Donna Joel Caire

It has been 18 years since I started my new career as a body worker. I have had many pursuits throughout my long life, as an educator, a book seller, working in area gardens, a midwife apprentice, studying herbs and alternative health. In my pursuits, at the age of 50, I was called to working with the abdominal organs. To accomplish this, I had to become a massage therapist, and after passing that small hurdle, I was able to fully dive into my study of the body. My curriculum vitae shows how diligently and intensely I studied – I felt like I had so much to catch up on. But as I studied, I began to realize that everything I was learning was brand new to the western mind – old hat to traditional methods. But there was also a melding of the western mind with the traditional mind, and I began to see a way that I could understand and teach about the body and share this with others who were seeking but were unable to go off in the world to explore these ideas, and then be blessed with being able to practice and learn from experience.