…or I might not. It all depends on how my body is feeling.
My beloved massage therapist’s departure for New Mexico last month left me without a bodywork provider. If you’re sitting there making fun of me, I invite you to stop! Not everyone feels a strong need for bodywork but imagine this. You are…
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over six feet tall, living in a world full of spaces and objects designed for people nearly a foot shorter than yourself. This means nothing is supportive to your back and you feel cramped almost everywhere you go.
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a professional bodyworker yourself. You are forever kneading and thumbing and rubbing and lifting and kneeling and standing and balancing…in short, you are running yourself ragged relaxing other people, and are therefore just plain tired.
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on the computer CONSTANTLY…in an ergonomic situation that all too easily goes way out of whack.
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doing weight training. Enough said.
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playing a ton of different musical instruments, some of which you have been well trained in and others of which you’ve had to simply teach yourself from books. (My new-to-me, insane-bargain-on-eBay, used violin arrived last night, but I don’t dare play it too much yet. I haven’t picked one up in six years and while I can actually make it sound pretty good already, I can feel my shoulder girdle locking up trying to keep it in place, so I need to either read up on my ergonomics or somehow get lessons to refresh my memory.)
This is someone who needs a bodyworker regularly. Until I can manage that again, the easiest factor to limit (I think) is computer time, so I might not write quite as frequently as I have been until I find some more support for my poor body. But I will definitely be back, still fairly often, so don’t move that bookmark!
