Vibrational Healing Massage Therapy

Yesterday I started a program of study in a healing massage modality called Vibrational Healing Massage Therapy (VHMT). It is taught exclusively at the World School of Massage in San Francisco. I have no massage experience, but I am fascinated with working with the body's energies for balancing and healing.

On our first day, we began to learn about the principles of VHMT. Fundamentally, the technique is working with energy flow in the body. VHMT is based on a model which views the body as completely fluid, and so a critical aspect of VHMT is moving energy through the body in a fluid way, as well as helping the practitioner and the receiver become conscious of their bodies as fluid mechanisms. To this end, in class we learned about a particular pattern of energy which flows through the body, and we practiced moving this energy through each other.

In our first exercise, we worked with another student to simply feel their energy flow without actually touching them. I was surprised and delighted that both my partner and I picked up significant information about each other from this exercise alone. In the second exercise, we practiced moving the energy again, but this time by hands-on work on joint segments. For example, we held one hand on the receiver's ankle and the other on their knee. This process continues on joints throughout the body. It sounds mild, but it is surprisingly relaxing and effective.