This month in our graduate spotlight we feature Cindy Black, licensed acupuncturist and massage therapist, who graduated from the Florida School of Massage in 1990. Cindy is the founder of Meridian Massage Institute, which offers practical workshops, certifications,...
by Dar Mikula This month, our FSM “Success Story” takes us 1300 miles north to the unincorporated village of Quechee in the town of Hartford, VT. Here Shelly Yusko, one of our graduates from the January 1992 massage program, owns the Strong House Spa and Muscular...
by Nancy Keeney Smith LMT, MLD “Huh?” was my retort to a client. She was relaying her encounter with her physician about how therapeutic massage was improving her range of motion, blood flow and, most important to her, scar release. She was hoping her...
By Dar Mikula, LMT Brian Lewis says he knew it was just a matter of time before his long held occupation as a forestry firefighter would suffer from the economic downturn and force him into becoming an unemployment statistic. One night in the fall of 2009, as he sat...
Walter Loeb was 66 when he decided to follow up on the “massage hobby” he’d been enjoying since he was 50. He was the “oldest” student in his class back in January 1999, and he is still practicing massage at age 78. He works in a spa, in private practice, and with...
