One of the things that is really missing in the massage profession is a way to bring massage and touch back into everyday life and into the lives of others. As we get more and more caught up in getting more training and education and trying to make a living doing massage, the concept of touch in the family and communities seems to get lost.
Even though I have been a massage therapist for 18 years the idea that you have to pay someone to be touched still strikes me as odd. How did touch and massage ever get so far away from the art form that it is? How did massage get so far away from being a regular part of life?
As a massage therapist trying to make a living, often the goals of massage sessions become trying to do every thing you can to get the client to come back and pay you again for another massage.
What about the concept of teaching people to fish – teaching people to massage each other?
One such way to do this is to start a massage group at your church as one of my guest authors has done. Carl Nelson has written some guidelines for bringing massage back to the masses – literally. He has started and facilitated a group where he teaches massage to members of his church. He gives some ideas for setting up tables and shares some articles that he wrote and recommends some DVD’s for teaching simple massage concepts that anyone of any age can learn.
This could easily be applied to any group that you belong to – sports groups, non profit groups, hospitals, nursing homes, schools…Where else can you see this happening? In book stores, coffee shops, parks, at beaches?
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