Posts Tagged ‘Massage School’
5 Reasons the Saturday Only class is great!
You have more time between classes to absorb information. The Saturday Only class meets just one day a week. This means students have more time to not only absorb the theoretical parts of the curriculum, but they have more time to practice and develop their hands-on skills as well! You can keep your job and…
Read MoreI first met the founder of Zero Balancing…
I first met the founder of Zero Balancing, Fritz Smith, MD, in 1986 at the AMTA National Convention in Washington, D.C. At that time, I was a therapist, instructor, and the editor of the Massage Therapy Journal. I had heard of Dr. Smith as teaching, at the Esalen Institute and elsewhere, this modality called “Zero…
Read MorePediatric Massage
by Marybetts Sinclair Sensitive massage is a unique type of therapy that can speak directly to many of the greatest needs of children. It is stimulating, relaxing, emotionally nurturing and feels terrific. It can help children release tension, become more aware of their bodies, and form a body image that is positive and strong. When there are…
Read MoreNew Year, New Career
Welcome to 2015. This is going to be the year you find a career that give you both passion and success! We say it year after year, hoping the right career will just pop up and snatch us from our current situation. Maybe you hate your 9 to 5 hours or sitting at a computer…
Read MoreVitamin T
Life cannot thrive without touch. This is so fundamental that too often it goes without being said or even recognized. The embrace of the baby in the womb, the touch of the mother, father and other adults nurturing, feeding, welcoming the child, the later touch of peers, lovers, partners, the touch of our own children…
Read MoreUp for a Challenge?
by Christopher Allan What I love about the field of massage therapy is the vast options of clientele we can choose to work with. Not everyone has what it takes to work with kids and adults with special needs like Cerebral Palsy, Autism or Head Wound Injuries, and that’s okay. So what does it take?…
Read MoreA New Year’s Encouragement
“All Sickness is Home Sickness” is the title of book by acupuncturist, Dianne Connelly. It may be a watchword for this pivotal year we are entering. How many of us are fully at home in our bodies? It is often quite a challenge to take the best care of ourselves while we juggle work, child-raising, time…
Read MoreMASSAGING YOUR BRAIN
Pain science is telling us that pain is an output of the brain, not an input from the body. Similarly we can note that relaxation and pleasure are outputs of the brain, though we may “feel” them in the effected organs, muscles, and other tissues. Ironically then it turns out that soft tissue manipulation, which…
Read MoreMassage Therapy: The First Resort
(taken from a 1989 issue of the Austin Chronicle – slightly updated) by David Lauterstein People ask me how I got into massage – “What’s a nice Jewish man doing in a profession like this?” Well, I read a lot. And in 1973, while studying music in Munich, Germany, and falling into a funk which…
Read MoreShouldn’t All Ribs Float?
Each rib has toward its “head”” a triangle of synovial joints – with attachments to the bodies of the vertebrae above, below and to the transverse process of the one below. The triangle is one of the most stable as well as most flexible structures in nature. It is no accident that nature chose the…
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