SpiritQuest's Personal Masseur Interview

Last Updated: Jan 05, 2020

- Relaxed.
Relieved.
Revived.
Complete.
Embraced.

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- Relaxed.
Relieved.
Revived.
Complete.
Embraced.

- I host a Singers Open Mic in Pasadena on Monday Nights. I perform at Several Cabaret and Supper Club Venues, I attend as many friend performer shows as possible I want to continue to build community through cabaret.

- It is absolutely a case by case basis.

- forever.

- If you don't Love it, don't bother.

- I absolutely hate it. But will under the right circumstances. If a client is disabled obviously it's a different ballgame but for the most part, come here, it's great, the studio is fun and there's a gorgeous tub with disco lights and rubber duckies.

- I am gifted. When I put my hands on someone I get an entire visual 3D schematic of what's going on, my hands are ridiculously sensitive. My whole body really. My spirit definitely.

I believe I have a responsibility as a person with a gift to understand it, to train it, to work with it, to educate it, to practice it and to use it to help people.

It's very simple. I am a happier person when I am doing what I was designed to do.


It was instinctive. As a licensed massage therapist and a certified massage therapist, I relied heavily on my empathic skills. Which are off the chart. I literally do feel your pain and I can put my finger on it.

I also really wanted to understand the physiology of the human body I got a master's from NYU in Physical Therapy.

While and After NYU I was spiritually lead back to the Reservation of my youth where I apprenticed with Shaman Proudfoot in the Navajo Healing Hands technique.

My continuing practice is to combine those three elements.

- I KNOW I am the ONLY half-breed Navajo Journeyman Shaman from Flatbush Brooklyn who sang and danced on Broadway, got a Masters in Physical Therapy from NYU was rated top 5 Manhattan Masseurs by Time Out New York, have worked on 5 Tony Award Winners 2 Oscar Winners and 1 President (Jimmy Carter). I'm sure I got that Market cornered.

- Yes. Ridiculously! Here's why: I absolutely still LOVE what I do. After 20 years I still look forward to it. I am still fascinated by the human body and the healing hand rituals of my ancestors I am still fascinated by pain and the source of pain and how to rid the body of pain and every day, every session I want to get better at it. I work for myself. My environment looks like me, it's fun, artistic, theatrical, welcoming, non-clinical, and beautiful. The House is Gorgeous, the landscaping is gorgeous, my housemate is wonderful everyone is an honored guest and treated like a king. That's a wonderful place to be. I love that every day I am told I don't charge enough. It's nice to hear. Almost all my clients are repeats and many have become good friends over the years. I never imagined that happening, but it does and that's wonderful. It's about finding balance in purpose. I know I am gifted. I have spent a lifetime training that gift to do what I do. Now It's fun. My workday ends with a bear hug and a reschedule. It's not like work anymore and if that isn't a success I don't know what is.

- I am who I am. I am a Journeyman Shaman who will have many careers but at my core I am a healer. I am here to reach the human being through the human body. It is who I am. It will always be a part of everything I do. When I was on Broadway, touring the World I volunteered Massage Therapy and Physical Therapy for Gay Men's Health Crisis in New York during the height of the AIDS epidemic. I volunteered Massage Therapy and Physical Therapy for Fire Fighters at Trinity Church after 9/11, I volunteered Massage Therapy and Physical Therapy for cancer patients, while I was a cancer patient. Right now, my life is pretty balanced between performing and bodywork. Which is honestly how it works best for me. I love both--they are so different. Each is an escape. I ONLY 2 a day. I want to always look forward to my client. I don't want them to stress if they're running late so I build lots of flexibility in my schedule. Yes, I am still pursuing all the things I love, I still sing, I still perform, I still write, I still do stand-up and I have found the richer my non-therapy life is, the better therapy I do. I am not complete when I am not doing it.

- It's always been there. Since Childhood. People noticed. I was gifted.
If somebody got hit by a ball or slipped on the ice I knew instinctively what to do. In dance class or backstage before a show, people would line up to work with me. I knew I was gifted. I felt both lucky and responsible. Our Village Shaman knew it too, and encouraged me to embrace our Navajo Healing Hand Spirit and taught me many Summers. I had the opportunity to work with her as a young man after getting a Masters in Physical Therapy from New York University. I returned to the Reservation and apprenticed with Josephina Proudfoot. Over the past 20 years I have continuously practiced combining those two traditions. Where the Physical Meets the Metaphysical.