My Massage School Experience

by Nayeli Gallegos I was first introduced to TLC School through my job, but I quickly came to realize how healing the environment is and what joy it brings to everyone who steps through the doors. As soon as you arrive, whether it is for work or class, you’re presented with a break from the…

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SENSORI-MOTOR AMNESIA!

Working on clients, we sometimes encounter “sensori-motor amnesia”, a lack of body awareness that is sometimes funny, sometimes sad. I was once massaging a man’s back and he asked me what I was working on. At the time I was trying to mobilize the soft tissues that had become chronically tense and were restricting the…

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Grad Chronicle – My Journey Through TLC

by Aaron McLeod Five years ago, I attended another massage school in Austin. I should say as background that I am visually impaired. My challenges at this school included not having computer resources, support from the school, or a tutor. All I had was a recorder and my memory. It was difficult for most of…

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Our hands speak volumes

How many times does bodywork give rise to spiritual or religious experiences? About this level of life, the philosopher Wittgenstein said, “Whereof one can not speak, thereupon we must be silent.” Well, in the silence of bodywork, something deeper sometimes “speaks”. Call it what you will – soul, energy, bliss, spirit, God, just the right…

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A New Wind for Your Sails

by David Lauterstein This outline shows how marketing can be seen as applying the same principles we practice in sophisticated bodywork, especially Zero Balancing and Deep Massage (which use the “fulcrum” model for how to optimize contact). I wrote it a few years ago when I entertained a bit more new-age language so have patience with that! Let…

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For a Regular Massage to Turn into a Deep Massage

“If one works well in a potato field, potatoes will grow. That’s reality. The rest is smoke.” –Danilo Dolci Yesterday I received a very good massage. Afterwards, I felt smoothed out, muscles more relaxed and my nervous system was decidedly more parasympathetic dominant. Yet I still didn’t feel deeply affected. It was like she’d massaged…

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The Year after Cancer Treatment: How We Adapt Massage

By Tracy Walton My client rolled her eyes as she told me, “Now, this is hard. This is way harder than my year in cancer treatment.” She was referring to the year after cancer treatment. She was several months out. Armed with clear scans and a clean bill of health from her oncologist, she emerged…

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How Are Deep Massage and Zero Balancing Related?

I began teaching what I call Deep Massage in 1982. This was after studying extensively with Rolfer, Daniel Blake, studying cranial work with early students of John Upledger, and teaching anatomy and deep tissue massage at the Chicago School of Massage Therapy. I realized that “deep” has more to do with quality of touch and…

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The First Massage Table

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 approached each massage therapist I had seen as a client and tried to…

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IF YOU BUILD IT

We can build this field of massage. In this field of dreams, science and research are revered and acknowledged as essential for their vast contributions and insights. In this field, the art of touching is cultivated with the recognition that there are ways to talk about energy, spirit and soulfulness in our work that are…

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