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5 Career Pathways for Massage Therapists

If you’re about to finish massage school or considering enrolling, you’ve probably tried to picture what your career will look like once you’re a licensed massage therapist. Whether you picture yourself helping your clients relax in a soothing spa environment or envision a structured schedule helping patients alongside medical providers, there’s likely a niche that’s perfect for you. Here are 5 common career pathways for massage therapists: 1. Day Spa Spa environments are one of the more common places massage therapists land, and there are several pros that make it easy to see why. LMTs in spas often [...]

Why Choose Massage & Bodywork as a Career?

This week marks the opening of the Philadelphia School of Massage and Bodywork! This is a project that my co-founder Julia Bayardi & I have been dreaming of — and working on — for more than three years. But really, it’s been longer than that because we both were drawn to this profession early on in our careers. In designing this school and outlining the curriculum, Julia & I have talked many times with each other and with our instructors about what makes a good massage therapist or bodyworker, and how each of this came to choose particular path [...]