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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 massages...
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...
An Opportunity to Rest in the Heart of Stillness
by Giorgia Milne The three fundamental types of cranial work widely practiced today, regardless of personal variations, can be characterized as biomechanical, functional and biodynamic.Biomechanical cranial work has been the most widely practiced as it was the first...
Is Thai Foot Reflexology Really Reflexology?
Awhile back I got into a conversation on a Facebook reflexology group page I follow. The exchange started with a woman’s struggle (her word) around the term Thai Reflexology. She wondered how someone practicing this age-old therapy could call it “reflexology” when the techniques were so different from what she knew.
Her comments sent me back to an earlier time in my reflexology career. Back in 1983, I learned what is now referred to in the United States and Canada as “conventional” reflexology, based on the theories and techniques developed by Eunice Ingham, known fondly as the “grandmother” of modern reflexology. For more than 10 years, I just assumed that reflexologists all over the world practiced reflexology as I was taught, happily thumb and finger-walking their way around an ancient map of foot and hand reflexes corresponding to other parts of the body. And then…
Sick and Tired of Headaches?
I feel fortunate – fortunate because I am not one of the 45 million Americans that experience chronic headaches.[i] For that matter, I barely make the club of nearly 90% of the population that experiences occasional headache pain.[ii]
So, let’s get this straight – a headache is not a disease. It is the loud and persistent and painful voice of a body living with chronic stress, toxic blood, physiological imbalances and/or trauma: ie. a body crying out for help. It turns out that there are many bodies crying out for help in the United States: People seeking treatment for headache pain account for 8 million consultations with physicians annually.[iii] Migraine headaches alone account for an estimated 157 million days lost from work.[iv]
Cephalgia (a headache) is defined as pain in the head and/or neck, and is classified as either episodic or chronic. Episodic headaches are triggered by a specific episode of stress; chronic headaches are frequent or even daily, associated with ongoing stress.
Headaches are categorized according to
FSM Announces Special Events to Celebrate 40-Year Anniversary
By Dar MikulaOur History:In 1974, the Florida School of Massage graduated its first students. The American Institute of Natural Health, Inc. and the Florida School of Massage, Inc. merged their programs of massage therapy and allied holistic health training in...