New Advanced Massage and Bodywork Training
Posted by Jennifer Shaw on Tue, Jan 12, 2010 @ 03:30 PM
By David Lauterstein, Co-founder and Director
On January 11, 2010, Lauterstein-Conway Massage School announced it will offer a new version of its Advanced Clinical Massage and Bodywork Training program (ACT).
The New November ACT
The new November ACT program includes 35 additional hours of Shiatsu and adds 25 hours of Zero Balancing, which is the first course in the Zero Balancing certification process.
Massage therapists may or may not chose to go on to complete the Zero Balancing certification.
The November ACT program will integrate Sports Massage into the Clinical Bodywork classes along with Deep Massage and it will omit advanced business practices, as many massage therapists already have practical business experience and are not interested in taking more business classes.
"We recognize that business is not one of our students' favorite subjects," said co-founder and director, David Lauterstein, "and we want to give the massage therapists who chose to return to us for advanced training what they are looking for, which is a more hands-on, technique-focused massage education."
Since Lauterstein-Conway Massage School believes business is an important subject, November ACT students will have the option to take a free seven-hour advanced business workshop.
In an effort to accommodate working massage therapists, the November ACT program will only meet one Monday per week.
The Fate of the Original
The original format of the ACT will still run as a customizeable massage training option for students looking for a course that not only meets National Certification requirements, but is literally the same curriculum that 500-hour Lauterstein-Conway Massage School graduates are learning. This curriculum includes 30 hours of Sports Massage and over 20 hours of business and more attention paid to diseases and pharmacology. Hydrotherapy is also included in this version.
Both November and the original ACT program formats cover Deep Massage, Clinical Massage Therapy, Anatomy, Kinesiology and Physiology.
History of the ACT Program
Since Lauterstein-Conway Massage School's inception in 1989, the school offered three semesters - a 300-hour Semester One (required by Texas until September, 2007), a 250-hour Semester Two and a 200-hour Semester Three.
When the State of Texas changed its massage licensing requirements from 300 hours to 500 hours, Lauterstein-Conway took most of what was in Semester Two and put it into the 500-hour program. For those therapists who wanted to join in that advanced part of our curriculum - a nationally recognized training in clinical and deep massage therapy - we named this the Advanced Clinical Training. The ACT also gets these therapists to the level of the new State requirements and qualifying for National Certification.
Now we are adding to that version of the ACT, the one-day-a-week format with the slightly revised curriculum. This has some of the elements that were in Semester Three - particularly more shiatsu and Zero Balancing.
It also will satisfy the hour requirements to take the National Certification exam.
For more information about advanced massage training offered at Lauterstein-Conway Massage School and for ACT enrollment information, contact Admissions.