Sunrise at Skamania
Can you believe this sight? I feel like a little child when I see the beauty of nature most days and it fills my heart with joy and amazement. It is moments like these when I get to see beauty all around in the simple things that I remember why I am doing what I am doing by moving out of my home. I feel that society has been somehow programed to think certain ways about what life should look like, and I am ready to break the mold with my own life. I have been so inspired by watching travelers on YouTube and dream seekers all around the world create their own version of life and happiness. Today is a no-school day so I am at Starbucks using the Wi-Fi while my car windows are getting tinted. I thought this would be useful since I will be having lots of belongings in my car and spending most of 2019 and the rest of this year in my car.
Yesterday was a really great day at school! It was my first day of clinic (our public massage internship part of the program) Massage schools/students have to spend so many hours massaging people in public either by going somewhere outside of the school for an internship unless the school provides its own clinic. My school luckily has its own and yesterday was my first go at this. Reminder - I attended massage school in Hawaii back in 2003 and I dropped out right before I had the lovely opportunity to start the public clinic. Back in those days, I wanted to party on my time off and have a good time instead of finishing my school. God Bless our 20's!!
In our school clinic we would typically have three clients per day for a 50 min massage - 5 mins of intake and 5 mins of outtake that would equal 60 min session. Yesterday, we (the new students) had a little more of indoctrination into the clinic and then I had 2 clients for the afternoon. My first client was a male that had grown up in (I forgot the country) escaped from his country at a young age and traveled all around the world and about 30-40 years ago ended up in Seattle. He bought some properties and has been doing that for many years as well as construction in the area for that time. Him and his wife are now retired while they run those property business and they love to travel the world. His wife previously had breast cancer and that was the time in his life when they started to focus more on travel and enjoying life together instead of working more and more. Very kind person and very inspiring story.
My second client was an amazing young man who was in terrible pain when he arrived. Over the weekend he spent 10 hours doing tile flooring for a friend that needed his help. You can only imagine what that feels like if your body isn't used to doing that work. I told him with confidence, I would take excellent care of what he asked for. He only asked for his hands, feet, and back of his thighs. I forgot to mention for my first and this second client that I used a hydro heat pack - which provides HEAT to the area you place it on and that allows the muscles to soften very quickly. I loved having these available in the clinic. Fun fact: my client #2 was originally from Tennessee, Memphis to be exact and has been living in Seattle for 9-10 years and loves it. His work is mainly on computers as a designer. I did my best work on everything he asked and finished with some very specific and intense neck work which I feel is the best for any and everyone!
I look forward to getting to work on clients next Wednesday in the clinic. Something I practiced to compliment my massage work is ensuring that I "bubble up" - you may wonder what this means. When I started learning how to work with energy, this was the first thing we learned. You create a large (HUGE) bubble around your energy field and set the intention that nothing can come in your bubble unless it supports your highest good as well as nothing will leave the bubble unless it supports your highest good. This is a tool I will continue to practice for the rest of my life, not only as a healer, but as a human on the planet. Everything about our world in energy and we are in 100% control of our energy wether we know it or not. This is profound information that most people do not realize. I feel that this is very important for healers to know (or anyone else to know) to give us the power to realize that we have the ability to protect our energy field with our intention (of the bubble) I hope to spread the word about these brilliant tools in the future to anyone that is interested so they can start to take their power back, heal themselves and recover their energy and health.
