Haha! No matter what kind of massage one gives, I guess that soft hands are one of the most important ingredient =)

When I was about 20 years old, I went to a half-a-year introductory course of classical massage. It was mainly about learning by doing, which was good. It left me with the basic techniques, and confidence. Since that it has been on and off - there were years when I didn't do any massage at all, and there were times when it was a hobby for me, and sometimes I earned part of my income by doing a massage every now and then... All those years accumulated even more experience and confidence. So finally I just tried it as my main work; I started with some advertising, and after half a year I had enough customers to barely pay my bills. And even after that things kept on being unstable - there were times I was working as a helping hand at a horse stable, I was working as a part-time secretary in some local projects, I went on being a miller in a nearby mill - all the time doing some massage as a side work ... Until I settled back to being a full-time massage therapist. There were times when I was pretty low on money, growing desperate, and then suddenly more customers just poured in. That went on for one and a half year, until I finally decided myself to slow down... So, all the time I've been writing this blog I've felt that I'm working too much and that I'd like to have more time to do things of my own and to help Sami with developing URW. But the good thing is that everything I love is here ready at hand - it doesn't require a special effort to enjoy nature, it is enough to just stop by my yard.

So, yeah - life just goes the way it does. And so often it doesn't go as planned. Which is an adventure - trying out different things, encountering surprises, discovering secret paths and so on =)

Ah, if you have soft hands and will to do massage, just start with your friends and other contacts, get more experience, maybe find someone to teach a bit, and see how it goes. If you like the work I'd guess the clients will recognize it too and if they like your treatment, they'll tell their friends, and so the word spreads.