About Max

I'm originally from New York, and I grew up as a musician — a cellist. Years of daily practice taught my hands what they know: control, patience, and fingertips sensitive enough to find a note by feel. Long before I ever studied massage, I was spending hours a day learning to listen through my hands.

The other half of my education came from my mother, a modern dance performer who specialized in contact improvisation — the art of two bodies moving in constant, responsive contact. She did contact improv exercises with me from the time I was a kid — training that taught me balance and how to attune to another person's body: where its weight is, where it's holding, where it wants to go. She had studied massage herself, and working on her shoulders after rehearsals is where my own interest in this craft first sparked.

I studied music performance in college and gave massages on the side the whole way through. After college I landed in San Francisco, where I trained formally and earned my California license in therapeutic massage — anatomy, technique, and the discipline of professional bodywork.

When I moved back to New York, the requests started changing: women were asking me for erotic massage. Rather than improvise, I went and studied — tantric massage, yoni massage, the breath and energy practices underneath them. The work aligned naturally with how I'd always been with partners: giving, unhurried, focused on building energy rather than spending it.

I studied tantric massage in Indonesia, and I still travel every winter to keep learning — massage traditions across Southeast Asia, including Thailand, as well as Hawaii and California. Fifteen years in, I'm still a student of this work, on purpose.

Today I'm a full-time musician and massage provider in New York, running my own entertainment company. The two halves feed each other — a session, like a piece of music, has movements: an opening, a build, a peak, a resolution. I structure my sessions the same way.

I prefer to work out of my studio in Woodside, where we can take our time, never worry about noise, and I can curate the whole experience — the warmth, the oils, the music, the privacy. But I'm also available for outcall and travel when that's what works for you.

And since women ask: I'm straight, and chemistry is what I seek out and enjoy — with anybody. Older, younger, any body type, any background, any orientation: what matters is the connection we build. If you identify as a woman and have a yoni, you are a potential client.

Read about the work itself: tantric massage and yoni massage.