The Hands Behind Mudras
Yotam Kafri - Founder & Master Therapist
With over 20 years of hands-on experience, Yotam has dedicated his life to the art and science of bodywork.
His approach blends technical precision with an intuitive understanding of the human body - developed through decades of practice, study, and collaboration with elite athletes, performers, and rehabilitation experts.
From his early training in advanced Western, European, and Eastern modalities to years of working directly with clients seeking and demanding optimal recovery and performance, Yotam has built a reputation for excellence and care.
At Mudras, his philosophy is simple yet profound: to listen deeply and to assess each individual’s movement before every session. This guiding principle shapes every experience, ensuring that each session not only relieves tension, restores balance and optimal results.
Yotam continues to lead and mentor the Mudras team, setting the highest standards in technique, consistency, and integrity. His goals have always been to continue creating a safe place where expert touch meets genuine understanding.
Where It Started
Mudras began with Yotam recognizing that most bodywork and massage therapy in New York has the same preset script, regardless of who walks through the door. For over two decades, what started as a different approach has become a practice where people find what they've been looking for. Two decades means countless hours spent understanding how bodies hold tension, how they respond to different techniques, and what creates real change rather than temporary comfort. That's what shapes how we work today.
Who We Work With:
NBA and WNBA players
FIFA players
Olympic athletes
MMA fighters
UFC fighters
Marathon, Ironman, and Triathlon athletes
Professional Dancers
Broadway performers
Hollywood actors and actresses
Where We Work:
Our Chelsea location in Manhattan
Residences throughout New York
Wellness retreats and sports team recovery
International locations when clients need consistent care
These relationships exist through referrals, not marketing. People recommend Mudras® when they've experienced the difference themselves.
How It Works
Your Mudras session begins when you walk in. Your specialist observes how you move, how you carry yourself, where tension shows before you mention it.
During the conversation, you describe what you're experiencing. Then your specialist's hands confirm what your body is actually holding. Sessions evolve based on what we discover. When tissue releases, we adjust. When a pattern becomes clear, technique shifts.
The only predetermined element is our commitment to addressing what your body genuinely needs right now.
What We Built
The Mudras space feels different the moment you arrive. Clean, quiet, private. Nothing rushed. Everything considered. This environment reflects what matters here before any session begins.
Each session starts with understanding your body's story. Our specialists notice how you move, listen to what you describe, then design the work around what your body needs. This takes both technical knowledge and the intuition that develops through years of dedicated practice.
When someone trusts you with their body, especially when their performance depends on it, everything about how you work must honor that trust. Discretion, consistency, and genuine expertise aren't optional here.
Twenty Years, Still Learning
Twenty years of practice hasn't meant perfecting a final method. Every body teaches us something. Every specialist continues studying, questioning, refining their approach.
Yotam still explores techniques that might improve what Mudras offers. The team works together, shares observations, challenges each other's assumptions. Standards stay high because we never assume we've learned everything.
What continues looks like what started this practice: an unwavering commitment to the people who trust us with their bodies, and a refusal to compromise on what we know works.
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