A New Year’s Encouragement

“All Sickness is Home Sickness” is the title of book by acupuncturist, Dianne Connelly. It may be a watchword for this pivotal year we are entering. How many of us are fully at home in our bodies? It is often quite a challenge to take the best care of ourselves while...

MASSAGING YOUR BRAIN

Pain science is telling us that pain is an output of the brain, not an input from the body. Similarly we can note that relaxation and pleasure are outputs of the brain, though we may “feel” them in the effected organs, muscles, and other tissues....

Lymphatic Drainage

by Liz Hoffmaster I have been doing lymphatic drainage for a number of years on people with different needs: Orthopedic surgeries, postoperatively, on hips, knees and any joint that can be operated on. Cancer patients who have had chemo, radiation and tumor removal....

Grad Chronicle: Alexis Brown

My Experience working as a MT abroad by Alexis Brown I had the pleasure of attending The Lauterstein-Conway School of Massage February 2013-August 2013. Massage School was a lot of fun for me. I learned so much form the instructors, and enjoyed giving, and receiving...

The End of the Modern World?

I just re-read The End of the Modern World (1956) by Romano Guardini, a Catholic priest and professor of religion and philosophy. I don’t share his beliefs precisely (being more or less a Jew-dist), but he makes a compelling and frightening case for what we have...

Humble is Helpful

by Lauren Muser Cates “How do you get set up working in a hospital as a massage therapist?”. I could fund a hospital program if I had a dollar for every time a massage therapist asked me this question. The truth is that if you want to talk seriously about how massage...
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