by Bethany | Mar 14, 2012 | David Lauterstein
I have received student sessions for years – it’s a requirement at our school (I know – tough life for us teachers!) I commonly have the experience that, in the best sessions, one forgets the therapist is there. The touch feels so trustworthy and...
by Bethany | Mar 14, 2012 | David Lauterstein
The more you learn about massage and bodywork, the more you learn about life as a whole. I have been a therapist now for 35 years and a teacher for 25. I have run my school, The Lauterstein-Conway Massage School in Austin, Texas, for 23 years. I’ve learned that the...
by Bethany | Mar 14, 2012 | David Lauterstein
by David Lauterstein I once got a greeting card, “On the Family Trip to Nirvana,” with parents sitting in the car’s front seat and two kids in the back, asking their parents, “Are we there yet?” With this next deeper level of the nervous system, we are not at Nirvana...
by Bethany | Mar 14, 2012 | David Lauterstein
It is not the therapeutic intention that is fruitful, but it is how we really meet that is therapeutically fruitful. (paraphrase of Martin Buber) The nerve cells which sense pressure and vibration were discovered in 1831 by the Italian anatomist, Giovanni Pacini, who...
by Bethany | Mar 14, 2012 | David Lauterstein
Meissner’s corpuscles were discovered by the anatomist Georg Meissner in the 19th century. They are located in the skin, just underneath the epidermis. These are the main receptors uniquely designed and located to detect specifically light touch*. So these are...
