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Thai Massage therapy is a wonderful and rewarding profession. It is great to talk about all the benefits, how we can help our clients, how we have an ethical obligation to never discriminate against anyone, etc.
But what happens when we run up against our limits? What happens when we don’t know how to manage our physical and mental energies properly?
Attending classes in a Thai Massage school or course may build you a good foundation. However not all of them will take you beyond the technical aspects and show you the more subtle elements of Thai Massage training – but these will determine your success.
First of all, as someone who has spent 20 years teaching Thai Massage therapy, I am writing this for those who want to learn Thai Massage or are practicing it already. However most of the principles apply to any kind of massage.
How can Thai Massage save a therapist’s career? That’s what you will hear about in this video. In it, I tell my own story of how I injured my thumbs when I started out learning Thai Massage over two decades ago.
This turned out to be a blessing in disguise since it resulted in my creating a lot of innovative and unique bodywork, and a more therapist-friendly way of using it.
How do you learn Thai Massage in such a way that it helps you to preserve your health, prolong your career, and be inspired in your profession?
Thai Massage is a helping profession. Its purpose is that the Thai Massage therapist helps clients to improve their health.
It’s also a very rewarding and inspiring profession. Besides helping clients, it can also help the therapist in several ways. But this does not happen automatically.
As a therapist, what role could a Thai Massage career play in your life? How could it affect your lifestyle, your thought patterns, your attitude, your health?
Would it be just something that you do to earn a living, or would it go deeper than that?
Here are seven ways in which your life could be affected when you learn Thai Massage and practice it.
“I am a fully licensed professional Thai Massage therapist” – this sounds pretty impressive, doesn’t it? Especially in the United States the “professional” title is taken very seriously, and it can be easily defined.
The definition generally means this:
That’s an easy definition – and now you are a real professional.
Are you really sure about that?
This article is meant to help Thai Massage therapists understand the difference between professional and unprofessional Thai Massage, and how to relate it to clients.
How would you, as a massage therapist, respond if someone, a client for example, told you that Thai Massage is supposedly a sexy affair or related to prostitution?
You could of course respond no, that this is not true. But would you be sure that this is the only correct answer? After all, typically there is fire where there is smoke, so let’s investigate if there is any truth to this rumor.
Knowing the whole truth and understanding the entire background of Thai Massage will give you the confidence and the knowledge to respond appropriately.
Thai Massage has some unique advantages over other massage styles. One of them is that it is very therapist friendly. Why is that?
Look at a western massage style like Swedish massage. The therapist is constantly using the hands to stroke, knead, or squeeze. This can get very tiring for the hands, and can even lead to injury which is one of the reasons why many massage therapists don’t last very long.