Are you using your massage tool? Hmm…let me guess why you’re not. Maybe it’s because that hunk of wood or piece of twisted plastic doesn’t let you feel anything, and you have no idea how hard you’re pressing. I hear ya, but hold on, there’s a way around these problems. Use a guide finger next to the [...]
A few winters ago I had dry-skin challenges of winter and I developed a significant skin crack on the knuckle of my right middle finger. This knuckle is a tool that I use when I need to deliver precise, deep pressure. At first, I thought about cancelling some deep pressure clients, but I didn’t. Instead [...]
I stunk at palpation in massage school. All my classmates found the tight spot on the massage model right away. When it was my turn, if I didn’t find the tight spot by the third pass, I would pretend that I did. My palpation skills did improve over time (hallelujah!), but they could have improved [...]
I give my mom credit for helping me embrace one hand massage. When I was a kid I’d sometimes give her the sass face, and she’d say: Your face is going to get stuck like that! Yikes! I stopped. For a while. Then I decided to check in the mirror after I made the sass face. [...]
