massage

if you're like me, you've probably mostly thought of getting a massage as a luxury that you can only justify paying for once a decade. but that's changing. i'm beginning to see it as a part of holistic health that can not only aid in healing, but keep one in their healthy shoes so that healing isn't necessary. now, who doesn't like to lay down on a table with a little face-hole in it and get all of their stress, toxins, sadness and demons rubbed out? not to mention getting healing, love, wholeness and angels rubbed in.
though it can be a bit pricey, depending on your insurance coverage and where you go, i'm becoming more and more convinced of the therapy of massage in all of it's modalities. in fact, i've been stirring around a pot of ideas for a long time, and one of them is to become a massage therapist myself. maybe even specialize in pre-natal and infant massage, so as to get some of the fulfillment i would've had as a midwife, but without the blood and placentas (whoa - i get woozy just thinking about it).
so, starting next week, i'm grabbing my lunch box and skipping all the way to the Richmond District to start learning about how to gift out healing to the world through touch. and the beautiful thing is that i get to be a participant in the process and the therapy for this next season.
if you find yourself in SF, be sure to include a student massage from the World School in your tour package (it'll be the cheapest thing you do here). and it's mmmmm...