Intake: why so many questions?
cultivate a shared understanding
You are the expert of your own body.
Talking through your health history and your goals for massage helps us figure out the best plan for your massage.
your safety
There are situations where massage may be unsafe or detrimental to receive, or where certain modalities should be avoided.
my safety
Prevent the spread of infectious conditions
the intake is not a place of:
Judgement
We are more than our bodies and our health stories. I work from a place of body-neutrality* and support clients in experimenting with this lens.
Diagnosis
It is out of my scope of practice to diagnosis any conditions.
Based on what we discover in treatment, I can help make connections between your experience of pain and tension and my understanding of anatomy, myofascial meridians, and pain patterns.
wait, what is "body neutrality"?
"Body neutrality invites us to understand ourselves and others as whole human beings first, and to form our concept of worth, value, and identity around a person's internal self instead of their external self.”
don't worry, more about body neutrality to come
