BODYWORK THERAPY INNOVATION
I have practiced Healing Bodywork for 40+ years while working as an Inventor of Electronic Products. During those years I was both a Bodywork Therapist and an Electronic Product Developer or Inventor. I am now retired from electronics and have moved forward to do bodywork therapy creation and teach “Harmonic Resonance Bodywork”, one of my newer inventions in the healing bodywork field. Since I was used to being a technology creator I was also comfortable creating healing modalities. I have been doing healing bodywork since age 37.
STARTING STUDY OF MASSAGE
In 1986 my partner Barbara Gabriel Soutar and I were living in Quebec and massage was offered for free in the healthcare system. Barbara and I were hoping to have a baby at that time. I knew I was going to be the birth coach so and I took a basic massage course in town … we lived in a cottage in the woods near Duclos PQ. The massage therapist that I went to was Helene Bilodeau and she offered classes in Hull PQ. That was my first bodywork course. Unfortunately at the time I was suffering from osteoarthritis that made the challenging physical work not possible for me.
MILTON TRAGER’S WORK
In 1987 we were living in London Ontario where the work of Dr. Milton Trager MD was being taught just a block away. It is called Trager Bodywork. Trager is not so demanding on the fingers as massage. I was able to be the birth coach for the birth of our daughter in 1988 using Trager bodywork. I continued practicing and taking classes and I have been a Certified Trager Practitioner since 1990.
I still suffered from osteoarthritis and I discovered a few herbs that helped with the condition and it was not that much of an issue affecting my bodywork practice until 2009 when I had to stop doing bodywork at age 55 for a few months.
DISCOVERY: BORAX FOR ARTHRITIS …
I was disappointed that my body was in pain … so I did some research on osteoarthritis and I discovered that in Australia they had solved the problem of osteoarthritis by supplementing people’s diet with 10 milligrams of boron plus vitamin D and magnesium. I tried this mix of minerals and vitamin and it was miraculous. Within a few months I had regained my mobility and my hands were fine doing massage too! This is worthwhile exploring if you suffer from osteoarthritis. Boron does not help as much with other types of arthritis.
FIRST THERAPY BUSINESS
I worked in my own studio in downtown Victoria with Partner / electronic product designer Ed Haslam. That studio had an extra room in the back that was just the right size for doing bodywork. For many years I had a dual life as an electronic product developer and bodywork therapist. I had 2 or 3 clients a week. It was not an ideal studio since new clients would come to an office with multiple computers, wires, technical equipment … I would have to say “Not to worry, You are not next on the drill press! There is a therapy room over there!” Doing bodywork in this inventor space led me to realize I can invent in the field of therapy as well as electronics!
MASSAGE BLENDED TRAGER BODYWORK WITH RITUAL …
I loved being an inventor and loved working as a bodywork therapist and it led me to consider inventing bodywork therapies as another field of invention. Slowly over the next 5 years or so I created “Harmonic Resonance Bodywork” by combining Sufi Healing, Trager bodywork, massage and rituals such as the Medicine Buddha ritual.
TEACHING BODYWORK CLASSES
In 2015 well known bodywork / counseling therapist Penelope Seagull wanted me to teach classes of Harmonic Resonance in her studio. Thank you Penelope … because this got me thinking that perhaps I could continue as an inventor in the field of bodywork therapy after my retirement from electronics. This was the start of “Harmonic Resonance Bodywork” and I ended up teaching classes at Pacific Rim College on weekends. I am still doing classes but I now have a studio attached to my house that will serve for classes of 6 students.
Harmonic Resonance Bodywork remains my most important therapy. It uses gentle rocking of the body in harmony with the client’s own natural rhythms. It tends to go deeper than massage but it is easier on the practitioner than massage. In the last few years my arthritis has almost completely disappeared and I am forever grateful! I can continue at age 77 to create and refine new bodywork modalities.
I still do regular oil massage upon request blended with the rocking work but I never offer any “deep tissue” work because I am protecting my hands from injury. However the rocking work invented by Dr. Milton Trager MD uses the clients own skeleton to go deeper than deep massage. The bones are used to do deep tissue work from the inside of the body.
SEXUAL HEALING BODYWORK
If people are traumatized or through simple aging sexual health often dwindles. I had encountered this for years in my regular bodywork … people would ask for help to regain the erotic pleasure in their lives. I really did not know how to help them. I noticed too that they said their doctor could not help except by offering dangerous drugs like Viagra. In most cases people complained that their doctors were not helpful at all and seemed uncomfortable discussing sexual issues. I was fascinated to see if bodywork can be helpful.
EROSPIRIT SCHOOL
In 2016 I registered with the EroSpirit School on Saltspring Island to delve into therapeutic sensual bodywork. Caffyn Jesse on Saltspring Island taught the class. It was a one week long class to learn to be comfortable offering deeply pleasurable sensual massage. The class consisted of 6 women and one other man. On the second day I decided that I could not handle this work so in the opening circle I told everyone I was going to back out of the class. Everyone said they were sad to see me go and each one offered a hug including the two instructors. I received 9 loving hugs from everyone in the class and I felt so good at that point that I decided to stay for the rest of the week and learn more. It was a deep learning.
I found I was perfectly comfortable doing deep pleasure work with a focus on healing. I ended up following up the class with a 150 hour apprenticeship under Caffyn Jesse doing therapeutic deep pleasure massage therapy combined with ritual. I had to do a thesis on a topic of interest. In my apprenticeship I worked with both men and women. I would assist with orgasm difficulties and focus on finding ways to help people heal and regain their pleasure abilities.
THESIS ON MALE HEALTH
Since I suffered from enlarged prostate issues I decided to write the apprenticeship thesis on bodywork therapies to help men regain their sexual functioning through deep pleasure as experienced in sensual massage with a focus on healing. I ended up writing my thesis on “Physical Therapies for Male Aging Issues”. In my apprenticeship practice I worked with women and men both but I decided that the thesis topic would be about sexual health therapy for men. I ended up receiving a certificate as an Intimacy Educator.
I really value ritual in healing modalities and in sensual therapeutic work ritual is key for overcoming feelings of shame that are part of our culture concerning anything sexual. I blended my Harmonic Resonance Bodywork with sensual massage and always include Sufi ritual prayers and Medicine Buddha rituals along with pleasurable therapies.
The apprenticeship was important to feel wholistic about my bodywork skills. I worked for years to help people with all physical issues from bad backs, necks and other health issues. Now I can help them in the pleasure realm as well.
After doing my apprenticeship with the EroSpirit school I felt comfortable offering help with sexual health issues. This is unusual work for our culture and it is preceded by an interview which includes consent guidelines so that people are never traumatised. People specify exactly what they would like to receive. It is a therapeutic sensual massage.
SEXUAL RESONANCE BODYWORK …
I named the new therapy “Sexual Resonance Bodywork” which I have been offering for the last decade to select client with pleasure issues. Details of this are on a website that I send out only to clients who request pleasure restoration therapies.
(If interested in exploring pleasure therapies contact me by text and I will send a link to the special website with password.)
BETTY MARTIN’S CONSENT CLASS …
Engaging in this kind of therapy work the key skill is having a rock solid “Consent” understanding. I did a week long class with Dr. Betty Martin called “Like a Pro” which established clear guidelines for working with sexuality and consent. Betty Martin is a retired Chiropractor who now works to educate on concepts of consent. This was a key skill to refine and I highly recommend Betty Martin’s classes on the “Wheel of Consent” and other similar classes. It is important to offer sensual therapies for some clients who have difficulties in the realm of pleasure. I have special client intake forms to fill out so that clients can feel exactly the type of therapy they wish.
ONGOING TRAININGS
DEATH DOULA TRAINING
About 3 years ago I completed training as a death doula in order to apply my skills to comforting pull in the process of dying as well as their relatives. I have participated in a number of public meetings in this field. However, I have not done much of this work because it’s an extremely popular area in which people like to serve the community. I’m hoping to helping anyone in this area who needs help for themselves or relatives!
TANTRIC YOGA BASED BODYWORK
I just enrolled in a Tantric Massage course online to give myself a new learning project while I recover from surgery in June 2026. Much of the sensual awakening work I do is founded in Tantric Yoga. Yet I have no deep understanding of this branch of yoga. The course covers the yoga theory and rituals that will deepen my understanding in this realm of healing. Its fun at age 77 to keep learning!
CONVENTIONAL THERAPIES
I mostly do ordinary bodywork healing based on the work of Dr. Milton Trager MD which can be received wearing yoga clothes. That is what Harmonic Resonance Bodywork is like … I will leave a link in the first comment to the website that describes this work. I also offer a massage blended version of Harmonic Resonance Bodywork. This work is purely therapeutic with no hint of sexual therapies.
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HARMONIC RESONANCE BODYWORK YOGA AND MASSAGE IN ESQUIMALT STUDIO …
Mostly in my studio I do Harmonic Resonance Bodywork which is helpful for everyone who is recovering from physical injury, back pain and recovering from trauma both emotional and physical. Harmonic Resonance uses the healing touch, ritual and rocking therapies that I am well known for offering for the last 10 years.
I offer classes in “Harmonic Resonance Bodywork” several times a year in my studio. I have in the past offered classes at Pacific Rim College in harmonic resonance body work, but I prefer the smaller classes taught in my own Studio because they are less stressful for me and easier to organize.
IF INTERESTED IN THERAPY OR CLASSES CONTACT ME THROUGH MY FACEBOOK PROFILE.
I also offer yoga classes in the winter. We just supply space and a yoga teacher organizers the class.
(For anyone who wishes to contact me by cell phone texting … My number is 250-882-5896)
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