Technique of the month: Massaging the scalp A female friend my age (51) recently remarked that she can’t imagine having her hair done once a

2007 has been a year of waiting and anticipating. Waiting for the cold to arrive in an unusually warm early January. Paying high home fuel

In my bathroom, alongside the monthly Daily Word booklet of inspirational passages that I read each morning courtesy of the Unity Church, is a large

Begin again. Those were the last words — or at least, in the haziness of time, the gist of the actual last words — of

I don’t remember when I first started thinking about going to massage school. Certainly in the first few years after I started receiving massage on

A 54-year-old client wants to spread the word about the importance of men age 40 and older getting a yearly PSA test to check for

The new year often brings renewed efforts to work out, to shed some unwanted pounds, to eat better. To that list, I invite you to

What an expansive and contractive year. Like the rising and the falling of gasoline prices (a major element of all areas of my life, and

When I was a child and thought about the future, my limited imagination only projected to the year 2000. It was a faraway yet easy

One of the perks of being a touch therapist is the ability to connect with longtime friends in different, deeper ways. And so it was

The beauty and challenge of The Heartful Touch, and the satisfaction to be gained therein, is to tailor a session that meets an individual’s needs

The thought arose again as I was taking James Waslaski’s five-day Orthomassage Intensive in Portsmouth, N.H. I wrote about Waslaski’s work in my November/December 2004

Working a full-time job as a newspaper copy editor forces me to choose my vacation days for the coming year in December so as not

Letting go, moving on, reaching out: In a time of war and terror, high prices and natural disasters, these are mantras to live by, this

I never did run the 2005 Clifton High School Alumni Track Meet. But I have started working with a personal trainer. In the May-June Heartful

Last summer, while driving to Boston to serve as a teaching assistant for an Upledger CranioSacral Pediatrics workshop, I popped into my car CD player

After almost 11 years away from the sport, I’ve begun running again. I stopped in September 1994 when torn cartilage in my left knee cut

For the second year in a row, I’ve neglected my exercise routine in January and February. Hibernated is more like it. The frigid temperatures outside

It’s the beginning of 2005, a time to thank returning clients, welcome new clients, and plan for my continuing education courses. First up is Clinical

It took a course in neuromuscular therapy during my enrollment at the Somerset School of Massage Therapy in 1997 to bring my massage work into

From Aug. 12-15, 2004, I served as a teaching assistant at a CranioSacral Pediatrics Workshop outside Boston. On the third day, the three dozen students

In May I took a three-day Orthomassage workshop taught by James Waslaski. In June, I served as a teaching assistant for a CranioSacral Therapy II

It was a hectic nine days. On April 23, I attended a concert at Carnegie Hall in which a friend sang with a choral group

The sun is lingering longer in the evening, the rays are imparting a bit more warmth, and the dawns are earlier and bursting with brightness.

As I pore through my Heartful Touch records in preparation for filing my 2003 income tax forms, I look over the name of each client

For 24 years, until arthroscopic knee surgery and persistently painful iliotibial bands led me to give it up, I sped through life as a long-distance

I love stay-at-home August vacations. When it seems that much of Montclair has taken to the roads or is down the shore, I walk uptown

Massage, like many other healing modalities, promotes overall good health rather than cures any specific symptom in a single session. Utilized as part of a