The Bunk Surrounding Massage Continuing Education
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The Story of Massage Continuing Education. Let's get authentic about the fiction beleaguering Massage Continuing Education. Why do the towering majority of massage therapists receive continuing education courses? To make more money? To further their ? To satisfy the State's regulations where they practice? Or to improve their skills, or just the appearance of their business cards? Its ruinous but, in this , the majority of massage practitioners are totally unskilled.
Sorry if I have or turned you off you, nothing personal here. As a matter of fact, copious amounts of the graduates of massage schools never grow a sustainable practice. Statistically, only about 10 per cent of massage graduates are still persevering and sustaining themselves and their families 5 years after graduation from massage school. Now that's cheerless. Many massage therapists are sucked in into the industry because of the alleged amount of money that they will snag when they "graduate" from their perspective schools. Just finish school and the money will begin surging in. I wish it were that easy. Hey, if you are producing 10 bucks and hour, 60 bucks and up appears to be real exciting once you graduate from massage school. Many graduates of massage schools are flailing about these days as a result of formidable economic times, and part of the reason is the bill of goods confining massage continuing education.
For 22 years I have specialized in massage therapy. It has been my exclusive source of security. I am a graduate of the Rolf Institute in Boulder, Colorado and the Karuna Institute in Devon England. I have had a thriving practice in both Structural Integration and Craniosacral Therapy. I have traveled and investigated 17 other techniques to "add to the soup" including Neuromuscular Therapy, the Bowen Technique, Hypnotherapy, Reiki, Core Zero Balancing, and The Reconnection to name a just a few. But, the better part of my studies has been the gift of Dr. Ida Rolf (Rolfing) and Dr. William Garner Sutherland (cranial sacral therapy). I have also been honored to have taught at The Utah College of Massage Therapy as their Deep Tissue Instructor, the Virginia School of Technology as their advance technique instructor and The Cayce Reilly School of Massotherapy as an Anatomy and Palpation teacher. I have taught classes in massage continuing education in Structural Integration and Cranial Sacral Therapy since 1996. I have also built two comprehensive, home study courses in Structural Integration and Craniosacral Therapy as a provider of massage continuing education for the NCBTMB. If you would like more knowledge into what I bring to the table, please visit www.LyonsInstitute.com.
Let me demonstrate a point. I certainly wouldn't hire a farrier to put shoes on my horses or find a contractor to build my home that had only 32 hours of training! And yet, the theory of massage continuing education promotes that level of folly. We ask our clients to pay us 60 dollars and more per hour with very little training. I have known ran in to massage therapists who have recently graduated from their massage school programs only 9 months earlier, who are running the massage program of the same school they attended. These schools had just shown up due to the alluring market. And to top it off that, those department heads had never developed an outside practice before becoming the head instructor of a particular discipline or the entire massage department! This is the scoop I have nothing to gain from not telling the truth. I have seen over and over again recent graduates who print 7 or 8 different therapies on their business cards, even spelling them incorrectly. Which is in my opinion fallacious advertisement and impoverishes our industry. Look, you can't get to the top by sitting on the bottom. It has been said that, "Money grows on the tree of persistence". So, why do so few prevail? Because no one told them the inside story about massage continuing education. There is a lot of trash out there, and with a little integrity many unproductive therapists make a touch down and realize their original vision. The goal that brought them to massage schools in the first place. Its called concentrated training!
Let me make a proposition to reignite your zeal towards a abundant massage practice. We are living in an wonderful time where authentic teachers have produced stunning tools for truly boosting your understanding in a multitude of myofascial techniques. The DVD, and mind blowing has created an incredible tool of technology to be used in the comfort of your home until you comprehensively get a grip on the techniques and can implement them with a high degree of aptitude which translates to green honey! Find a style that fascinates you, buy the dvd home study course and check out a few of them out in depth. Or go receive as many session from the different genres in your town.. And then, when you resonate a few of the disciplines and their practitioners, buy the best DVD home study courses out there from those chosen disciplines.Then practice them completely until they are wired. Make sure these techniques have been substantiated to have been effective in the massage field, and will catapult you where you have always dreamed of going. In the present massage field, especially where disposable income is not as available for many of our potential prospects, its important to unearth techniques that not only manage your clients pain, but increase their performance both physically and spiritually. folks will still ante up their acorns if they know your technique works and you can get them out of pain. Knowledge without wisdom is no different than a load of books on the back of a donkey! Wisdom comes from practice, practice, practice!
The ticket of a instructional dvd home study course massage continuing education course is a drop in the bucket compared to traveling across country to enroll a class. In this economy it makes perfect sense. Do the math...its huge! And don't be led astray into thinking that all you need is 48 hours of massage continuing education hours in 4 years to be prosperous at a chosen discipline. It won't work. Trust me, this isn't a car salesman talking to you..this is a teacher who has been in the trenches for 22 years, traveling from your home to study is steep. When you stack up the cost of the course, which is usually at least 500 dollars and up, plus transportation, hotels and food, it makes perfect sense to traverse the discipline by using the phenomenal technology that exists first, and then make an excursion to a hands on class and really learn at a deep level what the instructor has to offer. If you like what you have learned from this article, I invite you to check out the resource box at the bottom of this article and investigate what is offered to hurl you to a higher standard of massage practice and on to the journey you have always conceived to be possible. But never forget...practice makes perfect.
Judah Lyons has been teaching massage continuing education since 1996- checkout his
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The Bunk Surrounding Massage Continuing Education
By: judah lyons
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