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August
2007 |
The Spa College News Bulletin with Touching from the Heart and Spa-Pros
Welcome Breaking News: We finally got our Continuing Education ducks in a row: 20 credits for Element I, 20 for Element II and 8 for the Manager Seminar in Costa Rica from NCBTMB - it's now official! |
| Training Survey Results. And the Winner is... Expected Results of Last Month's Training Needs Survey Are In. Thanks to all those who participated. When the thought of training reaches the mind of many spa owners and individual practitioner's, it is seen as something that is an unpleasant duty and another out of pocket cost. Do we really need to be trained on the newest machine, trend or oohhh....here come those continuing education credit requirements again. Let's get training back to something that is affordable, accessible and exciting for us as business people and healing arts specialists. How do we do that? For starters, helping provide information for industry surveys like the one from Spa College. This allows us to gather your needs as experts and build processes to help fulfill those needs. Candy Nicolson of Agape Healing Center is one of those experts, and the gracious winner of our Sabai Spa Package www.sabaispa.com for her participation in last months training survey. Find out the details here: Survey Results |
Adventure Travel, & Eco Tourism: Costa Rica Coast to Coast . You can travel from a cool mountainous climate to volcanic hiking locations and even try your hand (or foot) at repelling down a waterfall. You still have plenty of exotic locations to hit during your stay in this sub tropical climate. Take a zip line through the canopy on the Caribbean and surf the left breaks on the Pacific. Top it off with a visit to Mount Chirripo, where at 12,532 feet, they say you can see both the sun set and the moon rise at the same time. Curios? Read on |
| Additional Income for Service Providers We all know that it can be challenging to make a living providing health and wellness services, especially massage. Doing back to back sessions over a prolonged period can be exhausting and because of that, many therapists have not been able to make ends meet. Enter a non labor-based source of income that is related to health and wellness. The following story is from a recent email dialog we had with Jini Carlson whose personal health forced her to look at her nutritional needs and who has created an alternate source of income in addition to her bodywork practice... Read letter from Jini Carslon |
| Specialized Services - Cancer Recovery One element of being successful is to find one's niche. As a spa, we can target new client groups by offering specialized services. As massage goes mainstream, and spas become more prevalent so does the need to specialize become a necessity. Cheryl Chapman wrote to us and her focus is a great example of what this specialization could be. Not only is the work she does a great and hard to find service to her clients, but she also shares her experience with those who want to develop their practice. Visit her web site |
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| Thai Herbal Ball Experience. Salt Lake City, UT Oct. 5 -7 Want to know how you can perform more massages' each day, without sore achy hands while increasing your "bookability" and revenue? Join us for an exciting class and earn you CEU's at the same time. First time offered in Salt Lake City, well known trainer and consultant, Liz Galloway offers an informative and exciting class on ancient Thai therapies and how you can incorporate hot and cold compresses into your existing therapies and create more specialty treatments. This course utilizes the authentic herbal compress from our sponsor Sabai Spa . Sponsored by Sabai Spa.... Find out more |
| Spa Service Training I, II & III Costa Rica Nov 4 -16 And here's another lead. As people have begun signing up for the Costa Rica series we are finding a wide range of professionals interested in taking the classes. From medical spa owner through spa director to massage therapist seeking a new direction, we are seeing that there is a recognized need to dive deeper into the development and application of eco-centric spa treatments, designed for the unique clientele and with the resources locally available rather than off-the-shelf concepts. Join us for this opportunity in Costa Rica with Spa College. |
| Massage Training Intensive and Clinic. Hawaii Oct. 7 - 21 The Touching from the Heart massage training team is preparing for their next workshop in October. The upcoming 100 hour certification workshop in Hawaii is a complete training in therapeutic massage and is suitable for beginners and trained therapists alike. At the end of the retreat all participants are able to provide an awesome full body therapeutic massage - guaranteed. A new addition is the optional 2-day clinic following the class that gives back to the community, that is so generous in supporting our retreat. Now in it's fifth year, Touching from the Heart will expand its offerings in 2008 with a 5-day Advanced Bodywork Training and a Teacher's Training for those who wish to share this work as facilitators. Visit www.learn-massage.com for complete information. As far as we are concerned, massage should be a life-skill everyone should have. Don't you agree? |
| Workshop Calendar We are starting to put a calendar together as a convenient way to see what courses are available. One day soon you will be able to add your own workshops. Until then you can submit them for review and we'll add them... Got To Calendar |
| Want to Know Why My Spa is So Popular? Take advantage of pre-sale prices for two expert e-books on maximizing your sales, and customizing your career in this industry. That includes creating popularity for your spa. Why an e-book? More and more, large companies, publishers and agents are turning to the digital distribution of materials. E-books are in demand, and the majority of people are now turning to online magazines, books, newsletters and subscriptions. E-books are immediately accessible from anywhere, provide valuable information, and help sustainability with a paperless transfer. We want to make the access to knowledge as simple as possible, and support sustainable living. Two industry authors, Liz Galloway from The Lotus Effects and Heather Gallegos have published two e-books Find out about a Special Deal |
| As always, thank you for your time spent with us and please continue to send us information helpful to the community. Liz Galloway and Nicolay Kreidler. editor@spa-college.com. |
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