Tag: Client

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Injury Management

    Namaste I was not there last week when some of the students were doing post-event massage for members of a cricket club, but I learnt that one of the players had a severe groin strain, so much so that the best of efforts at massage almost seemed futile as there was still much tension in…

  • Massage and Ethics

    Namaste The phone rang. It was one of my clients who I sidelined the day before because there was too much rain on the outside and my love for massage does not include going into Port of Spain through flooded streets to get to a waiting client. He said he is here for a few…

  • Massage Heaven

    Namaste “Desperate cat!” That’s what I thought when I looked out and saw that the cute white cat had opted for sitting up on the wall near the ripe plantain that I had put out for the birds. The birds had come out in their numbers to eat. A fresh batch hatched recently, so the…