Preparing your mind for your sessions is something we all do differently. Some bodyworkers don’t do it at all. I am confident in saying that these bodywork sessions tend to be the ones that aren’t delivering the most healing attributes. There are many forms of meditation and I encourage each one of you to find [...]

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Some statistics say that at least one in three women and one in twelve men has been sexually abused. Because so many people have experienced sexual abuse, you probably cannot avoid working with someone who has, it is a good idea to be educated about how to work with such clients. If your client [...]

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You probably learned in massage school how you will have to deal with other’s people issues and try not to let them effect you. This is something that is easier said than done at times. We come to care deeply for our clients and know so much about their lives, pain and happy times. I [...]

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Safety is number one in every thing you do as a practitioner as far as I’m concerned. Disease can be spread like wild fire in this sort of a profession. I’m not just talking about colds either, there are lots of things you and I aren’t very aware of like post polio syndrome and [...]

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WOW! This stuff is so cool! I’m reading about Polarity Therapy and it basically said that if you didn’t know what to do you could just place your hands on someone and love them. Because I am writing on the internet I feel the need to say that this is obviously not in a sexual [...]

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Massage and proper breathing go hand in hand. Deep, belly shaking breaths can be the difference between a painful experience and an experience that heals. So much can be assessed about a person from just seeing how they breath. Are they a shallow breather? Do they breath short and quick? When trying to relax, how [...]

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The line that manual therapists need to keep is sometimes a hard one. People that are friends become clients and clients sometimes become friends. When a person is on your table it is hard to remember sometimes that it needs to be about them no matter how hard they may try to talk about you, [...]

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Why is it that you go to a spa and pay upwards of $140.00 for a 50 minute session and feel like you didn’t even get any bodywork done? Okay, so you get to use the hot tub while you’re there, big deal. But if you go to a business that has just Massage & [...]

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Touch is the first sense to develop in humans, and may be the last to fade
there are approximately 5 million touch receptors in our skin– 3000 in a finger tip
a touch of any kind can reduce the heart rate and lower blood pressure
touch stimulates the release of endorphins (the body’s natural pain killers) which is [...]

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So, today was the first time since I started my massage career, 7 years ago, that I had a client ask to end the session early. There was 10-15 minutes left of the 60 minute massage. She hadn’t really said anything throughout the massage (typical) but seemed very uncomfortable. Kept clearing her throat as if [...]

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