or half hour, or hour and a half.
One of my goals with writing this blog is to let people know things about massage that they might not otherwise get to know.
It really is your treatment session, how you choose to spend it is entirely up to you. I personally think that the massage recipient is the one who dictates how each session is going to go. I do like to have a couple minutes of catching up on recent weekends, any holidays that have come and gone, or are on the horizon, and anything else of importance pertaining to your life right now... if you want to share. If you are comfortable enough with me to share your life story or just a tale or two, I love to listen. How you answer, when you stop talking, what you choose to talk about are all leads for me; as soon as you are quiet, so am I (aside from asking you to move when I need you to, or to let you know that our time for the day has come to an end, which I doubt anyone really wants to hear).
As far as sleeping goes, its great when someone is relaxed enough, and comfortable enough with me to fall asleep on my table. I never, ever mind, it lets your body tell me what to do with out your conscious mind interfering, and your muscles truly let me know if I am using too much pressure, and when a technique is actually painful. I promise I don't mind at all if a lot (or a little) snoring happens. In fact I consider it a complement. I also know that these days, everyone is trying to move a hundred miles a minute, and multi-multi-tasking. When we have an allotted amount of time that we get to have, focused on our well being, I think our bodies and minds just want the rest.
So ultimately, remember that you never have to apologize for talking throughout the whole session, or for falling asleep, it is your time, spend it the way you feel is best for you.
Sunday 11 September 2011
Monday 5 September 2011
The First Step
I think in order to take the first step today, I have to retrace the steps of past days. I first discovered that I wanted to be a massage therapist after my first massage when I was fifteen. I knew that I would love to have a career that would make someone feel that good, no matter how bad a day they had had.
It took me nine more years before I started my first class, Acupressure Therapy, a one year program that I finished in '07. I loved learning about the energy meridians of the body, and how Traditional Chinese Medicine works, and being able to use hand/finger pressure instead of needles! Ear Candling was next, followed by Reflexology, amazing how important our hands, and feet are, and how under appreciated they can be! Reiki was an eye opener, universal life force energy was a new concept for me, but resonated so much it was like I knew it all along and just needed a reminder. In '08 I was feeling a bit undereducated and was wanting a deeper and more rounded understanding of the human body and all of its amazing mechanics, a 2200 hour massage therapy course was the key. I signed up for the program a few days before it started, I was feeling apprehensive, like I may have been in over my head; however by the end of my first day at MH Vicars school of massage therapy I knew I was in the right place.
Which brings me to my first step! I have been working as a holistic therapist, and only that for the last eight months. I have been working at Dharma Studios (http://www.dharmastudios.ca/) for the last fourteen months, my first year was focused on honing my craft as an RMT, and the last couple of months I have been able to reintroduce the other modalities that I love as much as massage. It has been amazing to follow and start living my dreams. I get to have the opportunity to hopefully make a difference in someones day, week, month or maybe even year, and I feel absolutely honored to be able to do so.
It took me nine more years before I started my first class, Acupressure Therapy, a one year program that I finished in '07. I loved learning about the energy meridians of the body, and how Traditional Chinese Medicine works, and being able to use hand/finger pressure instead of needles! Ear Candling was next, followed by Reflexology, amazing how important our hands, and feet are, and how under appreciated they can be! Reiki was an eye opener, universal life force energy was a new concept for me, but resonated so much it was like I knew it all along and just needed a reminder. In '08 I was feeling a bit undereducated and was wanting a deeper and more rounded understanding of the human body and all of its amazing mechanics, a 2200 hour massage therapy course was the key. I signed up for the program a few days before it started, I was feeling apprehensive, like I may have been in over my head; however by the end of my first day at MH Vicars school of massage therapy I knew I was in the right place.
Which brings me to my first step! I have been working as a holistic therapist, and only that for the last eight months. I have been working at Dharma Studios (http://www.dharmastudios.ca/) for the last fourteen months, my first year was focused on honing my craft as an RMT, and the last couple of months I have been able to reintroduce the other modalities that I love as much as massage. It has been amazing to follow and start living my dreams. I get to have the opportunity to hopefully make a difference in someones day, week, month or maybe even year, and I feel absolutely honored to be able to do so.
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