I’ve just begun researching an article on how social networking can help massage therapists (market, reach clients, connect with colleagues). If you would like to be included in the article, please send me an email at kmenehan@massagemag.com and we can set up an interview.
Whether you’re already a social networker or not, be sure to check out MASSAGE Magazine’s Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/#/MassageMagazine?ref=search&sid=795283418.1015148408..1
I just wrote up a news story for our website, and wanted to give it an extra push out to the massage-o-sphere. Here goes.
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) at the National Institutes of Health is inviting input from the public to assist the creation of its long-range plan. This input “will provide guideposts for future scientific direction, a useful framework for priority setting, and continue the internal efforts to advance the organization,” a statement on NCCAM’s website reads.
I’d love to see massage therapists, en masse, provide NCCAM with some solid information and ideas about massage therapy and the clientele that can benefit from it. The site below covers NCCAM’s plan and includes a link where you can comment.
To comment on the NCCAM Strategic Plan: 2010, visit http://plan.nccam.nih.gov.
In my years reporting on this field, I’ve learned about massage and spa therapies done in at-first-unimaginable venues—from airports to backstage at circuses. I used to react with no little amazement to these stories. But now I realize: Wherever there are people, there’s a need for healthy touch.
So it was with surprise tempered with an “of course!” that I read a new article from Newsweek—posted online today and to run in the Nov. 9 print edition—that describes a new fusion: the spa-fari.
It entails spa treatments provided to people on safaris.
“Safaris can be seriously hard work,” the article notes. “The dedicated animal voyeur needs to be up at the crack of dawn, bumping over rough dirt tracks in jeeps and scouring the thicket for rhinos and giraffes.”
In this economy, it’s essential for massage therapists to think outside the usual word-of-mouth box. So, tell me: Shat is the most interesting or unusual place you’ve seen massage offered?
Read the complete Newsweek article here: www.newsweek.com/id/220754.
