February 2012 Blog Posts (19)

As a business coach, so many of the therapists I meet, tell me they are looking for new, easy ways to get new clients, and want to know what I suggest they do that doesn't cost an arm and a leg.

Then I ask them the dreaded question,

"WHY do you need new clients?"…

"Effective July 1, 2011, the U. S. Department of Education will require institutions offering vocational training programs to apply new formulas in converting clock hours to credit-hour equivalencies. Undergraduate programs which meet the Department’s definition of “clock hour programs” must use the new clock-to-credit hour conversion. (For the definition of “clock hour programs” see 34CRF §668.8(k) and for clock to credit hour conversion details, please read Federal Register, October 29,…

Iowa House File 2342 has been on my radar for several weeks (initially introduced as HF 2126). Yesterday, I received a further communication on it, which stated that “the bill as written will not be brought up for consideration unless Matt Windschitl (the sponsor of the bill) requests it. The understanding is he will hold the bill until next year so there will be time for positive feedback from the profession and new language can be, at that time, introduced with the support of the massage…

As of Jan 2012, I now have a new studio located in Berkeley, CA near the 4th Street shopping district. Here is a photo:

I am accepting new clients at my Berkeley studio on Fridays only, by appointment only. Available times…

I just completed posting another dozen or so new therapists listings to the Myofascial Release and Bodyworker Practitioner Directory. (sidebar: If you have not signed up for this free directory, what are you waiting for?) As I enter information for therapists and practices literally from around the world I am struck with the wide variety of training these therapists possess. I was trained in myofascial release in a sheltered world of thought. I had heard of other trainings but was told that…

Everyone is Right - Making sense of "The Client List."

 ® and though your training takes a lifetime I honestly think it is worth the travel and training involved to get certified to use and train in this modality!

        Once upon a time there was a boy, the grandson of the chieftaines of the iwi Kapotai. Born of Aotearoa he learnt traditions and spirituality of the Maori. As a grown-up man he got acquainted with a Hawaiian Kahuna, inspired by an Australian aborigine elder and finally guided by the Wairua to meet…

(Or, why does committing to this line of seminars feel like multilevel marketing?)

I think most of us have done this; start looking into a line of continuing education seminars and wonder why so many courses are needed? Then you start doing the math. “No way am I going to pay that much to learn that work, just to be classified as an expert or become certified”. Some seminar lines make it less painful ($100 a month for life) to become “certified”, and just what does certification give…

We have been so fortunate the last few years with the Burn Scar Massage Therapy CEU class and 2012 is shaping up to be the best year yet! We hae an  awesome cross country teaching excusion fast approaching.

March 18th-The Massage Institute of Memphis-Memphis, TN

March 24-25th-Wellspring School of Allied Health-Kansas City, MO

March 31st-Abaton…

Most of the time when the media, or Hollywood, casts a light on massage, it seems to be a paraphrase of Rodney Dangerfield’s classic line, “We don’t get no respect.”

The latest hue and cry is over the upcoming new lifetime series, The Client List, in which Jennifer Love Hewitt is a massage therapist/prostitute who is of course just doing it because she needs the money to feed her kids. Last year it was that picture of a race car driver getting a massage from a skimpily dressed massage…

i have been an amega global business associate for over three

years and i have always known that the products work. 

i got involved at the invitation from a friend, surya,

http://www.facebook.com/suryadeviworldmusic

who is a healer and we both were caring for an ailing friend, gaia. 

i did not really know surya but in the ensuing years since, 2009, we

have gotten more…

So I am wandering if there are any places in New Mexico to order Ma-Uri shirts and stuff. Since I moved to the mainland I have only been working on family and friends cause sadly NM doesn't honor certifications for massage from out of the country. Now however I am attending massage school in Albuquerque NM and am going to be finished in a few months. I would like to have some Ma- Uri shirts to wear after I open my new clinic. So does any one know of one in NM so I do not have to wait as…

If the future is to remain open and free we need people who can tolerate the unknown who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or triditional blue prints of the past.......margaret mead

Hi Kris,

i am addicted to hats and also to zero point energy tools...have you heard of them.

now that i got that off the plate, here goes...becoming a bodyworker came late to me...about age 32, i fell off the grand canyon and broke my back...head trauma as well. so in the ensuing years i realized that i needed to have language with myself. ultimately knowing that i had to know myself enough that i could manage my recovery from within.

that is really what i have come to…

maui face plant 2009

this month has been an awakening of sorts...two weeks ago, i was going to a

massage appointment with a 50 pound bag of seasalt...as you may know,

seasalt baths are a great way to detoxify the body and to mineralize the body.

i was putting the bag down onto the dolly, onto the loading platform when the…

The palpatory sense that good therapist develops never ceases to amaze. This sense of feeling or seeing inside is the basis of my therapy and my Foundations in Myofascial Release Seminars. I've written about touch frequently, but a revisit is in order.

Many years back a retired professional football player was referred to me for treatment due to knee pain. He…

Let's Make a Deal - Give me your best offer.

get at least two or three questions a week from massage therapists who intend to move to another state–or horrors–have already moved and found out that they can’t practice massage in their new destination. It’s a sad state of affairs. That’s particularly so when the person has been practicing 20 years or so, but they either a) don’t have the proper amount of education, b) haven’t taken the exam required in that state or c) both of the above. As a former state board member who served on the…

I just purchased a busy Massage Practice and I feel like a few of the girls who work for me lack motivation to see clients. They are happy with only seeing 2-3 clients each day they work and they are always taking time off at the last minute leaving me no coverage. I appreciate the work done when they are on but would also like a little more dependability. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.