I have been working as a bodyworker since 1986 and I have given thousands of sessions and taught hundreds of classes since then. I was not originally taught how to work on clients' faces. After receiving a session of esthetic massage from a Japanese practitioner in Hawaii, I started to question why I was not touching the face.

It has been a wonderful transition between summer and Fall here, with the calls of the cicadas merging into cricket sounds merging into typhoon winds and showers. I was able to give a Reiki Master course at the foot of Mount Fuji as it was being dusted with snow. Two Americans came over to be in the training, a first for Trillium Institute Japan!

At the end of May I presented a seminar in Yokohama: The Power of Touch, for bodyworkers, counselors and the general public. The purpose of the seminar was to present different aspects of touch, different physical and mental conditions, problems from the absence of touch, and why touch is so important in our lives.