PrinceFelix's Personal Masseur Interview
Personal Interviews give you the opportunity to know the Masseur you are considering to hire better before you make the first step.
Our Personal Masseur Interviews are a great way to give a little bit of personal and even intimate information about your massage experience. Get to know him better before you call!
Why did you become a Masseur?
Touch is one my my main love languages and a way I really enjoy connecting with others. It's something I'd always been drawn to and started at a young age. After so many years working from a [place of intuition, I decided to seek out additional education and information which is where I unexpectedly fell in love with Thai massage. During my massage program I took a 3 month course to explore Thai massage and soon after that and graduating Massage School I traveled to Thailand where I lived for another 3 months studying with really knowledgable and skilled Thai medicine workers. In that program I added so much knowledge and experience to my base of work.
So many people navigate personal and physical isolation before and especially through this Covid experience. Many people these days don't experience the levels of physical closeness or touch that is so important to our human experience and health- being able to connect with people and share my love of touch, healing and the skills I've been building for years fills me with joy. I've always had a deep love for touch, health exploration and helping people, so bodywork feels like such an ideal blending of my passions and skill
Do you remember your first client ? Tell us something about that first day when you decided to be a Masseur!
I remember my first client well, we worked together for over 3 years. I’d been massaging consistently for a while and was referred to him. I really loved being able to connect with him and be a source of touch and presence in his busy, relatively isolated life. We shared many hours together with him on my table. We only stopped working together when I moved away but we had a really great dynamic and rapport that I value.
Is extensive training necessary for a Masseur in order to be successful?
I think as humans we all have an intuitive capacity for touch and massaging each other. So I don't think extensive training is necessary to be able to massage someone.
I do think that levels of training, cultivating knowledge, refining awareness and techniques, and body mechanics make a huge difference in someone's ability to work as a bodyworker longterm / sustainable. I think additional training also enables someone to sink more deeply into healing energy, and have a much larger base of skills and techniques to draw from, which creates more nuanced and individualized sessions rather than using the same flow on every person.
Civilizations and cultures around the world have been developing various and individualized styles of bodywork for as long as we've been human and there is so much knowledge and skill to be learned from those bodyworkers. I think people can do a great job relying on intuitive work. But when someone chooses to expand their knowledge base and skills I often find that I see/feel a pretty noticeable shift in the quality of touch, the energy they bring to a session, the thoroughness at which someone is able to work as well a deeper confidence in their touch.