ENERGY DEFENDED AGAINST ITS DEVOTEES AND ITS DETRACTORS
I have no problem using the word “energy” when it refers to experience. Take bones, for example. When we look at the femur, it is describable with its varied shapes: trochanters, neck and head, shaft, condyles and epicondyles. This is structural anatomy and lives...
Increase the Quality of Massage Education! (and the quantity will follow)
I realize there are some people pushing for requiring 1,000 hour programs. I respectfully disagree. We can in my experience deliver a superb entry-level education in 500 hours. If a school can’t do it in 500 hours – I assure you – most won’t in 1,000! At the same...
Without a Clear End You Can’t Have a Clear Beginning
The Ending of the Calendar Year Is an Important Time of Transition by David Lauterstein The transition in seasons and the transition through the holidays and into the new year is a critical time. It is in many ways the most important time to end habits that no longer...
The Only Mind You Can Read is Your Own!
I wake up early in the morning and one of reasons I do is I like the general calmness and silence of that time. A few years ago I started listening more deeply to the “voice” in my head. For many years before that, I felt that it was often talking too loudly and too...
I am Proud of the Women (and Men) Who Constitute the Bulk of Practitioners of Massage Therapy!
In 1910 the Carnegie Foundation funded the “Flexnor Report” to enforce in the U.S. longer training and the curriculum common in European medical schools. It called upon American medical schools to enact higher admission and graduation standards, and to adhere strictly...
Diary of a Massage Therapist: Surviving Massage School Again (and Life)
By Jennifer (Shaw) Bonessi, LMT, cPT, RYT at Bodywork In Austin Dear Diary: I know it’s been a while since I’ve written. Life just got crazy. (Doesn’t it always?) I’ve finally completed Lauterstein-Conway’s Advanced Program while managing to keep my massage business...
My Massage School Experience
by Nayeli Gallegos I was first introduced to TLC School through my job, but I quickly came to realize how healing the environment is and what joy it brings to everyone who steps through the doors. As soon as you arrive, whether it is for work or class, you’re...
SENSORI-MOTOR AMNESIA!
Working on clients, we sometimes encounter “sensori-motor amnesia”, a lack of body awareness that is sometimes funny, sometimes sad. I was once massaging a man’s back and he asked me what I was working on. At the time I was trying to mobilize the soft tissues that had...
Grad Chronicle – My Journey Through TLC
by Aaron McLeod Five years ago, I attended another massage school in Austin. I should say as background that I am visually impaired. My challenges at this school included not having computer resources, support from the school, or a tutor. All I had was a recorder and...
Our hands speak volumes
How many times does bodywork give rise to spiritual or religious experiences? About this level of life, the philosopher Wittgenstein said, “Whereof one can not speak, thereupon we must be silent.” Well, in the silence of bodywork, something deeper sometimes “speaks”....