-space hills of Lucas Valley, CA, in a 1958 Eichler building with floor-to-ceiling glass walls facing park and valley views toward the ocean. The site gives two practical anchors for planning the drive:

Reference point Distance / time given on the site
Highway 101 About 1.5 miles away
Golden Gate Bridge About 17 miles north; roughly 15 minutes with no traffic

The 15-minute figure is the studio's own estimate under clear traffic. Bridge traffic, Marin commutes, and the winding valley roads can all add time, so treat it as a best case rather than a promise.

How to arrange a visit

The site describes the studio as "private by appointment," so there is no drop-in option to plan around. The site itself does not publish an online booking calendar, phone number, or email address in the material available, so the reliable path is:

  1. Go to thaimassagecenter.com.
  2. Use the site's contact channel to introduce yourself and ask for an appointment.
  3. State what you want — a session, a first visit, or a question about the Northern Style work — and ask what availability looks like.
  4. Wait for confirmation of a date and time before driving out. The studio is on private, appointment-only grounds, so an unconfirmed arrival is not a visit.

If the site's contact details are not obvious on the page you land on, look for a contact or inquiry link in the site navigation rather than assuming a published phone number exists.

What you are booking into

Knowing who you will see helps you decide whether the trip is worth it. The studio was founded in Mill Valley in 1995 by Kimberly Call, CCHT, CMT, HHC, described on the site as a Lineage Master of Nuad Bo-Rarn, Northern Style Thai Massage. She trained and was certified as an instructor in 1995 at ITM in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and the site credits her as the first to pioneer Northern Style Thai Massage in Marin County.

The practice itself is Northern Style: a meditative blend of gentle rocking, rhythmic acupressure, and assisted stretches, rooted in a tradition the site describes as more than 2,500 years old and drawing on Ayurvedic medicine, Buddhist practice, and Yoga. The site contrasts this with Southern Style, centered in Bangkok, which it says tends to use brisker, firmer acupressure along energy lines. If you are choosing between the two, Northern Style is the one offered here.

Practical points before you go

  • Book first, drive second. The appointment-only model means your visit exists only once it is confirmed.
  • Budget extra travel time. The 15-minute estimate from the bridge assumes no traffic; add a buffer for bridge and valley conditions.
  • Ask about session length and preparation when you make contact, since the site does not list durations or pricing in the available material.
  • Set expectations for the setting. This is a small private studio in a residential-feeling valley, not a large day spa with a front desk and walk-in reception.