Essential Oils for Massage Therapists

We hope you are excited to learn about these wonderful oils and all they can do to support your health and complement your practice! As you get ready to take notes, let's quickly hit a few formalities, and then we’ll get this class started! ___________________________________ This class has...

Your clients come to you for a variety of reasons. Some to help with relaxation, others to help ease tension and stressors to their muscles from their livelihoods, and still others turn to you to feel rejuvenated. Whatever the reason, incorporating Essential Oils into your offered services can...

Diffusing is an excellent way to set the overall experience or atmosphere in your practice. Not only will it help to reduce airborne germs, it can also help to boost the overall tone of your waiting area.   Depending on what type of atmosphere you are looking to create, the Essential Oils listed...

Many massage therapists already incorporate Essential Oils into the services offered at their practice. Some offer them as an upgrade to a standard service and some offer them as a separate service all by themselves. With just under 70 different types of therapeutic massage, there are sure to be...

Many of you are active in our daily lives, whether it’s from your job, an aggressive exercise regimen or from participating in sports. Sometimes your muscles and joints could use some extra care from being over worked. A Sport Massage typically targets those areas and actively helps with muscle...

A massage that focuses on the feet can be such a relaxing experience for those looking to relieve tension and achieve deeper relaxation through massage therapy. As Massage Therapists, you know just which areas in each foot to focus on based on your clients’ needs.   Whether adding Essential Oils...

Earlier in the class we discussed different Essential Oils and what their effects were, such as rejuvenating, calming, restoring, etc. With that in mind you can create ready to use massage oils blended for a specific purpose. You can also adjust what kind of carrier oil to utilize in these custom...

The hands are a very important part of our every day lives. As a Massage Therapist, your hands are your livelihood and serve as the tools of your trade. Taking care of your hands is as important for your business as it is to the clients you see each day.   Incorporating Essential Oils into hand...

Just as with hand massage techniques, the use of Essential Oils during infant massage sessions also requires greater dilution. Their skin is more delicate than that of an adult so greater care is needed to avoid and prevent skin irritation. While there are dilution charts all over the internet,...

Another big portion of your workday is taken up by the cleaning and disinfecting done between clients. Giving your massage tables or chairs a quick wipe down in between clients, with the use of cleaning agents that have harsh chemicals that we’ve all been led to believe are necessary to clean and...

In your practice you use plenty of towels, sheets, pillows, etc. throughout the course of the day. You want those items to be fresh and clean for your clients and you also want to make sure that germs and odors have been removed from them as well.   Commercial laundry detergents and fabric...

You use your hands, arms and shoulders all day, every day to provide soothing massages to your clients, but at the end of the day, who does that for you? Self-care for your tired and overworked muscles is very important if you are going to be able to continue doing what you do for many years....

Long story short, Massage Therapists are an extremely important part of life for many people. Without you and the services you provide, many people would struggle through discomfort or turn to over the counter products for help. You provide a natural solution to that discomfort with the...