Massage Workshops
Meet Your Plantar Fasciitis Expert, Sunnie Gonzales!
“I am Sunnie Gonzales! I have been a Licensed Massage Therapist since 2009. While working in chiropractors’ offices, I have had many opportunities to work with triathletes and marathon runners and treat their symptoms of Plantar Fasciitis. This isn’t only limited to just athletes, anyone can experience this common infliction involving inflammation of the plantar…
Read MoreMuscle-Specific Deep Tissue Techniques for the Arms and Hands: Relaxation and Vitality with Brian Utting
Our arms and hands are tough, dexterous, and exquisitely sensitive. Hands have multiple sensory inputs that can detect the subtlest sensation, and a proprioceptive complexity that allows us to play piano, violin, or drums, stream our thoughts and feelings into a keyboard, canvas, or piece of paper, and add grace and finesse to our massages.…
Read MoreWhat You Need to Know About Orthopedic Massage Certification
How Orthopedic Massage Can Support Your Massage Practice Even licensed massage therapists need additional advanced trainings like a Orthopedic Massage certification to deepen their massage practices. Exploration in modalities like orthopedic massage therapy allows student-therapists to practice assessment and evaluation, critical tools in understanding a client’s problem – and treating it. What to know more?…
Read MoreMuscle-specific Deep Tissue Massage: The Sacro-Iliac Joint
What a fascinating world that of the sacro-iliac is! By David Lauterstein The SI Joint is the transitional joint from the axial to the appendicular system. On a deeper level, the axial system is, in a sense, who we are and the appendicular can be viewed as how we interact with the world around us.…
Read MoreHow to Improve the Effectiveness of Your Back Massage
Muscle Specific Deep Tissue Techniques Can be Integrated into Any Session By Brian Utting The phrase ‘deep tissue work’ is used in so many contexts that it’s hard to know what it means anymore. To some practitioners, ‘deep tissue’ simply means deep pressure. To others, it has more fascial, myofascial, or structural connotations. Muscle-Specific Deep…
Read MoreHow CranioSacral Therapy Activates the Listening Cure
WHAT CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY AND MIKE TYSON ILLUMINATED FOR ME By David Lauterstein Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. – Mike Tyson This somewhat shocking quote from Mr. Tyson is nonetheless important to all of us, as individuals and as therapists. Each person has a time they recall, sometimes just a…
Read MoreFour Things to Develop In Your Massage Therapy Practice
MASSAGE THERAPY IS A PRACTICE – NOT JUST A PROFESSION By David Lauterstein To do massage therapy genuinely, requires the cultivation of virtue. And to accomplish that requires some discipline and practice. Like yoga, fine arts, and meditation, massage works as a practice. These deeper practices have many things in common. Perhaps most important is…
Read MoreNEW! Advanced Program Information Kit
Are You Considering Advancing Your Career in Massage Therapy? Lauterstein-Conway Massage School is the only school in the Austin area that offers a 250-hour advanced massage training for licensed massage therapists: our Advanced Program for Clinical Massage and Bodywork. But what does that mean? While we already have a comprehensive outline of our advanced training,…
Read MoreMassage and Yoga and “Medical Gymnastics”
By David Lauterstein Why is it that massage and yoga have become part of the lives of millions of people? This is certainly one of the best pieces of good news in our troubled time! Slow touch, slow movement, and care of the therapist for the client, care of the yoga student for themselves, are…
Read MoreWhy You Should Offer Oncology Massage Therapy
Oncology Massage Is More Than Just a Mix of Massage Techniques… By Tracy Walton When I began seeing clients with cancer and post-treatment, there were few guidelines for the work we were doing. There was only a small amount of direction in the massage literature. It was the early 1990’s, and we were years away…
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