What comes to mind when you hear the word “scar”? Perhaps Al Pacino's disfigured cheek in Scarface, or a lightning-bolt mark on Harry Potter’s forehead. Most people think of a scar as something superficial, something on our skin, although not pretty, often an evidence of our active lifestyle, and sometimes even a magnet for the opposite sex. And when we hear of scars inside us, we usually think of emotional scars, as in “that terrible experience scarred me for life”. There is

As I go about doing the massage treatment, kneading, stretching and compressing muscles, I keep checking with my clients if the pressure feels comfortable to them. The question sounds something like this: “How is the pressure, is it too little, or too much?” I was taught to ask this by the massage school instructors in the very beginning of my training, and the question makes perfect sense. What doesn’t make sense, is the answer I keep hearing again and again. Me: “How is the

Neck massage continues to be the most commonly requested by clients and one of the most challenging for therapists. And no wonder - there is a lot of bone, muscular, nerve and vascular tissue there, all in the close proximity and often encroaching into each other’s territory. In the next few weeks, I’ll add some blog entries about my experiences doing neck massages. For now, just an observation: Throughout the course of a day, neck muscles work to adjust the posture of the he