Clients - 1, 2, 3 or A, B, C

as part of the course examination we have to submit a portfolio, which includes write-ups of 40 hours of massage we have given & 10 hours of massage we have received.  for the 40 hours of given massage I have had to recruit volunteers who want to be practiced on over the next 6-8 months.


in exchange for free massages they in return must give me feedback on how I'm doing...  do I listen to their cries of pain & lighten the pressure, do they come out of the session feeling better, do I do what they ask of me or get distracted & do something completely different...  that kind of thing...



I need a variety of folk to practice on...  male, female, short, tall, old, young, slim, not so slim...  I need folk of different age ranges, different body shapes & who have different occupations & hobbies...  so I have been trying to find a range of folk to cover as many different areas as possible.



I have to keep a record of all massages, which must to some extent be anonymous as far as the identity of the client is concerned.  so I must decide on a reference system which allows this but still lets me know who is who, so I don't get mixed up & end up with no one coming back...


as part of the record we must also reflect on the sessions - figure out if, from our own point of view, we would/could have done anything differently, what positives & negatives we feel we have learned from any particular session...


I thought including some client sessions in my blog would be a good way of developing a way writing about my clients while still keeping their anonymity, reflecting on whats been happening & figuring out how to index them.

Image by Jester Arts

so...  here we go with Client A


client A is very tall.  in fact I said those exact words to him & my immediate thought was 'oooh, thats not very professional'!  just as well I wasn't meeting him for the first time... ;)


client A was concerned he wouldn't fit on the massage table...  all was fine - it's a long table!