Fall and catch massage sounds very judo-y. But I promise that you won’t have to make your client tap out. Fall and catch massage is a way to do massage without squeezing and pressing a client’s muscles with all your might. Instead you “fall” into the client, and the client’s body “catches” you. Your body [...]
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 [...]
