If I don’t plotz at some point before the holiday is over it will be because of a little eighty year old lady from San Juan.
Daughter’s a regular client. Mom visiting the continent for the first time in her life. Last day of vacation. Mom is sore and beat up, especially near some fairly recent surgical sites, and has a really unhappy right leg; all the sightseeing. Daughter gives mom her appointment. Conversation was limited — Mom speaks mostly Spanish — and I hoped I was doing okay by her; this lady had never had a massage of any kind. I left them together at the end of the hour so my usual client could help her mom with hooking and zipping and things.
Mom came out looking like a little elf – -the whole family’s about five feet tall — and smiling broadly.
She began to kick one leg up and then the other, like the world’s oldest Rockette.
“She feels real good,” her daughter said.
Beautiful! The world needs more elder-Rockettes!
Love it! It’s such a blast when it really “goes”!
I’m a massage therapist too, and have been reading your posts for a while through Daisyfae. I love how eclectic you are – it’s a bit of a reassurance, because I don’t often find other MT’s who seem to have a wide world.
Oh that really made me smile and has made my weekend feel happier too. Thanks for that.
I am glad that story could be an upper heard round the world.
There are a lot of people in the massage field who are a little — I don’t know, they never seem to get out of the studio. It’s why I don’t go to massage conventions. My certification class was full of people who seemed to think they were impressive because they had read a book once — even if they had remembered the particulars wrong. And who would make alarmed faces at me and say “You should practice Yoga instead of all that heavy lifting, that is the only exercise you need.” Since I had been doing Yoga longer than some of them had been alive, I never knew whether to laugh or puke.
Calicozie, you did drop over to The Havens I hope?
I absolutely love it when the work has such an immediate and positive effect! Thanks for sharing that. What is also cool is when you do the work and the person comes out of the room sort of quizzical and isn’t sure that anything has really happened and then they go home and call you the next day and say, “I don’t know what you did but over the night something shifted and I am now without pain.” Sometimes the work changes things immediately, sometimes it kicks in later.
I went to a convention once. The best part about it was the road trip and meeting (and acquiring) the citrine dragon.
“Yoga is the only exercise you need” (snort) How will that help you when you have a rock wall to build and the best rock for the job is, well, really large? Like over 100 pounds large. Or how about when the car breaks down at the end of the road and you have a 5 mile hike to where the cell phone service starts.
My certification class was full of quite amazingly wonderful and eclectic people. Of course, that was back in the 20th century before massage had hit the mainstream. Now, that convention I attended was full of people who thought they were impressive just because; they didn’t even have the justification of having read a book once and getting the particulars wrong.
I feel that I could start off into a rant here, but I don’t want to kill my good vibe. Last night was spectacular on many levels.