"No more oil painting, I just want to draw in the dust with my fingers." This is what I said to a friend when I was trying to explain the direction I want to go in teaching.
I am a bodywork professional and teacher watching the population of those who can afford my services as a bodyworker or an instructor shrink as the economy continues to crawl towards the edge of the world. Thousands of my former potential clients just lost the last middle class job they will ever have and/or the majority of their retirement savings. The amount of paid work available in my field is still expanding but the rate is much slower, and not nearly enough to keep up with the number of professionals available to do it. Unless a new Massage Therapist is part of a community that already wants to, and can afford to support their work, or is skilled in niche market development, they will not be able to make much of the income they need from doing massage.
Yet the population of those who are in need of caring helpful touch continues to grow at an incredible and increasing rate. As life and the economy get harder, more of us need more help and can afford it less. We need to be able to do for ourselves and each other.
I want to help people learn to use the innate benefits of simple human touch and movement to help themselves and each other to improve their lives, no matter what their circumstances. This is explicitly about empowerment.
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