Across
- 6. A personal skill of scheduling daily and weekly activities to reflect personal priorities; involves identifying goals and priorities for a certain period of time and plotting a schedule accordingly; includes keeping to the schedule developed.
- 8. Achieved by the contact and different qualities of touch applied during massage, or before or after the session when greeting or saying good-bye to a client.
- 10. The act of sensing information about the client through touch; is about the “feel” of tissues and of movement at joints; used to collect objective information for goal-oriented planning.
- 11. Refers to finding your focal point or point of organization from which being and movement occur and to staying there.
- 12. Physical exercises useful for improving various aspects of physical fitness with the added benefit of developing coordination, body awareness, concentration, and relaxation; examples are yoga, tai chi, qi gong, and pilates.
Down
- 1. Are related to contact and vary from soft and gentle to hard and rough.
- 2. The ability to sense where your body is in space while at rest and in motion and to coordinate movement with mind.
- 3. Refers to the intake of food and drink to nourish the body and mind.
- 4. Refers to actions massage practitioners take for their own well-being and to promote their longevity in the profession; includes physical self-care such as physical fitness and good body mechanics and emotional self-care such as in dealing with grief, anger, and confusion.
- 5. Refers to the sense presence of the massage therapist’s hands on the client’s body. When contact is good, the client feels a full, confident, deliberate, and warm connection to the massage therapist.
- 7. Refers to establishing a connection and being rooted to the earth through the legs and feet.
- 9. Techniques that are designed to quiet the mind and enhance the ability to pay focused attention.