Hands-On??

[DesertDog]

: terab is so right! Whether in school, in continuing ed technique classes or just receiving a massage, I have always found that I have learned better by being the person ON the table....

It's a combination of the touch sensations, my mindset at the time, the person working on me, etc. that serve to teach me something I didn't know, or was striving to learn, etc.

fwiw

 

[Kali]

My frist day was with Musculoskeletal and with the best teacher I've had, bar-none. She was great!

Anyway, it was mandatory for us to take off our shoes when entering a carpeted classroom and we did so without a problem.

After all of the shop talk, we ventured into Kinesiology and after lunch went "hands on."

Pretty much, since half of us were new, we just did palming (you just press your palms down on whatever body part you are working on) excercises and she would walk around the class and talk to us newer students about our posture. It was a great way to start, good for us to get used to touching another body and to get a feel for what dosage (how much pressure) worked for the person.

After your first couple of days, it's a peice of cake to go handson. It never ever bothered me to have someone massage me because I'd been massaged before. Others, who had never been massaged would fidget or tighten up.

One of the best advice I can give someone thinking about massage school - get a massage, at least one, so that you have an idea how it all works.

I loved it though, it was very sad to leave school.
Jackie

 

[Joe Angus]

Anyway, it was mandatory for us to take off our shoes when entering a carpeted classroom and we did so without a problem.

Jackie

That is really interesting. Did this practice continue throughout your education? I would love it if my school had us do this, because I hate wearing shoes LOL. Where I go we must have on shoes with socks at all times unless on the table. If we wear sandals it is with socks as well. I hate it.

 

[Peaches]

Where I go we must have on shoes with socks at all times unless on the table. If we wear sandals it is with socks as well. I hate it.

My school was never adamantly shoes-on or shoes-off, at all. The first day of class, the instructors had kicked off their shoes and pulled up floor cushions to sit on, so the rest of us did the same. Very laid back atmosphere. I couldn't bring myself to run barefooted through the unisex bathroom, but I know lots of people who did, lol.

Yay for using hand sanitizer after massaging feeets but before touching faces

 

[Life Guru]

Anyway, it was mandatory for us to take off our shoes when entering a carpeted classroom and we did so without a problem.

Jackie

That is really interesting. Did this practice continue throughout your education? I would love it if my school had us do this, because I hate wearing shoes LOL. Where I go we must have on shoes with socks at all times unless on the table. If we wear sandals it is with socks as well. I hate it.

YES!! But only in carpeted classrooms, which is where we always were anyway. The MT students were in the back two (carpeted) classrooms and the Acupuncture students, obviously you don't want needles + carpets. ;-)

We would do meditation, tia chi and qi kung, so I guess they wanted us to keep the classroom clean. I love it, something about keeping your shoes off gave it a relaxing feel to the classes. I would keep my socks on, I HATE being barefoot.

Funny enough, it HELPS with posture to keep the socks on with a carpet. You slide if you aren't gripped and using your body weight right. Was great up until we did Aromatherapy. From t hen on the carpet had an odd smell. LOL!

Jackie