“It’s not how long you wait, it’s how you do the waiting” Thursday 9th July was possibly the most emotional day ever for massage therapists on the UK massage corona coaster. The day started with Scottish massage therapists who were under the impression they could go back to work being told they couldn’t and ended […]
Well, there’s certainly never a dull moment on the Corona Coaster at the moment. I spent most of yesterday writing blog posts, running Zoominars and Facebook lives about the news that Scottish therapists qualified to treat pain (i.e.: with level 4 and above clinical, sports or other equivalent) are able to return to work. This […]
“Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.” – Mary Oliver, ‘Wild Geese’. The word on every massage therapist’s lips worldwide since the COVID-19 pandemic is “when can we re-open?”. Social media buzzes with conflicting information for the UK massage industry and endless questions that never quite seem to be answered. When […]
In this dynamic webinar, the Jing director duo – Rachel Fairweather and Meghan Mari partnered with the amazing Dermalogica, to give you amazing top tips for Pre & Postnatal Pregnancy Massage! Feeling confident treating pregnant women is a rewarding way to expand your practice and provide significant pain relief at this important time. This course […]
How many times a day do you touch your phone? Go on-be honest. What do you think? 100? 500? Surely not more than that! After all you are a mindful massage therapist, right? Would it shock you to know that the AVERAGE user in the UK touches their smartphone over 2,500 times per day!And that’s […]
Jenny is 53 years old. She came to me with chronic low back issues, lack of mobility and constant pain. She also felt depressed and had severe gastrointestinal problems. Jenny had a large scar on her abdomen following removal of part of her bowel. Raj is 47. He had been diagnosed with a frozen shoulder […]
“When we take ourselves out of the present moment we are entirely unable to function creatively. Entirely unable. If you want to be creative you have to deal with what is happening. Only by dealing with what is happening can you really change things for the better” Michael Chaskalson – from a talk given on […]
Over the 25 years that I have been privileged to be a massage therapist I have learned zillions of techniques. I have graduated from the good old world of effleurage and hacking to the fancy- schmancy world of visceral manipulation and fascial nerve release. Yet there are some moves that will always stay dear to […]
The complex puzzle of chronic pain Being a massage therapist is not always an easy business. Massage therapists, more than any other manual therapy profession, are constantly faced with the issue of chronic pain- that is, pain that persists long beyond the usual healing time for an injury. We are often the last point of […]
Many clinically oriented massage therapists believe that emotional pain is literally “none of their business”. Isn’t our job to work with physical pain, not to be delving around in the messy arena of peoples’ feelings? Yet massage has a long tradition of working not just with the body but the mind and emotions. The two […]
In this Free 45 minute lunchbox webinar you will find out more about the fantastic camexpo, cming up on the 24th-25th September 2016 @ Olympia, London. and learn how to get your clients out of pain in 1-6 treatments, using the revolutionary Jing Massage Fusion HFMAST protocol. Also – FREE TICKETS! See us at camexpo […]
Client self care: Does it work? “There’s only one corner of the Universe you can be certain of improving and that’s your own self.” -Aldous Huxley As a manual therapist it is tempting to think that getting effective results is all about your hands on work. After all the use of those awesome healing hands […]
