How to choose the massage school that is best for you.
Your career in massage starts with choosing the massage school that will best meet your needs for time and money spent. You will need to be able to pass the licensing requirements in your state which usually is to pass the Massage and…
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How much you make as a massage therapist depends on the area you live and the skills you have to negotiate a job in massage or to start and run your own massage business. Currently, massage therapists are in high demand which means…
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In order to become a massage therapist in the US, you will need to become a licensed massage therapist at least in most states. Only a few states still do not have licensing requirements at this time like Minnesota, Wyoming, Vermont. California has…
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I was able to attend the AMTA Convention as a Board member of my local AMTA-WA chapter. This was my first national convention in all of my 35 years of being a massage therapist. I have to say the very best part was attending the National Board of Massage Meeting the day before the convention…
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The Showdown of Massage Therapy Competitions: Balancing Artistry and Client-Centricity
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It isn’t about the technique…yet it is.
Massage therapy encompasses a wide range of techniques and methods that have evolved over centuries from various cultures around the world. From Swedish massage to Thai massage, deep tissue massage to shiatsu, each approach offers distinct benefits and focuses on different aspects of relaxation, pain relief, and overall well-being. However, despite the diversity of these…
1 Review on “Tennessee School of Massage”
DON’T LET THE PRETTY WEBSITE FOOL YOU. Please do not allow the welcoming act to get you either. You think you’re signing up for 9 months of learning. You’re actually signing up for a few years of hell. If you don’t believe me, go enroll, but if you are reading this right now, you can NEVER say you weren’t warned. If you want details read on, but I had to put a warning in the earliest parts of this review because David Pryor is a the center of a lot of TSOM students burnout before their Massage careers even started.
my child went to this school and all I can say is David Pryor gets off on the suffrage of other people. My daughter graduated way after the 9 month program that was advertised by the school at the time she started, and she was traumatized DEEPLY. That’s why I’m writing the complaint instead of my child, because she is too afraid of him. David has done nothing but run students into the ground by lying and gaslighting students, and it’s so bad to the point that they’ve had to take a break after graduating because of burnout.
David is a poor leader and a sadist. I suspect some type of trauma from his upbringing because the lack of consideration he has towards everyone and everything other than MONEY amazes me. The stories I would hear about the way he talked to my child completely disgusted me, and he was a sexually aggressive man on top of that? I give it till next year and I’ll be surprised if that building is still standing because someone is going to give him a taste of his own medicine before he leaves this Earth.
There is no way every student of that school that my child has spoken to says they experienced some type of abuse from David and he still has not been caught! GO. TO. A. DIFFERENT. SCHOOL. I mention David so much you would think he was a licensed therapist himself right? Wrong, he isn’t. His wife is, and guess what- She’s always burnt out too. I met her once and I overheard the way he spoke to her in his corner office…poor woman. He runs everything and limits his wife’s ability to learn how to run the applications and technology because that keeps her, the true skill of massage, dependent on him. Without Cissie, David would truly have to be the failure of a man that he is. Had my daughter told me the things he did to her ahead of time I would have made her withdraw. David will see me in court very soon. He preys on his wife’s Massage therapy license and he preys on the free labor that is massage therapy students.
If you want to have a better experience when becoming a massage therapist, I cant tell you where to go, but I can tell you what to avoid, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE A YOUNG WOMAN. If you want to flourish and avoid burnour before you even start your career, if you want to actually learn and not be treated as his employee and belittled while he stacks his money and neglects your education while his wife just sits there and suffers, do yourself and your hard earned money a favor, and SEEK A RELIABLE SCHOOL.
If you enroll here, no one can save you or your money. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. Considering the fact that you are seeking a massage school and paying out of pocket, im assuming you dont want to pay for a low quality exhausting experience, and im also assuming you dont have $10,000 to throw around, so be wise about choosing a school. It sounds amazing on paper, it seems accessible, he pulls out all the bells and whistles while you’re completing that application, and it’s so easy to get enrolled and pay that tuition and guess what. That’s set up that way for a reason. Narcissists do the bait and switch the best. if you dont believe me, I dare you to enroll. Don’t let me stop you. My daughter was naive too and she’s afraid of him, but im not. David is on a countdown with the higher power…