All Blog Posts Tagged 'Therapy' (36)

I inadvertently insulted a massage school owner yesterday by making a FB post saying that I wasn’t impressed by a school that had only one teacher to teach the entire curriculum, and that I wouldn’t choose such a school, personally. To begin with, I wasn’t speaking of his school when I made the post, and I had no idea that he was teaching his entire program himself, as his website gives a different impression, listing four faculty members. A couple of his satisfied graduates weighed in with…

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Medical practitioners realised thousand of years ago that stagnation of toxins in the body were the root cause of ailments such as headaches, muscular pain, premature ageing, depression and high blood pressure. Our modern day ailments like stress, tension, anxiety and others can be caused by blockages and toxins that we are generally not aware of...

To treat and get to the source of these ailments; practitioners used revolutionary treatments like acupuncture and cupping therapy.…

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Do you suffer from back, knee or…

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What a wonderful way to honor those who have contributed so much to our profession!  Join Jenny Ray along with Judy Calvert and Cliff Korn for this important ceremony.

 

Shanna

 

 

I am consistently shocked to discover that there are still many massage therapists offering massage with hot stones that are not following proper (or ANY) sanitation procedure.

 

As a consumer of hot stone massage modalities, you should be greatly concerned with the sanitation procedures that your therapist utilizes for their stones and equipment. In 2009, this…

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Introduction to Ayurvedic Massage and Bodywork hands ontraining 

Class Includes 24 CE Hours…

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This marks the second year I have reported on the financial health of the non-profit organizations that represent the massage profession. I amnot an accountant or a financial expert. The information reported here comes directly from Form 990 as filed with the IRS; non-profits are obligated to make their tax reports public knowledge, and these can be easily accessed on Guidestar.



Last year I reported that the… Continue

Yesterday, I had shared on my FB a post from Ruth Werner, President of the Massage Therapy Foundation, entitled “Who Needs Research Literacy?“. I commented on that that all massage schools need to ramp it up and start including research literacy as part…

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If you’ve been reading my blogs for any length of time, you know that I often report on the politics of massage as well as my perceived shortcomings of some of our professional organizations. There is one organization that I have never criticized, and that’s because they’re above the fray: the Massage Therapy Foundation.

The Massage Therapy…

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Go to the link below furnished by Massage Nerd and see all his great video coverage!

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=massage+therapy+hall+of+fame+2010&aq=f

This is the third in my series of interviews with the leaders of our professional organizations.



The Alliance for Massage Therapy Education is the newest of our associations, and is an independent organization founded for the purpose of serving the entire education sector of the massage profession, from entry-level to post-graduate studies. Their new national headquarters is located in McLean VA, a suburb of Washington DC. You can visit their new website at… Continue

My writing of this comes from the State of North Carolina. I know that there are successful people and Massage Businesses out there that have made this work, even in the State that I currently reside in. I have read a lot of insightful posts and books, to cite Julie Onofrio and Vivian Madison-Mahoney specifically on this subject. Some states it is manditory to do this, Washington is one. Recently I have acquired my NPI number, needed to bill Insurance Companies, and I have talked a Chiropractor… Continue

This weekend while I was teaching ethics to a class of 23 people, I asked how many present have read the Practice Act. As usual, the answer was TWO. I wonder how people think they can comply with the law if they don't know what it is. I wonder if they know they can have input whenever the act is opened, as it occasionally is. I wonder if they know they can attend massage board meetings; that holds true everywhere, not just in my state; a public board is obligated to have open meetings and to… Continue

This past week the North Carolina Board of Massage & Bodywork Therapy, of which I am a member, held our annual elections. Last weekend, at our state chapter meeting of AMTA, we had those board elections, and the national AMTA has also just released their ballots and candidate bios.



To me it is a disturbing fact that the same people seem to cycle through every position at the state and national levels. Several of the national candidate bios said things like "I have been an… Continue

Hey all you deep tissue therapists! Ever heard of luxurious deep tissue massage?Ashiatsu Oriental Bar Therapy may be the solution for you.



~Thumbs sore?

~Back hurt?

~Massage therapist elbow?

~Love massaging, but it's killing you?



Barefoot massage can be deep, medium or even light pressure. If you do it right, it can be one of the deepest and yet most luxurious massages you've ever had. I just had the pleasure of receiving some Ashi from Kina Ueda in Denver… Continue

Too often in our current medical system, we attempt to resolve disease by treating symptoms. However, ancient medicine teaches us that before symptoms arise, there is a break in the energy field, subtle communication in the body becomes distorted, "dis-ease" gradually sets in, making the way for pathology, diagnosis, and clinical disease. Five thousand year old medicine, and the basis for AMMA Therapy(R), teaches that this break in the energy field begins in the emotional plane -- in the… Continue