According to LiveSpa magazine in their 2009 issue, the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine found that a regular massage could actually help you live longer. After one deep-tissue massage, researchers found that the systolic and diastolic blood pressures of people dropped an average of seven points. These lower blood pressure numbers could increase a person’s lifespan by up to six years. Schedule your massage treatments now!
Scot Maitland, graduate of The Soma Institute in 2003, co-produced an article in Massage entitled “Starting Massage School: Get Your Educational Support System in Place.”
Along with Kourtnee Kovacs, Maitland discusses a student’s support system of references, faculty, classmates and themselves and how these micro-systems become an entire educational support system, helping students make their way through massage therapy school.
Maitland is currently the business instructor of the Lauterstein-Conway Massage School.
The Soma Institute’s Student Teaching Clinic is offering one-hour massage treatments to the public for the exceptional price of only $25. Experience the benefits of a clinical massage therapy treatment. Please call (312) 939-2723 for details and to book your appointment today!
Pat Malone, commonly known among his colleagues as “the massage therapist,” won a prize during a drawing held by the American Massage Therapy Association. The Soma Institute donated a course in their master’s program, one of the only established master’s programs available in the world for massage therapy. Malone’s lucky draw earned him a master’s course in either Neurology or Facial Techniques.
Pat is currently leaning towards the Neurology course. He also intends to begin classes this summer stating, “I’m really looking forward to my first experience with The Soma Institute. Many times when I support a drawing or buy raffle tickets, I usually pass it on to one of my associates, but I chose to keep this one.”
With his 23 years of massage therapy experience, Pat will not only enjoy the course, but he will be able to offer his extensive experience and knowledge to fellow students. The Soma Institute would like to congratulate and wish him the best of luck.
On June 23, 2009, members of The Soma Institute Advisory Board had their first meeting to discuss how The Soma Institute could improve its curriculum and how its students could be more prepared for the work force. All of the input received came from prestigious employers from around the Chicago area. The members consisted of Tommy Jenkins, owner of Thera Massage, Fabienne Lindholm, Spa & Health Club Director at Elysian Hotel, Natalie Tessler, owner of Spa Space and Dr. Jeremy Weisz, owner of Chiropractical Solutions. We appreciate the valued input of all members and look forward to a continued relationship with them.
Gain important skills to help improve people’s lives with The Soma Institute. We welcome commuters from nearby cities like Oak Park and Evanston.
The Soma Institute encourages students from all over Chicago and surrounding areas to attend our massage school, which specializes in clinical massage. We provide a positive and inviting atmosphere for students commuting from Oak Park or Evanston for massage training.
The Soma Institute makes it easy to pursue your true calling: helping others feel better. Massage therapists offer a number of benefits for their clients, like:
The Soma Institute offers many choices for students who live near Oak Park or Evanston for their clinical massage therapy training needs. Students commuting can find a place to park in parking garages off the street close to our campus. Commuters also have public transportation options, as well.
Contact us today to start your massage training.
The Soma Institute is proud to welcome the June 2009 incoming class!
Student Orientation for the new class is on Monday, June 22, 2009 at 8:30 a.m. Students will be greeted by an eager and excited community of Soma faculty and staff. Once the students have settled, their intellectual journey through the clinical massage therapy field will begin.
Our incoming students span an area from Aurora, Illinois to Chicago, Illinois, and even all the way to Shellville, Georgia.
The Soma Institute is incredibly excited for yet another incoming class of upcoming clinical massage therapists. Like our previous graduates, these students will end up working in hospitals, with sports teams, in doctors’ offices, and perhaps even developing their own clinics.
We wish the June 2009 class the best of luck!
20 students from the April 2008 Evening/Weekend class provided sports massage on Sunday, June 7, to over 300 participants of the Chicago Half Marathon. Treatment sessions were provided to runners both before and after the race. Prior to the race, sessions were geared towards helping the runners stretch out and warmed up for running. After the race, the objective was to help the runners work out cramps, loosen muscles that felt tighter than they normally would, and to help the runners recover faster from their aches and pains.
Runners not only received massage sessions, but were also educated by the students on new methods of stretching and how and why sports massage is so effective.
Mike Hovi, who along with Lambert Caldwell supervised the students, reported that they were very proud of both the quantity and quality of the sessions provided. They found that the students quickly forgot they were nervous and performed like seasoned therapists. Mike stated that he could not have been any prouder of the work they did and that he could see they are ready for their future careers as clinical massage therapists.
We had our first opportunity to have the members of the Chicago Red Stars visit the Student Clinic last Tuesday evening. As we have reported in past entries, the Red Stars are a women’s professional soccer team that The Soma Institute forged a partnership with earlier this year. Among those who attended the sesssion were 8 athletes and the team’s trainer. This was an excellent opportunity for the students working in the clinic that evening to treat clients with specific athletic injuries.
I asked Mike Hovi, The Soma Institute’s Program Director how the evening had gone and he replied via e-mail with the following, “Students kept saying how great it was to work with athletes because they have a very different perspective on massage…they see it as a means of getting over injuries rather than just a ‘Relaxation session’.”
We look forward to having the Red Star players in the student clinic later this season at other specialty clinics that have been scheduled.
