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Dara’s Video Blog: Textbooks, Massage Tables and Supplies – Oh My!
Hear what future September student Dara Allen-Trainer has to say in her second video blog about preparing to start classes this month. There’s still time to join her in the “Saturday section,” which is a great schedule for working students. Do you have a healing touch? Learn to work with doctors, physical therapists and chiropractors…
Read MoreMassage CE: Employment & Touch Techniques
By Rima Star MA, LMT, Employment Consultant. (This article is part of the series Got a Massage Job: Key Points for Creating Successful Employment.) What are employers looking for? What are you looking for? How to navigate the world of employment more successfully is the focus of this class. This series of articles addresses the…
Read MoreDiary of a Massage School Student: Week 23
Reflections of a Middle-aged Student By Kristina Deasey, March 2010 500-hour Professional Massage Training Student As I get older, I’m learning more and more the signs of when I’m doing too much: tired and achy, can’t seem to get good sleep or even enough sleep (even though my body and brain are worn out), feeling…
Read MoreMassage CEU: Business Support & Client Relationships
By Rima Star MA, LMT, Employment Consultant. (This article is part of the series Got a Massage Job: Key Points for Creating Successful Employment.) What are employers looking for? What are you looking for? How to navigate the world of employment more successfully is the focus of this class. This series of articles addresses the…
Read MoreMassage Therapy: Even Anatomy Geeks Occasionally Need a Review
By Rainbough Phillips, LMT, Owner of Breath & Balance Bodyworks I am one of those people who likes to “talk muscles.” I regularly find myself describing to clients how to locate and self-massage pec minor, or explaining how piriformis contributes to sciatic pain. I am always looking for muscle animations on YouTube, reading up on…
Read MoreMassage Continuing Education: Statesman “Our Body” Photoblog
In August 2010, Lauterstein-Conway Massage School is offering a new massage continuing education opportunity – a three-hour anatomy review workshop paired with a three-hour MTI-guided tour of Our Body: The Universe Within. The exhibit is showing at UT’s Stark Center. TLCschool believes this exhibit will be invaluable to any massage therapist who attends. The Statesman…
Read MoreMassage Continuing Education: Anatomy Review
By David Lauterstein, MTI, LMT, Co-founder of Lauterstein-Conway Massage School A few years ago Lauterstein-Conway Massage School’s massage continuing education program had the fantastic experience of renting a bus and going to the Bodyworlds Exhibit in Houston. We took 50 massage therapists from Austin. Seeing the muscles in a life-like context is so valuable! I…
Read MoreDara’s Video Blog: Going to Massage School
Episode 1 of Dara’s Video Blog by Dara Allen-Trainer TLCschool’s Reception/Customer-Service-Guru, Dara Allen-Trainer is going back to school – this time at TLC! Hear Dara’s story about why she decided to become a massage therapist and why she chose Lauterstein-Conway! Dara is enrolled in the Saturday section of the September 2010 class, which starts September…
Read MoreMassage School: The First Massage Table
By David Lauterstein, LMT, MTI, Certified ZB Practioner, Co-founder of Lauterstein-Conway Massage School After a few years of receiving massages and appreciating so many benefits – physical, emotional, mental and spiritual – I decided I would try doing it myself. At that time I was in Chicago and, unbelievably, there was no school! So I…
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