“One ship sails East, and another West. By the self-same winds that blow, ‘tis the set of the sails, and not the gales, that tells the way we go.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Massage became part of my journey in 1981 as a result of a fortuitous encounter. A massage teacher and I became friends. As a result, I undertook to study Shiatsu, and became licensed in the county of Sacramento in 1981. In 1988, I did massage in San Francisco, where I obtained a B. A. in French from San Francisco State University. In 2003, I obtained my Florida massage license. From 2009 through 2011, I translated the Tao Te Ching. In 2013, after leaving Fort Lauderdale, I went to teach English in China for one year. Currently, I am tutoring English and French, and am currently licensed to practice massage in the state of Maine.
I love massage therapy for many reasons. I meet very interesting individuals from all walks of life. In July 1989, a colleague and I set up an appointment to exchange massages, and from this contact a friendship was formed. In August 1994, a client gave me a book that became for me a source of great inspiration. In 2004, I had the privilege of working with HIV-positive individuals of limited means. Massage reminds me to trust the universe, and in so doing I am in grateful awe of the endless possibilities that come my way. It gratifies me to know my work causes me to touch lives, and that by these lives I too am touched. My journey of massage, therefore, is one that takes into account the individual, body and soul.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Massage became part of my journey in 1981 as a result of a fortuitous encounter. A massage teacher and I became friends. As a result, I undertook to study Shiatsu, and became licensed in the county of Sacramento in 1981. In 1988, I did massage in San Francisco, where I obtained a B. A. in French from San Francisco State University. In 2003, I obtained my Florida massage license. From 2009 through 2011, I translated the Tao Te Ching. In 2013, after leaving Fort Lauderdale, I went to teach English in China for one year. Currently, I am tutoring English and French, and am currently licensed to practice massage in the state of Maine.
I love massage therapy for many reasons. I meet very interesting individuals from all walks of life. In July 1989, a colleague and I set up an appointment to exchange massages, and from this contact a friendship was formed. In August 1994, a client gave me a book that became for me a source of great inspiration. In 2004, I had the privilege of working with HIV-positive individuals of limited means. Massage reminds me to trust the universe, and in so doing I am in grateful awe of the endless possibilities that come my way. It gratifies me to know my work causes me to touch lives, and that by these lives I too am touched. My journey of massage, therefore, is one that takes into account the individual, body and soul.