About massage therapists

"Who Is Today’s Massage Therapist?"
from the AMTA National website.
Today’s Massage Therapists are…

Most likely to enter the massage therapy profession as a second career.

Predominantly female (85%).

In their early-40s, on average.

Most likely to be members of a professional organization.

Most likely to be sole practitioners.

Working an average of 19 hours a week providing massage. (Excluding time spent on other business tasks such as billing, bookkeeping, supplies, maintaining equipment, marketing, scheduling, etc.)

Charging an average of $63 for one hour of massage.

Earning an average wage of $41.50 an hour (including tip) for all massage related work.

Giving an average of 41 massages per month.

Working in the industry on average for 6.3 years.

Likely to provide massage therapy in a number of settings, including their own home, spa/salon, their own office, a healthcare setting, health club/athletic facility, or massage therapy only franchise or chain.

Eighty-nine percent (89 percent) of massage therapists provide Swedish massage, followed by 82 percent who provide deep tissue massage, 52 percent trigger point, and 49 percent sports massage

Bamboo massage photo

Here's a picture of a student working on another student's hand using warm bamboo. The tools feel amazing on the entire body. Most clients think that the smaller bamboo tools feel just like super warm hands. And keeping your clients super warm during this autumn and winter season is especially important!

The "oohs" and "ahs" on the upper traps come right at the beginnning of the massage, and the client will LOVE your warm deep tissue massage with warm bamboo.

It's so easy to do that you have to be careful to give not too much pressure in places!

Visit www.affinitymassages.com/bamboo_classes for the schedule and to register online. I've got lots of other pictures of massage therapist students using the bamboo posted on that page as well.

New! Online store for Bamboo-fusion stuff

Want to advertise your Bamboo-fusion business? I've got a great new online store http://www.cafepress.com/affinitymassage where there's all kinds of cool stuff. Check out the Bamboo-fusion shirts, baby and kiddy tees--there's even a style for your dog so that Fefe strut her style!

New Ashiatsu pictures

New Ashiatsu pictures and layout on on my website, www.AffinityMassages.com. See our group of lovely massage therapists from Cincinnati, southern Kentucky and Point Pleasant Beach, NJ.

For some reason, this blog is not allowing me to post photos today. So I'll just tell you who our new Ashiatsu grads are! Kathy Spalding, Sandy Wright, Megan Rice, Marjorie Blair, Linda Leigh Edwards and Linda Warga.

They made our Ashiatsu Oriental Bar Therapy guest clients very happy with their barefoot massage!

2010 schedule

We now have the 2010 schedule for Bamboo-fusion posted on my website, www.affinitymassages.com..

I have classes scheduled throughout the Midwest--Wichita, KS, St. Louis, MO, Ann Arbor, MI, Nashville, TN as well as Cincinnati.

Our classes have been filling to capacity. Why? The bamboo massage can be easily encorporated into a deep tissue hands on massage. It feels great to the client, and the massage therapists love to use the tools.

Learn deep tissue massage

People are starting to sign up for our October Cincinnati, OH Ashiatsu class! Register at www.affinitymassages.com.

Ashiatsu picture

Here's a photo of me at the ATMA Kentucky spring convention with our portable Ashiatsu bars. I gave out about 30 free Ashiatsu demonstrations that weekend! I was 6 months pregnant too!

Class information is found at www.affinitymassages.com.