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One thing I experienced difficulty with is when doing the leg techniques. When locating the depressions you feel in the quad muscles and remembering not to press and to use your body weight. As a massage therapist I feel like my brain is trained to think of applying varying levels of pressure versus using body weight. Don't get me wrong, I do watch myself to make sure I use my bodyweight and attempt to preserve my joints. But I felt a little bit of a mental block in this section of lectures. 

You also asked me about ways I am incorporating the Thai Massage techniques I have learned here or how I plan to incorporate them. I use Thai massage at home with my children. They both have ADHD and it helps me prepare them for bed if I do a light, and relaxing thai massage with the chi machine and it's great! I use Thai upper body techniques to help my husband who body builds and is a pitcher on a men's hardball league. He also uses my stretches to help his players. My primary use for Thai massage is as a supplement to my yogic practice. I plan to use these techniques not only on massage clients but mostly for my massage clients. I also feel like Thai massage can also be a less expensive modality for my clients who are struggling to pay for massage therapy services but who also want the therapeutic benefits. I want to transition to promarily yoga and Thai massage therapy for my practice.

I think if massage mommy had married a massage daddy then it would be perfect

My husband is very interested in learning and being able to do the same.  I think it strengthens your relationship and reminds you to be unselfish and compassionate.

Our family does Yoga and meditation together.

Hello again I wanted to take a moment to post a little about what I liked about this program, how it worked for me, and my overall feelings about this program. 

I recently discovered a new use for the information I learned in this program. I recently found out that I am pregnant with my third little blessing, and have experienced the common discomfort of being very tired. At first I was worried about this limiting my massage practice during my pregnancy but thankfully I think Thai massage will help me to better use my energy during my massages. I was not a therapist when I had my first to children so this will be a new experience for me. It is easy not to practice during my yoga classes if I am very tired but with massage that is not possible. I feel that it will help me to reserve my energy and channel the energy I do have to effectively perform my massage therapy techniques.

I really enjoyed the simplicity of the videos. I feel that Shama did an excellent job of being thorough in the information being taught but also kept simple and did not include too much information. I know in may other programs too much information can be just as harmful if not more harmful. I think it was excellent when he showed the techniques and was always aware of our visibility of the client and himself while doing so. Again I can emphasize that in a lot of training I have felt it was difficult to see some of the techniques. Even in big seminars it can be very challenging as an instructor to make sure what you are doing is visible to all the students. Shama could have his videos on a projector screen while at the end of a large room and everyone could look up and clearly see the body positions and execution of techniques. I think this was my favorite part of this program. He did an excellent job of making sure we could very clearly see all that was going on.

I feel this video will help to prolong my career as a therapist and diversify what I offer to my clients. In our field we have a high burn out rate. If you do not protect your joints and body while performing massage you may be a part of that statistic. It is important to educate and train ourselves in a variety of ways that will help us preserve our bodies so that we may share our gift with the world and for as long as possible. Massage therapy is a physically intensive job. I don't want to admit it but I never knew that I had weak wrists until after about a year to a year and a half after I completed my initial massage training. And I noticed  how important proper body ergonomics and positioning was when I noticed at times that my fingers would lock up on my on days when I did a lot of massages, and a few times I even felt like I had over extended/ hyperextended my wrists. Thankfully I was able to reverse these complications and led me to pursuing training programs that would diversify my techniques, protect my joints, and make my clients experiences individualized. I have learned that in order to give the best experience to our clients we must treat each case individually and must dig into our "bag of tricks".

I absolutely would recommend this program to other therapist and to anyone who is interested in sharing such a beneficial system with others. Whether you are a massage therapist, yogi, teacher, or even police officer you WILL benefit from the information shared in this program.

Thank you to everyone who has read my posts over the period of time that I have been posting. I hope that the information I have shared from my experience can be helpful to others. I thoroughly enjoyed reading about your journeys into this comprehensive system of healing <3