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where do you buy your supplies from

I’m buying supplies for my spa, and trying to find a good supplier. Mostly sheets and towels, maybe some hot stones. Stuff like that.

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Permalink Reply by Albert on November 3, 2017 at 10:41pm

Thank you so much, your a life saver.

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Permalink Reply by Albert on November 3, 2017 at 10:46pm

what do you use to schedule your clients?

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Permalink Reply by Albert on November 5, 2017 at 10:13pm

What about music, just in case they prefer it. What could I use, I was thinking of a regular CD player. Oh and also what do you think are some efficient shifts for 3 massage therapist thought the week.

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Permalink Reply by Gordon J. Wallis on November 11, 2017 at 2:45pm

Wow! I love Pandora and have tons of stations already. But I’m gonna check those out.

Pueppi Texas said:

There are some typo's in the above thread, and I didn't get a chance to correct them before the forum edit option timed out (for example: "clam" should be "calm").

A word about how I use Pandora:

I love Pandora, but I do not like to use Pandora stations for providing actual bodywork anyway, since you never know what kind of song will be next. Even with all of the years I have been working to tweaking my stations (I've provided links to all of my Pandora massage stations for you, just in case you want to look into those), I still get a wild stray in there that I just don't like. It can affect my concentration and flow when something like that comes on.

What I use Pandora for, is to find songs that I can put together into playlists. So, I listen to it when I am doing computer things and check "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" accordingly. I will also "thumbs up" some songs that I may not necessarily use in my own practice, but that may be useful for another therapist who has a different "ear" than I do, with the musical qualities falling into the genre I have created for each station.

I think the list below will give you all of the Massage Music Pandora Stations I have created (you may need to be signed in to listen to them --- and of course, you can share them with yourself to keep them, and then tweak as you find fits your own style). Additionally, you can look at my profile on Pandora and find other stations I have created and a few I am pulling music from to give a bump to some of my original stations. "Bump stations" as I like to call them, will eventually disappear.

Enjoy!

• Deep Relaxation Massage Music

https://www.pandora.com/station/188729186758425984

• Classical Massage Music

https://www.pandora.com/station/188730303449922944

• Water/Ocean Massage Music

https://www.pandora.com/station/188730148831100288

• Refreshing Tranquility Music

https://www.pandora.com/station/188729775168945536

• Mystical Journey Massage Music

https://www.pandora.com/station/188729401506790784

• Piano Massage Music

https://www.pandora.com/station/188724891791129984

• Asian Influence Massage Music

https://www.pandora.com/station/188724702812568960

• Native American Influence Massage Music

https://www.pandora.com/station/188721086450105728

• Spanish Guitar Massage Music

https://www.pandora.com/station/184207900455730560

• Christmas Massage Music

https://www.pandora.com/station/201208837007211904

• Vocal Massage Music

https://www.pandora.com/station/319977241225985408

• Jazz Massage - Light, Smooth &/or Tropical Massage Music (work in progress)

https://www.pandora.com/station/297157577471163776

• Blues Based Massage Music (work in progress)

https://www.pandora.com/station/343679147097980288

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And, for an excellent thread on a variety of therapist's massage music preferences, you may want to look into this thread, although the beginning pages never got updated when the forum changed over years ago (that means you'll see a lot of brackets in some of the initial posts on the first page or so).