hey, guys. Feels like my life is moving along at warp speed these days--I thought I'd have "time" once school was out, but THAT hasn't happened yet! Spent Fri-Mon. in Ortho--study gp. on Friday, Phase 6 on Sat. and Sun., and Phase 7 on Mon. To top it all off, when I got home last night and checked email, I find my app. has been processed & I have a Certificant #...suddenly, I'm feeling too little for all this! So now the pressure's really on to do some serious studying and get this test over with. I vacillate between thinking I know enough to pass and thinking I don't know jack! I talked w/Fran Oppenheimer yesterday, though, and she says we really are pretty well-prepared by FSM, and with some study and taking care not to let test anxiety mess us up, we're probably going to be okay. I just want it behind me--if it weren't $200+, I'd be tempted to take my chances--sit it right away and get it over with. Really, though, I feel like I'd better take some serious review time first. I haven't been book-studying with regularity, though I feel like the Ortho has really helped me keep the anatomy and kinesiology in mind.
The Ortho Phase 6 was incredible--it's using the principles and techniques off the body, and there were some polarity elements there. There were 8 of us as students and 2 instructors assisting Luann (they are studying for advanced instructor status). Everybody has had at least one Phase 4 class, since that's the prerequisite for taking any other classes. There was a PT there. Most of the other people there were massage therapists and some also practiced other forms of therapeutic work. One guy is a main frame programmer who loves ortho and talks about going to massage school (Marshall, I think of you). It was amazing and wonderful to be in a class working with the energetic body again. And it was so very cool to be working w/people who have been doing energy work as part of their practices for years. Also, the COOLEST part was the affirmation--both in my own body, and from my partners--that it works! I love the way this form so elegantly links the mind-body-spirit and anchors it all a functional, real, paradigm! It's like taking everything we learned in school--all the modalities and all the linear stuff and wrapping it up into one lovely, coherent package! And it's so EASY on MY body to do it!!!
Don't get me wrong--it's not all hearts & flowers--I'm struggling w/parts of it, just like I struggled w/stuff in school. There are techniques and ideas that I just don't GET, and sometimes I feel like I'm gonna get sent to the corner w/the dunce cap on my head. I get frustrated and overwhelmed and tired, but I still haven't found anything else that offers me the framework that this does. So I'm committed to plowing ahead. I gave a session to Luann for evaluation last Friday. I was scared sh****less--I haven't been practicing ortho all these months--I've been practicing massage! Then to top it off, got lost and turned up at the office a half hour late. But I "passed" and am now eligible to be an associate member of the society. I felt like I'd been promoted out of kindergarten into REAL school...
Josh, I ran a pattern for you for the test on Sat (this is what we studied in Phase 7--Distance work!) And I really, REALLY can see you doing this--take an ortho class when you can! Nicole, I also ran one for your friend's husband. Love to you all--brenda
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Brenda!!!
= )
When you talk about ortho, I feel excited. Your enthusiasm is so much fun to see, and I believe it's a sign that you will to incredibly well with the material as long as you are with it.
And... how do I get a session from you? = ) srsly. I am free tomorrow, thursday, friday, saturday... monday, tuesday, wednesday... etc etc etc.
love,
-marshall
Hi Brenda! Can't wait to see you in person to talk about this stuff! It sounds very cool- especially the distance thing. I never imagined you could do that!
Steph
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