What is your relationship to deep tissue? How do you define it? Is it something you use in your practice?

So I'm being brave and "eating the elephant" 🐘 of building out material in the classroom. I'm starting to build out the outline of what will be available and will provide content as I complete it. Rather than wait until it's perfect though, you'll get to see it as it's getting done. I'll start by publishing what I have now and will just keep things public even while I'm working on it. Please be patient and understand that I'm doing all this on top of working full time at a spa, running my own practice, building and managing marketing and still making time to be a mom to my 3 little girls. I'm sure there are people out there who can do it better but we're here to build a community, not paying for perfection. hope you guys like it and make suggestions!

Since I use different versions of bodywork finding out when to use one vs when to use another has been something I've been working to differentiate. On my journey I've seen two different general ways people show up. Congested - tiredness, lethargic, foggy, sore. There flow in the body is slow and stuck. Then there is Disconnected- Numb, nerve entrapment, an error code in the body is going off. It's a communication issue. I use something closer to a regular massage with congested and myofascial release for disconnected. I've found that using myofascial release for congested doesn't get as good of results and using regular massage for disconnected either doesn't anything or makes the problem worse. It's finding how one thing can not work at all or make things worse in one context and in another it does magic that nothing else can touch. Has anyone else found things in their work that fallows this narrative?

If you use a lubricant for your massage/bodywork which do you prefer? And leave a comment below about what your go-to is! I’ll leave mine!

If you've entered into the realm of massage and bodywork, you have probably realized by now that there are many different styles and techniques you can choose from, learn about and focus in. Each one has uniques and distinct advantages and can help in a variety of circumstances. No doubt when you tell people what you do and you say something other than "Massage" or "I'm a bodywork professional" you get a variation of responses that can be summed up with 'so what exactly do you do?'. And while they might not completely understand if you explain it to them I have have good news for you: WE DO!! This community right here is built for people just like you who love to learn and want their knowledge and skills to be appreciated. So let's build something great together and support each other in our differences. Go team!