Grad Stories: Touch and the Real Meaning of Life

A Letter From a Massage School Alum, Lori Dupree To all teachers, therapists, present and future students, and clients of massage, we offer this beautiful letter as a tribute to you and to the precious knowledge that this profession is a carrier of. Touch is a miracle. Life itself is a miracle. And it is…

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I See Magic Happen Everyday

By Mark Dauenhauer As the Education Director for The Lauterstein-Conway Massage School I meet and interact with between 200-300 students per year. I’m with them for their very first class and periodically teach certain classes as they move through our program, so I get to see the maturation of the students as a group and…

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Massage & Art Appreciation Week

What is your interpretation of Massage and Art? That is what we asked our students, faculty and staff January 18-25, 2010, during our Art Appreciation Week. Thank you to all of you who participated. Next month we will be having Heritage Week. Art Appreciation Week was a part of our effort to build TLCschool culture.

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TLCschoolTube Launch: 12 Days of Massage School

We, of course, already released the 12 Days of Massage on our YouTube massage channel, and we hope you have subscribed! But if you haven’t made it to YouTube yet, here is the video for you – directly from the 20 Years in Pictures Blog. (And we still encourage you to rate our videos and…

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Massage School Humor: David’s Angels

Lauterstein-Conway Massage School’s co-founder David Lauterstein has an inspirational sense of humor… Yes, this is real. Recognize the curb and the shrubbery from the current campus’ parking lot? What other massage school can you think of that has a culture like this?

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Massage Therapy – The Antidote to the Economy?

For years, I was fascinated with Systems-Centered Therapy and worked hard in a group. One thing I learned was that many of our fears are not based on reality. Rather, we often make negative predictions about what may happen in the future – a meeting might not go well next week, this new client might…

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Massage Internship: Learning all the Roles of a Massage Therapist

Tim Sullivan is a yoga teacher and massage therapist in training. You can find him at www.timyasa.com and americainshort.com. I swore I wouldn’t bring Spiderman sheets to internship. This was our first time to really step into the role of massage therapist and I so wanted to be professional. I’m talking paying clients, full sessions,…

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The Diary of a Massage School Student: Week Five

Tired? You’re not alone. Dara Allen-Trainer, September 2010 “Saturday Section” student and TLCschool Customer Service Guru, is tired, too. But she’s not the one who falls asleep. See what she has to say about how the first five weeks of massage school have impacted her – and her husband! What was the hardest point of…

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