Why Damian became a therapist
Damian didn't set out to become a massage therapist. Most people don't. It is not a career that one imagines himself doing as a child. Damian Graduated in 94' with a bachelors in Computer Science along with a another 200 plus eager young adults. All of them thrown into a world of ones and zeros ready to meet the challanges that they would face. Well maybe they weren't all ready, but they were willing just the same. After working as a programmer for two years in a high stressed enviornment, Damian was feeling out of place and unfulfilled. The bits and bytes that he manupulated had no life, no feeling, and certainly no personality to engage him. By nature Damian is full of passion, especially for the arts, So why you ask did he choose to become a programmer? Well his intense curiosity in all things is to blame for that. Also a love of technology and what can be accomplished by its manipulation. But those weren't the only reasons. He initially didn't set out to become a programmer either. As a child he actually dreamed of being an architect and almost ended up as such.. But that is a story for another time. As luck would have it one remarkable event lead to another not so remarkable event which lead to another and he ended up as I have already mentioned, a programmer. Not a bad one, but never destined to be a great one either. And this was the problem. Damian felt he was not going to make much difference doing what he was doing, and certainly would never be remembered for it.
As luck would have it, he had also promissed his father a program for his company and so needed to take time off from working ten hour days at the firm he was in. The problem being that the amount of time it would take one person to write a program the size of what his father needed would be no less than a year. So you see, Damian had to make a living while doing this. Little did he know that deciding on massage as a temporary solution would lead him to find his true purpose in life. As he discovered a natural talent he came to realize that massage was the one thing that he was really good at. It also filled him with a sense of purpose unlike any he had ever felt. And so after ten years working in both resort and day spas while also taking on private massage clients, he looks back on that first week of massage training and knows as he did then... This is what he was meant to do.
Damian's Massage training
Ah... Massage School. In some ways it was just as hard as some college courses, but theres nothing quite like it. Imagine giving and getting a massage every day. Certainly something to looke forward to when getting out of bed in the morning.
In November 1997 Damian completed 620 hours of basic massage trainning at the Florida college of Natural health..
He continued in their 300 hour advanced massage course. Soon after, he started working at The Doral Golf Resort and Spa and his real training started. Probably one of the busiest spas in Florida there was plenty of oppertunity to put his training to practice.
Damian's Massage style
Throughout the years Damian has taken several CEU courses in a variety of massage styles. But So far he has discovered none that provides the wide variety of benefits and can accomodate as large a range of needs and preferences as Swedish and deep tissue Swedish massage. Therefore it is his style of choice. Although this is not entirely accurate. The one great advantage of Swedish massage is that it was created using combinations of techniques taken from different styles. So in essence, it is a combination of diffent styles that makes up a good swedish massage.
