About Alan

Massage therapist Alan Davidson is on a mission to help people to live the good life.

Over the last twenty years, Alan has learned how to fall deeply in love with being alive, and infatuated with being fully present in his life.  This is quite a transformation from the man who in 1987 was running with “the flashing high/crashing low crowd” partying, drinking and shooting drugs.

According to Davidson, “my story of transformation began when I moved to Houston in 1980 to be a bartender to the fabulous.  And we were fabulous.  We had more fun in a three day weekend than entire state of Oklahoma had in a year.  Then AIDS hit hard and my friends started dying.  Out for our group of about 50 friends, only 5 of us are still alive today.”

He continues “I just knew I was HIV positive since I’d shared needles with people who had already died from AIDS. When my first HIV test came back negative, I knew that Fate herself had spared me form the executioner.” says Davidson.

“I was given particular gifts in this life and I knew my partying ways were wasting them away.  I walked out of that HIV clinic bound and determined to use those gifts” he states.

Davidson had always been fascinated with the intersection of bodywork, psychology, ritual, and spiritual practice. A few short months after receiving the good news of his HIV test, he picked up a brochure about a Massage Therapy school and knew that was his next step. He also completed a bachelor’s degree from the University of Houston–Downtown, with an emphasis on psychology, sociology, philosophy, and religion.

Davidson is a Texas Licensed Massage Therapist and the owner and director of Essential Touch Therapies in Houston , Texas .  Having taught massage, meditation, yoga, and human transformation since 1990, he is currently on the teaching staff at NiaMoves Studio and is a Nia White Belt teacher.  He is a certified Strategic Attraction™ Coach leading people through the Four-Step Strategic Attraction™ Plan.   Davidson is training to be a Big Mind Meditation facilitator with Genpo Roshi of Kanzeon Zen Center , Salt Lake City , Utah .

His new book “Body Brilliance – Mastering your Five Vital Intelligences” is available for sale over the internet and at fine book stores everywhere.  Body Brilliance hit #1 on Barnes and Noble.com’s Health and Diet list the first week in release and #7 on their Top 100 books. Davidson is a contributing author to “Healing the Heart of the World” a collection of essays by such authors as Prince Charles, Caroline Myss, John Gray, Andrew Harvey, Naomi Judd, and Neale Donald Walsch.

He sums up his years of study with one wholehearted belief:  “Life is for the fun of it”.

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