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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…

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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.

Hanna Somatic Educators just don't teach somatics exercises.

Most HSE'ers use bodywork and then give their clients a couple of somatics exercises for reinforcement.

In the video below, try the move and get a sense if you or your clients can feel the connections.  Then give the hands-on method a whirl.…

One of the many things I love about my work is the opportunity to interact with and treat a very wide variety of conditions. If I dealt with nothing but low back pain all day/every day, I would be bored rather quickly. Women’s health issues have always been a strong part of my practice, including pelvic organ prolapse. I recently came to know Sherry Palm, who heads a wonderful non-profit organization called the Association…

Florida SB 1860, introduced on January 17 by Senator Negron, will remove the right of massage therapists and acupuncturists to bill PIP (Personal Injury Protection) insurance for those who have been injured in auto accidents. I don’t have any statistics regarding how many FL therapists currently file these types of claims, but based on my interactions on social networks, I would estimate that it’s quite a few. I suggest a mass protest is in order. You can find your legislators here. Contact…

Kneading Hands Massage of Bethlehem/Macungie, Pa is looking for a female therapist to work in both locations. Must be licensed and practice deep tissue/trigger point therapy and have experience in relaxation. Feel free to send resumes to massage@iglide.net.

Best wishes.

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These days it's not difficult to find sources for massage therapy (MT) research information. Pop in on FaceBook and many practices have their own page. Several of them post research articles as a way to promote MT and don't mind sharing (like mine).  Maybe we should define what a research article is. A research article has been…

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Tennessee School of Therapeutic Massage is located at 4716 Western Avenue in a safe, well-lighted shopping center right off of Interstate 640. The school has a 6000 square foot state-of-the-art facility designed specifically for education in Massage Therapy. In addition to large, clean, spacious classrooms, TSTM offers…

As usual, the opinions on my blog are my opinions and not to be construed as the opinions of anyone else.

I haven’t had much to say on the legislative front for a few months…when the legislators go home for the summer, not much is happening; then there tend to be shorter sessions in the fall before they take a break for the holidays and not much happens then, either. Well, the break is over, and how.

I received a press release from the NCBTMB yesterday announcing what amounts…

Hello Fellow Massage Therapist,

                       I am currently looking for Massage Therapist's to work at a Chiropractors office in Southeast Denver near the Whole Foods on Hampden Ave.

Dr Shapiro is adding massage therapy to his practice.  Experience is good also welling to do chair massage and bring in new clients.  Please call me at 303-949-2449.

Deb Lockwood LMT

I’ve had a few meltdowns over e-mail in the past couple of weeks. In spite of my attendance at one of Michael Reynolds‘ brilliant presentations on how to be an e-mail ninja and have a “zero inbox,” I confess I just haven’t gotten there. And I’m wading through a field of spam.

I have a good spam filter on all my email accounts, so basically most of those trashy emails advising you on how to enlarge your anatomy, how to collect the $40 million that the dead person in Nigeria has left…

I have posted this photo in a few other places, including my Facebook Wall and MassageMag.com Blog, but I think that the concept is worth repeating.

I asked the following questions:

1. What do you see?

2. What might be the cause?

3. What, if…