Welcome to the Website for

Inner Fire Works: Shiatsu Massage and Energy Healing

If you are completely new to Inner Fire Works, or if you heard about us through a friend, we hope that this site will help answer your questions about who we are and what we offer.

Treatments are available during the evenings and on weekends. Paulus is also available every day in the daytime (* see below) and Emily is available all day on Thursdays.

Because we are members of the NVST (Nederlandse Vereniging van Soma Therapeuten), most of our clients can get reimbursements from their insurance companies. It is necessary to have an "aanvullend pakket" but you don't need a referral from your huisarts.

People who have visited us before will notice that our prices have gone up! We hope this doesn't discourage you from coming again. We have a special offer for our current clients: if you refer a new client to us and he or she comes for a treatment before January 1, 2008, then you will receive a "bon" for the same treatment at half price.

By the way, we are now asking that everyone please pay at the end of their treatment. This will reduce the amount of time we need to spend on administration.

There's nothing new on the house concert agenda at the moment, but you can read about what we've done in the past here.

We have a few instruments from Eagle Research to sell, if anyone is interested.

And finally, we'd like to promote our "Bed and Breakfast and Behandeling" option for travelers who are looking for something special.

* An update on our other activities! Paulus has been on an unpaid leave from his regular job, but he has now decided not to return in January. He is looking for other part time work, and in the meantime doing odd-jobs for family and friends. (need a handyman?) This means that he is available to give treatments almost any time, as long as he hasn't scheduled a particular job.

Our plans for creating a hospice/healing center in the future have also evolved. After looking at several hospices and hearing how they are organized, we have decided that we don't want to go that direction. The system as it exists now is completely charity-based, and if we joined that system, we would have no time to give treatments and attention to our guests -- all of our time would be used to find sponsors and donations and to coordinate volunteers! That is not interesting to us. So... we are still open to having a center where guests could choose to spend their last days.... but the focus will be on the treatments and the attention, and guests will have to pay more than 10 Euro per day for it. Our current goal, then, is to find other professional therapists who would like to join us in creating this kind of healing centrum: one that supports and sustains itself and can focus and reflect on its own identity without being dependent on charity. That approach is healthier for us and also for our guests, we believe!