Your body isn’t tight.It’s stressed.

The Stretch Loft started from one idea: stretching works when the nervous system feels safe enough to let go. Everything we do follows from it.

A treatment room at The Stretch Loft, a client resting on the stretch table
The Stretch Loft

Built in Maryland, around one idea

The Stretch Loft is an independent, Black-owned studio with two locations in Maryland: Lanham, serving Prince George's County and Bowie, and Bethesda, serving Montgomery County and Northwest DC.

Most people arrive with pain they have tried everything for: sciatica, a low back that locks, shoulders that never drop. What they find is that the body has been guarding. So we treat stretching as therapy: breath first, then slow, hands-on release, then a plan to keep it.

Welcome to The Stretch LoftA welcome from the studio
Benjamin Atanga, founder of The Stretch Loft, smiling in a yellow shirt

Benjamin Atanga “Ben the Baptist”

Founder and methodologist

Ben founded The Stretch Loft and developed the breath-led method every session follows. He still works with clients in long-form founder sessions, and he trains and certifies stretch therapists through The Stretch Loft Academy.

Founder sessions with Ben

In the press

Learn the method. The Stretch Loft Academy

Ben trains and certifies stretch therapists in the same breath-led protocol you get on our tables, with business training for practitioners building their own practice.

Visit the Academy
Ben demonstrating an assisted stretch to a room of students

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Book a session

Prefer a hand? Call either studio and we will book it with you. Free to reschedule up to 24 hours before.

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