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I Found My True Calling It 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...
Jump Into Spring With Nourished Skin
By Christina PolnyjSpring is bursting here in North Central Florida and it is almost impossible to stay indoors. It’s time to visit the springs and enjoy our beloved outdoors. The ocean is becoming more inviting everyday. As we jump into spring and the great...
Put “Renewed” Into Your Continuing Education Renewal!
By Frank MerillatI just completed my license renewal last week. It was relatively painless and easy. All was done online. First I went to CEBroker.com and entered my user name and password. I had established this free account option awhile ago. Once in my account, I...
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 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…