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DEEP IN SPACE AND TIME – The Resurrection of Petrissage and History!
Each time I receive a massage I learn more about what works well and not so well. Last week I got a session where there were two things missing and these are surprisingly common. The Resurrection of Petrissage – Deep in Space If you want to have an effect that is deep then, in some…
Read More6 Signs You Should be a Massage Therapist
1. 9 to 5 job just isn’t for you You like a flexible work schedule where you can choose your hours. Massage therapy is the perfect fit – you can work as little or as much as you want at the hours you choose. You won’t be sitting at a desk all day –…
Read MoreA SERIES OF SACRED SATURDAYS
This weekend we began a new class who will be here each Saturday all day 8:00am-5:45pm for a year. On the one hand this is a tremendous sacrifice – but we remember that means “making sacred”. So it’s, on the other hand, a “SERIES OF SACRED SATURDAYS”. And as I was welcoming them this first morning,…
Read MoreTLC is honored to be bringing a world famous teacher to Austin next month – Nancy Dail
Nancy Dail is the author of Kinesiology for Manual Therapies. In 1974 she began her career combining acupuncture, massage and Aikido. She founded her school, one of the foremost in the U.S., the Downeast School of Massage, in Maine in 1981. Anytime you have the opportunity to learn from someone with 40 years of therapeutic…
Read MoreTouch and the Real Meaning of Life
The hard rain and wind are ways the cloud has to take care of us. — Rumi Learning massage is never a matter of just acquiring technical skills. Massage school is also a place where people have a chance to respond with gentleness, with touch, and with knowledge to painful things in their lives. People…
Read MoreStructural Perspectives of the Head and Neck
by Nancy Dail Picture a bowling ball balancing on a stick. This is similar to how the head, which weighs approximately 10-12 pounds, precariously perches on seven cervical vertebrae and disks and is supported only by a network of muscles, tendons, and ligaments. The cervical vertebrae connect to the thoracic and lumbar spines, and the…
Read MoreThe Four Top Reasons To Learn Zero Balancing
“If you love the body you must know the bone….” ~ R. Tillinghast Add something really effective and new to your tool bag. To help people more and to retain clients better, you need to be enhancing your skills and supporting your inspiration. Learning new effective work refreshes, excites you more in your work…
Read MoreZero Balancing brings you back to center
by Tasha Snedaker The modality is like a tree that just got out of a wind storm and is now… still. It balances you like a pendulum, that, once it’s experienced the very edges of balance, and being unbalanced, it comes to center and… rests. This “center” enables the person to feel “lighter” and taller in…
Read MoreWEANING FROM THE OIL BOTTLE
Let’s be honest. Humans are self-lubricating entities. We have sebaceous glands whose sole purpose is to lubricate and waterproof the skin. These glands are associated with hair (we have about 5 million distributed over the whole body). Then we have perspiration, a brilliant method of thermoregulation. We can sweat off as many as 14 liters…
Read MoreGrad Chronicle – James Uhl
by James Uhl After graduating TLC in 2011 I immediately began gaining experience by working on my own practice as well as doing chair and sports massage for different events around the city. In July, 2012 I received my NASM Personal Training certification in attempt to bridge two aspects of care to help my clients.…
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