David Lauterstein
Massage, Awe and Time
If you know even a bit about the science of the human body – having even the most basic understanding of how the nervous system works, how muscles and bones are structured, etc. – then you almost inevitably will see the body from the standpoint of awe. We are so incredibly complex and amazing in…
Read MoreDeep Massage Book – updates
The Deep Massage Book has just been out for three months! It’s interesting to me that a Continuing Education Coordinator suggested to me that I use its subtitle as the title for my workshops – I never thought of it! The subtitle is “How to Combine Structure and Energy in Bodywork”. Well that is what…
Read MoreMassage – A Journey to the Center of the Self
“In my room, the world is beyond my understanding; but when I walk I see that it consists of three or four hills and a cloud.” – Walllace Stevens In my treatment room, I sometimes wonder if I can really help someone and how. But when the session begins, the client prone, I reassuringly…
Read MoreYou Have The Touch
“So before a question, so before a doubt My hand moves out and … I have the touch” Peter Gabriel Before every question and before every doubt, one thing is so obvious we rarely notice it. As Peter Gabriel says in his chorus, “I want contact.” The fundamental…
Read MoreConcerning Sincerity
Concerning Sincerity This is a longish entry and, it’s interesting, how modern technology has inclined us to sound or word bites. It’s becoming almost revolutionary to ask people to slow down, to pay attention for more than a few minutes, to do or say things that make people pause and consider things from a variety…
Read MoreThis isn’t Massage! “The Client List” – Cancel This Show!
By David Lauterstein The Client List is a new show with Jennifer Love Hewitt working at a spa where massage and sexual favors are confused. We at Lauterstein-Conway Massage School want to go on record as deploring this show – along with the national organizations the American Massage Therapy Association and the Associated Bodywork and…
Read MoreThe Deep Massage Book – It’s Here!
Today we received our first shipment of my new book The Deep Massage Book: How to Combine Structure and Energy in Bodywork. You know, the best things we do – like raising children, starting a practice, facilitating lasting benefits for our massage clients – these are things that have their own life independent of us.…
Read MoreBeing out of Synch – with Massage Therapy!
I sometimes wonder if those of us involved in massage and the art and science of high touch (rather than high tech) are a little out of synch with the times. Well I don’t wonder – I know I’m, at least a bit, out of synch. Then I remind myself of how a piano is…
Read MoreA note to TLC Massage School Alumni
Dear Alumni, I just want to share some excitement re new recognitions and developments around here. My book’s coming out in a month! The Deep Massage Book arises from all the lessons you’ve contributed to over the years – THANK YOU, alumni! The Deep Massage Book features 30 beautiful illustrations, extensive technique explanations, elaborations on…
Read MoreLoving Time #2 – in Massage and in Life
“The element most grossly omitted from treatises on harmony up to the present is the element of time. The question of the time-interval that must elapse between one sound and another if the two sounds are to produce a pleasing consonance or an interesting relation, has been avoided. And yet the simplest consideration of the…
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