Thursday off but on to many good things

It’s my day off of the clinic, but on to many good things.  Pilates in the morning with kwpilates.com.  Awesome way to start the day!  I’m always learning subtle ways to move and feel my body.  Today the sitting cross-legged, spine straight & elongated, arms open as a T and pushing with hands as if against walls felt really good for my fingers.  I never thought my hands would become such an important aspect of all I do.  A few errands and I am off to my monthly osteopathy treatment.  Then back home, giving Shiatsu to my dear friend whose sister is in palliative care.  And a couple more Shiatsu treatments to two siblings, 23 and 19 year-old.  When the sister was 16, she was getting very depleted by a serious Crohn’s issue, and we started regular Shiatsu back then.  Wow, it's been three years already!  Things are much better and she de-stresses bi-weekly with Shiatsu.  And finally I went to my teacher’s Tai-Chi class.  Semi-private lesson on the new form I am learning.  Awesome way to end the day!

A nice Wednesday

Yesterday was a typical Wednesday. At the clinic. A man thanked me for his wife. Her debilitating digestive symptoms and anxiety subsided after Shiatsu. She was finally able to enjoy a good night sleep. For him, walking has improved significantly, and he sleeps now (leg pain was keeping him awake). After getting twice a week of forceful low back adjustments for sciatica elsewhere, a gentle route with a combination of Acupuncture and Shiatsu finally made him feel better, focusing on his piriformis muscle, IT band and sacroiliac joint.  His energy is so much better. Then a 26 year old who overdid it at the gym. Her high school job was in a funeral home, then she became a funeral home director. Now she is a fire fighter. Very humbling for me. At her age I was far from having the maturity and people’s awareness required in such positions. A lady in her seventeen's jumped all over the table when I told her I passed my exam for the acupuncture college. I am glad we were actually not doing acupuncture that day! Teaching Tai-Chi that evening. Awesome group, mid thirties to mid eighties. We’re starting nice spine and body loosening QiGong. After a couple of years of practice, they’re much more flexible and enjoy better coordination and balance. Neat!