by Bethany | Mar 14, 2012 | All Articles
By Jennifer Shaw, Austin Massage Therapist and Guest Blogger If you’re new to massage, chair massage is the perfect gateway to your new career. There are many reasons chair massage is a great “entry point” for those new to massage therapy....
by Bethany | Mar 14, 2012 | All Articles
by Lauren Palmour, Graduate from the June, 2009 program Working in Europe was a dream of mine that I’ve had for years. So when I found this job through one of my Lauterstein-Conway Classmates Dawn Page, I was ecstatic. It’s a job at a Military Resort at...
by Bethany | Mar 14, 2012 | All Articles, Massage Careers
By Jennifer Shaw, Massage Heights Lakeline LMT and Guest Blogger It’s been three weeks, and I am suddenly struck by how happy I am to go to work. Yesterday, I even gladly picked up a Saturday shift, and took two days off in the middle of the week. This morning, I’m...
by Bethany | Mar 14, 2012 | All Articles
By Jennifer Shaw, Austin Massage Therapist and Guest Blogger Cranio-sacral therapy (CST) was initiated by osteopath, Dr. William Sutherland, in the early 1900’s and further developed by Dr. John Upledger and others beginning in the 1970s. Essentially, the...
by Bethany | Mar 14, 2012 | All Articles
By Joy Sablatura, LMT What are the benefits of hot stone massage? It’s relaxing and increases circulation to the specific area being treated. This increased circulation, called “hyperemia” brings in fresh blood with its oxygen and nutrients to assist in...
by Bethany | Mar 14, 2012 | All Articles
By Jennifer Shaw, Guest Blogger and Austin Massage Therapist One of the questions I get most about massage school is about how I got through it – like it was a terrible life crisis. My first response is to laugh and say off-the-cuff, “It wasn’t hard.” And it wasn’t....
