“The Only Obstacle is Yourself”

Success Story Featuring Susie Vought, LMTby Dar MikulaOften the seed for attending massage school gets planted years before a student actually makes it to our door. Take the case of Susie Vought, a 2012 graduate who said she kept putting off her desire to come to...

Graduate Uses FSM Foundation as Core of Peacebuilding Practice

Graduate Success Stories series, we chose this month to talk with Philip Hellmich, author of God and Conflict: A Search for Peace in a Time of Crisis (Published 2012, Spirit of Peace Press, Petaluma, CA, www.godandconflict.com).  Philip, known better to his Summer...

Returning to Viet Nam: Healing the Past Through Touch

by Michael BroasI am standing at my massage table, laying my hands on a man about my age, who is also a veteran of the same war that I was in, but with a very major difference; He was in the North Vietnamese Army, my former enemy, who I tried to kill and who tried to...

Returning to Viet Nam: Healing the Past Through Touch, Part 2

by Michael BroasAfter visiting Friendship Village near Hanoi, we next traveled south to the city of Hue, which was the site of one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the Viet Nam war, lasting a total of 26 days in 1968. Hue is also near the DMZ, or Demilitarized...

First Comes Love…

By Dar MikulaThe Florida School of Massage has plenty of graduate success stories and our fair share of love stories too.  This is a success story and a LOVE story.  First comes Love…Mike Withee and Megan D’Andrea met in Micanopy. Megan was offering couple’s...

Successful Graduate Shares Her Story

by Dar MikulaIt was 1996, I was 21 years old, I had left my hometown Pittsburgh, PA to attend the University of Florida. After my second year of undergrad, I was still uncertain as to what I wanted to do with my future.  I thought perhaps psychology, for I was keen on...