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The sequence of transitioning between sessions, from practitioner to client, is crucial. Since the client in the first session of the day may need time to process, she should be a secondary for the next session. The rotation looks like this: SESSION SCHEDULE FOR THREE PEOPLE The number equals the session number. Practitioners Primar y Client Secondar y Moe 1 2 3 Larr y 2 3 1 Curly 3 1 2 If you have more than three people, add in more secondaries. SESSION SCHEDULE FOR FOUR PEOPLE Practitioners Primar y Client Secondar y Secondar y John 1 2 3 4 Paul 4 1 2 3 George 3 4 1 2 Ringo 2 3 4 1 While the lifespan of these groups is usually short due to the complexity of scheduling for several people, my group has been meeting for more than a year. We seem to have a good division of labor: one of us organizes the scheduling; one of us keeps track of the rotation; and one of us provides the space, including sheets, heat, and tea. A common and wonderful problem in our group is that as we have gained trust and respect, we sometimes talk longer at the beginning, leaving less time for bodywork. We try to be careful to divide up the rest of the time evenly. G ETTING STARTED If you don't already know people you want to work with, ask friends or colleagues for recommendations. I met one person in my current group by going to see her privately a few times and then inviting her to join. I recommend you trade one-on-one a few times to make sure everyone can work well together and have time to get to know each other's styles. Sometimes people are uncertain about joining and want to give it a try before committing—consider having one meeting with several mini-sessions as a trial. After the first full set in which everyone has been the client the same number of times (for a group of three, this takes three meetings of two sessions each 96 m a s s a g e & b o d y w o r k m a r c h / a p r i l 2 0 1 6 (800) 409-0995 www.AncientHealingOils.com All Orders over $60 use the Discount code MB16 and receive a 16% discount and FREE Shipping (domestic orders only) orders over $35 receive Free Shipping www.GoAHO.com Ancient Healing Oils is known the world over for High Quality and Super Customer Service.