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PAGEANT ORGANIZER Gertie Todd from North Vancouver stands with the winners of the 1989 Miss Philippines U.S.-Canada Beauty Peageant held for the first time in Vancouver. Todd was one of the 12 judges for the pageant of 50 comtestants. On Coronation Night, Sept. 2 in the Hotel Vancouver, Mary Jane Fiel (right) from Mississauga, Ont., was crowned Miss Philippines Canada while Donna Fe Roque (left) from New York was crowned Miss U.S. Philippines. The former Miss Personality from the 1988-89 Miss Nosth Shore Pageant, Michelle Morgan, 19, from North Vancouver, won the Miss Photogenic Award.

indulge yourself with a massage

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Starting with the feet, Sharma works her way up one side of the body, alternately kneading the muscles and stroking the skin.

She gives the arms and head a polite but insistent pull which ac- tually moves one along the table but is surprisingly painless.

After the massage, which can take a full hour, the client is left alone to ease back into the day and

‘ her clothes which invariably feel

restrictive after the body has been reduced to such a limp state. Sharma says her massages are a form of art and, indeed, there is more to her massages than a strong arm. She is not a registered massage

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therapist, a licence which takes two

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testing, and does not claim to heal in the medical sense.

Sharma says she works with energy levels, working as a channel for people to facilitate the flow of energy through the body.

“It’s up to the person to break down the blocks. If they’re willing to let go, then the pain is gone.”’

She grounds her work in a grab bag of relaxation theories — deep muscle therapy, polarity therapy (the balancing of the body’s energies), acupressure, therapeutic touch, reflexology and sound heal- ing.

Sharma is also experimenting with color therapy. For instance,

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her massage room is lit in a sub- dued shade of green, the color of nature which, she says, can dissipate pain.

Skeptics are welcomed by Shar- ma. She says clients don’t have to believe in her ideas to benefit from a massage.

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