Massage Business

Protect Your Clients and Yourself during Bodywork Sessions

A major league baseball star’s ribs were injured recently during an at-home massage, causing him to miss at least six weeks of his career on a division-leading baseball team. It helps to have excellent techniques that allow you to do good bodywork without hurting your clients. And without hurting yourself, too! That’s what Direct-Indirect Technique (DIT) is all about. You can work as deep or as gentle as you need to and get good results with your clients every time.

Have You Crossed Over into Counseling Clients?

Have You Crossed Over into Counseling Clients? Sometimes, a client will jokingly say things like, “I should pay you twice. You’re my therapist in more than one way.” I always remind them of my scope of practice and that I […]

16 Ways to Practice Self-Care

16 Ways to Practice Self-Care As I always tell my students (and my clients), “If you want to help others, you’ve got to take good care of yourself FIRST!” As Mel Robbins says so eloquently, “You can’t pour from an […]

What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick?

What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick? How important is it that you take the time to listen to and have compassion for the client you’re about to work on and after you’ve worked on them? This is a […]

Great Group of Therapists at the Muscle Balancing Training!

Great Group of Therapists at the Muscle Balancing Training! Great group of therapists at the Muscle Balancing training this weekend in Fayetteville. Each class always reminds me how different we are in so many ways, yet we share this mission […]

Muscle Balancing and Joint Stabilization

Muscle Balancing and Joint Stabilization Muscles and tendons can be weak for many reasons, even in athletes and bodybuilders. If there is an imbalance around a joint, where the muscles on one side (like the biceps) are much stronger than […]