Providing massages for married couples has always been a pleasure. I enjoy seeing the same people for massages and hearing from them how they are doing with life’s stresses – the kids, the business, the in-laws, whatever. It’s always made business sense as well. I will do two instead of one massage at a … Continue reading Un-Couplings
Everybody else is going on vacation this weekend, so I took my vacation last week. This was a trip to the mountains, a friend’s cabin and a week spent looking at birdies and not doing massages. But part of the fun of a vacation is trying to find a good … Continue reading Vacation Massage Finders
Find Touch would like to present a guest writer, Carole Osborne. Carole is a renowned author and leader in the world of massage therapy. She has pioneered the reintroduction of therapeutic massage and bodywork to healthcare for the childbearing year. Supporting Pregnancy with Massage Therapy Nurturing touch during pregnancy, labor, and the postpartum period is not … Continue reading Supporting Pregnancy with Massage Therapy
We have minutes, centimeters, inches and cups and all kinds of ways of measuring things, but we massage therapists don’t have a great way to measure tension. How tense is someone during final exams? What about IRS audits? Or a divorce? It seems that if we can measure everything in life we should have some … Continue reading Four In-Laws, Two Parents and One Wedding
I don’t like to think about sex in the context of massage, but I am somewhat ticked at what I see as some pretty serious whining going on amongst male therapists responding to Lynna Dunn’s recent article about “discrimination” against male therapists. Gentlemen, please put yourselves in the place of the person at the front … Continue reading Gender of-Fenders and Service with a Smile
Sometimes you get the nicest compliments from clients when they don’t say a word. So it was Friday when a client came in after a hell week at work, plopped on the table and pointed at the right side of his neck. A few minutes after getting his lymph flowing and addressing the rebar in … Continue reading The Best Compliment
The history of massage includes some interesting twists and fascinating ironies. For example, The History of Massage by Robert Noah Calvert notes that ancient cultures primarily used massage to heal those afflicted by demons or demonic influences. And because pain and disease were believed to be caused by the inhabitation of demons or demonic forces, … Continue reading Banishing Our Demons
About six weeks ago, the American Massage Therapy Association sent out an email with an attached press release about a recent Craigslist.com decision. The decision involved the Craigslist.com “Erotic Services” section and the use of the word masseuse in that section as a “cover” word for prostitutes. Although the document’s wording was a bit difficult … Continue reading A Rose by Any Other Name?: Massage and the Word Masseuse
Over the years I’ve used various massage oils, creams and lotions. Everyone seems to have his or her favorite, and it’s rarely possible to convince a “lotion person” to switch to oil or vice versa. That’s cool. Different strokes and all that (pun intended). But for me, I never seemed to be able to find … Continue reading Have You Tried Jojoba Oil?
So, today I was thinking…how can I make this blog more interesting? What do we LMPs want to read about, really? Of course it is lovely to hear about various aspects of the massage community, and I love to keep everyone in the loop as well as share positive information, but today I’ve chosen to … Continue reading What is Your Favorite Pumpkin Patch?