Psychosocial Benefits of Hospice Massage
by Dawn Nelson For the hospice patient, caring, compassionate touch in the form of massage may have benefits more significant and more immediately noticeable than the physical benefits. People who are approaching death from a life-threatening illness are often experiencing a veritable kaleidoscope of thoughts and feelings, which may include: Anger about the diagnosis, the…
Read MoreGrad Chronicle – Amy Brock
By Amy Brock, LMT, NCTMB I have been a Massage Therapist for 5 years now and have had a great deal of success from it. Within my five years I have worked consistently full time, have had retention rates of over 70 percent, massaged more than 25 clients a week, and have won titles of…
Read MoreDon’t Turn into a Tree!
Are you considering enrolling in massage school. Here’s a unique perspective! Whether you know it or not, when you enroll in massage school, you are on a classic Hero’s Journey. If you ever get the chance to read Joseph Campbell’s Hero with a Thousand Faces, you won’t be disappointed. However, if you don’t have the…
Read MoreThe Lucky 7 on the Bottom of Your Foot
If you will take your left leg up, placing the ankle on your knee and look at the bottom of your foot, there is a number 7 in the sole of your foot, looking back at you! When, long ago, our ancestors descended from the trees, more and more distinctness grew between the structure and…
Read MorePhysical Benefits Specific To Hospices
by Dawn Nelson With the influx of advanced medical technology and the great variety of drugs available, we tend to forget that the simple, careful touch of the human hand is one of the most ancient and effective means for relieving discomfort in the body. Pain control is often a primary concern for hospice patients,…
Read MoreSkeletal Illumination
There are two ways that bones are experienced. On the one hand, they feel like solid things inside us connected by joints. On the other hand, when we experience them more deeply, we feel them to live at the very core of our being – as when we say, that chilled me to the bone…
Read MoreA Mother’s Touch – Loss and The Feminine Archetype in Massage
On April 15th my wife and I said goodbye to our Golden Retriever of 13 years who has been thankfully suffering for not too long with cancer. Her name was Phoebe. She was the only dog I’ve had as an adult. I’m sure many of you can imagine the pain we are in at her…
Read MoreThe Dimensional Massage approach for short upper arms!
by Nancy Dail Often in a practice we run across individuals with similar problems that can sometimes be blamed on the season or weather. Certainly clients with back issues will come to us after over-exertion or during gardening season. For whatever reason though, lately, I have really noticed several clients who have short upper arm…
Read MoreYou Haven’t Heard of Ben Benjamin?
I am sometimes amazed that many massage therapists are not familiar with some of the greats in our field. Ben Benjamin is a case in point. Ben has had a practice in sports medicine/muscular therapy since 1963. He is the founder of the Muscular Therapy Institute in Cambridge, MA. As educator and author, he has…
Read MoreHow confident do you feel about Pregnancy Massage?
by Hannah Ford Massage school introduced you to the basics of pregnancy massage, but how confident do you feel about your ability to support a woman and her baby with bodywork through the birth year? If a pregnant client walked into your office today seeking a massage, would your heart leap for joy or skip…
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