My Journey into massage
People often ask me what kind of massage I do. My answers are usually a bit incoherent, the best being ‘It's sort of my style'.
I’ve been massaging for over 12 years and I’ve worked on around 8,000 bodies - yes I calculated it! With each person my hands explored and gathered more knowledge which has allowed me to truly treat from a place of experience.
My curiosity started quite young, when I would follow my grandmother, a physiotherapist, around at family gatherings, squeezing and kneading relatives, trying to figure out what was needed to make them feel better. At this point I recognised the joy I felt in helping people to relax.
I later went on to study sports massage which lead me to Neuro-rehabilitation, working on people with spinal cord injuries. During this time I would sometimes spend an hour treating just one muscle group, weaving my fingertips through each fibre, searching for pockets of space to expand and relax. This gave me an intimate knowledge and appreciation of the beauty held in each muscle and it’s function in the complexity of the human body. Continue reading…
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