How to Massage Without Hurting Your Hands
Do you care for your hands like they are the most vital asset of your massage business? By studying these five hand care rules to live by, you will ensure your massage career will always be your livelihood.
Do you care for your hands like they are the most vital asset of your massage business? By studying these five hand care rules to live by, you will ensure your massage career will always be your livelihood.
Whether it’s expressly for learning a new technique or fulfilling requirements for licensing renewal, continuing education (CE) is an important part of the professional massage therapist’s world. Today, it’s likely that a good portion of that CE takes place online, which is very different from the traditional, in-person seminar.
You have the right to create a practice and workplace filled with only clients who bring you joy, satisfaction, and a feeling of being valuable. These also happen to be the types of clients who will rave about you to all of their friends and family. You simply need to set strong boundaries and be willing to enforce them.
I often hear people say, “I’ve tried everything to get more clients, and nothing works!” In reality, you have tried everything you have been exposed to once or twice—and when that didn’t yield immediate results, you went on to the next vague marketing strategy, hoping that would be the golden ticket to your success.
You can expand your reach, increase your direct income and earn passive income by working virtually with the global digital community—a community that is here to stay. All you need is a computer or a smart phone, your knowledge, some set up and planning, and you will be ready to begin offering online sessions.
A while back I was with my family at a local restaurant, and it should have been a great time, but I was distracted. I felt a sharp, electrical pain that seemed to connect my neck to my hand, a pain that I often felt in the massage room. It was now unrelenting, and I thought my massage career of 20-plus years was coming to an end. Long story short, eventually, I figured out how to resolve this pain, but I was left with this nagging question: Why did it take me so long?
Massage therapist Kimberly Pucka enjoyed taking in-person continuing education (CE) two to three times annually throughout her 28-year career. Then came COVID-19 and the attendant shut-down of almost everything in early 2020.
As you are guided in balancing your chakras and neuroendocrine system you are also guided to be aware of cultural and global issues at play, moving and healing on both the micro and macro levels.