By Pete Whitridge Hi all! I hope you’re having a busy and productive winter season and that you’re enjoying your massage practice. As we approach the final quarter of our licensing period, I’ve begun teaching the three  required classes (Ethics, Florida Law,...

by Frank Merillat Well hello to all and here we go again. It’s a new year and all that holds for possibilities. By the time you are reading this I will have celebrated my 75th birthday and my thirtieth year of studying the art of bodywork and association with the...

By Ariela Grodner In my case, I feel as if all the things I do in my daily life are built around arriving in that moment when I get to be present for another human being. I have a client later today; what a blessing that is! How do I prepare myself?  The morning...

By Pete Whitridge Welcome to Fall! In my work on the Probable Cause Panel for the Board of Massage Therapy, we’ve begun seeing many cases involving the new Designated Establishment Manager (DEM) requirements. Most cases involve establishment owners failing to name a...

By Mary Reis, edited by Giorgia Milne The phenomena are endless… Sometimes words aren’t the way -Michael Zeligs My exchange partner, Michael, used these word as he and I were sharing the experience of our Biodynamic Cranial Approach session.   Waking from a...

By Luann Overmyer Our body can be viewed as a community of interdependent neighborhoods filled with diversely skilled laborers (cells) that need nourishment and refuse management to do their jobs well. Cells organize themselves into organs, glands, and tissues...

A conversation between Nathalie Fosse and Christina Polnyj-Pollman on their upcoming workshop. I am so thrilled to be a part of a new course offering titled Free the Feet, February 4th and 5th, 2023 with my friend and colleague Nathalie Fosse. Nathalie graduated...

By Pete Whitridge I regularly feel incredibly grateful to be a massage therapist. A particularly gratifying aspect of my work is  when I get to combine both my teaching and clinical practices. Many of you know that I have a part-time  massage therapy...

By Pete Whitridge Welcome to the New Year! Wishing you all a happy, healthy and prosperous year ahead. As you probably know, I love fascia and focus on it in my teaching. I’d like to share a new book with you from a very entertaining writer named David...

By Ariela Grodner The seed has been planted like three little jewels in the fertile soil at the Florida School of Massage. Today is just a few days after our last offering and I'm feeling such deep gratitude to be back in the beautiful blue room. When I sit in that...