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make any money. One day a friend of mine said that I
could go to China to work in a hospital with blind doctors
at Beijing. I was amazed and it was a big culture shock as
I did not speak Chinese. There was this big room with ten
beds and all doctors were chiropractors and they per-
formed Chinese massages. Only one doctor could see,
they use all their other senses. They do massages to feel
and trace the problems and taught me like eight hours a
day for ten days long on only one technique. The doctor
sees me bending over the client and asks me: what are
you doing? Do you see me looking? Don’t look but feel.
You cannot see inside, you can only feel inside. It was
a complete eye opener.” Flo deepened his knowledge
further in Asia as well as the U.S. and ended up in Aruba
through a good friend. “I like the energy here, the sun,
the multicultural and the smiling faces.”q

‘I feel the urge to take

away your pain’

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and a world of amenities like restaurants, swimming pool, gym, and a spa. Actually
here comes the exceptional part. This is not your random spa; Clinical Massage &
Spa Aruba is a healing place, owned by a professional with an extensive Eastern
technique curriculum and an extraordinary skill for healing pain. Meet Florian Gos-
set alias Flo.

The focus of a clinical massage is the functional outcome whereas with a standard
massage it is the satisfaction of the client at the moment. “Clinical massage is so
powerful. I work on post traumatic patterns, the connection between brain and
muscle and I can actually trace the pain. I work closely with doctors and chiroprac-
tors and my goal is to take away the pain where it comes from. That’s why we call
it pain management. I treat people with headaches, back pains and other serious
issues that influence their lives on a structural base,” Flo explains. He built a strong
name on the island; both resort guests and locals are long-term clients.

Balance & Binding
“I am the only one doing the clinical massage, but I have a great team of eight
therapists performing sport massages and relaxing massages. We also offer the ser-
vice of body treatments, facials, hair & nail and waxing. I have a new, super-talent-
ed hair specialist in-house now!” He loves his place at the Casa del Mar because
here you find that family spirit. “Every work I did was bound to family-vibes. I like that.
This resort is 35 years old. The family comes here with the dad of 80, the son of 50 and
the granddaughter of 20 – three generations connected. That to me is happiness.
It feels good.” You give your energy to people in a massage, so it has to be good,
he says. You need to be balanced inside and that is his golden rule when it comes
to work. “We are no robots doing massages hour after hour. I need to be energized
to give the same to each client and that is how we work. To give the best and stay
focused.” Clinical Massage chooses to bind with nature meaning therapists use fire,
Aruban aloe eucalyptus and other organic elements. Their slogan “We are a beau-
tiful energy that transforms lives” says it all.

Flo’s Journey
He has that thing in his fingers; he is overly sensitive in that part and was taught
by blind doctors in China to see inside not with the eyes but with the fingers. “25
years ago, I was in the sports business in France, on a high level in kick boxing as
part of the French team. I had a lot of massages already and I started to practice
this myself with people around me like my mom and all told me that I have amaz-
ing hands.” At that time massage was not really that much of a job like now, so he
stayed in the sport business and put massages on the side. “I managed a fitness
center, was a fighter and one day around the age of 29, I wondered about my
future. I have Mongolian blood so I thought about a trip to Asia where I went into
massage training for a year in Thailand.” He learned the whole charade of Thai
massage and after traveled around ending up living in Hoi Minh City in Vietnam for
five years where he owned a spa and windsurfing school. “I was happy but I did not

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