Kelly Bowers

Kelly Bowers became fascinated with the business of massage when asked to teach business practices at her massage school in 2005. Before she became a massage therapist, she spent 20 years as a technical writer, a career she refers to as “professional explaining”. She found she could apply the same skills to teaching business practices to massage therapists: figure out how it works, explain it in a way that respects your students’ needs.

Kelly has built a private practice from scratch -  twice. Along the way she’s figured out what works and what doesn't. She has applied her experience and skills to creating short courses about basic business skills – creating a business plan, bookkeeping, setting your fees, evaluating the health of your practice, deciding whether or not to accept credit cards, etc.  –  that massage therapists can use right away.

Kelly finished her massage studies at the Potomac Massage Training Institute in Washington DC in 2000 and began teaching business practices at PMTI in 2005. She and her business partner, Kitty Southworth LMT, founded The Healing Core (thehealingcore.com) in 2010 and are NCBTMB approved providers.

Kelly has taught business practices for AMTA-Florida, AMTA-DC, and at the 2013 AMTA national convention. She’s written quarterly business columns for the AMTA-DC newsletter since 2005. She also maintains a blog about the business of massage, This Touching Business (thistouchingbusiness.blogspot.com) and has a private practice in Washington DC (bowershours.com).
 

Ryan Hoyme

Ryan Hoyme, aka 'the massage nerd', has been a massage therapist since 1997 and a massage instructor since 2000. He started www.massagenerd.com so that students who missed class could catch up on the material they had missed. His website provides access to all his information, ebooks and videos. He has more massage clips on YouTube www.youtube.com/massagenerd than any other website, and his videos average 150,000 views a day. Ryan constantly works behind the scenes editing videos. He also has a weekly massage show interviewing the top names (and soon to be top names) in the massage therapy world.

Andrea Lipomi

A licensed and nationally certified massage therapist since 2006, Andrea Lipomi has been pampering tourists and the Who’s Who of Las Vegas for the past several years. She can be found performing five-star massage treatments in a gorgeous resort spa most days of the week, and spending quality time with her husband – also a licensed massage therapist – when she’s not up to her elbows in oil. Andrea enjoys hiking, potlucks, dark chocolate, and all things Depeche Mode. She is also a licensed esthetician, a founding member of The Young Thumbs massage blog, a CE Las Vegas partner, and an NCBTMB-approved continuing education provider at ConfidentMassage.com.

Jeff Mahadeen

Since 1998, Jeff Mahadeen has been teaching hands-on massage techniques including Myofascial Release, Neuromuscular Therapy (NMT), Assessment and related sciences in schools throughout the USA. Jeff has also written school curriculum with topics ranging from Anatomy and Physiology to comprehensive therapeutic hands-on techniques.  He is a Structural Integrator and the Owner of the Muscular Wellness Institute Educational and Treatment Center in New Hampshire which offers over 250 CE hours in advanced therapeutic modalities.

Jeff has worked for the following schools: The Somerset School of Massage Therapy (presently Cortiva Institute), Academy of Massage Therapy, Hesser College and the Swedish Institute. At each school, Jeff has taken a leadership role with curriculum writing and course development.

Recognized as one of the nation's leading educators, Jeff has been asked to sit on a Job Task Analysis and Exam Committee for the Federation of State Massage Therapy Boards for the creation of a new federal massage licensing exam known as the MBLEx. The MBLEx is now known as one of the gold standards for massage examination. Jeff has also worked with the ABMP in practice exam development and was asked to sit on the NCBTMB's Advanced Certification Commitee.

Carrie Rowell

Carrie Rowell is a licensed massage therapist and internationally certified instructor who has been doing intuitive bodywork since the age of five.  She has spent the last 15 years studying various aspects of the Hawaiian healing arts with several master practitioners on the island of Hawai'i.   Since 1998 she has traveled all over the world teaching massage, sacred dance and women’s empowerment workshops.  She is the author of two dvds and a workbook on lomi lomi and will release dvds on Hawaiian Hot stone and Lomi Hapai (pregnancy massage) in 2013.

Her workshops are approved for continuing education for massage therapists with the NCBTMB in the USA, the CThA in the UK and the Australian AAMT.  Her classes are hands-on, very fun and packed with techniques.  When she is not traveling to teach she lives in Pahoa, Hawaii where she offers immersion retreats.

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