Not alot happened this week other than classes. I think I've left campus 3 times this week because I've been working so hard. We had 2 tests on Monday and then another one yesterday and another 2 on Monday, so there's a lot of studying to be done.
I officially know how to give a full body massage now, which is really cool. Jill even taught us some more advanced techniques today! Including one on the back where we get to use our elbows! It's really awkward, as most things are when you first learn them. I'm not sure how I feel about it just yet, but I'll be sure to keep everyone updated. We have to give a full body massage on Monday, and then on the following Monday, we start getting real paying clients! So it's coming up fast and we're all really nervous. We have to be in the clinic giving massages one night per week, but we'll be doing 3 1hour massages per night, so it's pretty much going to exhaust us.
Cool thing happened today - I put my client to sleep. I was practicing the back and the back of the legs on Shaylee during Swedish class and she literally fell asleep on the table. I wasn't sure how to handle it, and then Jill said that it was pretty much the best compliment I could get!
Also, I got my massage from Jill this past Tuesday. It was AMAZING! Every quarter, one of the instructors gives us a professional massage and its awesome. Jill did some Swedish, some Shiatsu, a little bit of Myofascial Release, and just a tiny bit of Trigger Point Therapy, and it was so so so so so so awesome. She did some stuff where she was actualyl up on the table with me bending me into stretches and doing Shiatsu work on my hips and oh my god it was phenomenal. And the whole time I was just laughing thinking about how by Christmas, I'll be able to do all that stuff! I have SO much to learn.
But the best part was after the massage, she came in to talk it over with me and told me that she'd been watching me work in class, and I had done some work on her legs and she'd said it was great stuff, so I was all syked about the compliment. Anyway, she said she'd been watching me work and she thanked me for my committment to the work I was doing, and said that she could see how much I connected with the client and how much care I put into my hands, and then she told me that I "have the potential to become a PHENOMENAL (she stressed that word) Body Worker" and that I "have a natural gift" and that she's really excited to cultivate it!!!!! This all came from the FOUNDER of this school!!!!!!!!!!!!! And today she thanked me for my attention to detail in class and that she "notices things". I'm super stoked. Jill said that about me!!!! YAY!
So yeah. That's pretty freaking awesome. And I'm getting body work done by my Anatomy professor Maura on Monday, so I'll be experiencing something totally different and I'm really excited about that too!
I'm headed out to dinner with a couple classmates, so I guess I will add more later!
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