For centuries mankind has envied pizza dough and wondered how we too could be kneaded to relaxed, savory states without paying for the luxury of being escorted via wooden paddle to a Sicilian brick oven. Even the playing field with today's Groupon: for $40, you get an hour-long therapeutic massage from Inside and Out Body Therapy in Los Gatos, a $90 value.

With deliberate strokes and intense focus, each skilled massage therapist is capable of taking the mind to a blissfully whited-out plane where it's free to bob up and down like a Q-tip buoy in a sea of cotton balls. Inside and Out's custom quiver of massage techniques—including Swedish, deep tissue, and trigger point—addresses the specific needs of individuals, releasing tensions associated with your sport, career, or acrobatic affiliation. A trained hand musician will artfully lessen or increase the pressure as the massage progresses in order to ambush pains or coax out hiding tranquility.

Leave Inside and Out's studio with a spring in your step and an aria in your nervous system, spinning around every passing light pole with one hand and forming impromptu conga lines on the way home. Use the newfound clearheadedness and rubberized being to achieve higher productivity, contagiously relax those around you, or finally beat Galaga.

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Inside and Out Body Therapy won Best Massage of 2007 and 2008 from Metroactive's Best of the Silicon Valley survey.