BY ALEX DADAMU
Getting a massage is more a necessity than a luxury because it benefits health and wellness according to Mrs. Joan Rahemi.
Joan who is from Makira Province is a local masseur and has been in the massage therapy business for well over 11 years now working at the Spa in Tavanipupu resort at Marau Sound.
“It all started for me way back in 2010 when I started working with professional expats masseurs who trained and teaches me on the twists and turns of the massaging art,” Joan said.
Despite having an assistant working with her just recently, Joan has been working by herself for quite some time.
“It comforting to know clients and visitors praise the job I do for them.
“I love how I make people feel,” she said. “As soon as they leave here, they’re just at a ‘wow’ moment. They’re like ‘oh my gosh, this is really what I needed, I was so tense.’”
Besides doing massages, Joan is also multi-tasking at Tavanipupu Resort.
In the daytime she works at the Spa, however, at night time when she’s free, she works at the bar as a bartender, or sometimes she takes up post at the resort’s restaurant.
Joan expressed that she loves her job very much and thank God for the talent to make someone happy, unwind, and relax.
“I encourage young people to take up a job as a masseur, it’s a very worthwhile job because besides helping other people professionally, one can apply the same technics when a family member is sick and needs a soothing full body massage,” Joan Expressed.
It is understood that because of the COVID pandemic chaos, businesses like the one Joan is in will still kind of lingered unlike before COVID.
