last night. i was working on a massage client of mine, when i decided that what was needed was a “mini vacation,” wherein she would be able to go off and play in green meadows while i got into some rather bothersome tissue around her knee.
The induction was incredibly “organic,” to borrow, perhaps, a tired old word in today’s super-ganic world. But, nonefortheleast, it was as if i had entered into her head and was shutting down one circuit breaker after another, until finally her eyelids couldn’t take anymore, and she “fell” into a “vacation spot,” let us say.
What came next were all kinds of sounds that i was making, altho i hadn’t chosen to. The sound was just emanating from me, almost like an overstuffed cow, and, to myself, that’s about what i sounded like. Over the next hour and half or so i kept on talking about this and that, and responding to some of what appeared to be waves of emotions over her face. The interesting ones to deal with were the ones that conveyed fear, and i found that to allay those all it took was some inner calm on my part, as well as some well directed suggestions, and onward we went into the verdant abyss, where all was well.
The tissue around the knee was incredible to work with at that state. i would feel as tightness and hardness gave way to softer dispositions, and finally to total deep tissue relaxation. Keep in mind, that at no time throughout the process had i brought more than say five pounds of pressure to bear upon the tissue in issue (please forgive the rhyme as purely unintended).
To make a really long and noisy process short and not so noisy… at the end of the process i rang a little Tibetan bell i acquired at the Haight, and initiated the waking process. It was an arduous process for her, to be sure, to leave the space she was in, and another twenty minutes, at least, elapsed before she fully present. The first thing she said was that she had heard some bells in the distance, and her mind was prompted into thinking it was time to go back, so that gave rise to the question of where exactly she was that she needed to come back from.
i checked with her today and she is feeling great relief where only chronic pain had been before, so i’m really very happy about having taken that journey with her.
i love this stuff
