Massage work, for me, involves a sacred trust. I have never lost the feeling that it is an honor that people are willing to trust me to work on them. You can expect me to be professional and to show you the respect you deserve. I have been at this a long time, nearly twenty years, and I’ve done thousands of massages. With a history this long I know myself well in this respect, and I can assure you that I won’t try to take advantage of you in a vulnerable position.
My work has been from the beginning, a meditative and compassion provoking experience for me. It is slow and careful, sometimes pleasant and sometimes intense. It is not my intention to be sensually provocative, or to lull you away with a maternal softness. As a man, I work in a more direct, paternal way. A little bit of pressure to get to your tension, done with care and compassion can go a long way to help break up chronic, habitual stress/tension patterns. I rely on feedback to keep it at a tolerable level, and count on my clients to help me find the right amount of pressure.
Trust is an integral part of the work I do. The only way to relax deeply is to find a way to trust. Trusting me to know what I’m doing, and then to letting go is not easy, I know. Our instincts, especially under stress, make us profoundly conservative about trusting anything. Our most primitive self-preservation programing tells us to be skeptical of everything, and not to relax. It feels too vulnerable to the primitive part of our brain. Obviously this is detrimental if it keeps one from relaxing, as the anxiety is never cleared from the body. I believe this is what keeps us in overstimulated, stressed states. Helping people to learn to relax deeply is my calling. It is potentially profound work, to be done with care, and it is a sacred trust that I don’t take lightly.