Free chair massages, sketchpads, comics, therapy dogs and a ‘graffiti walk’ where you can express your angst? What is this, a spoof of a new spa concept?  Well no, guess again, it’s a student relaxation center at the U. of Tennessee in Knoxville.

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The wind screamed in my ears, and the snow that flew past my face was practically horizontal. I was skiing in the middle of a blizzard, at 11,000 feet above sea level on a mountain in Utah. Looking around, I saw a tall figure nearby. “Can we get down over here?” I shouted, pointing left.

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You may have seen the recent article titled, 5 Tips for Energetic Spring Cleaning in Massage Magazine. Very timely article as we too have been thinking about ways to clear out the cobwebs, the whole point being, to refresh our perspective and look at the world around us with a more enlightened, vital point of view.

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We’re well past that pesky New Year’s resolution time of the year.  Right now, we’re just about at that place in time when ambivalence begins to set in, when we start to think, “Hey, I still have MOST of the year left to kick my butt into a higher gear“, combined with a creeping sense that, “Geez, I guess I better get rolling on that personal strategic plan.”

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Hey massage therapists, an article published today in the Wall Street Journal by Andrea Petersen has a lot of info you already know from first-hand experience BUT it’s still great to see a mainstream national publication recap the therapeutic, not just the ‘feel-good’ value of massage therapy. You may want to print this out or save it as a PDF to give to your clients. There’s no such thing as an overly well informed client, right?

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