Dara’s Video Blog: Going to Massage School
Episode 1 of Dara’s Video Blog by Dara Allen-Trainer TLCschool’s Reception/Customer-Service-Guru, Dara Allen-Trainer is going back to school - this time at TLC! Hear Dara’s story about why she decided...
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What is Polarity Balancing?
by Maruti Seidman Polarity Balancing is based on Polarity Therapy founded by Dr. Randolph Stone. It is a wonderful system of energy healing based on Ayurvedic Medicine. Polarity Balancing utilizes the...
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Lauterstein-Conway Massage School celebrates 25 years in Austin
Austin is called the Live Music Capital of the World. It also is the Relaxation Capitall of the world – largely due to the work, for the last 25 years, of Lauterstein-Conway Massage School in...
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How confident do you feel about Pregnancy Massage?
by Hannah Ford Massage school introduced you to the basics of pregnancy massage, but how confident do you feel about your ability to support a woman and her baby with bodywork through the birth year?...
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You Haven’t Heard of Ben Benjamin?
I am sometimes amazed that many massage therapists are not familiar with some of the greats in our field. Ben Benjamin is a case in point. Ben has had a practice in sports medicine/muscular therapy...
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A DEEP look into Lomi Lomi massage
by Jason Bratcher A return to the inner self, a tracing back through the generations to your “Family” of origins. connecting, self transformation, weaving your heart centered intentions into this...
View ArticleAnatomy Trains Comes to Austin!
Anatomy Trains is a unique map of the ‘anatomy of connection’ – whole-body fascial and myofascial linkages. The Anatomy Trains concept joins individual muscles into functional complexes within fascial...
View ArticleThe First Massage Table
After a few years of receiving massages and appreciating so many benefits – physical, emotional, mental and spiritual – I decided I would try doing it myself. At that time I was in Chicago and,...
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How Are Deep Massage and Zero Balancing Related?
I began teaching what I call Deep Massage in 1982. This was after studying extensively with Rolfer, Daniel Blake, studying cranial work with early students of John Upledger, and teaching anatomy and...
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The Year after Cancer Treatment: How We Adapt Massage
By Tracy Walton My client rolled her eyes as she told me, “Now, this is hard. This is way harder than my year in cancer treatment.” She was referring to the year after cancer treatment. She was several...
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A New Wind for Your Sails
by David Lauterstein This outline shows how marketing can be seen as applying the same principles we practice in sophisticated bodywork, especially Zero Balancing and Deep Massage (which use the...
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Our hands speak volumes
How many times does bodywork give rise to spiritual or religious experiences? About this level of life, the philosopher Wittgenstein said, “Whereof one can not speak, thereupon we must be silent.”...
View ArticleGrad Chronicle – My Journey Through TLC
by Aaron McLeod Five years ago, I attended another massage school in Austin. I should say as background that I am visually impaired. My challenges at this school included not having computer resources,...
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SENSORI-MOTOR AMNESIA!
Working on clients, we sometimes encounter “sensori-motor amnesia”, a lack of body awareness that is sometimes funny, sometimes sad. I was once massaging a man’s back and he asked me what I was working...
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My Massage School Experience
by Nayeli Gallegos I was first introduced to TLC School through my job, but I quickly came to realize how healing the environment is and what joy it brings to everyone who steps through the doors. As...
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Diary of a Massage Therapist: Surviving Massage School Again (and Life)
By Jennifer (Shaw) Bonessi, LMT, cPT, RYT at Bodywork In Austin Dear Diary: I know it’s been a while since I’ve written. Life just got crazy. (Doesn’t it always?) I’ve finally completed...
View ArticleI am Proud of the Women (and Men) Who Constitute the Bulk of Practitioners of...
In 1910 the Carnegie Foundation funded the “Flexnor Report” to enforce in the U.S. longer training and the curriculum common in European medical schools. It called upon American medical schools to...
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The Only Mind You Can Read is Your Own!
I wake up early in the morning and one of reasons I do is I like the general calmness and silence of that time. A few years ago I started listening more deeply to the “voice” in my head. For many years...
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“Without a clear end you can’t have a clear beginning.”
“Without a clear end you can’t have a clear beginning.” – Dr. Fritz Smith by David Lauterstein The transition in seasons and the transition through the holidays and into the new year is a critical...
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Letting Go of Random in Mind and Body
When we meditate, we may concentrate on an experience such as feeling breath at the tips of our nostrils, or the silent repetition of a mantra, or visualizing a symbol, etc. That then becomes a “home”...
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