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plan to move to Allen TX. want to rent a room for massage. hope to get information.

Evolution - Recent seismic activity bodes well for our profession.

The National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork has announced several bold new initiatives for moving the organization ahead. It’s no secret that the NCBTMB has had their ups and downs. The immediate past CEO, Paul Lindamood, had a lot to do with bringing them back from the brink of financial disaster that was caused partially by the MBLEx cutting drastically into their exam income, and partially by a previous…

As a male massage therapist it concerns me that 97% of my cold calls insist on having a female massage therapist.  I'm getting concerned.  What do other massage therapists think about this?

Last week, the Federation of State Massage Therapy Boards presented their long-awaited proposal for a new national continuing education approval program. They are calling it Maintenance of Core Competencies – or MOCC for short. As I indicated in my previous post, this proposal not only failed to deliver on the original promises made by FSMTB, it has turned the entire…

Growing and Changing - Professional development and competence.

Broad Ripple Massage Practice will host another event this year on the Monon to educate Monon goers in Broad Ripple of the benifits of Massage in this age of stress Thanks for all your support last year and this year will be even bigger :) Thanks Friends   http://www.broadripplemassage.com

Last week, the Federation of State Massage Therapy Boards published a document outlining their proposal to jump into the continuing education market. They are calling the new program Maintenance of Core Competency – to be abbreviated as “MOCC”. I don’t know what planet this thing came from, but it sure ain’t from this solar system.

Coming fast on the heels of…

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…