Healing with Gratitude

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Is someone you know upset, injured, or in pain? This quick, easy touch is one of the simplest, most basic healing practices I know -- and it can often be a lot of help.

  • Calm & ground yourself. Then ask the other person if it’s OK for you to touch them. 
  • Rest the palm of your hand somewhere on their body. (It doesn’t have to be on the place that hurts; it could be anywhere. Don’t press or squeeze or massage, just relax your hand.)
  • Tune into a feeling of gratitude. Really feel it inside yourself -- in your heart, your belly, all over your body.
  • imagine gratitude spreading into the person you’re touching. Imagine it fills them up, and overflows.
  • Let your breath be slow and full, and stay with it for a while, until one of you feels done. 
  • Then simply take your hand away.

Classes and Tutorials

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Fluidics at The Watsu Center, Harbin Hot Springs.
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• Fluidics

• Tutorials for Bodyworkers

• Massage or Watsu for Couples

• Self-Care Class

• The Knot at the Top of the Shoulder



Andrew Yavelow is a massage therapist and teacher currently living in Lake Worth, Florida. He loves to work with people who have injuries and chronic conditions, and offers integrative treatments (both on land and in warm water) that draw on a multitude of structural and energetic modalities. His work provides many people with relaxation, the mitigation of pain, and the restoration of function. He used to work at Harbin Hot Springs, before it burned down, and is available to travel for sessions, teaching, and presentations.