The competition is going great with some wonderful ideas from you. Keep it up, it could be you cutting the ribbon to the clinic on opening day.

I have been continuing with the painting inside so no pictures until I have done, otherwise it really would be like watching paint dry!

In the apparent lull I thought that it would be a good idea to tell you a bit more about the different therapies that I do. Many of you know me as a Chiropodist but I actually started out as a Reflexologist. However today I thought that I would tell you a bit more about the massage that I do and in particular the No Hands Massage.

I first trained as a Therapeutic Massage Therapist in 1997 and loved it. I quickly found clients who enjoyed the relief that my touch gave them and all was apparently rosy. However, because I did not have a clinic of my own I used to lug a heavy massage bench to their house, and that soon spelt disaster for my back. For a while I could not even stand and was visiting the Osteopath every other week just to cope with everyday life. The portable massage bench found a new home. I discovered Pilates (fabulous) and that, together with the Osteopath, regular massage and some very necessary emotional releasing techniques have meant that I was healthier and stronger than ever before. However the type of massage that I was doing at the time still took a toll on my hands and wrists so when I experienced No Hands Massage for the first time I literally jumped up with excitement, (frightening the poor girl who was doing it). She was a volunteer at the Breast Cancer Care Ribbon Walk and I was lucky enough to flop onto her bench at the end of a very gruelling 20 mile walk. That massage was the start of my journey with No Hands Massage.

So how is No Hands Massage different? Well, for the client it is a relaxing and therapeutic therapy that can work deeply into the tissues and muscles. Or it can be light and invigorating or indeed any combination that you need. As a client you learn to take what you need from the touch and each massage is as different as you need it to be. Sounds too good to be true but really the only way to find out is to try it.

For me as a therapist it is a way of delivering the touch with out having to ruin my hands or wrists. A lot is delivered using the soft part of the forearm but the whole thing is about my posture and using judicious amounts of weight, or not, depending on the client’s needs. To find out a bit more follow this link to my No Hands website. http://tinyurl.com/kl3y4d