Hippie Vibes

Today I had a new client. He was from the Pacific Northwest and was in town helping a friend with some very physical labor that involved chunks of limestone, heavy equipment and shovels. His friend is a regular client of mine and paid for him to visit me as a way of saying thank you for his hard work. So imagine granite....then imagine granite meets earthy, brainy dude and you might get a glimpse of my visitor.

After a brief introduction, he took his shoes off before walking thru my living room. He pet my dog and talked to him the way I do and walked slowly toward my treatment room, smiling and chatting all the way.  During the intake interview it was obvious that he was health-conscious, physically fit and  very in tune with his body. The other thing I noticed? He had great energy and I wasn't the only one who noticed. The critters liked him right away too.

The massage ranged from his initiating deep breathing exercises to relax and get in a good massage place, to his nodding off, but there was also some pretty interesting conversations in between.

Like he knew a lot about massage and had traded treatments with a massage therapist at one time in his life. He said she had taught him and he mimicked her style.  And then he said it.....he liked to work intuitively and feel energies when he gives massage. He was speaking my language!

We shared stories about our offspring and my grandchildren and then there was this sweet story about the chameleon tattoo on his forearm. I asked if the tattoo had a significant meaning for him and he was good enough to share its story. His daughter is 24 and she drew the chameleon. Then for a father/daughter bonding thing, they both got her chameleon design tattooed on themselves, but she went with only black and he went with colors. I loved this story and told him so.

So after he came out of the treatment room and told me that he felt put together again, he hugged me. And y'all know how I feel about getting hugged. But instead of my awkward and stiff hug, I actually really hugged him back....and it didn't feel quite as awkward as I thought it would. lol   In any case, when he bent down to put his shoes on he started laughing and when he stood up he was holding one of my cat's toy mice.  Oni had left her mousie in his shoe.  Told ya!  Good energy. Good vibes.