Meet Your Massage Therapist

His practice and exploration during the past decade with yoga (haṭha and yin), meditation (vipassanā and more notably formless techniques such as ‘silent illumination’ mòzhào 默照 and ‘sitting and forgetting’ zuòwàng 坐忘), non-duality in the Advaita (Ramana Maharshi, Atmanda Krishna Menon, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Rupert Spira, John Wheeler), Chán Buddhist (Huángbò 黄檗, Hóngzhì 宏智) and Daoist traditions, as well as non-violent communication (Marshall Rosenberg) slowly influenced the shaping of his interest in traditional healing arts. However, it was his travels in Asia between 2018 and 2020 that were the most pivotal catalyst. This interest in bodywork, and more specifically massage therapies, took indeed a more practical dimension during his time as a volunteer at Buddhist center ThaBarWa in Myanmar back in February 2020. Helping in massaging disabled patients and assisting Vietnamese physiotherapist Tran Trung Kien based there was a transformative experience which left him filled with eternal gratitude and a passion for healing arts which continued to grow ever since.

This would not have been possible without his dear Malaysia-based, massage therapist friend Xin Chow and her compassionate, devoted work (Thai, qì nèi zàng 气内脏, and uterine massages, water therapy) who first contributed in 2018 to the blossoming of this interest for massage therapies and still remain a source of inspiration to this day. His visits to traditional zhèng gǔ 正骨 (bone-setting) parlors in Taiwan also offered, to a lesser extent, valuable insights stemming from the dedication of their practitioners.