Back to school-2nd week!!

Back again to school already. Already to week number 2 and 28 more weeks to go. Time is going to fly!!

So Massage Basics was my first class , actually practiced massaging today. We are learning the techniques of Swedish Massage (* by Per Henwick Sp?) one being efflerauge(sp?). So yeah, we did the whole disrobing thing again and practiced efflerauge. And just a side note, even when we all don't know what we are doing, it felt GREAT!! So I was all relaxed and everything getting a nice massage, and then we had to switch partners. Next time I am going last !! :-) For me, the thought of dressing and undressing is not even a thought anymore, its like clothes come of quick and yeah no nervousness, hardly think about the sheet coming off or sliding down and I think as we all get better with our techinque we will learn to trust each other better. Class always seems to fly by though. I don't really have any funny or interesting atencdotes in here except for that I can't spell and my teachers can't either, which is great for tests and papers and such.

My one teacher, is so much like me its crazy, the younger one that is. Shes the add type, self proclaimed of course, like myself. Where you just cant sit in one spot at a time or stand in one position. Someone mumbled under their breath "add" today, and it was hilarious because she heard it. She is an awesome teacher, likes to have fun. Not one of my teacher's yet do I dislike in anyway. And that is rare, usually I pick out their annoying habits or weird quirks right away and these teachers are just plain cool! And it is awesome, makes the learning experience more fun and I think to it helps all of us students to feel more relaxed and less like we are in a school environment and more like we are in a learning environment (where we can each learn at our own pace). Some of us I have noticed are more auditory and visual where others like me, cant sit still or focus in to listen the best and are more kinisthetic (spelling on that?). Kinisthetic being more a combination of all. I find for me I am this person. I learn with a combination of all and the demos are what helps me the best, and than to actually practice or "hands on" as it is called. I learn by example and by doing and experimenting. I incorporated my body mechanics into what I was doing today really well, I got told it twice, once by each teaching assistant. It is hard to remember all the things you need to remeber when giving a massage.

Remembering body mechanics, hand placement, pressure of touch, type of touch, the draping, most important emitting a good sensation in your energy so the client doesn't pick up on that your thinking to hard or too much. I am totally an over analyzer and even though I am really good at multi tasking I am sitting their thinking ok this and that and that and this and then screaming inside my head going "what in the world did I just get into" and then its over and we switch. LOL! Intesnse but fun and keeps my attention especially for somebody that has ADD (self-proclaimed of course ;-) ) Well....

Let me see, I am freezing outside right now eating lunch all by myself because nobody would answer their phone. Yes freezing outsided in the middle of winter in Arizona. Hard to believe right? I think it is something like 54 degrees right. All I know is I am wearing a sweatshirt and my hands are like ice trying to type.

My time is up too though so I gots to walk back to the school. There is a Schlotzsky's deli in the parking lot of my school and I go their on most days,like today.( eww...side note, gross smoker upwind from me Blech!!--moving now!!)

Hope my blog makes some sense for those who read it.

Laters and peace out!

Love,
eVe