A year and a half before I graduated, something happened that changed me. One of my dorm neighbors had some issues going on with her big toe; it seemed to be a bunion, though I didn't know it at the time. I couldn't help myself one evening; I massaged her toe for over two hours. The next morning she came to me and asked what I did the previous night. She stuck out her foot for me to look at. I was shocked to discover that her toe looked normal! Something inside of me clicked and I knew I was being shown my path.
I still had a year and a half left, so I decided to finish my degree. I moved to Minneapolis and attended Saint Paul Technical College where I received my Certificate in Massage Therapy. I had taken several workshops outside of college including Qi Gong, Chair Massage, and Thai Yoga Massage. I knew I wanted to specialize in Myofascial Release Therapy (MFR), so I took seminars taught by John F. Barnes, PT. I have taken Myofascial Release I in Green Bay, Wisconsin and Myofascial Release II, Myofascial Unwinding, Cervical-Thoracic, and Fascial-pelvis here in Minneapolis, MN. In August 2007, I took an Equine Myofascial Release Seminar at Caleco Barns right outside of Maple Plain, Minnesota.
I had an amazing time at the Equine Seminar and learned how to apply Myofascial Techniques to horses. Since we were at a ranch, there were other animals there as well. One of the animals that was roaming freely was a dog, I think it was a collie. During one of our breaks, I and a couple other people started to give the dog a myofascial treatment. The collie was in doggie heaven! At some point, the other people who I was treating the dog with decided to go somewhere else before the break ended. I stayed with the dog and continued treating him. When the break was over, I started back to the horse I was working on and noticed the collie was following me as though it was saying, "Don't stop!" My time at the ranch has confirmed my desire to expand my clientele to the animal kingdom.