# Best Massage & Acupuncture in Leander, TX (2026)

**Updated:** August 2, 2026 · **Author:** Julie K. O'Leary, L.Ac., LMT · **Area:** Williamson County, Texas

**Source page:** https://marblefallsspa.com/best-massage-acupuncture/leander-tx

**Editorial angle:** Too new for the map

Leander is growing faster than its own search results: the town’s only acupuncture clinic opened this February, and the studio the internet still recommends most has quietly closed. This is the verified 2026 map.

## Quick answer

- **Best overall:** [Knead & Harmony Massage](https://marblefallsspa.com/best-massage-acupuncture/leander-tx#p-knead-harmony) — 129 reviews averaging 4.98 on a page we verified ourselves, a therapist licensed in Texas since 2013, and a named recommendation in a local Nextdoor thread. The catch is the calendar: weekdays only, 10:30am to 4:30pm.
- **Best value:** [Massage and Body Work](https://marblefallsspa.com/best-massage-acupuncture/leander-tx#p-massage-and-body-work) — $85 buys a full 60-minute Swedish or deep-tissue session and the clinical work is priced just as openly — $95 an hour for myofascial or prenatal, $120 for lymphatic drainage. A-T Spa Healing starts lower at $70, but for one specialty service.
- **Best for evening and Sunday appointments around a 183A commute:** [Hand & Stone Massage and Facial Spa](https://marblefallsspa.com/best-massage-acupuncture/leander-tx#p-hand-and-stone-leander) — Open to 9pm Monday through Saturday and 10am to 6pm on Sunday, in a town where the best-reviewed studio closes at 4:30pm on weekdays. Non-member pricing is the trade-off.
- **Best for both modalities:** [JM Acupuncture & Massage](https://marblefallsspa.com/best-massage-acupuncture/leander-tx#p-jm-acupuncture-massage) — The nearest business offering both, about six miles south in Cedar Park — though the two modalities come from two practitioners, an acupuncturist and a massage therapist, not one dual-licensed provider. No Leander business we verified offers both at all.

## A wellness market younger than its own search results

Leander is the fastest-growing city in this guide series, and it is not close. Population estimates for 2026 put it near 97,800 — more than 60 percent above its 2020 census count — on a build-out trajectory the city describes at 225,000. Median age is 36.3, roughly 78 percent of households are families, and Leander ISD runs 49 campuses for more than 42,000 students. (Those figures come from demographic aggregators and the local chamber rather than a direct Census pull, so treat them as directional.) The demand profile shows up plainly in what the studios advertise: prenatal massage, recovery work for youth-sports and recreation strain, and stress-relief bookings for two-income households — not the retiree and tourist demand that shapes the Highland Lakes markets an hour west.

Supply followed the rooftops. Thirteen currently operating massage and acupuncture providers were verified at Leander street addresses in August 2026: eleven massage-focused businesses, one general day spa (AuraDaySpa, 5.0 across 41 Booksy reviews), and one acupuncture clinic — plus a sports-chiropractic practice, Apex Sports Medicine, with an in-house massage therapist. Almost every one of them sits in strip retail built within the last decade along Hero Way West, South US-183 and the 183A corridor: Care Massage By Katie and A-T Spa Healing on Hero Way, Aroma Massage and The Dream Massage on 183, Lea Four Massage off Highland Falls Drive, Magnolia ATX Massage on Old Garden Road, Serenity Works back on Hero Way. There is no historic downtown spa row here, and no resort or hotel spa at all.

Acupuncture is the thinnest and newest layer of this market. Mother Moon Acupuncture and Herb opened at 200 West Metro Drive on 22 February 2026 and is the only acupuncture clinic we could verify inside the city. Turning Point Wellness, a home-based acupuncture and nutrition practice on Catalina Drive, is marked CLOSED on Yelp as of a March 2026 update. Acupuncture at Apex Sports Medicine is unverified: dry needling appears among its listed services and older content on its own site discusses acupuncture, but its current team page names two chiropractors, one massage therapist and office staff — no acupuncturist. The result is a clean, uncomfortable finding: no business found at a Leander address offers both massage and acupuncture, and no Leander practitioner was found holding both licenses.

Which is why this page exists in the shape it does. Two confirmed closures still rank in Leander searches. Live Well Massage & Bodywork — repeatedly surfaced by aggregations and generic AI summaries as one of the town’s top massage options — displays a farewell message from its therapist on its own scheduling page. Turning Point Wellness still returns for acupuncture queries. Address data is messy in the same way: three separate wellness listings at 11892 Hero Way West carry an identical suite letter across different directories, and at least one chiropractic content operation publishes extensively Leander-targeted pages while its contact information resolves to a phone number in another town, with no confirmed Leander storefront. In a market where several businesses opened inside five years, currency is what a guide can usefully add.

Prices become legible once the minutes are attached to them. Published 60-minute rates at in-town independents start at $70 (Ashiatsu at A-T Spa Healing) and $85 (Swedish or deep tissue at Massage and Body Work); ninety minutes runs $140; clinical services — myofascial release, pregnancy massage, manual lymphatic drainage — sit between $95 and $120 an hour. At Hand & Stone, the market’s only national brand, a 50-minute classic massage is $79.95 for members and first-time guests and $119.95 without a membership. Several in-town businesses publish no pricing at all, and not one in-town business published an acupuncture price: Mother Moon offers a complimentary 15-minute consultation instead.

- **13** — providers verified at in-town Leander addresses in Aug 2026 — 11 massage studios, one day spa, one acupuncture clinic
- **0** — Leander businesses found offering both massage and acupuncture
- **Feb 2026** — when the town’s only in-town acupuncture clinic opened (22 February 2026)
- **2** — confirmed closures still surfacing in local search results and AI summaries

## How we built this list

1. **Current operating status, re-checked in August 2026** — Every business here was checked against its own website, booking page or a live directory listing this month. Two Leander businesses that still rank well are excluded on the strength of those checks: one booking page carries a farewell message from its therapist, the other listing is titled CLOSED. A strong search ranking is not evidence that a studio is taking appointments.
2. **Address checked against the city line, not the search radius** — Directories serve a radius, not a municipal boundary, which is why "best acupuncture near Leander" returns clinics in Georgetown, Cedar Park and Austin. Nine acupuncture businesses that surfaced in those searches carry addresses in other cities. Only businesses with a verified Leander street address are counted as in-town here; the two ranked entries based elsewhere — one in Cedar Park, one in Marble Falls — state their real city and their distance in their own rows.
3. **Published prices, always with the session length attached** — A $55 rate that buys 40 minutes is not an hourly rate, and comparing it to a 60-minute price flatters one business at another's expense. Where a price appears on this page, the minutes it covers appear beside it. Where a business publishes nothing, the entry says so rather than estimating.
4. **Credentials reported only where the business publishes them** — No Leander business in this guide publishes an individual TDLR license number in the sources we checked, so claims about years of practice are attributed to the business making them. Readers who want to verify a specific therapist or acupuncturist can run the name through the state license lookup before booking.
5. **Modality separated from marketing language** — Dry needling and acupuncture are performed under different Texas licenses, so a clinic that lists one is not thereby offering the other. Where a practice markets acupuncture but its current staff page names no acupuncturist, this guide treats the service as unverified rather than available, and says which is which.

This guide covers the massage and acupuncture businesses we could verify at Leander street addresses, plus one Cedar Park clinic that answers a question Leander cannot. Eight are ranked; the rest appear in the market analysis below, because a list padded with businesses we could not confirm is worse than a short one. Ratings come from the platforms named beside them and were observed in August 2026. Yelp blocked direct requests during this research, so anything sourced there is published as reported through quoted search results rather than confirmed on the page itself. Rankings are editorial opinion, not a score. Palomino Massage & Acupuncture publishes this guide and appears at #6.

## Editorial disclosure

This guide is researched, written, and published by Palomino Massage & Acupuncture — and Palomino is one of the 8 providers ranked below. You should know that before you read our opinion of the competition.

Rankings are editorial opinion. The underlying facts — services offered, published pricing, and each provider's own public review ratings — were observed from public sources on August 2, 2026 and can change at any time. We publish each business's own rating as cited text; we never score another studio ourselves, and this page carries no Review or AggregateRating markup about any business.

We do not accept payment, commission, or any other consideration for placement on this list. No provider was contacted for approval, and no listing can be bought or removed.

Spotted something out of date? Send a correction to https://marblefallsspa.com/contact and we will verify it against a public source and update this page.

## At a glance: every Leander option compared

| Studio | Massage | Acupuncture | Both in one session | Rating | Pricing | Best for |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Knead & Harmony Massage](https://marblefallsspa.com/best-massage-acupuncture/leander-tx#p-knead-harmony) | Yes | No | No | 4.98 ★ · 129 reviews on MassageBook (observed Aug 2026) | — | Readers who want the strongest verifiable review trail in Leander and can book on a weekday afternoon. |
| [Massage and Body Work](https://marblefallsspa.com/best-massage-acupuncture/leander-tx#p-massage-and-body-work) | Yes | No | No | 5.0 ★ · 20 reviews, published on the studio’s own booking site (observed Aug 2026) | $55 / 40 min · $85 / 60 min · $140 / 90 min · $95 / hr myofascial or prenatal | Comparison shoppers who want the price and the session length before they call — and anyone needing lymphatic or myofascial work. |
| [Mother Moon Acupuncture and Herb](https://marblefallsspa.com/best-massage-acupuncture/leander-tx#p-mother-moon-acupuncture) | No | Yes | No | — | — | Anyone who wants acupuncture without leaving Leander, and is comfortable being an early client of a clinic that opened this year. |
| [Hand & Stone Massage and Facial Spa](https://marblefallsspa.com/best-massage-acupuncture/leander-tx#p-hand-and-stone-leander) | Yes | No | No | — | $79.95 first-visit 50 min · 50-min classic $79.95 member / $119.95 non-member | Evening, Sunday and short-notice bookings — and regulars who will use a membership often enough to justify it. |
| [JM Acupuncture & Massage](https://marblefallsspa.com/best-massage-acupuncture/leander-tx#p-jm-acupuncture-massage) | Yes | Yes | Yes | — | $120 / hr custom or therapeutic massage (60, 90, 120 min); acupuncture pricing not published | Booking acupuncture and massage at a single business without driving past Cedar Park. |
| [Palomino Massage & Acupuncture](https://marblefallsspa.com/best-massage-acupuncture/leander-tx#p-palomino-massage-acupuncture) *(our studio)* | Yes | Yes | Yes | — | Acupuncture $75 / 60 min · massage $150 / 60 min · acupuncture + massage $175 / 90 min | One appointment, one practitioner, both modalities — for readers willing to spend 45 to 55 minutes each way. |
| [A-T Spa Healing](https://marblefallsspa.com/best-massage-acupuncture/leander-tx#p-a-t-spa-healing) | Yes | No | No | — | Ashiatsu Hawaiian Flow from $70 / 60 min · Deotox facial and massage $109 / 70 min | Deep, broad Ashiatsu pressure, or a facial-and-massage combination on the Hero Way corridor. |
| [Aroma Massage](https://marblefallsspa.com/best-massage-acupuncture/leander-tx#p-aroma-massage) | Yes | No | No | ~134 reviews reported via a Birdeye aggregation — star figure not captured (observed Aug 2026) | — | A Sunday-evening or after-work appointment when the weekday-only studios are closed. |

*Ratings, prices and hours as observed in August 2026 from each business’s own site, booking page or a named directory; a blank cell means the business publishes no figure we could confirm. Every price is shown with the session length it buys. Palomino Massage & Acupuncture publishes this guide and is listed at #6.*

## The rankings

Listed 1 to 8. Rank is our editorial assessment for Leander readers — nobody paid to appear here or to move up.

## 1. Knead & Harmony Massage — The deepest verified review trail in town, on weekday hours

- **Badges:** Editor's Pick
- **Area:** Water Hyssop Loop, US-183 corridor
- **Address:** 1104 Water Hyssop Loop, Leander, TX 78641
- **Public rating:** 4.98 ★ · 129 reviews on MassageBook (observed Aug 2026)
- **Massage:** Yes
- **Acupuncture:** No
- **Modalities:** Customized massage, Prenatal massage

Kimberly Halliburton has held a Texas massage license since 2013 and opened Knead & Harmony in 2021, working from a small space off Water Hyssop Loop rather than the strip-retail suites that hold most of the alternatives here. It tops this list on evidence rather than volume: its MassageBook profile carries 129 reviews averaging 4.98, of which 126 are five-star, and that page was fetched directly rather than read out of an aggregator. Review counts are per-platform, so a second directory showing 18 reviews at 5.0 is not a contradiction — it is a different platform counting its own. The practice is deliberately narrow. The published service list is customized therapeutic massage and prenatal work, hours run Monday to Friday from 10:30am to 4:30pm, and no second therapist appears in any source we checked. That is the trade: one named licensed therapist with more than a decade behind her, booked around her calendar rather than yours. A Leander-area Nextdoor thread asking for massage-therapist recommendations produced an unprompted, named endorsement of the studio, describing Halliburton as “so dedicated to her craft and extremely knowledgeable” — the kind of local signal a star average cannot show, and one we could actually see quoted.

**Strengths**

- 4.98-star average across 129 MassageBook reviews, 126 of them five-star, on a page verified directly (observed Aug 2026)
- Texas-licensed massage therapist since 2013; the studio itself has operated since 2021
- Prenatal massage appears on the published service list alongside customized therapeutic work
- Named, unprompted recommendation in a Leander-area Nextdoor thread asking for referrals

**Considerations**

- Published hours are Monday–Friday, 10:30am–4:30pm — closed Saturday and Sunday
- Acupuncture not offered
- Solo practice: Halliburton is the only therapist named in the sources we checked, so everything runs off one calendar
- No price list appeared in any source we checked — ask when you book

**Best for:** Readers who want the strongest verifiable review trail in Leander and can book on a weekday afternoon.

**Source:** [MassageBook — Knead & Harmony Massage reviews](https://www.massagebook.com/therapists/knead-and-harmony-massage/reviews)

## 2. Massage and Body Work — A full clinical menu with every price and duration posted

- **Badges:** Best Value
- **Area:** Horizon Park Boulevard
- **Address:** 607 Horizon Park Blvd, Leander, TX 78641
- **Public rating:** 5.0 ★ · 20 reviews, published on the studio’s own booking site (observed Aug 2026)
- **Published pricing:** $55 / 40 min · $85 / 60 min · $140 / 90 min · $95 / hr myofascial or prenatal
- **Massage:** Yes
- **Acupuncture:** No
- **Modalities:** Swedish, Deep tissue, Myofascial release, Manual lymphatic drainage, Prenatal massage, Cupping add-on
- **Website:** https://massageandbodywork.setmore.com/

Sara’s studio on Horizon Park Boulevard does the single most useful thing a Leander massage business can do for someone comparing options: it publishes the entire menu with the minutes attached. Forty minutes of focused work is $55, a 60-minute Swedish or deep-tissue session is $85, ninety minutes is $140, and the clinical services are priced just as plainly — myofascial release at $95 an hour, pregnancy massage at $95, manual lymphatic drainage at $120. Cupping is a $20 add-on and CBD oil is $5. Nothing here needs a phone call to price. That menu is also the broadest genuinely therapeutic range verified inside the city. Lymphatic drainage and myofascial work sit outside the Swedish-and-deep-tissue pair most Leander studios advertise, and the studio carries body wraps, scrubs and masks on the skincare side. Its booking site shows a 5.0 average across 20 reviews — a smaller base than the town’s most-reviewed studio, and published on the business’s own page rather than an independent platform, which is worth weighing rather than dismissing. The site states 25 years of practice but publishes no license number, so readers who check credentials should run the name through the TDLR verification tool first.

**Strengths**

- Every service is published with its session length and price, from $55/40 min to $140/90 min
- Clinical range beyond the relaxation standard: myofascial release, manual lymphatic drainage, prenatal
- Cupping offered as a priced $20 add-on rather than a quote-on-request extra
- 5.0 average across 20 reviews on its booking site (observed Aug 2026)

**Considerations**

- Acupuncture not offered
- The 5.0/20 review figure is published on the studio’s own booking page, not an independent review platform
- The site states 25 years of experience but publishes no TDLR license number

**Best for:** Comparison shoppers who want the price and the session length before they call — and anyone needing lymphatic or myofascial work.

**Source:** [Massage and Body Work — booking site and price list](https://massageandbodywork.setmore.com/)

## 3. Mother Moon Acupuncture and Herb — Leander’s only in-town acupuncture clinic, open since February 2026

- **Area:** West Metro Drive
- **Address:** 200 W Metro Dr, Ste 110, Leander, TX 78641
- **Massage:** No
- **Acupuncture:** Yes
- **Modalities:** Acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, Moxibustion
- **Website:** https://www.mothermoonclinic.com/

Until 22 February 2026, Leander had no dedicated acupuncture clinic operating inside the city at all. Mother Moon’s grand opening that day is the most consequential change to this market in years — and it is also why the clinic sits third rather than first. It has fewer than six months of local operating history, and no independent review base specific to the Leander location existed when we checked in August 2026. What is verifiable is the shape of the practice. It offers acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine — not massage, so it does not close the town’s dual-modality gap — from a suite on West Metro Drive, and it belongs to a small clinic network with sister locations in Austin and Georgetown (Blue Star Acupuncture and Wellness, Lake Creek Acupuncture and Wellness). The specialties cited across that network are pain, women’s health, stress, digestive complaints and postpartum care, along with moxibustion. Treatment pricing is not published anywhere we found; the clinic offers a complimentary 15-minute first consultation instead, and text is its preferred contact method. No individual practitioner is named for the Leander location in the sources we checked — the network describes licensed acupuncturists with ten-plus years of combined clinical experience — so it is worth asking who you will be seeing.

**Strengths**

- The only acupuncture clinic verified at a Leander street address (observed Aug 2026)
- Acupuncture plus Chinese herbal medicine, with moxibustion among the cited techniques
- Part of an established clinic network with sister locations in Austin and Georgetown
- Complimentary 15-minute first consultation before you commit to a course of treatment

**Considerations**

- Massage not offered — acupuncture and herbal medicine only
- Opened 22 February 2026; no review base specific to the Leander location was found (observed Aug 2026)
- Treatment pricing not published in any source we checked
- No individual practitioner is named for the Leander location in the sources we checked
- Text is the preferred contact method per its published contact information

**Best for:** Anyone who wants acupuncture without leaving Leander, and is comfortable being an early client of a clinic that opened this year.

**Source:** [Mother Moon Acupuncture and Herb — clinic site](https://www.mothermoonclinic.com/)

## 4. Hand & Stone Massage and Facial Spa — The town’s one national brand, open nine to nine

- **Area:** N US-183, north Leander
- **Address:** 651 N US Hwy 183, Ste 135, Leander, TX 78641
- **Published pricing:** $79.95 first-visit 50 min · 50-min classic $79.95 member / $119.95 non-member
- **Massage:** Yes
- **Acupuncture:** No
- **Modalities:** Classic Swedish, Deep tissue, Hot stone, Himalayan salt stone, Prenatal, Oncology massage, Facials
- **Website:** https://handandstone.com/locations/leander/

Leander’s only national-brand spa answers the market’s most common scheduling problem: nearly everything else closes in the afternoon. This location — independently owned and operated under the franchise — publishes hours of 9am to 9pm Monday through Saturday and 10am to 6pm on Sunday, a far wider window than the weekday-only independents that dominate the rest of this list. The menu is the franchise standard delivered locally: classic Swedish, deep tissue, hot stone, Himalayan salt stone, prenatal and oncology massage, plus a facial line the town’s independents mostly do not carry. Pricing is the part to read closely, because it is really two price lists. A first 50-minute massage is $79.95. After that, the same 50-minute classic is $79.95 for members and $119.95 for non-members, while the deep-tissue and hot-stone tiers run $89.95 and $99.95 for members against $129.95 and $139.95 without one. Put beside the in-town independents, $119.95 buys 50 minutes here where $70 and $85 buy a full hour elsewhere in Leander — the membership is what closes that gap, and its full terms are not published online. The location lists an establishment license reference rather than individual therapist credentials, and no Leander-specific rating could be confirmed.

**Strengths**

- Open 9am–9pm Monday–Saturday and 10am–6pm Sunday — the widest published schedule of any business in this guide
- Broadest published menu here: classic, deep tissue, hot stone, Himalayan salt stone, prenatal and oncology massage, plus facials
- Member and non-member rates published for every massage tier, plus a $79.95 first-visit rate
- Independently owned and operated, so scheduling is handled locally rather than through a call center

**Considerations**

- Non-member a-la-carte pricing is materially higher: $119.95 for 50 minutes, against $70–$85 published for 60 minutes at two in-town independents
- Full membership terms are not published — the location asks you to call
- Acupuncture not offered
- No Leander-specific star rating or review count could be confirmed (observed Aug 2026)
- The location publishes an establishment license reference rather than individual therapist license numbers

**Best for:** Evening, Sunday and short-notice bookings — and regulars who will use a membership often enough to justify it.

**Source:** [Hand & Stone Massage and Facial Spa — Leander location page](https://handandstone.com/locations/leander/)

## 5. JM Acupuncture & Massage — Cedar Park clinic pairing an acupuncturist with a massage therapist

- **Area:** Polar Lane, Cedar Park
- **Address:** 3000 Polar Ln, Ste 201, Cedar Park, TX 78613
- **Published pricing:** $120 / hr custom or therapeutic massage (60, 90, 120 min); acupuncture pricing not published
- **Massage:** Yes
- **Acupuncture:** Yes
- **Modalities:** Acupuncture, Electroacupuncture, Cupping, Moxibustion, Chinese herbal medicine, Custom therapeutic massage
- **Website:** https://www.jmacupuncturemassage.com/

This is the nearest place a Leander reader can book acupuncture and massage from the same business, and it is not in Leander: JM Acupuncture & Massage works from Polar Lane in Cedar Park, roughly six miles south. It earns a place on a Leander guide because the in-town equivalent does not exist — no business we verified at a Leander address offers both. The clinic pairs two licensed practitioners rather than one dual-licensed practitioner, which is a meaningful distinction if you were hoping for a single blended appointment. Dr. Joseph Lee, L.Ac., handles acupuncture, electroacupuncture, cupping, moxibustion and Chinese herbal formulas; he holds a doctorate from the Pacific College of Health and Science and studied at AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine in Austin. Mijung Lee, LMT, handles massage and the clinic’s combined electrotherapy-and-massage work. Custom and therapeutic massage is listed at $120 an hour across 60, 90 and 120-minute options, with a five-session package; acupuncture pricing is not published, so cost-sensitive patients should call before a first visit. The clinic states that it accepts major health insurance along with FSA and HSA payment — uncommon in this radius, where acupuncture is usually cash-pay.

**Strengths**

- Acupuncture and massage bookable at one business, roughly six miles south of Leander
- Named, credentialed practitioners on both sides: Dr. Joseph Lee, L.Ac., and Mijung Lee, LMT
- Broad Chinese-medicine range: electroacupuncture, cupping, moxibustion, herbal formulas
- States that it accepts major health insurance plus FSA and HSA payment
- Massage priced openly at $120/hr with 60, 90 and 120-minute options

**Considerations**

- In Cedar Park, not Leander — the roughly 8–9 minute figure is a city-to-city estimate, not a routed door-to-door time
- Acupuncture pricing is not published; call to confirm cost
- Two practitioners split the two modalities, so confirm which one your appointment is with
- No aggregate star rating for the clinic was captured in our sourcing

**Best for:** Booking acupuncture and massage at a single business without driving past Cedar Park.

**Source:** [JM Acupuncture & Massage — clinic site](https://www.jmacupuncturemassage.com/)

## 6. Palomino Massage & Acupuncture — One 90-minute appointment covering acupuncture and massage together

- **Badges:** Our studio
- **Area:** Main Street, Marble Falls
- **Address:** 515 Main St, Marble Falls, TX 78654
- **Published pricing:** Acupuncture $75 / 60 min · massage $150 / 60 min · acupuncture + massage $175 / 90 min
- **Massage:** Yes
- **Acupuncture:** Yes
- **Modalities:** Acupuncture, Deep tissue massage, Prenatal massage, Dry needling (within L.Ac. scope), Cupping, Chinese herbal medicine
- **Book:** https://marblefallsspa.com/book

We publish this guide, so here is the case and its cost in the same breath. Julie K. O’Leary is licensed in Texas as both an acupuncturist and a massage therapist and has practiced since 2004. She holds a Master of Oriental Medicine from AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine in Austin, a BA in medical anthropology from UT Austin, and a herbalist license. The distinction that puts her on a Leander page at all is structural: the 90-minute Signature session is acupuncture and bodywork performed by the same person inside one appointment, at $175, where the nearest business offering both modalities divides them between two practitioners. Acupuncture alone is $75 for 60 minutes; therapeutic massage is $150 for 60 minutes. The cost is the map. Marble Falls is 45 to 55 minutes from Leander, which rules this out as a routine monthly booking for most readers and is precisely why it sits at #6 rather than higher — five closer options answer most Leander questions better. It is also a solo practice, so there is one calendar and no second therapist absorbing overflow. And because the business rebranded from JKO Massage & Acupuncture and moved to 515 Main Street, some directories still carry the former name, address and review history.

**Strengths**

- One practitioner licensed in Texas as both an acupuncturist (L.Ac.) and a massage therapist (LMT), practicing since 2004
- Master of Oriental Medicine from AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine in Austin; BA in medical anthropology from UT Austin; licensed herbalist
- 90-minute Signature session combines acupuncture and massage in one appointment with the same practitioner — $175
- Acupuncture $75/60 min and therapeutic massage $150/60 min, each stated with its session length

**Considerations**

- In Marble Falls, 45–55 minutes from Leander — the only entry here that is neither a Leander nor a Cedar Park drive
- Solo practice: one practitioner’s calendar, with no second therapist to absorb overflow
- The business rebranded from JKO Massage & Acupuncture and moved from 609 N US Hwy 281 to 515 Main St, so some directories still show the former name, address and reviews
- No current review trail under the Palomino name was found in the sources we checked (observed Aug 2026)
- Palomino publishes this guide and ranks itself in it — a conflict of interest readers should weigh

**Best for:** One appointment, one practitioner, both modalities — for readers willing to spend 45 to 55 minutes each way.

**About the drive:** Julie K. O’Leary has practiced since 2004 and is licensed in Texas as both an acupuncturist and a massage therapist — twenty-plus years of practice set against a town whose only acupuncture clinic opened on 22 February 2026, and where no business we could verify pairs the two modalities at all. That is what the 45-to-55-minute drive down 183A and RM 1431 buys: one practitioner, trained at AOMA in Austin, performing the acupuncture and the bodywork herself inside a single 90-minute appointment, working from a published rate sheet at a fixed Main Street address in Marble Falls.

**Source:** [Palomino Massage & Acupuncture — service and session pricing](https://marblefallsspa.com/services)

## 7. A-T Spa Healing — Barefoot Ashiatsu pressure and facial-massage combinations on Hero Way

- **Area:** Hero Way West business park
- **Address:** 11892 Hero Way W, Ste E, Leander, TX 78641
- **Published pricing:** Ashiatsu Hawaiian Flow from $70 / 60 min · Deotox facial and massage $109 / 70 min
- **Massage:** Yes
- **Acupuncture:** No
- **Modalities:** Ashiatsu Hawaiian Flow, Deotox facial and massage treatment, Spa treatments
- **Website:** https://www.atspahealing.com/

A-T Spa Healing is the most distinctive menu on this list rather than the deepest. Jasmin King’s headline service is Ashiatsu Hawaiian Flow — barefoot massage in which the therapist uses body weight and overhead support bars to deliver broad, sustained pressure that hands struggle to hold for long. That session starts at $70 for 60 minutes, the lowest published hourly starting rate verified inside Leander. The second headline service is a 70-minute Deotox facial-and-massage treatment at $109, with the remainder of the spa menu described only as “$99 and up.” The business sits at 11892 Hero Way West, a small multi-suite business park that also houses at least two other wellness listings — and all three carry the same suite letter across different directories, which is far more likely a data-entry artifact than three businesses sharing one room. Confirm the suite when you book rather than when you arrive. King describes herself as an “A-T (Anointed Touch) Spa Healer, Instructor and Owner” with more than ten years of experience; the site publishes no massage-therapy license number, so readers who verify credentials should check the name separately. Hours run Monday to Saturday, with late appointments to 8pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

**Strengths**

- Ashiatsu Hawaiian Flow barefoot massage — broad, heavy pressure that is uncommon on Leander menus
- From $70 for 60 minutes: the lowest published hourly starting rate verified in town
- Late appointments to 8pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays for after-work bookings
- Facial-and-massage combination treatment priced at $109 for 70 minutes

**Considerations**

- Acupuncture not offered
- No massage-therapy license number is published on the business’s own site
- Three separate wellness listings at 11892 Hero Way West carry the same suite letter across directories — confirm the suite before you drive over
- Closed Sundays
- Spa treatments beyond the two headline services are described only as “$99 and up”

**Best for:** Deep, broad Ashiatsu pressure, or a facial-and-massage combination on the Hero Way corridor.

**Source:** [A-T Spa Healing — business site and price list](https://www.atspahealing.com/)

## 8. Aroma Massage — Ten-to-nine hours, seven days, on the South US-183 strip

- **Area:** S US-183 corridor
- **Address:** 1805 S Hwy 183, Ste 300, Leander, TX 78641
- **Public rating:** ~134 reviews reported via a Birdeye aggregation — star figure not captured (observed Aug 2026)
- **Massage:** Yes
- **Acupuncture:** No
- **Modalities:** Swedish, Deep tissue, Ashiatsu (barefoot), Couples massage, Reflexology combination

Aroma Massage is the entry here that most rewards a phone call, and the one whose numbers we could verify least. It occupies a strip center on South US-183 and publishes daily hours of 10am to 9pm, seven days a week, which makes it one of a small handful of Leander options bookable on a Sunday evening. The service list reads as a spa menu rather than a clinical one: Swedish, deep tissue, Ashiatsu barefoot work, couples massage and reflexology combinations. Directory aggregations put its review volume at around 134 — the largest count seen attached to any Leander massage business in this research — but the underlying platform page could not be fetched directly, so the count is published as reported and no star figure is published at all. Pricing appears nowhere we looked, the suite number varies slightly between listings, and no individual therapist license numbers appear in the sources reviewed. None of that is disqualifying in a market this young; it does mean the useful step here is a call that settles price, session length and therapist before you book, rather than a booking made off a review count alone.

**Strengths**

- Published hours of 10am–9pm, seven days a week
- Broad spa menu: Swedish, deep tissue, Ashiatsu barefoot work, couples massage, reflexology combinations
- The largest review volume seen attached to any Leander massage business — around 134, via a directory aggregation
- One of the few in-town options available late on a Sunday

**Considerations**

- The review count is reported through a directory aggregation that could not be fetched directly; no star figure is published here as a result
- Pricing not published in any source we checked
- Acupuncture not offered
- Suite number varies slightly between directory listings
- No individual therapist license numbers appear in the sources reviewed

**Best for:** A Sunday-evening or after-work appointment when the weekday-only studios are closed.

**Source:** [Aroma Massage listing (Yelp, via quoted search results)](https://www.yelp.com/biz/aroma-massage-leander-14)

## Which one is right for you?

**If you're a family new to Leander with nobody local to ask trying to pick a first therapist with the least guesswork behind the choice:** choose **[Knead & Harmony Massage](https://marblefallsspa.com/best-massage-acupuncture/leander-tx#p-knead-harmony)** — It has the evidence trail the rest of this young market lacks: 129 reviews at a 4.98 average on a platform page we verified, a therapist licensed since 2013, and a named local recommendation. Book a weekday afternoon.

**If you're an expecting parent looking for prenatal work trying to book prenatal massage from someone who lists it as a real service, at a price you can see before you call:** choose **[Massage and Body Work](https://marblefallsspa.com/best-massage-acupuncture/leander-tx#p-massage-and-body-work)** — Pregnancy massage is published at $95 an hour alongside the rest of the menu, and the studio also offers manual lymphatic drainage — useful later in pregnancy. Knead & Harmony lists prenatal work too, on weekday hours only.

**If you're someone who wants acupuncture without leaving town trying to avoid driving to Cedar Park or Georgetown for a first appointment:** choose **[Mother Moon Acupuncture and Herb](https://marblefallsspa.com/best-massage-acupuncture/leander-tx#p-mother-moon-acupuncture)** — It is the only acupuncture clinic verified at a Leander address. It opened in February 2026, so there is no local review history to lean on — the complimentary 15-minute consultation is a low-commitment way to judge fit.

**If you're a 183A commuter who can only book after work trying to find a table still open at 6:30pm, when most of the town’s studios closed hours ago:** choose **[Hand & Stone Massage and Facial Spa](https://marblefallsspa.com/best-massage-acupuncture/leander-tx#p-hand-and-stone-leander)** — Published hours run to 9pm Monday through Saturday, with Sunday 10am to 6pm. Aroma Massage lists 10am to 9pm daily and A-T Spa Healing runs to 8pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays if you want an independent instead.

**If you're a patient managing something with both acupuncture and bodywork trying to get both at one address instead of two clinics, two intakes and two drives:** choose **[JM Acupuncture & Massage](https://marblefallsspa.com/best-massage-acupuncture/leander-tx#p-jm-acupuncture-massage)** — Six miles south in Cedar Park, and the closest business to Leander that offers both. Expect two practitioners rather than one, and call for acupuncture pricing — only the massage rate is published.

**If you're a reader who can spare the drive for continuity of care trying to have the acupuncture and the bodywork done by the same person in a single session:** choose **[Palomino Massage & Acupuncture](https://marblefallsspa.com/best-massage-acupuncture/leander-tx#p-palomino-massage-acupuncture)** — Its 90-minute Signature session pairs both in one appointment with one dual-licensed practitioner — a structure no Leander or Cedar Park business we checked matches. The cost is 45 to 55 minutes each way, which is exactly why it ranks sixth.

## Leander to Marble Falls: 45–55 minutes, and when it is the wrong call

**Drive time:** about 50 minutes · **Typical route:** 183A south to RM 1431, then west along Leander’s southern edge and the north shore of Lake Travis through Jonestown and Lago Vista to US-281 in Marble Falls

Distance calculators put the trip at 37 to 41 miles and roughly 45 to 55 minutes, with individual estimates in that set ranging from 42 to 53 minutes. We publish the range rather than a single confident number, for two reasons: those figures are triangulated from third-party distance calculators rather than a routed door-to-door measurement, and Leander is geographically large enough that a start near 183A on the south side and a start on the north end are not the same trip.

What the drive buys is narrow and specific. Leander has one acupuncture clinic, five months old at the time of writing, and no business at a Leander address that offers acupuncture and massage together. Cedar Park, six miles south, closes half that gap: JM Acupuncture & Massage puts an acupuncturist and a massage therapist in one clinic. What neither town answers is the single-practitioner question — one licensed provider performing both modalities inside one appointment. That is the only reason a Leander reader would drive an hour west, and this guide ranks Palomino sixth precisely because it applies to a minority of readers.

For everyone else, the honest routing is local. Massage is well covered in town at $70 to $85 for an hour, with evening and Sunday availability at the franchise and at least two independents. Acupuncture alone does not justify the drive either: Mother Moon is in Leander, Cedar Park’s clinics are eight to nine minutes away, and Georgetown’s are 16 to 21 minutes north. The drive west makes sense for a blended session, or when you were already heading toward the Highland Lakes for the weekend and can fold the appointment into a trip you were taking anyway.

## Common questions about massage and acupuncture in Leander, TX

### Is Live Well Massage & Bodywork still open in Leander?

Its own online scheduler says no. As of August 2026 the booking page for Live Well Massage & Bodywork carries a farewell message from its therapist, thanking clients across Cedar Park, Leander, Round Rock and Georgetown for their business over the years and hoping they find their next massage therapist, with a note that the site will be updated if she becomes available again. No closing date is given. The studio was established in 2015 and its therapist had been licensed since 2009, which explains the long review trail that keeps it near the top of aggregated "best massage in Leander" lists and inside generic AI summaries. It is left off this ranking for that reason: rank is not evidence a business is taking appointments.

### What is Mother Moon Acupuncture and Herb, and how new is it?

It is the only acupuncture clinic verified at a Leander street address, and it held its grand opening on 22 February 2026 at 200 West Metro Drive, Suite 110. The practice offers acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine — not massage — and belongs to a small clinic network with sister locations in Austin and Georgetown, Blue Star Acupuncture and Wellness and Lake Creek Acupuncture and Wellness. Cited specialties across the network include pain, women’s health, stress, digestive complaints and postpartum care, along with moxibustion. Treatment pricing is not published; the clinic offers a complimentary 15-minute first consultation, and prefers text contact. Because it is months old, no Leander-specific review base existed when we checked in August 2026.

### Does Apex Sports Medicine still offer acupuncture in Leander?

We could not confirm that it does. The sports-chiropractic practice on South Bagdad Road lists massage therapy, cupping and dry needling among its services, and a March 2026 post on its own blog answers a question about how often to get acupuncture. But the practice’s live team page, checked in August 2026, lists two chiropractors, one massage therapist and office staff — no acupuncturist. Dry needling and acupuncture are performed under different Texas licenses, so a clinic offering one is not necessarily offering the other. Until the practice states otherwise, treat acupuncture there as unverified and call first if that is what you are booking. Its in-house massage therapy is separately listed and is not in question.

### Does any of Leander’s thirteen providers pair acupuncture with massage?

Not inside Leander, as far as we could verify. Thirteen active providers carry in-town addresses and none offers both: Mother Moon provides acupuncture and herbal medicine but no massage, and every massage business we checked lists no acupuncture. The nearest business offering both is JM Acupuncture & Massage in Cedar Park, roughly six miles south, where an acupuncturist and a massage therapist practice in the same clinic — two practitioners, not one. If you want both modalities from a single practitioner in one appointment, the nearest we found is Palomino in Marble Falls, 45 to 55 minutes west, which lists a 90-minute blended session. Palomino publishes this guide and is ranked sixth here because distance is a real cost.

### What does a massage cost in Leander, TX?

Published in-town rates cluster tightly once you attach the session length. A-T Spa Healing’s Ashiatsu starts at $70 for 60 minutes. Massage and Body Work charges $85 for a 60-minute Swedish or deep-tissue session, $55 for a 40-minute focused session and $140 for 90 minutes, with clinical work priced above the relaxation tier — $95 an hour for myofascial release or pregnancy massage, $120 for manual lymphatic drainage. At Hand & Stone, a 50-minute classic massage is $79.95 for members and first-time guests and $119.95 for non-members. Several Leander businesses publish no prices at all, and no in-town business published an acupuncture price in anything we could find.

### Why do search results still recommend closed Leander studios?

Because directory listings and AI summaries lag the businesses they describe. Two Leander wellness businesses confirmed closed still surface in local search: Live Well Massage & Bodywork, whose own booking page carries a farewell message, and Turning Point Wellness, whose Yelp listing was retitled CLOSED in a March 2026 update. Both accumulated years of reviews, and review volume is largely what aggregations and generative answers rank on, so they persist. Leander is unusually exposed to this because the market is young — several businesses opened within five years, and the town’s only acupuncture clinic is months old. Before booking anywhere here, including from this page, open the business’s own booking page or call. That is the check we ran in August 2026.

### Which Leander studios have evening or weekend hours?

Hand & Stone publishes the widest schedule: 9am to 9pm Monday through Saturday, and 10am to 6pm on Sunday. Aroma Massage lists 10am to 9pm daily, and Lea Four Massage lists 10am to 9pm Monday to Saturday with 11am to 8pm on Sunday — both per directory listings we could not fetch directly, so confirm by phone. A-T Spa Healing runs Monday to Saturday with late appointments to 8pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and Serenity Works lists 1pm to 8pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays and closes Sundays. The town’s best-reviewed studio is the tightest fit around a job: Knead & Harmony is open 10:30am to 4:30pm on weekdays and closed both weekend days.

## Nearby guides

- [Best massage & acupuncture in Cedar Park, TX](https://marblefallsspa.com/best-massage-acupuncture/cedar-park-tx)
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## Sources

Provider details, ratings, published pricing, and service lists on this page were observed on August 2, 2026. Ratings and prices drift — confirm anything decision-critical with the source before booking.

1. [MassageBook — Knead & Harmony Massage reviews (observed Aug 2026)](https://www.massagebook.com/therapists/knead-and-harmony-massage/reviews)
2. [Massage and Body Work — booking site and published price list](https://massageandbodywork.setmore.com/)
3. [Mother Moon Acupuncture and Herb — clinic site](https://www.mothermoonclinic.com/)
4. [Mother Moon Acupuncture and Herb — Yelp listing (via quoted search results)](https://m.yelp.com/biz/mother-moon-acupuncture-and-herb-leander)
5. [Hand & Stone Massage and Facial Spa — Leander location and pricing](https://handandstone.com/locations/leander/)
6. [A-T Spa Healing — business site and price list](https://www.atspahealing.com/)
7. [Aroma Massage — Yelp listing (via quoted search results)](https://www.yelp.com/biz/aroma-massage-leander-14)
8. [Lea Four Massage — Yelp listing (via quoted search results)](https://www.yelp.com/biz/lea-four-massage-leander)
9. [Serenity Works — Yelp listing (via quoted search results)](https://www.yelp.com/biz/serenity-works-leander)
10. [Care Massage By Katie — business site](https://caremassagebykatie.com/)
11. [Booksy — massage and day-spa listings for Leander (AuraDaySpa rating)](https://booksy.com/en-us/s/massage/37500_leander)
12. [Live Well Massage & Bodywork — scheduling page with its closing message](https://livewellmassagebodywork.fullslate.com/)
13. [Turning Point Wellness — Yelp listing marked CLOSED (via quoted search results)](https://www.yelp.com/biz/turning-point-wellness-leander)
14. [Apex Sports Medicine — current team page](https://asportsmedicine.com/about-apex-sports-medicine/our-team/)
15. [Apex Sports Medicine — services page (dry needling, massage therapy)](https://asportsmedicine.com/sports-medicine-services)
16. [Apex Sports Medicine — blog post on acupuncture frequency (March 2026)](https://asportsmedicine.com/apex-sports-medicine-blog/how-often-should-i-get-acupuncture)
17. [JM Acupuncture & Massage — clinic site (Cedar Park)](https://www.jmacupuncturemassage.com/)
18. [Yelp — massage therapy search for Leander, TX 78641 (via quoted search results)](https://www.yelp.com/search?cflt=massage_therapy&find_loc=Leander,+TX+78641)
19. [World Population Review — Leander, TX population estimates](https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/texas/leander)
20. [Leander Chamber of Commerce — Leander growth and build-out figures](https://leandercc.org/2026/07/24/post-1-why-smart-businesses-are-betting-on-leander-land-people-and-room-to-grow/)
21. [Wikipedia — Ranch to Market Road 1431 (route description)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranch_to_Market_Road_1431)
22. [Wikipedia — 183A Toll Road (junctions with US-183 and RM 1431)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/183A_Toll_Road)
23. [Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation — license verification](https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/verify.htm)
24. [Palomino Massage & Acupuncture — service and session pricing](https://marblefallsspa.com/services)

## About the publisher

- **Business:** Palomino Massage & Acupuncture (Palomino Body + Mind)
- **Practitioner:** Julie K. O'Leary, L.Ac. · LMT · Licensed Herbalist — 20+ years
- **Address:** 515 Main St, Marble Falls, TX 78654
- **Phone:** (512) 815-8522
- **Email:** spapalomino@gmail.com
- **Hours:** Mon – Fri: 11 – 6 · Saturday: By appointment · Sunday: Closed
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