My Latest Career
Some of you may know that I’m a massage therapist. I no longer practice. I’m not licensed to do massage here in the UK, and I don’t feel like going back to massage school to get re-licensed. So I’ve been doing some writing. I’m also working on a website about massage. For it I write descriptions of different types of massage therapy and bodywork. My goal is to have to most comprehensive site on the web about massage.
Anyway, every time I read about a different type of massage I think, That’s fascinating. Maybe I should learn to do that. Last week I was going to learn polarity therapy, and the week before that shiatsu.
Today I wrote an article about Alexander technique–that isn’t really a form of massage, but it does fall under bodywork. It’s a method of correcting your posture. So the whole time I’m writing about it, I’m trying to sit up as straight as possible and thinking, Maybe I should learn how to teach Alexander technique. Meanwhile, my back is aching from my rigid posture, but I soldiered through until I was done writing the page.
Now that I’ve resumed my normal slouchy blogging posture, my back is killing me and my future as an Alexander technique teacher is over. I need a massage.


September 2nd, 2008 at 2:23 am
From my own experience, the Alexander Technique is a wonderful process. I’ve found their website to be very useful in explaining more about it – http://alexandertechnique.com