by Bethany | Mar 14, 2012 | David Lauterstein
The more you learn about massage and bodywork, the more you learn about life as a whole. I have been a therapist now for 35 years and a teacher for 25. I have run my school, The Lauterstein-Conway Massage School in Austin, Texas, for 23 years. I’ve learned that the...
by Bethany | Mar 14, 2012 | David Lauterstein, Deep Massage, Types of Massage
About a year and half ago I wrote about the process of writing The Deep Massage Book, which I’ve been doing, off and on, for a number of years. So here’s an update. I’m done with the writing and the commissioned illustrations from a fantastic local...
by Bethany | Mar 14, 2012 | David Lauterstein
by David Lauterstein I once got a greeting card, “On the Family Trip to Nirvana,” with parents sitting in the car’s front seat and two kids in the back, asking their parents, “Are we there yet?” With this next deeper level of the nervous system, we are not at Nirvana...
by Bethany | Mar 14, 2012 | David Lauterstein
I hear stories of therapists out there. Some are doing great. Some are just making it. Some are frustrated. The times they are a’ changin’. The advent of the Massage Envy’s, etc. has provided many more job opportunities, but at a lower paying rate. Some employers...
by Bethany | Mar 14, 2012 | David Lauterstein
It is not the therapeutic intention that is fruitful, but it is how we really meet that is therapeutically fruitful. (paraphrase of Martin Buber) The nerve cells which sense pressure and vibration were discovered in 1831 by the Italian anatomist, Giovanni Pacini, who...
by Bethany | Mar 14, 2012 | David Lauterstein
Helen Keller was right – “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” In some ways every day is an adventure; every day a hero’s journey. We don’t know what will happen. We can see the obstacles and opportunities that arise as part of...
