Massage Opportunities and Life Learning Massage therapists have an excellent opportunity not only to meet extraordinary people but also to learn from them. I have met many, and they have taught me many things. After 20 years in massage therapy, many of my wounds have healed through touch, and I have tried my best to … Continue reading Massage and Life Learning
The other day, whilst talking to massage therapist friends about the best and worst places to do massage, we came up with lots of candidates for best, but the worst won hands down: beauty salons. Yes, it has happened to many massage therapists. It may have been a fill-in job during massage school or a … Continue reading Good Fences Make Good Massages…
Debates roar among massage therapists about which are the best oils, the best draping, and the most effective techniques. Yet never have so many argued so passionately about this question: whether to start clients in the supine or prone position. O the polarity! So many have crusaded with passionate arguments about breath patterns, face-cradle wrinkles, … Continue reading A Massage Therapist’s Top Ten
My education in massage did not stop with graduation from a massage school. If anything, it intensified. Now a practicing therapist, I was learning every day from the most prolific of authors, the best logisticians, the brightest of the best. It has been hard to keep up sometimes, but very rewarding. The classroom has been … Continue reading A Degree from Massage University
One of my most fun massage therapy clients likes to update me on his activities and the connection between what he has been doing and what is going on in his neck, back, hands, etc. I don’t get a laundry list of precarious Christmas lights installations or kneecaps wondering off by themselves on Audubon bird-sighting … Continue reading Zombies vs. Massage Therapists
The footpath from the subway to my university led up the Boston Commons through the State House and down to the other side of Beacon Hill. I took the path often, going to the right side cut-through of the State House to avoid the somber figure sitting on a stone bench in front of the … Continue reading The Path to Progress
We had a wonderful time picking out decorations for my mother-in-law’s 90th birthday party. Pink table-covers, birthday lawn signs, a banner and bubble-making bottles, clean fun for all of us youngin’s. We’ll also be running around next weekend picking up a vanilla cake with white and pink frosting, tamales, sandwiches and the “Happy 90th” balloon. … Continue reading History at Your Hands
Hi there Find Touchers! I’m Mel. Or Melissa, depending on if you get emails from me. I thought that you might like to get to know me a little, and learn how I came to Find Touch, and how massage has changed my life. I was born in San Diego, and moved up to Seattle … Continue reading The story of how a stranger became at home in your world
It is an old law school question: Would you be Hitler’s lawyer? It is a tough one. All people regardless of their crimes are due a spirited defense, law students are taught. Yet what about the worst criminal in recent history? Would you be the one? Could you? Here’s how the question could … Continue reading Massage with an Historic Difference
Other than a rare bad check, my massage practice and business has never been ripped off – until last month. Armed with a pizza, the dog, my phone and laundry, I neglected to make sure all the doors were securely closed on my car that Sunday night. Monday, after doing about 10 errands, … Continue reading Reward: Used Maroon Astra-Lite Table with Wheeled Black Carry Case….