Day 67 - Artistic License

Artists are a different breed of people. I have many artist friends, and in some ways, consider myself an artist. And yes, we're - uh - different.

But what does that have to do with massage?
During tonight's class, we learned about the muscle's in the back. Oh sure, you can look at a picture of "Big Red" - the anatomical man with all his muscles. Or you can do our our teacher did - draw the muscles on a volunteer classmate. Using China Markers (which are so cool - almost as cool as Sharpies), our artistic teacher drew the boney landmarks (spine, spine of scapula, etc) in black and then drew where the attaching muscles "flow" on our classmate's back. It's kinda cool when you see it in that perspective. It will definitely help me remember it!
Then, we had to practice more massage, putting into practice what we learned about the flow of muscles. It's pretty rough, ya know. Going to class, getting massages.
Really rough.
Really.