Thank you for your interest. Fischer Bodywork is closed for business. Special thanks to all of the clients. It was a pleasure working with you, and a great experience.

If you'd like a recommendation, let me know, what you are looking for, and I'll see, if I have personally experienced someone, who may be offering the touch that you are looking for.

The massage work was a sabbatical for me. I had prepared with a lot of massage classes before hand. When I took about nine months off from work, I really plunged into taking classes full time, running my startup massage business, and experiencing working in a spa. Overall, I have learned a lot about being with people, touching people, and enjoying a lot of good massages.

And, along the way, I also learned a lot about the value of money. Having been in a well paying career as a software engineer, money didn't seem to matter as there is plenty of it. Following the dream that time is more important then money, I started to venture into the sabbatical, and left my secure position. At the beginning it seemed to be true. After a few months, having to watch the spending even at a grocery store lost it's allure. Now, I'm back in an even better paying software engineering position. And, I realize the value and sustenance that comes from perhaps not doing your dream job and being financially taken care off. There seems to be a reality to work being work, and financial reward fixing the gap between the kind of work people desire and the kind of work, which needs to be done.

That's perhaps not the morale that you had expected about following your dream and everything will fall in place. There is a balance between doing work that pays well, and the need to love the work, because it is the only motivation that will make you excel at it. And, taking some time off from 'career' is a really good thing, like fertilizer for your life.

I still love massage, and am contemplating to go next spring up North for a week to learn Watsu (WATer ShiatsU massage) at Harbin hot springs.