Ezekiel, the Pleasure of Teaching Massage…and dem bones
I’m coming to Maine to teach Deep Massage on September 28-30 at the Downeast School of Massage. http://www.downeastschoolofmassage.net/cont-ed/lauterstein-deepmassage.htm I was just thinking about what is it that I find so exciting about teaching – especially in the...
Individualizing Session Design in Massage
"Even anatomically, every client we work with is fully unique. The muscle and bone and every inch of skin has its own individual form and history. If they could converse, the organs, tissues, bones and skin would tell us a compelling and unique story. When fully...
THE BIGGEST SECRET ABOUT MASSAGE – IT’S NOT A SCIENCE!
“We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.” -- Ludwing Wittgenstein Just kidding. Of course it is. However, the second biggest secret about massage is - it is equally...
How the Radiologist Changed my Life
I was doing a session on a radiologist and couldn't resist asking him about the many wondrous things he'd seen through MRI's, etc. I asked him, of everything he'd seen, what had he found most fascinating? He said it was the first time he'd seen a spinal cord inside a...
The Massage Client Who Didn’t Like Touch
I once had a person come to see me who calmly told me, “I don’t like to be touched.” Of course I told her maybe she had come to the wrong place! - since that’s what I did. But she said she was aware of it as a problem, had seen my face on my flyer, and I looked like a...
If You Don’t Know What You’re Doing, Get the Heck out of My Neck!
I am sorry to say, I can count on one hand the sessions I've received where the therapist thoroughly understood the neck. The neck is so fascinating in its structure and its energetic functions. Cultivating a true understanding and compassion for the life of the neck...
“I saw the angel in the marble and I carved until I set him free.”
"I saw the angel in the marble and I carved until I set him free." Michelangelo Each person on our table comes in with their own shadows and lights. They come with an injury, with chronic tension, hurt by early life circumstance, or by recent trauma. We live...
In Every Pause There’s a Role for Faith
iI's easy, when you listen to the news, to lose faith in so many aspects of humanity. Yet we can and must re-activate the deep pleasure that comes from having faith in people. And it takes just a little time - just pausing with care during our work and life. As a...
The Masseter – Jaws, Too!
A goodly part of our brain is still "reptilian". We react, automatically, to excess stress with tension, readying to run or fight. One place where many of us still experience a bit of the reptile in our own bodies, is in the jaws. When you are angry and feel like...
The Subluxation of Time
Subluxation is a largely chiropractic term for a joint being misaligned. Naturally, any therapist concerned with the structure of the body looks to help with alignment and address the soft tissue component of subluxations. We help line up the body’s spaces so that...