Category: Massage

  • Massage Psychology

    Namaste On Monday I was out with a student doing massages for residents of a Home when I heard a jingle on the radio that Shadow, the Calypsonian, lent his voice to.  It was amusing.  After the amusement I asked why would anyone call themselves a shadow.  The word conjures dark shifting shapes in the…

  • Beyond Massage – Therapy

    Namaste Whenever I go through the handout on the Human Energy Field is it always met with mixed feelings.  Some put a question mark on it, some find that their interest is piqued and are eager to do research, some are hearing of it for the first time and are fascinated while others have a…

  • Massaging HIV/AIDS Clients

    Namaste When I think of HIV/AIDS red ribbons and African faces flashing across the television screen come to mind.    Words like retroviral, cocktails, discrimination, safe sex, latex condom, get tested, etc. are some of the words I recall, never is the word ‘friend’ associated with the disease.  Yet I have had a few friends who…

  • Tobago Lime

    Namaste First things first.  Clarification.  I was asked if my last blog was directly referring to a certain person.  No.  As I would have said some time before, whatever I write is my internal dialogue; reflections and projections that we are processing; that we being us – me, myself, and I.  It is never directed…

  • Massage Business Plan

    Namaste I am always honored to listen to the business plans of the students…the similarities in their differences. One concern that has been mentioned time and again about sharing a business plan is that someone else might effectively execute it. Justifiable. But if the inventors had felt so strongly about their discoveries, we would still…

  • Massage – An Experience

    Namaste I had a massage session recently that turned out to be anything but massage. We sat talking about the intransient nature of God. The Being who requires no validation from Its creation to Be. It Is. The conversation took me back a few weeks ago when we (warily) looked at God as being Absolute…

  • Sound Massage

    Everything is created by sound.  This means that as humans we too were created by sound.  However, quite often we are out of tunes with ourselves.  We lose our inner sound and therefore experience many kinds of physical and mental diseases.  Many of us live in an environment of unhealthy sounds; we are exposed to…

  • Spondylosis Encounter

    Namaste I finally checked the meaning of the word. Spondylosis. I had two clients in five day who told me that their Doctor suggested that that was their condition. Does anyone know why it is that Doctors are allowed to speak Greek and Latin to the English-speaking population? The Bureau of Standards dictates that importers…

  • Mr. Natty

    Namaste I was preparing to go and visit an old friend on Sunday afternoon when Sandra, a Massage Therapist from Tobago, sent me a text message. Her text asked whether I knew that Nathaniel (aka Mr. Natty) of Lambeau had died on Saturday (April 13). My stomach lurched. I immediately went into denial. Nathaniel showed…

  • Massaging with Awareness

    Namaste On Saturday I mentioned in passing that awareness is important.  As we develop awareness concepts of the aura, chakras, and the likes come into our purview and we at least contemplate them even if we don’t engage in conversation about them for fear that people think we are weird.  When we go through the…