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Submitted by: Carl W. Nelson

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Presented here is an instance of a person who was predestined to become a massage professional and who as a teenager joined the world's most prestigious place for the practice and teaching of massage. Carl W. Nelson Lucia Rose Horan Esalen Institute is my birthplace and community. I was born there in 1976, to the proud parents of Peggy and Richard Horan. My mother is one of the founders of the Esalen massage technique. While pregnant with me she would do massage on the deck of the hot springs. This work is in my blood. I was raised receiving massage. At sixteen I received my Esalen certification. At eighteen, I began working on the Esalen Massage Crew as an intern. I was then hired onto the massage crew 1994. Mother and daughter, Peggy Morrison Horan and Lucia Rose Horan, both are shown as instructors on the Esalen Institute Presents Esalen Massage (first released in May 1997) DVD. Priced at $29.95, the Esalen 40th Anniversary Edition is available from Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA 93920 (website: www.esalen.org/esalenmassage/html/esalen_massage_video.html). Said of this award-winning best-selling video production – “gorgeous, wonderful, beautiful, enlightening, the next best thing to learning at Esalen, the best instructional video on the market, for beginners and professionals alike!” Highly recommended for learning Esalen Massage is an additional recent source, the stunning video production by Ellen Watson released in May 2004: The Art of Essential Touch with Ellen Watson, Volume 1, DVD Video, 2 hours 20 minutes, Moving Ventures School and Productions, Big Sur, CA 93920, and also available from the website: movingventures.org, priced at $30.00. Anyone Can Massage The fact that anyone can massage without having any training from a massage school is an issue many massage therapists do not want to acknowledge. Several massage books and, most importantly, a rapidly increasing number of DVD video productions providing stepwise instruction are presently available. Furthermore, one can be improperly trained at a massage school. For several yearsI have been teaching massage for free at a liberal Protestant church where everyone is welcome to attend and to participate in our massage exchange group. For example, from an instructor of Swedish massage and a few students of a nearby well-known massage school that have attended our group, I have received dreadful massages. Carl W. Nelson

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Submitted by: Hans Albert Quistorff LMP

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In many states you can not start massaging until you have a license. But if you are serious about massage as a health care career having a part time job associated with your career helps to transition into it easier. Interview with clinics for positions of receptionist, filing, new patient assistant, etc. One of the biggest complaints in the discussion groups by therapists that started massage school right out of high school is that they did not develop the people skills to develop a clientèle. Even though I came from 35 years of having my own business, I benefited greatly from working around the doctors clinic during my schooling and eventually was employed there. Hans Albert Quistorff, LMP Antalgic Posture Pain Specialist

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