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February 28th, 2007 | Meme | No comments

I ended up not going to The 15 Association play party last night, which proved to be the best thing. After Friday’s big emotional release during the bodywork class, and yesterday’s clients, I figured that I should just rest last night, so that’s exactly what I did.

Today, I had a client this morning at 11:00: upward and downward scapular rotator muscles for two hours, followed by some Jin Shin work on some meridian points, and finished off with holding KI-3 and KI-1. My client commented that I have gotten really good at finding the tsubo points, which brings me to the point. I’ve noticed that my thumbs and fingertips are so much more sensitive now - far beyond what they were at this time last year. It’s as if my brain has developed so many more synapses for the signals they receive from them.

The energy work I have been doing lately - the Shiatsu, Jin Shin Do, and Reiki - has been just over-the-top effective. I can find the points on the meridians so much better than ever before, and make the energy move around. I put my fingers on the place and either feel a “buzzing” sensation or it feels like I have stuck my finger into a spongy hole. In the first case, there is either fairly normal flow of energy, or too much. In the second, there’s a deficiency. I don’t really know how to explain it in any other terms that makes sense to my inner scientist.

But even more than that. I can palpate even tinier structures now. Having “The Trigger Point Manuals” and their description of trigger points and the “taut band” that accompanies them suddenly burst like fireworks in my brain, and I have been finding trigger points in clients in all sorts of places I hadn’t ever before, all because of how I changed my palpatory technique due to information in the books.

There’s a burning fire of passion for my work that the past few weeks has only stoked. Tomorrow I go to apply for a lease on an office space that I found on craigslist. An amazing office in a great location on Market Street! When the woman showed it to me on Friday, I immediately knew that if I didn’t try to get this space, I would be wasting a great opportunity. It’s a reasonable price in a beautifully managed building in a fantastic location. I’ll have windows that will open up on to the interior courtyard of this flatiron-shaped building. It’s right around the corner from the Apple store, across the street from the Four Seasons, and a block from Yerba Buena Gardens and the Metreon. I am having a hard time imagining a better location right now! Life is good!

February 25th, 2007 | Health, Life in San Francisco, Massage | No comments