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Let's explore two of your most powerful, and most frequently forgotten, tools: your breath and your body weight.

An effortless breath is one of the greatest tools we have to feel better—to feel more embodied. Cultivating that awareness in your client is a great gift.

Once you have awoken the client’s awareness, you and she can play with that exhalation. Try these exercises.

Once you start to notice your client's breath, how do you adjust the session so that your clients become aware?

A new client came out and said, “That was great! I never breathe during a massage.” She was, of course, wrong: she is always breathing, just like all of us beings who are not yet dead.

We know the value of breathing (and lament that we’re not doing enough of it, or not doing it the right way) we often miss the great opportunity of our profession: every time we begin a session, the breath is waiting for us.

“The best thing we can do as therapists is to keep it simple.” And then she paused, and then said, “Oh, and slow down.”

This year, get ready to learn differently…

My goals for the coming year are simple: I want to transform the way we learn as massage therapists. I want to transform the way you think about yourself as a massage therapist.

As we look ahead to the new year, I think the best thing we can do for ourselves is to look within.