| The Bunk Surrounding Massage Continuing Education |
| Written by Judah Lyons | |
| Thursday, 30 September 2010 | |
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The Fairy Tale of Massage Continuing Education.Let's get authentic about the tall story going around Massage Continuing Education. Why do the whopping majority of massage therapists take continuing education courses? To make more money? To further their learnedness? To satisfy the State's regulations where they practice? Or to refine their skills, or just the facade of their business cards? Its calamitous but, in this day and age, the majority of massage practitioners are altogether incompetent.
The Yarn of Massage Continuing Education.Let's get very about the tall story beleaguering Massage Continuing Education. Why do the whopping majority of massage therapists receive continuing education courses? To make more money? To further their education? To satisfy the State's regulations where they practice? Or to develop their skills, or just the appearance of their business cards? Its deplorable but, in this , the majority of massage practitioners are wholly amateurish. Sorry if I have offended you, nothing personal here. in fact, no end of the graduates of massage schools never develop a supportive practice. Statistically, only about 10 per cent of massage graduates are still persevering and financing themselves and their families 5 years after graduation from massage school. Now that's sorry. Many massage therapists are roped into the industry because of the alleged amount of money that they will redeem when they "graduate" from their perspective schools. Just finish school and the money will begin surging in. I wish it were that effortless. Hey, if you are putting together 10 bucks and hour, 60 bucks and up sounds real exciting once you graduate from massage school. Many graduates of massage schools are laboring these days as a result of difficult economic times, and part of the equation is the song and dance dry gulching massage continuing education. For 22 years I have sharpened my skills in massage therapy. It has been my exclusive source of gravy. I am a graduate of the Rolf Institute in Boulder, Colorado and the Karuna Institute in Devon England. I have had a rewarding practice in both Structural Integration and Craniosacral Therapy. I have gone out and studied 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 bulk of my studies has been the work of Dr. Ida Rolf (Rolfing) and Dr. William Garner Sutherland (cranial sacral therapy). I have also been privileged 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 created two in depth, home study courses in Structural Integration and Craniosacral Therapy as a provider of massage continuing education for the NCBTMB. If you would like more understanding 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 hypothesis 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 just 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 clocked in due to the flourishing market. And to crown 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 actuality I have nothing to gain from lying. 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 bankrupts 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 persevere? Because no one told them the inside story about massage continuing education. There is a lot of trash out there, and with a little straight forwardness many failed therapists round the bend and realize their original dream. The goal that brought them to massage schools in the first place. Its called concentrated training! Let me make a declaration to rekindle your enthusiasm in the direction of a abundant massage practice. We are thriving in an incredible time where genuine teachers have created amazing tools for truly deepening your understanding in a multitude of rolfing techniques. The DVD, and software has created an incredible tool of technology to be employed in the comfort of your home until you totally master the techniques and can accomplish them with a high degree of genius which translates to long green honey! Find a technology that interests you, buy the dvd home study course and check out a few of them out thoroughly. Or go receive as many session from the different styles in your town.. And then, when you feel attracted to a few of the disciplines and their practitioners, buy the best DVD home study courses out there from those chosen styles.Then practice them thoroughly until they are wired. Make sure these techniques have been proven to have been effective in the massage field, and will take you where you have always dreamed of going. In the present massage field, especially where disposable income is shrinking for many of our potential clients, its important to unearth techniques that not only manage your clients pain, but increase their performance both physically and spiritually. folks will still shell out 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 powerful dvd home study course massage continuing education course is a dribble compared to going out to enroll a class. In this economy it makes perfect sense. Do the math...its vast! And don't be led to believe into thinking that all you need is 48 hours of massage continuing education hours in 4 years to be flourish at a chosen discipline. It won't work. Trust me, this isn't a car salesman talking to you..this is a practitioner who has been in the trenches for 22 years, traveling from your home to study is pricey. When you piece together the cost of the course, which is usually at least 500 dollars and up, plus transportation, hotels and food, it makes perfect sense to scrutinize the discipline by using the cool technology that exists first, and then journey to a hands on class and really grok 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 catapult 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. |
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