Understanding failure can lead to more massage money. I bet you think I’m talking about lessons learned from failing. I’m not. I’m talking about something more nuanced. Here’s what I mean. You’ve failed at something. I’ve failed. We’ve all failed. After the failure our brains add the current failure onto a list of failures. Nice [...]
Want to be able to do more massages and not be in pain? Then ask: Why am I doing this? Wait, not: Why am I doing massage? I’m talking about these “why(s)”: Why am I doing a particular technique every massage? Why am I using my palms to effleurage? Why do I use my thumbs [...]
I didn’t understand massage body mechanics when I was a massage student, and I thought every MT had hand pain. My hands got to be such a problem that I went to my teacher, Telema, for help. She watched me work on a fellow student. What she told me to do seemed too subtle to [...]
How do you hold a massage tool? If you want to do massage more than 5 years then you need to hold a massage tool in a way that’s not going to hurt your hand. Start by setting your table low. Why low? So that you can lean your body weight into the massage table, [...]
