Maya Tabea Sievert is a person with diverse interests and talents: her thirst for knowledge, her enthusiasm for the miracle of creation and her search for ever new challenges are characteristic of her.

(Deepak Chopra)

I have dedicated my life to massage therapy and have throughout the last 20 years come to develop a very unique approach to the human body that is so efficient my patients have claimed it to be my “Superpower”. I smile and don’t deny it, I believe that God gives everybody at least one talent designed to add meaning to our existence and that, when we use our talents in order to reach out and touch people’s lives for the better, his blessing rests upon us.

You might not be able to change the world, but you can certainly make a difference right where you are if you treat everybody the way you’d want to be treated and you stand up for what you believe in.

I am what some people call a “haptic savant”, meaning I have the pretty rare ability to read the human body’s energy field and -flow as if I was reading a book. I am also able to communicate and cooperate with it, which makes my massages extremely efficient. The facts that our body is a masterpiece composed of trillions and trillions of intelligent cells all living and working in highly organized united cell structures, each one of them knowing their place and their assignments and that our body is like a small universe within itself, all those complex metabolic processes that keep us alive continuing their work no matter if we are awake or asleep never cease to blow my mind. What a miracle we are!

Ever since my early childhood I have been giving massages to my parents, siblings and friends, instinctively understanding the healing power of touch. Becoming a medical massage therapist was the logical consequence. I also hold degrees in health education and adult education, both adding further to my qualification as a bodyworker and therapist. 

Throughout my career I have mastered a thorough understanding of the human body and have successfully treated conditions where most other therapists have failed. When giving a massage, I tap into the field information, evaluate what I find and detect the differences in what the energy flow in the body should feel like and where it is blocked off (which is the main source for pain). I then establish a picture of the body I am working with in my mind, viewing it as healthy, whole and sane. I focus on that picture, transporting its truth to the body cells I am “talking to” with every touch. It’s like I am reminding the body of how it is to be healthy and pain-free and am helping him to support and re-establish that state, which is why I have finally called my approach the “Rappeler-Technique” (an extension of the basic “Three-Phase Treatment Model), from the French word “rappeler qch à qn” meaning “to remind sb of sth”. As well as having developed my own approach, I have mastered a wide range of massage therapy techniques and I can mix and match according to the individual needs in order to achieve the best results for each session. In general, my massages are pretty deep-tissue, I am definitely a hands-on person, not your Reiki-kind of therapist. I locate the pain, address it and try to draw it out/release it, a lot like a human lightning conductor, all the while “listening” to the biofeedback the cells are giving me. Being able to “read” the body and react to even the smallest change in muscle tone and cell turgor is extremely helpful! Every single treatment is unique, since I start each session with a touch diagnose which determines the current condition of each patient coming in for a massage, taking into account that the up-to-date state is extremely dependent on the current individual situation (framed by numerous factors such as personal stress level, sorrow, physical activity, genetic predisposition, posture, lack of sleep, etc.). My work with the body is dialogical, I view the success of the “Rappeler-Technique” as a product of my deliberate and benign cooperation with that incredibly brilliant marvel of the human body we miraculously identify ourselves with. Every human body seems to strive for health and wholeness and is complying so gratefully whenever given the chance. It’s crazy how oftentimes we tend to functionalize our body as if it was a machine, pushing us on and on relentlessly in order to fulfill society’s goals and being astonished when a body that we have learnt to willfully ignore suddenly starts to fail us. We should all learn to treat ourselves as if we were our own best friends! We would be amazed how different life could be if only we’d show more appreciation for what we have been given.

Throughout the massage therapy session, the patient can usually feel the pain leaving the body and it makes me so happy when people that have had to live with pain for a long time tell me about major health improvements (like being able to go to sleep without pain killers, waking up without pain, being able to put full strain on their limbs where they could hardly move them before). 

I have been told that I have “healing hands” multiple times, if that’s the case, I give all glory to the good Lord above, who is the best physician.

I am very passionate about my job and view it as my calling. It’s awesome to feel like you are doing what you were made to do, it gives you a deep sense of gratitude and satisfaction. I give my best every day and I am happy that my patients are so appreciative of my work. Also, I’m thrilled I get to meet so many wonderful and interesting people in my practice! I couldn’t ask for a better job.