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Thor Danbolt
Founder & Chief Innovation Officer
Thor Danbolt is a visionary bodywork innovator, educator, and clinical practitioner with over 25 years of experience in elite sports therapy, advanced massage, and myofascial treatment. His career began in high-performance environments, working closely with Olympic athletes and Norway’s top football teams, where he discovered that conventional manual therapy often failed to meet the complex needs of the body under extreme physical demands.
Through thousands of treatment hours, Thor cultivated a unique, intuitive relationship with the body's soft tissue systems—what he calls tissue intelligence. His clinical breakthrough came from understanding that deep healing occurs not through forceful manipulation, but by listening to and cooperating with the body’s own wisdom. This foundational insight became the cornerstone of his approach.
From this, he developed two groundbreaking frameworks: ShapeMassage, a structured and effective method of deep tissue and myofascial release rooted in soft, responsive, and intelligent touch.
FLOW Principles (Feel – Listen – Observe – Work), a therapeutic compass that blends clinical reasoning with subtle hands-on perception, enabling therapists to support the body’s natural self-regulation.
Thor’s systematized methods bridge the gap between clinical intuition and scientific rigor. They are designed to be teachable, reproducible, and adaptable—integrating knowledge from massage therapy, physiotherapy, osteopathy, and chiropractic fields.
Over the years, his treatments have successfully addressed a wide range of musculoskeletal issues—particularly in the spine, pelvis, hips, and neck. A surprising yet repeatedly observed side effect has been the restoration of reproductive health in many women, including enhanced circulation and fertility following focused abdominal and pelvic work. These clinical results are now part of ongoing research within The Myofascial Hub, a center dedicated to evidence-based innovation and soft tissue science.
As the founder and Chief Innovation Officer of The Myofascial Hub, Thor is now on a mission to bring together practitioners, researchers, and educators in a global network that redefines how we understand, teach, and apply manual therapy. His leadership is grounded in the belief that the future of therapeutic bodywork lies in uniting clinical excellence, human touch, and scientific validation.