Massage Therapy

My approach to massage therapy (as well as yoga) is nicely summarized in the quote above by Albert Camus from his Notebooks.
Love to the human spirit is like light to plant life: indispensable. In all forms of therapeutic healing-whether it's Western medical care, psychotherapy, Chinese Medicine, or joint advance or massage therapy-love must be the basis for the healing process, look joint advance. For healing to occur, the heart, body, and mind must feel connected to the process-equally recognized and valued within the context of the therapeutic experience.
At different points in my life so far, massage therapy has been a vehicle for increasing my own self-awareness such that the process of working with different therapists over time has, without a doubt, led me to know my own needs better, and thereby empowered me to better provide for those needs.