by Ristine Williams | Mar 14, 2012 | David Lauterstein
Today we began a new class. Something my Co-Director, John Conway, said at the orientation introduced an idea that I had never quite as precisely verbalized. He was beginning to guide the new students in an exchange of shoulder massages. He was talking about what to...
by Ristine Williams | Mar 14, 2012 | David Lauterstein
Last weekend I took an intense course in back pain taught to me by my lower back muscles and ligaments. I did kung fu on Saturday morning and, intoxicated by a renewed sense of power, later did a vigorous swim in Barton Springs. Came out of the water, then in the...
by Ristine Williams | Mar 14, 2012 | David Lauterstein
I was teaching a massage business class about office design, time management, policies, procedures, etc. We had just touched upon the elegant Buddhist concept that 60 percent of healing is environment. Some spaces you just walk into and immediately feel better; some...
by Ristine Williams | Mar 14, 2012 | David Lauterstein, Deep Massage, Types of Massage
Ten years ago Lippincott Publishers was interested in me doing a book on the method of Deep Massage I teach. However the further we got the more they wanted me to write case studies, tone down the poetic language, and make it more textbook-y. That’s not my...
by Ristine Williams | Mar 14, 2012 | David Lauterstein
In a staff meeting at our Lauterstein-Conway Massage School, I recently noted a colleague promoting a course we had never offered. I said, “She’s smart.” Our Marketing Director, Jennifer Shaw, never being one to mince words, said,...
by Ristine Williams | Mar 14, 2012 | David Lauterstein
By David Lauterstein, 4/22/10 People make fun of massage And also of martial arts. Both do attract people in love with fantasy land. I have the fantasy I am a healer. I have the fantasy I am a warrior. Yet the desire to be a healer and warrior are two of the highest...
