Posts Tagged ‘Massage School’
BREATHE – THE ART OF MASSAGE #6
Everything must touch! Send feelers out And love is like a vine, it is connecting us. ~ David Lauterstein What connects one touch with another? What role does breath play in the art of massage? In yoga, if we do the postures and movement without full breathing, it is of limited structural and energetic…
Read MoreAccuracy – The Art of Massage #4
Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars — William Blake One of the legs we stand on is the knowledge the biological sciences give us. If we can’t find a love and fascination for anatomy, we probably have no business being massage therapists. All the modalities bandied about to great…
Read MoreThe Art of Meeting and The Art of Massage #3
Today I took a walk at dawn. I took a walk just where the night meets the day. Each sense has a place of meeting – the place where the sound can first be heard, the place where we first see something illuminated by light – and every time we’re met, whether by sound, smell,…
Read MoreWhat is Better Than a Guitar? – The Art of Massage #2
For the first thirty years of my life, I was a musician and composer. Among my first loves was the guitar and its music made through the wonderful composition of metal strings, wood, and open space. I am still thrilled with the sight and sound of the guitar and all the variants that have been…
Read MoreWHAT THE HANDS TELL ME – The Art of Massage #1
“A Symphony must be like the world – it must contain everything”. – Gustav Mahler Mahler, the great composer, in his Symphony #3 gave titles to the various movements: · “What the Flowers in the Meadow Tell Me” · “What the Animals in the Forest Tell Me” · “What Man Tells Me” · “What the…
Read MoreI See Magic Happen Everyday
By Mark Dauenhauer As the Education Director for The Lauterstein-Conway Massage School I meet and interact with between 200-300 students per year. I’m with them for their very first class and periodically teach certain classes as they move through our program, so I get to see the maturation of the students as a group and…
Read More(Video) Kate Jordan: Manual Therapy Treatment for Low Back Pain in Pregnancy
by Kate Jordan, Developer of Bodywork for the Childbearing Year www.katejordanseminars.com/Def… .Kate talks about lower back pain in pregnancy and demonstrates some techniques to use to minimize or eliminate back pain. Kate is using massage equipment created by Oakworks www.massagetables.com Kate Jordan is a pioneer in the field of massage therapy for pregnancy. She has practiced as…
Read MorePregnancy Massage – Touch for the Mom-To-Be
Pregnancy is nine transformative months full of excitement, planning, and peering at the awesome unfolding of life. But this transformation also brings inevitable side effects. But you don’t have to suffer in silence. The gentle, noninvasive approach of pregnancy massage can ease your discomfort, help you prepare for labor, give you the emotional support of…
Read MoreEase Growing Pains with Infant Massage
by Gina Michelle I’m writing this after a night when I was awakened by my 2-year-old at 4:00 a.m. He was pointing to his legs and saying, “Ow! Ow!” His first growing pains were here. The childhood leg aches we call “growing pains” are normal, though nobody knows exactly why they happen. The massage therapist…
Read MoreHeal Your Soul Through “Heel and Sole”
It is amazing how people love work on their feet and therapists often love working on the feet and yet…Most therapists don’t know the anatomy of the feet! I myself didn’t! I don’t know how many years it was before I really studied the intrinsic muscles of the feet…probably ten. But finally I really explored…
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