Tennessee Licensed
Nationally Certified
Nashville & Franklin's First and Only Certified Fertility Massage Specialist
Prenatal Trained
Certified in Thai Yoga Massage/Bodywork
Acupressure Trained
Lymphatic Massage Trained
Cancer
Massage Trained
Member of Williamson Co./Franklin
Chamber of Commerce
I am a massage therapist for a lot of reasons. The most important reason
is that for many years, my family and friends were going through some pretty rough health problems...and I couldn't
do a thing for them. On top of that, their doctors had given up hope for them and had basically perscribed enough medicine
to help them endure the situation. This made me feel helpless and angery.
In an effort to help my loved ones, I began to study Chinese Qigong methods of healing in
the middle 1990's, and wanted to further that work with a more traditional "hands on" therapy. My wife
happened upon an article about a Thai massage school in Miami, FL, and it immediately captured my attention. I packed
up my small Chevy Blazer with enough dry cereal and breakfast bars for a month and headed south to Miami. I spent four
weeks at the exclusive Mandrin Oriential Hotel and Spa on Miami's Biscayne Bay learning the traditional northern
style of Thai massage from the Mandrin's senior Thai massage instructor. It was the hardest course I've ever
taken...and one of the most rewarding.
I returned to Franklin ready to start a Thai massage practice, but quickly found out that according to Tennessee state
law, you need to have a massage license to practice any kind of Thai bodywork. I eventualy enrolled in Cumberland Institute
of Holistic Therapies in Brentwood, TN, and upon graduation, I took the Tennessee state and national massage licensing exams.
(I passed!)
As I pondered
how I could specialize my massage practice and make it better and different from everyone else, I wondered if there was anyone
else out there who didn't enjoy driving through traffic to a spa for a massage, hunt for a parking space, pay $65 for
a 55 minute session, jump back into a car and fight traffic all the way back home. That just didn't seem
relaxing to me.
So, I decided
that my massage practice would be totally outcall, in-home massage therapy. I would provide excellent massage services
in the comfort and safety of my client's own home, eliminating the drive to the spa, the hunt for a parking space and the
stress.
In my massage
practice, I specialize in Swedish massage, Thai massage, acupressure and Lymphatic drainage techniques. In January of 2007,
I received additional training in massage techniques that are specially adapted to survivors of cancer. Although many
massage therapists are taught to never massage a cancer patient or survivor, if done correctly and with care, massage can
be extremely healing to the mind, body and spirit of anyone who has undergone cancer treatment.
