So it’s that time again! We are one year away from the deadline to renew our massage license, that means we need to be thinking and planning for completing our continuing education requirements. Do you have a plan? Do you know the requirements to renew? Remember all...

By Josie Davenport Philosophy of Life by Josie Davenport - 1979 FSM Transcripts “Though we are born with individual talents, and the processes of our lives make us different, we all share the same basic human needs - we need to feel connected to the earth and to other...

By Mindy de Wilde (Rohrbacher), L.Ac  For the first four years, my massage practice was going well overall. My clients left their sessions feeling relaxed, grounded and typically with a decrease in pain. But occasionally clients’ pain was stubborn, on-going and I felt...

By Mary Reis In the Touch of Presence® School for Biodynamic Studies, the Biodynamic Cranial Approach is a specialized form of craniosacral education.  Giorgia Milne teaches here in the United States as well as in Europe, Australia, and Taiwan, with Gainesville...

By Ariela Grodner Those of us who have chosen massage therapy as an occupation probably have noticed that sometimes there is a conflicting element in charging money for something as sacred as holding space for someone's heart. What we do is also very valuable and on...

By Pete Whitridge I am so enjoying the New Year! Lee and I are at home in Fort Pierce for the first time in 16 years; very different to be here in Florida rather than at our cabin in the Ozarks. We decided to put our beloved little sanctuary on the market...

By Dean Juhan (with note from Frank Merillat) From Frank: Deane Juhan is one of my favorite teachers, I have been studying with him for well over 20 years. He combines a very deep understanding of the workings of the movement body, he wrote Job’s Body : A Handbook for...

By Mary Reis Beacon: A source of guidance or inspiration One thing I am most grateful for in this profession is that our education offers us an opportunity to reconnect with a more essential part of our humanity. Giving and receiving work allows us to explore...

By Pete Whitridge Welcome to the new year! Thank you to everyone who attended classes with me throughout the 2021- 2023 renewal period. I always feel energized and rejuvenated when I am in your presence. In-person education feels particularly important in these times...

By Ariela Grodner It has been two days since my return from a ten-day Vipassana course in Jesup, Georgia. Vipassana means insight. Being in silence with a foundation in morality, or a strict commitment to inflicting the least amount of harm possible. One can...