FSM Grad Lends Hand To Brain Injury Survivors

by Karen Ball You never know where your actions may take you. One small step may lead to BIG outcomes. That proved true for Ken Cook, who, when a student at the Florida School of Massage in 2012, knew he just had to enroll in the Therapeutic Hand and Foot Reflexology...

LMT Transforms Vision Impairment Into Opportunity for Empowerment

By Dar MikulaAt the age of 47, Beckie Dale decided to quit her job as the screen print manager for Dragonfly Graphics here in Gainesville.  She says she was still figuring out what she wanted to do with her life, with one pressing complication.  Beckie learned seven...

Massage Education + Ayurveda + Yoga = A Formula for Success!

Dhyana and Syama Masla attended FSM with the September 2006 class.   Dhyana had just turned 18 two months prior to starting massage school, and her sister Syama turned 20 just five days into the program.  Both had graduated from the dual enrollment program at Sante Fe...

Penniless to Proactive: An “Olympian” Success Story

By Marc Freedman (Class of September 1995)I was born and raised in an inner city neighborhood of Boston. I graduated with a BA in Philosophy from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. I worked in retail for eight years but found little satisfaction selling...

Bonding, Baking and Being Present: An Ongoing Success Story

Nathalie Fossé attended our massage program in 2002.  She said she’d been working as a researcher in chemistry,  “absolutely not enjoying my field and getting headaches every afternoon.” Fast forward a decade.   She’s just opened a new office in the Thornebrook area. ...

A Graduate’s Success: Finding your Niche

What were you doing for work before attending FSM? Before FSM, I was working at a maximum-security prison for the criminally insane. I was a rehabilitation therapist. I worked with a treatment team to get the client competent to stand trial for the crimes they were...