SatyrVine's Personal Masseur Interview

Last Updated: Dec 05, 2022

- i started when i was a kid working on family. i come with a deep sense of empathy and care. i got training from new age hippies in northern california. . . so i enfold many different styles and philosophies into my sessions that could never be taught in one school. my session is a deep physical therapeutic blend of techniques. . . as well as lots of care and love and simple sensual pleasure. . . when i first started being physical with people i thought i was bad at it, so i focused on learning how to be really good at it! it makes me a very conscientious lover… as well as talk therapy from the experience of a life of traveling the world since i was a teenager, constantly meeting strangers and being in different cultures. . . and my passion for healing and freedom and integration. . . i bring all of that to the conversation of massage. the pleasure and healing and wonder of what we can do and feel and be with these bodies.

- i like them to feel like we knew each other. a familiarity. i like them to feel like i appreciated them as they are. i heard them. i saw them. i like them to feel loved, accepted and cared for. i like them to feel happy and at peace and more free and comfortable in their bodies.

- i would say Yes. but not just training: intuition and experience are essential as well.
i was good before i got training, but i never would have been successful without learning how to use my whole body, understanding anatomy, learning techniques that i can apply in all the different situations i find in all the different bodies i’m with. training opens up our intuition to more possibilities than we can readily imagine. . . and gives our imagination more tools to work with as we grow into our own style.

- i left home at age 17 to live in the UK on foreign exchange for school. . . that year was the year the internet became public and i started traveling to meet people i met on line as well. i spent 12 years not having a fixed abode, always on the move. . . then held an apartment in NYC for a decade. . . before returning to being a nomad again. even when i held an apartment i traveled several times a year (except one year, when i challenged myself not to travel!)
i’m a gemini sun in the 9th house with my mercury trine my ascendant in virgo. . .

- 34 years! 20 professionally. . .
i started at age 10 working on family, then friends, then hookups, then i got training and did a few years of lots of trades before it became my main source of income. it’s how i’ve made most of my money since 2003. i hope to always give massage, as i love doing it and it gives me a satisfaction i get nowhere else. . . but as i age, i do a lot less of it. . . i’d like to make money other ways to give my body a break!

- i’ve worked with many novice masseurs. among the advice i give is: take care of your body. meditation and yoga are key, to have a healthy emotional and psychic body so when working on people you don’t pick up too much of their stresses nor give them your own. to learn how to relax: a relaxed and happy body is felt by the client and does half your work for you. learn how to use your whole body in a session: body mechanics and minimize use of your thumbs. and be confident and comfortable with what gives you joy: you can’t please everyone. don’t worry: someone else will. be authentic in what excites you and share that with people. also, give yourself time to relax into each client. . . no matter who they are, you can see beauty in them. . . and that helps them feel more comfortable with you and with themselves.

- i had several jobs with time clocks and paychecks. . . i didn’t like that. when i found i could work for myself, when i wanted, working directly with clients, making them feel good and helping with their healing. . . it’s been difficult wanting any other job!

- i’ve spent most of my life traveling the world. i love talking and listening to people. i write a lot of my life stories. make storytelling videos. take a lot of pictures. spend a lot of time naked in nature. enjoy open world video games. i love meditation: mindfulness, yoga, qigong. i work with plants, make salves and tinctures. i like reading books and listening to audiobooks. rarely watch TV. like movies and theater sometimes. like all sorts of music.

- Accepted and appreciated. Discharged and cleansed. Free and at peace.

- my focus is Love and Healing. i give what i need from the world. i want everyone i work on to feel a connection to me and the universe through me. i’m a very physical and sensual person. i’m also a very spiritual person. i do my best to be authentic and in integrity with each person i’m with.

- Yes. i first made money from massage at age 20. it’s been my main source of income for 24 years. i’ve had several regular clients for over a decade. Massage has allowed me to live at my own schedule, permitting me freedom to travel the world and work when i need to, allowing me to engage in other passions without needing to monetize them. i know i have helped many people in many ways, which has given me many types of satisfaction.

- Absolutely. i am not a fan of small talk. i love that i can be instantly intimate with people. that i have access to their whole body. . . and often hear “i’ve never told anyone this before…” and “i feel like i’ve known you a long time already. . . “
being able to pleasure people as well as help in their healing is my passion.
i’ve lost interest in hooking-up from my years of massage work.
i’m very good at what i do and being able to see that every time i give a session and hear how happy i make people makes me feel i will always give massage.

- I started working on family and friends as a kid. I first gave a massage to gay man in my late teens after having had sex with a couple guys and noticing they left after they came. i found that if i massaged them after sex i could keep them there for hours. . . so i started doing that on all my hook-ups. my first paying client i was invited along for a 4-hand massage from some guy i met on IRC when i was 20. . . i was told he might pay me more if i finished him off. . . so i massaged and explored him trying to understand that. it was me holding his hand while working on his forearm that made him hard. . . which communicated to me that what men need most is Intimacy. . . which made me happy and proud to provide that. he saw me 2 or 3 times a week for six months, then i went to massage school to learn how to do what i already had a strong intuitive base for!