We encourage all our prospective students to learn more about massage therapy school before deciding where to attend. Here's what you need to know about us!
The Lauterstein-Conway Massage School is one of the finest massage and bodywork training programs in the U.S. We are dedicated to graduating massage therapists who are therapeutically masterful, economically successful, and personally fulfilled.
Lauterstein-Conway Massage School's History
The core curriculum began in 1982 when David Lauterstein began teaching Deep Massage and the Anatomy Training Program at the Chicago School of Massage Therapy. These programs proved fertile ground for more development as John Conway and David Lauterstein later co-evolved the curriculum at the Texas School of Massage Studies (1985-1989).
The Lauterstein-Conway Massage School (TLC) was founded in 1989 to provide a supportive environment for education and healing, through the teaching, administration and physical and spiritual context in which we learn.
Now in our 20th year, the TLC curriculum has grown to include 1,000 hours of massage training annually.
Our Comprehensive 500-Hour Program is one of the only programs of its length that includes detailed training in Advanced Clinical Massage Therapy and Bodywork.
Students become an extremely skillful therapists with training in orthopedic massage, sports massage and deep massage, as well as interweaving structural and integrative bodywork.
Lauterstein-Conway Massage School's Philosophy
Lauterstein-Conway Massage School was also founded on the belief that people want and deserve radiant health of body, mind and spirit. We believe fundamentally that each person contains everything he/she needs for health. Massage therapy is the fascinating vocation of facilitating this self-healing capacity for each individual.
Our educational approach is holistic - committed to honoring the spirit as well as the body and the mind. Therefore, we balance technical studies in massage, anatomy and physiology with the development of each student's creativity, graceful movement and capacity for compassionate touch.
It is our mission to run the school in a manner as healing as the subjects we teach. In every respect we attempt to practice what we preach. We strongly believe that health is as much a global as individual issue. We hope that we, as well as each graduate, can make the world a better place in which to live.
Our society has under-emphasized the requisites for basic health - an honored environment, deeply satisfying work, life-long learning with body, mind and spirit, and nourishing relationships. All too often we struggle with frustrating work, education that is not life-oriented, and a social emphasis on satisfaction through buying things, rather than relating healthily to ourselves and one other.
We have lost some of our closeness with the land, other people, and ourselves. The study and practice of this unique discipline, massage therapy, can help break this pattern. Touch is real. It gets us in touch with who we really are.