Agreements

As a trainer and massage therapist, I view my sessions with clients as a true collaboration. From practitioner to receiver, we’re in this together. These agreements support us mutually; I hope you can honor them with me.

• We agree to engage in our work together with kindness and clarity.

  This means that communication is open, honest, direct, and considerate. There is mutual respect for all parties involved.  

• We agree to show up on time, prepared physically and focused. 

  This means that you arrive at the agreed upon time, dressed, ready to move, cell phone stowed. I will also be ready at the agreed upon time, with the space set up for our session.

• We agree to refer to our bodies with gentleness, acceptance, and if it’s available, love. 

  This means that when we talk about our bodies we will try our best to avoid negative and judgmental words. While it can be a very human experience to want to talk in these vocabularies, we will prioritize neutral and/or if it’s available for us, positive words to discuss our persons. 

• We agree to not engage in discussion and open judgment of other folks’ bodies and appearance. 

  This means that we agree to not discuss other people’s bodies be it their shape, size, race, gender presentation, and style.

• We agree to remain curious about the work, both training and massage therapy, and share all discoveries, questions, and reflections when appropriate. 

  This refers to the partnership of the work, it’s a two-way street. As the practitioner, I will shape sessions to fit your personal needs, ask questions about how things feel, offer suggestions and corrections when appropriate, share observations from assessment. I also will encourage a sense of exploration and play. As the client, I ask that you be open to sharing how you feel at the start of each session (physically and/or emotionally), receive and implement corrections openly, ask questions when something seems confusing, share observations from the session when appropriate, and be open to a sense of discovery within our time together. 

• We agree to view our time together as a collaboration, engaging predominantly in discussion that is centered in the work and what it brings up for us.

  This means the bulk of our communication is centered around the physical work taking place. While personal and friendly conversation is welcomed and normalized within some of our session time, it’s important that we both stay focused and observe the ways casual communication can be distracting and impact the reason we’re sharing time together.