Universal needs….we got em
Several months ago I found a document that listed a slew of universal needs we have and was pretty interested in the descriptions of each. Some are more obvious than others, but the 4 I have listed below seem especially interesting to me and so I thought I would share the verbiage with you. We each have our life experiences and semantics to narrate the meanings and associations we have with these broad human social needs. The last 2 caught my attention and reminded me of the work I do. I began to think about how we commune with ourselves when we settle into the massage table for some...
Read MoreMia’s manual labor – driving ahead… what do I see?
So as an Aries, planetarily speaking, I am supposed to be visionary or a pioneer of sorts. A little contemplation and dreaming is in order as I attempt to find my vision for my labor. Instead of allowing our current collective economic instabilities to dominate my feelings and fears (which is known to happen with too much NRP in the car) I will give my trajectory a more exploratory and experimental bent. A few weeks back I was wondering quietly to myself how I could sort of rise above all the news and my growing consciousness that manual labor in general is dying in the country...
Read MoreWater is always underfoot… stay cool and patient my friends
As summer starts crackin its firey whip, it’s important not to let the heat cook our insides. I happen to love that exhausted feeling of being out in the sun too long but of course a cool dip in a pool or the ocean takes that dry heat to a whole new fresh feel once you are cooling off. I am an Aries and true to name often get fired up, ahead of myself and impatient with things. I often don’t see it coming and since my fuse can be rather tethered and short I get wind of it as I am blowing my flames. I often forget that my body, me, the stuff I am made of needs water and more than...
Read MoreWhy I love the work I do
May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition. There are a host of reasons why performing bodywork is so satisfying to me and the first can be dated back to grade school. We all have our recall stories that seem so seminal and often live in the distant past. I am no different. I recall having discussions with my mom and granny at the dinner table when I was around 8 years old, saying to them that I wanted to change the world, make it a happier place to be. I felt incredibly secure in my role at that age and simply...
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