Tag: massage education
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3-D Massage – Disease, Disposition & Destiny
In my last blog piece, I outlined three realms of massage/bodywork – wellness, orthopedic, and holistic. We can also look at three purposes for massage and bodywork. These relate to the “3 D’s” – Disease, Disposition and Destiny. DISEASE People come to us with dis-ease. It may be a physical disease – an injury or…
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Massage and Meditation: Touch Changes Everything
Next weekend I’ll be teaching “Massage and Meditation” a CE workshop which has become a holiday and new year’s tradition at our school. Whether we’ve been doing massage for just one year or twenty, we can always find ways to renew our appreciation for how profound, and sometimes how neglected, touches are in our lives.…
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7 Reasons: Deep Massage vs. Deep Tissue
What Is the Difference Between Deep Massage and Deep Tissue? By David Lauterstein Massage therapists performing Deep Massage generally work without lubricant (unless there is a painful feeling of stretching the skin). Using lubricant causes the therapist to slip over the tension and, to compensate, they have to use tremendous pressure not to slip. This often causes…
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David Lauterstein: Massage Therapy Hall of Fame 2011
By David Lauterstein, as published the World Massage Festival, which David has been nominated as a 2011 Hall of Fame inductee. I am David Lauterstein, Co-founder of The Lauterstein-Conway Massage School in Austin. I have been a massage therapy teacher since 1982 and therapist since 1977. Here’s my story! I was raised in Chicago by…
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Anatomy Review: Lymphatic System
When I first heard of Manual Lymph Drainage, the product Liquid Plumber came to mind! And being a manual plumber was not appealing to me – I’m a holistic healer, not a mere lymph drainer! But the healer in me will find a way. And where does the word “lymph” come from? From the Latin “lympha” which…
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How to get 57 Massages in 6 Months
The other day we began a new class. One of the teachers welcomed the students saying, “This course is going to be the best time in your life. Because you will get, in the next months, the most massage you will ever get in your whole life.” And I thought, “Yeah, he’s absolutely right!” Massage…
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Anatomy Review: Back of the Future, Future of the Back
By David Lauterstein, LMT, Cert. ZB Most people don’t know much about their bodies. As a result, we live with suffering individually and as a society suffer from the symptoms of “psycho-physical illiteracy”. Most of the physical suffering happens in the back. Lower, middle, and upper back problems account for most worker absentee-ism in the U.S. –…
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Three Ways to Use Your Massage Income for Good
By Jennifer Shaw, Austin Massage Therapist and Guest Blogger The American Massage Therapy Association says 83 percent of massage therapists’ careers started as a second job – a means to supplement the income of a job they already had. Not for me. I wore rose-colored glasses. When I decided to go to massage school, massage…
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Three Myths Busted | Why You Need a Pregnancy Massage Course
By Jennifer Shaw, Austin Massage Therapist and Guest Blogger Even the seasoned massage therapist probably remembers the first time they worked on a pregnant massage client. When we reached the pregnancy portion of our massage training, I remember being terrified by prenatal massage. Even in my practice now – four years after my certification, when…
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How I succeeded as a massage therapist
By Celeste Siebenaler, LMT I am a native Texan and Austinite who completed my 500 hour Massage Therapy program at Lauterstein-Conway Massage School in 2009. Before I graduated from school, I planned to have my own practice. Here are the things I did to prepare for that to happen. I got my license in the…