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 […]
“I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house down.” We all know the old fairy story – if you don’t build your house out of something solid that bad old wolf will just blow it down with a couple of puffs. In a similar way, great bodywork alsorequires a robust foundation – in […]
Plenty of laughs, and one or two bad backs: Brighton massage duo bring new insight to chronic pain sufferers with long awaited book, and a boisterous launch to boot Local entrepreneurs Rachel Fairweather and Meghan Mari raised the roof recently at the launch party of their new book “Massage Fusion; The Jing method for the […]
“A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while she knows something” – Wilson Mizner Taking a case history is often the first real contact you have with your client. This is the point where you can really start to hear your client’s story, make a connection with them as a […]
Published in Massage World Magazine (with acknowledgements to Steven Covey for his inspirational book: The 7 habits of Highly successful people) What makes a really GREAT bodyworker? During my twenty five year love affair with bodywork I have practised, taught, studied and received massage in many diverse parts of the world including the UK, USA, […]
