Feeling Inspired by a class I just taught

I just spent two days teaching one of my favorite classes: Balancing the Diaphragm & Ribcage. It was a very small class, because I’m just figuring out how to market my classes. Clearly I need some help in that area…

But I had a returning student, Shenice Peterson, LMT, who learned from me at Therapeutic Connections School of Massage, and has taken some continuing education from me in the past. She is a terrific therapist for pre- and post-natal massage, and uses a lot of what I have taught her over the years.

I had had a pretty bad fall on the ice in December, and then another one in January. Between that and the grief from losing my dad last fall, I was beginning to wonder if I would ever get straightened out. I have seen quite a few practitioners over the last several months, and each of them has gotten me a little bit better. The PT I saw the other day identified what I thought I probably had: a sacrum that is rotated and side-bent. So no wonder all my insides feel awful, and walking is a challenge!

I asked this student if she would mind learning a new technique on the sacrum and trying it on me, to see if we could get this sacrum back in line. She was excited to learn something new. Apparently she has frequently seen this pattern with the sacrum on postpartum women in her practice.

So after class today she reminded me that we had decided to do this, so I changed into easier pants to work through, and eagerly hopped up on the table and coached her through how to fix this sacrum problem. She did the first technique, then the second one, and it changed the side bending, but not the rotation. She tried the second technique again, with more of a target towards the rotation aspect, and I felt it move.

FINALLY!!! RELIEF!!!

I got off the table and stood there for a bit and started to move my hips side to side, and now I have the ability to sit in my left hip! I thanked her, we chatted a bit and she left. As I was cleaning up after class, walking around, I could feel that last aspect of my injury was gone!

This is another reason I wanted to teach this stuff. I know it works, and I frequently need someone to do it on me.

Selfish much?

I know, it’s a little selfish. But if my students can do it on me and get it, then they can help the hundreds of people that they will put their hands on over the next few decades that they are in practice.

This is so inspiring to me! Being able to pass on what I have learned from some really amazing practitioners, and just a few things I have figured out on my own (I’m sure I’m not the only one who has those things figured out…) makes me feel like I’m doing something that matters in this chaotic world. Helping people to help people to remove their obstacles between them and better health is really rewarding.

Thank you to all who have learned from me. You are my inspiration to continue trying to build this program I am developing. My heart is full.