This unique, comprehensive 65-CE program offers licensed massage therapists the skills needed to launch or grow a successful private practice.
Earn CE and build the skills and confidence needed to create your own business! Throughout my adult life, I have have been passionate about helping people succeed in doing the things that they dream of accomplishing. Since 2003 I have been blessed with the opportunity to teach bodywork and business and marketing to students of massage. I have been in private practice as a neuromuscular massage the
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“All stove up” - hurting and unable to move well.
As a neuromuscular therapist in private practice, I hear it a lot!
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I'm delighted to announce that I'll be teaching several CE classes in West Asheville!
Gotcha Covered Massage CE Course Gotcha Covered Positioning Draping and Bolstering Techniques for Massage Therapists with Nancy MacDonald at FreeBody Massage Clinic in Asheville, NC
Today I received this testimonial from my new associate. I’m so thankful she has joined my practice! For several years I’ve been searching for someone who could join me in treating clients, grow our combined business and eventually take over. I was close to giving up and planned on walking away since I hadn’t found the level of skill and commitment I was looking for. However, I’m starting to believe that Emily will be a good fit!
I hope you’ll consider signing up for one (or all!) Of my CE courses. Take a look at the description of my Spark Your Career program. You’ll learn a lot and have fun doing it. Small classes and lots of unique opportunities for one-on-one mentoring. Call me and let’s talk!
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Testimonial for Nancy MacDonald
from Emily Weir
I have worked in healthcare most of my life, and recently became a massage therapist. I met Nancy about a month ago, and she immediately took me under her wing to help me learn to be a better massage therapist and business person.
A little background, I hate business stuff! Nancy gently coaxed me out of my comfort zone and encouraged me to face these anxieties head on. I am happy to say, great progress has been made in my learning how to market myself, create policies and procedures, and build a sustainable business. Thank you Nancy!
Nancy is a meticulously detail oriented person, and she has helped me identify small things I do during my massage work, of which I had no idea. She has helped me to improve my techniques via small changes that make all the difference.
I am constantly astonished at how knowledgeable and focused she is on improving her business practices. Nancy is an excellent therapist who is extremely devoted to helping her clients attain their goals. She is an excellent mentor, and I am so fortunate to have found her. She inspires me to be better than I am, on a daily basis.
-Emily Weir, LMBT, BS, PTA, CPT
NC License #18514
A good read!
By Andrea Scher
“If you read my last newsletter, you might know that my son got food poisoning from a bacon-wrapped hot dog from a street vendor during our LA family vacation. (I know, sketchy!) But when I started the same uncontrollable purging a couple of days later, we knew we were in trouble. And yes, EVERYONE went down like dominoes. One by one. I was so grateful when Jesse was still able to take the boys to Universal Studios (their Hannukkah present) while I was the walking dead back at the hotel room.
I could tell you about how this was our first attempt at a blended family vacation - his kiddo and mine all together for some Los Angeles fun! And there was some fun… it just looked a lot different than what we expected.
But here’s what I really want to tell you.
As I was hanging my head over the toilet in utter misery, there was a moment when I couldn’t throw up but knew that if I did I would feel better. I found myself saying aloud to the empty bathroom - I AM WILLING. And almost instantly, I threw up.
I used this tactic over and over as I got through the grueling hours of this illness. Every time I declared- I am willing - my body would let go. I think what I was trying to say to myself was -
I am willing to feel this pain.
I am willing to have this experience.
I am willing to let go.
I had to jump on a plane for Mexico yesterday and with each new bout of nausea and pain, I would say to myself, I am willing to feel this. And then I would watch. Not run away, but move toward it in my mind’s eye. Sometimes I felt it more acutely. Other times the pain would go away.
And now, I am wondering - What else could I allow to move through me if I was willing to feel it?
Would the loneliness I sometimes feel move through me more gracefully if (instead of pushing it away by distracting myself, numbing, getting busy) I said to myself - I am willing to feel this loneliness. And then actually feel it. All the way to the end. Because the good news is that it does have an end. Most emotions only last about 90 seconds they say!
What about those other emotions we push away? What if I said to myself, I am willing to feel this pain in my belly, this tightness in my chest, this ache in my heart, this grief, this loss...
As I’ve entered into a new love relationship this year, I’ve had to be willing to feel the vulnerability that allows for intimacy and closeness. I’ve needed to feel the fear that comes with opening your heart to another. I’ve had to be willing to risk having my heart broken to receive all the goodness and love that’s right in front of me.
What are you willing to feel my friends?
Maybe you are willing to feel rejection as you enter the dating world again.
Maybe you are willing to be messy when you communicate that hard thing to a friend.
Maybe you are willing to feel afraid as you step into a new dream this year.
Life can more easily flow through us when we are willing.
There is an ease in this. A flow.
Let’s not resist what’s here anyway.
Just 90 seconds loves. Just 90 seconds.”