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Welcome to the Colorado group- Please tell us about yourself, your education, your practice and your interests (and dreams...)
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Permalink Reply by Eeris Kallil CMT on
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I’ll start with my Bio:
I came to America in 1986 from Israel to attend the Boulder School of Massage Therapy and graduated in 1988. I became a faculty member there in 1999, and taught Shiatsu, Movement till 2007.
I have a private practice in Boulder. The main styles of bodywork I practice are Zen Shiatsu, Thai, Swedish and Deep Tissue, Hot Rock and intuitive energy and bodywork.
Another important specialty of mine is working with breast cancer survivors. After I healed from breast cancer I researched and developed a class for certified massage therapist specializing in massage and breast cancer. Please consider joining my massage and breast cancer group here on this site for more information.
http://www.massageprofessionals.com/group/massageandbreastcancer
And last but not least, I also teach Core Alignment Technique (CAT) a bodywork modality that evolved from a combination of body awareness techniques, shiatsu and energy work. Feel free to check it out in the Core Alignment Technique group in this site. http://www.massageprofessionals.com/group/corealignmenttechniquewha...
I have been doing this work for more than 20 years and still loving it. Many times I feel like I just started, there is always something new to be learned. I couldn’t think of a better way to live my life and make a living.
My other personal interests are making movies and dance- just go wild and dance!
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Permalink Reply by Stacey Kent on
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Hi
I currently live and practice in Breckenridge. I've been licensed in massage since 2000 & acupuncture since 2004.
When I first began in massage, I anticipated an eventual need to learn modalities to reduce potential physical wear & tear on my body. I learned myofascial therapy in addition to the swedish, deep tissue, and NMT work I was already practicing. The opportunity presented itself to learn acupuncture when it first became legal in Ohio, 2001. I left Florida for acupuncture school in Ohio, kept a small massage practice while attending school. I also worked in the academic administration department at the school, helping them bring the program towards accreditation. After graduating, my practice shifted to being 98% acupuncture and very little massage.
I relocated to Breckenridge in the spring of 2008, unsure how my practice would evolve out here. My styles of acupuncture & massage have changed quite a bit since moving here. Most of my treatments are now an integration of the needles and bodywork and I am having fun learning how the use the needles to facilitate and open the tissues up during the treatment. I see lots of orthopaedic issues in my office.
I volunteer at the local community care clinic where I get to work alongside primary care providers, PT's, and dentists with low income patients.
It has been a difficult transition to Co with my practice, but equally rewarding and engaging.
Thanks, I hope to meet some of you in person when the opportunity comes up. -
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Permalink Reply by Tiffany on
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Hi, my husband and I are both NCMTs, specializing in working with individuals with chronic pain and athletes. We started our first clinic in northern Virginia in 2002, just after being married. We have since sold that first clinic, after building it to 10 therapists and over 100 hrs of massage a week, to move to the mountains. :) We now live in Fort Collins, a much simpler life, with our two young children, and run our practice with one other therapist. Our business is thriving, by using many of the marketing techniques we figured out in our first four years, running our clinic back east, plus some great online strategies we've learned in the last three years here.
We have a Couples Massage DVD, which we sell various places online, including Amazon ( http://www.fortcollins-massage.com/Couples-Massage-DVD.html ), several high-end spas, and many individual clinics-particularly those who teach couples massage.
My passion is everything pregnancy and childbirth. I have special certifications in prenatal massage, childbirth education and postpartum work. I am on the Advisory Board for the American Pregnancy Massage Association (www.americanpregnancymassage.org) as well.
We run professional networking events in our town like this: http://www.meetup.com/fortcollinscoffeenetworking/calendar/12289858... ...in addition to teaching networking to small businesses around us. We coach other MTs in growing their business through solid marketing techniques, as well...mostly through our membership organization to help MTs thrive, the Professional Massage Network. www.promassagenet.com
I'd love to get to know more MTs in our area...we've met some in Fort Collins, but stay really close to home, now that our commute is a mere shadow of what it was when we lived outside of DC! :) -
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Welcome Tiffany- You sound like an amazing couple! I will check your links at a later time- glad you joined!
Eeris
Tiffany said:Hi, my husband and I are both NCMTs, specializing in working with individuals with chronic pain and athletes. We started our first clinic in northern Virginia in 2002, just after being married. We have since sold that first clinic, after building it to 10 therapists and over 100 hrs of massage a week, to move to the mountains. :) We now live in Fort Collins, a much simpler life, with our two young children, and run our practice with one other therapist. Our business is thriving, by using many of the marketing techniques we figured out in our first four years, running our clinic back east, plus some great online strategies we've learned in the last three years here.
We have a Couples Massage DVD, which we sell various places online, including Amazon ( http://www.fortcollins-massage.com/Couples-Massage-DVD.html ), several high-end spas, and many individual clinics-particularly those who teach couples massage.
My passion is everything pregnancy and childbirth. I have special certifications in prenatal massage, childbirth education and postpartum work. I am on the Advisory Board for the American Pregnancy Massage Association (www.americanpregnancymassage.org) as well.
We run professional networking events in our town like this: http://www.meetup.com/fortcollinscoffeenetworking/calendar/12289858... ...in addition to teaching networking to small businesses around us. We coach other MTs in growing their business through solid marketing techniques, as well...mostly through our membership organization to help MTs thrive, the Professional Massage Network. www.promassagenet.com
I'd love to get to know more MTs in our area...we've met some in Fort Collins, but stay really close to home, now that our commute is a mere shadow of what it was when we lived outside of DC! :) -
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Permalink Reply by Diana Rarich on
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Hello all,
My name is Diana Rarich, and I have been in practice just since 12/2009 when I completed my 700 hour program at Colorado School of Healing arts. I have since completed certification in Trauma Touch Therapy and Sports Massage, and this summer I plan to take Cranial-Sacral. I have a part-time practice, and am a school social worker full-time as well. I love sharing the healing power of touch with people, and especially like working on athletes.
I also do some chair massage for office events (in the evenings), and use my skills in weekend/bootcamp type settings.
My personal interests include almost all outdoor activities (especially hiking, biking, skiing, camping), music (and leading worship), and community service/youth.
My website is www.backtocentermassage.com and I am looking forward to networking with other folks on here.
Warm regards,
Diana -
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Diana-
Welcome to our profession and to this group!
Nice website too!
Eeris
Diana Rarich said:Hello all,
My name is Diana Rarich, and I have been in practice just since 12/2009 when I completed my 700 hour program at Colorado School of Healing arts. I have since completed certification in Trauma Touch Therapy and Sports Massage, and this summer I plan to take Cranial-Sacral. I have a part-time practice, and am a school social worker full-time as well. I love sharing the healing power of touch with people, and especially like working on athletes.
I also do some chair massage for office events (in the evenings), and use my skills in weekend/bootcamp type settings.
My personal interests include almost all outdoor activities (especially hiking, biking, skiing, camping), music (and leading worship), and community service/youth.
My website is www.backtocentermassage.com and I am looking forward to networking with other folks on here.
Warm regards,
Diana -
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Permalink Reply by Susan Clingman on
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I graduated from the Denver School of Massage Therapy (part of Utah College of Masage) in March 1997. I opened my practice within a wellness suite in September of 2007. I practice Swedish, Deep Tissue (don't we all?), Reflexology, Cranial Sacral Therapy and Chair Massage. I also volunteer once a week at the Aurora, Colorado Ronald McDonald House offering chair massages to the families staying there. The medical issues those families are going through makes me realize that mine are not that bad.
I was working as a legal secretary to a big law firm in Denver when I had medical problems and lost my job. I decided massage and bodywork would be something I could practice with limited sight.
I would like to work more with children and get advanced training in CST. -
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Permalink Reply by Sydney Hastings on
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Greetings all,
I graduated from the Colorado School of Healing Arts in 1993 with a 500 hour certificate. In 1995 I added 150 hours of education in deep tissue and NMT work. Since the early 90’s I have done many hours of continuing education in areas such as Ashiatsu (AOBT) Hot Stone, Pregnancy Massage, Spa Therapy, Hydrotherapy, Aromatherapy and Chair Massage, and have taken many more hours of CEU's like "ethics" and "Pathology in the spa"
In 1999 I became a licensed skin Hygienist which allowed me to work along side a plastic surgeon as a medical esthetician. I hold licenses in California, Tennessee, and Colorado as a Massage Therapist and Esthetician. I obtained my BS from the University of Denver in 1996 in Physiological Psychology and my MBA in 2002 from Union University. I am the proud mother of my two children, Noah and Savannah.
In 1990, I was the passenger in a roll over accident which shattered my entire lumbar spine and my right clavicle, and required a two month stay in the hospital to recover. After over a month in the hospital and several weeks in ICU, I had surgery to fuse my lumbar vertabrae and place metal rods along both sides of my spine, and a bone graft was taken from my hip.Four years later (on the day that Storm King Mountain started) I had to have the rods taken back out because they had become too painful. I spent five years in physical therapy, occupational therapy to make me recover "as best I could under the circumstances."
In spite of the PT and rehabilitation work, there were days where the back pain (and deep muscular hip pain from the bone graft) were unbearable. That is when my mother (also an MT who does a lot of Trager) introduced me to the world of massage therapy. I was fortunate to have a talented and knowledgeable massage therapist help me get through those first few years of pain and recovery. In 1994, I had the rods removed, but the intermittent back pain lingered. My surgeon commented how he was pleased at how the regular massage therapy had made the surrounding muscles and scar tissues more supple than most people he had seen. He even wrote a prescription for me to continue with the massage therapy as a part of my recovery and maintenence of my back, which only served to ratify my decision to be a massage therapist. The endorsement from an orthopedic surgeon was proof that massage therapy does affect our bodies and our muscles in a positive way.
It was in 1993 that I realized that I wanted to be able to help people as my massage therapist had helped me. The car accident which nearly killed me was in fact, a blessing. It was because I was in that accident that I wanted to be a massage therapist-- with a passion for making people feel better by relieving pain and tension. My understanding back pain on a deep, personal level became a part of my passion for massage. I know how pain can be debilitating. My massage technique is specific, personal, and based on an understanding that comes truly from experience. Because everybody and every body is different, I tailor and customize each massage to each person and their specific needs and goals each visit. Massage therapy is an essential part of healing, wellness, and taking care of ourselves. Hence, it is "Essential Therapy" and the name of my practice.
Namaste,
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