Archive for February, 2009
Massage As A Preventative Medicine
25 February 2009Health Care and Preventative measures go hand in hand. Even Kaiser’s advertising budgets are ringing this tune. They are making baby steps, but have not come out behind the heavy curtain of Referrals. My hope is that one day, Massage Therapists will have the positive reputation across this nation to usher in a complementary relationship and to be known as a integral part of preventative medicine. Having the FSMTB and all the good they and all Massage Associations are doing to make this a reality, brings hope that it will happen in my time.
Our Responsibilities
18 February 2009We can work hard without overburdening ourselves when we can identify our ideal pace and apply it to our scheduled clients and daily life workload. While we may feel we must compete with others, our fruits will suffer when confined in this way. Fighting to stay ahead, instead of choosing to do what is reasonably necessary will only exhaust and tax our time and energy. We are all individuals and each are endowed with our own talents and goals. No two people are a like and thank goodness for that. We are better off finding what we are compelled to do, then competing in a nonexistent cookie cutter productivity outline.
If our work shows who we are and what we love then it is a resource many will flock to. On the other hand if you are spending your time doing what you see others succeed at with their passions, then you will fly too close to the sun to fast on the wrong air current allowing yourself to get burned and melting your wings. Putting heart into your work and enjoying the quality and not the quantity is the key to being more productive. We need not feel ashamed to perform our creative, compelling work, we just need to embrace it and call it our own.
Aromatherapy & Massage
11 February 2009Aromatherapy is one of the first or most added modality that Massage Therapist place in their tool belt after graduation. I was talking with my good friend who was my instructor at school. She taught the Spa class (I did not attend) and Kinesiology when I was their but now is in charge of Spa and Cancer Clinic. I asked her what I would need to get certified in aromatherapy and I found out many interesting things.
Aromatherapy does not have a certification, it is a Registration. When you have a certificate of Aromatherapy it is saying you have completed a class of this amount of hours. The certificate is basically to prove to Massage Boards or Insurance that you have completed CE hours. She has been studying aromatherapy ever sense she was 16, has over 200 hours of instruction and has given instruction for over eight years. It was mentioned that the exam to become a Registered Aromatherapist is very extensive and rigorous.
So basically, this information given tells me that when therapists say they are certified in Aromatherapy it could mean they have 16 hours to under 200 hours of instruction. I had no idea that it was that many more hours to be proficient in essential oils.
The things we find out. I am signed up for her 16 hour class in April, I look forward to learning the basics and see if I will pursue further to the Registration.