Massaging the Windows of Life: Where Your Muscles Meet Your Bones
When we do our strokes in Deep Massage, when we pause, particularly at the beginning or the end of a stroke, it creates a kind of “window”. These pauses naturally occur at the beginning and near the...
View ArticleWhy Choose the Life of a Massage Therapist?
I remember the exact moment in 1977 on a train in Chicago. I was working through the career-hunters book, What Color is Your Parachute?, and heard the words in my mind, “I guess I’m going to become a...
View ArticleEngaging the Skyhook
An Anatomy Review with David Find out more information on “Engaging the Skyhook” at our Advanced Clinical Training Open House, click here to register.
View ArticleMassage School Family: Happy Birthday, Jake Lauterstein!
Happy Birthday, Jake Lauterstein. (Jake, co-founder David Lauterstein’s son, doesn’t look like this anymore – he’s going off to college this year). This picture was taken at the Burnet Road location’s...
View ArticleTLC’s September 2008 Massage School Graduates
TLC’s September 2008 class graduated on November 14, 2009. For more pictures from the graduation, go to TLC’s facebook fan page.
View ArticleTLC’s November 2008 Class Graduation
TLC’s November 2008 class graduated on December 5, 2009. For more pictures from the graduation, go to TLC’s facebook fan page.
View ArticleTLCschool Massage School Instructors 2010
Thank you to TLCschool’s amazing massage therapy instructors who attended our March 15, 2010 Faculty Meeting. 2010 is going to be a great year!
View ArticleMassage School Admissions Director: Heidi Grant
Not only do Lauterstein-Conway Massage School faculty and staff have a sense of humor, they are also here to ensure students receive the best massage school experience possible. Heidi Grant, now the...
View ArticleParty, Party, Massage School Party!
Check out our video from our 23rd Anniversary Party!
View ArticleA note from David
I have to tell you I have never been more excited about our school than just now! We have learned so much and interacted with so many bright people this past year! We have begun a new schedule. We have...
View ArticleGrad Chronicles – Rhianna Sanford
by Rhianna Sanford Over the past 10 years I keep coming back to the reality that a good education is paramount in finding fulfillment and maintaining a sustainable practice. When I became a Massage...
View ArticleWhat’s great about hot stone massage?
by Rima Star Hot stone massage joins the benefits of heat with massage, using natural riverbed lava rocks, heated in water in the therapy room. Hot stones are a tradition that has been used by Native...
View Article8 Places a Massage Therapist Can Work
Some professions have you in a cubicle your whole life. Others have just one track you can take. But Massage Therapy is different! It’s a personally fulfilling career. You get to help others and...
View ArticleA Brief History of Anatomy Trains
Tom Myers, the founder of Anatomy Trains, says: “I developed the Anatomy Trains during the 1990’s as a game for students to play when I was teaching Fascial Anatomy at the Rolf Institute . All the...
View ArticleDON’T LIKE HOLISTIC HEALTH?
I was at a panel discussion last week about public relations with media representatives who cover healthcare. One covered healthcare topics on radio, another on T.V. and another in the newpaper. One...
View ArticleHooked on Acupressure
by Dr. Gayl Hubatch OMD, LMT instructor I use acupressure for everything – from my own muscle stiffness after a workout, headache or trouble sleeping to giving hour-long treatments in my professional...
View ArticleGrad Chronicle – Natalie Durkin
Natalie Durkin, LMT I attended Semesters 1 & 2 at TLC during 1999-2000. My immediate passion became working with clients for pain management, sports performance, and rehabilitative/restorative...
View ArticleOK here’re two things that woke me up at 5:00 this a.m. with anger, sadness,...
1. URGENT CONCERN RE THE MODEL PRACTICE ACT (and other recent legal developments) The originally circulated version of the Model Practice Act (MPA) contained the requirement that all massage schools be...
View ArticleMY FIRST MASSAGE TABLE
By David Lauterstein, LMT, MTI, Certified Zero Balancing Teacher, Co-founder of Lauterstein-Conway Massage School In my early years I was mostly studying and playing music. But as I moved into my late...
View ArticleShouldn’t All Ribs Float?
Each rib has toward its “head”” a triangle of synovial joints – with attachments to the bodies of the vertebrae above, below and to the transverse process of the one below. The triangle is one of the...
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