I was five years into my massage career, working deep, working hard, and getting results… or so I thought. Clients loved my deep tissue work, but they kept coming back with the same tension, the same pain, over and over. It was frustrating—why weren’t the changes holding?

I asked this student, Shenice Peterson, if she would mind learning a new technique on the sacrum and trying it on me, to see if we could get this sacrum back in line. She was excited to learn something new. Apparently she has frequently seen this pattern with the sacrum on postpartum women in her practice.

When I decided to start teaching at a massage school (which I did for over 10 years), my motivation was to learn. I had had an amazing Anatomy and Physiology teacher (Russ Sinclair) when I was in massage school, and I had learned so much from him, but felt like I had forgotten most of it. It turned out I was right.

So your body has innate wisdom and systems in place to keep you in the best health possible, given the past history of injuries, surgeries, illnesses, and other challenges to health.

Most bodyworkers barely touch it. It’s a huge blind spot in our education, and that’s a travesty.

My goal is to relate to every student in the room, and to teach them at the level where they find themselves in that moment.

I want them to collaborate with me for their own health, healing, and well-being.

I want to inspire manual therapists to continue to learn, to dig deep, to study anatomy like never before. I hope you will read on, and I hope it inspires you.