(Jacopo Cardillo, known as Jago, is a famous contemporary sculptor from Anagni (Italy).
His reinterpretation of the Pietà, originally exhibited in the Church of the Artists in Rome, depicts a father holding the body of his son, evoking themes of love and loss. This marble sculpture took months to make. Some have called him the new Michelangelo for the skill and emotional power of his work.)

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*Availability: from early afternoon until finish by 8.00pm, with 24 hours notice, although you are welcome to ask for any availability in the moment -but availability is unlikely as the room is also used as an art studio. *136 Ocean View Road, Oneroa, Auckland 1081

*$75 fee for 1.5+ hours -or by anonymous donation, plus or minus.

Please read this website page pertaining to the compression massage type before contacting me: https://sacredrainbowcreations.nz

Introduction

This Compression Massage, involves the use of a weighted blanket of some 50kgs, to more than double that weight when folded, and, in combination with hand/elbow/arm come body pressure/weight of the masseur.

There is no use of oil, although a cream may be used on your feet (heel balm).

The massage table has a padded face hole.

A person may be fully clothed throughout; undressed, to whatever degree from the beginning, and thereafter as you wish, after having settled into the authenticity of the experience and the masseur, and/or; undressed with sheeting available for respectful covering.

The ‘stilling/stopping’ aspect refers to the masseur being present within himself, and thereby yourself/the other person, together with the holding of a particular position for several seconds or minutes!

Aspects of the massage include background music; heated towels; a Thunder Drum, hand bell, seed marakas, chime; white sage; feathers etc.

*How can we, as males be in connectioning/affectioning/intimacying with a different gender if we are disconnected from ourself and our same gender brothers, in essence, our fathers?

A form of conscious connectioning between males: a slowing down, pausing, ‘stopping’, ‘stilling’, lingering some more -with your thoughts returning back ‘home’ to your breathing …a calming, a ‘mind-fullness’ … a settled ‘spiriting’ of the whole body and a returning to the heart, a heart felt visceral sense)

The intention of this type of ‘massage’ experience is to expand on our somatic experience come repertoire as males: BROthering, BELoveding come BROLovering -as is learnt from the Father, our FATHERS -deceased, separated, blended, closeted; uncles; cousins; nephews; sons; babies; through to an impact on embryoes. How we walk with and connect with each other through to lying beside, ‘holding’ and intimate somatic sensuo-erotic sexuosity -a going beyond our isolation, separateness, objectification, disassociation, addiction; ‘religio-colonisation’; mascularisation; armouring, and; filtered come coded communication patterns as a male in relation to our individual somatic spontaneity and degree of physical interrelating with other males+ -a nondualism/nondualfullness.

As a lead-in to the session, the accompaniment of Henryk Gorecki, Symphony No. 3, Opus 36 CD, may greet you on arriving. See live performance:

and then experienced from within the silence by the end of the session, for the last 20 minutes or more -other than each other’s changes in breathing, swallowing and/or sighing.

$75 fee for 1.5+ hours, or by anonymous donation, plus or minus (with an umbrella container at the door on the way out, that will not be looked at until after several sessions have taken place, as I do not want to know how much an individual donated, unless you so wish to. *A safely concealed bicycle stand is on the right at the driveway entrance. *Carpark is on the right of the driveway entrance, No.1 -better to drive down then come back up to park.

General Background: Although I have previously experienced a similar approach ie. a “holding” during the personal growth workshops of the 70s and 80s, an acquaintance re-introduced me to the idea, after returning from India. He provided a weekly session, whereby, as equals, we progressed from within the silence of no touching, then tentative touch, through to a cuddling formation on the the floor with back support. It became an important aspect of my week, and the memory of the experience nurtured and lingered with me beyond the session and into the following week.

Specifics: On stepping through the doorway you will hear in the background the music of Henryk Gorecki, Symphony No. 3, Opus 36, unless you have talked to your dislike of this or other ‘new age’ music on making the appointment.

After showering, if not done so within the last two hours and have alerted me of needing such on making the appointment, the session will have unknowingly already started as we converse around information sharing and any questions, while at the same time becoming aware of each others’ initial response to our meeting for the first time (increased heart rate, an attraction and/or sexual curiosity is allowed!) and then starting to be aware (conscious) of each others’ physical positioning in terms of personal space (comfortableness and/or awkwardness; distance through to closeness) as it changes moment by moment. During this initial stage i may start introducing some conscious type breathing and/or mindful touch sharing while standing, before leading us into the session further, on the table…

That awareness will remain throughout the session -beginning with no touching then moving towards tentative touching, more relaxed touching, pressure/weight, ‘stilling/stopping’, and, a letting go into greater settled connectioning.

At the same time our thoughts will come and go, with a life of their own! as a parallel process, but, hopefully just observing, and returning to the sensory experience of our bodies ‘in relation (connection) to yourself and each other’, an Innocence. At some stage, there seems to be a more pronounced letting go and an absence of trying to do or be anyone, a general feeling of peacefulness comes to the fore -the essence of a compression ‘stilling/stopping’ session.

Each of us will be in charge of how close (intimate), physically, that we want to be, in a sense, of mutual benefit and reciprocity, together with a co-existent whole body ‘warmth’ come pleasure that will come and go in any given moment.

The compression of pressure/weight bearing, contraction and extension, will include my arms/forearms/elbows/hands, my upper front torso of my body, and, my head throughout the whole of your body, with the use of a thin cushion when on your genitalia area, if preferred.

*Although the experience is of varying degrees of depth, that change moment by moment, there is also a lightness because of the simplicity of the intent -to be in connection with each other through pressure/weight and ‘stilling/stopping’ with a less conscious rational brain!

*This compression type massage pertains to contacting, connecting and the embodying of greater closeness.

This type of massage is a pre-requisite for the other massage type on making an appointment for such, an ‘Holding with Mindful Energetics massage’ for all persons in male+ bodies -a form of ‘holding’: fully clothed with use of a thin pillow for genitalia area, partially undressed with shirt off, and then, ritualised undressing come nakedness -webpage being updated … https://sacredrainbowcreations.nz/a-holding-with-presence-come-energetics-massage-for-all-men-living-in-male-bodies-a-form-of-holding-between-men-brothering-come-bro-lovering-fathers-deceased-separated-blended-closeted/

Beforehand Care: consult with your theraoist; identify no-go/fixed boundaries.

After Care: verbal/contractual agreement re. face-to-face and/or ‘ph support for an agreed to timeframe eg. on call for first 24 hours etc.  *See Manline, Manawatu https://www.manline.co.nz/information                                                                                        *Professional services: Outline support line, call us on: 0800 688 5463. National Mental Health line, 1737 for national call or text  Burnett Centre, Auckland Central, 09 3095560. We provide services for gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men, and people living with or affected by HIV. Our services include rapid HIV testing, STI screening, and counselling. *A support person, partner, therapist, parent/guardian (whether of a female or male body) for a young adult between 18 and mid 20s+ may be imperative, and encouraged to attend -for reasons of practitioner transparency, boundaries and consenting with reference to a social construct ‘underbelly’ of power and control between a younger and older person.

*Experiential, Training Background: -massage trainings -Aio Wiro Yoga Centre/Swedish, Orthobionomy, Pulsing, psychic, habilitative with Irene Smith/NZ Aids Foundation; through to experiencing Kashmiri Shiva-Shakti; “personal growth” workshops and; trainings, Presbyterian Social Services; -men’s movement groups, “Essentially Men”, Quakers Men’s Weekends; group and 1:1 Heart Circles (Harry Hay derived) for men who love men; my own personal counselling/psychotherapy for trauma and professional supervision; -co-facilitator’ of peer group sessions with men who love men, within a First Nations ritual of sweat lodge and pipe smoking
*Qualifications, post basic/graduate -Dip. Teaching (Advanced). Cert. Professional Development and Supervision. Dip. Rehabilitation Studies (vision impairment). Masters papers in Narrative and Collaborative Style.

(Page, edited April ’26)