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Denis Larsen LMT, NCTMB, AMTA
Denis Larsen Quick Facts
Denis R. Larsen is a licensed (Connecticut, #3292) and nationally certified massage therapist and body-worker (NCTMB) with offices in Valladolid, Yucatan, Mexico, where he is executive director of aNeed2Heal Bodywork Centers, LLC (+52-998-143-0905). He is a professional member of the American Massage Therapy Association. Denis originally trained in Swedish massage at the Healing Hands Institute for Massage Therapy in Westwood, NJ, USA, but has taken extensive additional training in other massage and bodywork techniques such as Thai-Yoga massage, sports massage, neuro-muscular therapy, trigger point and myofacial release therapy, and in massage for life-altering illnesses such as cancer and HIV/AIDS.
Denis was one of 60 massage therapists selected, world-wide, to be part of the Athens Health Services Sports Massage Team at the 2004 Paralympics in Athens where he worked extensively with the disabled athletes from all parts of the world. Upon returning to the USA, Larsen founded the Paratherapy Society, Inc., a non-profit organization, to deliver needed bodywork therapies to persons with challenged bodies and/or physical disabilities.
He has been volunteering massage at Buddies of New Jersey in Hackensack, NJ, since 2002. Buddies is an HIV/AIDS support center. Research work by Dr. Tiffany Fields, of the Touch Institute of Miami University, and his own direct experiences have convinced Larsen that regular massage is a physiological benefit to clients with HIV/AIDS by increasing their T-cell count as well as their NK cell count. And besides, massage just feels good to almost anyone.
After his experience with Mayan curanderos in Yaxunah as part of a Maya Research Program anthropology field school, Larsen developed a full-body massage-technique done in a hammock rather than on a table. He believes that the hammock actually elongates the spine, creating more space and allowing greater flexibility. Larsen is also a pioneer in working with divers who have DCI(decompression illness or the bends). He works on Isla Mujeres, Quintana Roo, México, with clients in a hyperbaric chamber while they are under compression and receiving oxygen therapy.
Because of his training and experience in a wide variety of massage and bodywork techniques and philosophies from around the world, Denis has developed Fusion Therapy for specific problems and issues. A carefully-crafted blending of some of the best aspects of Eastern energy theory, Western “pathology” approach and indigenous, shamanic methods, Fusion Therapy weaves many different treatments options into a gentle and effective tapestry of touch, treating many common problems that plague our everyday lives.
Larsen has a deep interest in both the Maya culture and people, and has made more than 40 trips to the Yucatán peninsula over the past eleven years. So deep is his interest that Denis has moved to the Yucatan and opened a bed, breakfast and healing center. He currently lives at his bed and breakfast in Valladolid, Yucatán, México, where he offers various massage and bodywork therapies to the guests of Casa Hamaca (www.CasaHamaca.com). Denis also has a facility on Isla Mujeres where he gives pro bono massage to island residents who are disabled, have challenged bodies or special needs. The Casa Hamaca is open for guests and students. It is a very beautiful place. Denis also offers classes & workshops in hammock massage, DMSO therapy, Fusion Therapy and DCI/Bends therapy to massage and bodywork professionals as well to interested non-professionals. See www.aNeed2Heal.com for details.
