Asheville & NCSAB

DSL — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:36:25 +0000

Hello Everyone. … Yes, that includes YOU!Here I am at the brand new Green Sage Cafe in downtown Asheville, in the Blue Ridge mountains of far western North Carolina. This is a beautiful area and there's a lot to do,�especially�if you are the outdoors type. The downtown area has a lot going for it too: lots of shops and cafes, entertainment, restaurants, three large health food stores, and a few smaller ones, free-range beef and chicken, brown rice at the Asian restaurants, and so on.�Many people come to visit Asheville from all over the country and world.One of Asheville's major attractions is the Biltmore House, an amazing, super large and elegantly crafted home built by the very wealthy Vanderbilts many years ago. I've not been there yet, but everyone tells me the place is fantastic.�I could go on and on about Asheville, but suffice it to say its one of the less than half dozen places in America I have been really interested in moving to. …But on to the main reason I am here, and writing this post.�My friend Kyle Wright sold his five massage schools — which he founded and ran for 17 years — and is opening a brand new, state-of-the-art school in Fairview, which is just a 10 minute drive southwest of Asheville. Fairview is quite popular too, having attracted a lot of wealthy people, including retirees, who are building many quite expensive homes. Golf courses, too; one being built by Tiger Woods.�Details on Kyles school can be found at:�www.NCSAB.com�Kyle and I are planning on me teaching advanced structural bodywork trainings and yoga therapeutics at his school, beginning in August, 2008, coming up fast. The building is almost finished, probably early to mid-June. He bought an old bungalow and had it FULLY restored, with a large addition in the back to house two nice size training rooms, one upstairs, one downstairs. It's just a short walk to an excellent yet small, well stocked health food store for some great stuff to eat, and organic coffee, beer or wine. (No, we do NOT want you drinking beer or wine while attending classes.)Kyle will be teaching his basic, core�curriculum�for those who want an entry level education in Clinical Massage Therapy & Structural Bodywork. This is not for the usual spa or resort type massage, unless they are looking for clinical practitioners. But for Kyle, and his reputation, basic, entry level is far more advanced than most schools in the country.�He has worked with many�physicians�as well as rich and famous people — like the #1 in the world golf pros. His reputation for being one of the best therapists and educators in the country is pretty hard to beat.�After 17 years of running five schools with large staffs and very high overhead, he also will only be accepting 16 students per class, maximum, so class size will be small and quite personal. He will be personally teaching much of the program.One reason I want to work with him is that about 13 years ago, he took a four day training from me and he said it changed his life. He went back home and, mid-semester, announced to the students in his classes that he was completely changing what he had been teaching, based on what he learned from me. That was mainly the Edge Technique and principles of Structural Balancing. More than anyone, even me, Kyle has kept my name and reputation alive with far more people than I have … like more than 6,000 well-trained therapists that have graduated from his schools. …�I really cannot thank him enough for that,�except�by working with him to help make his new school a success, and offering my programs, as much as possible, though his school.Right now, the plan is for me to be a student in the first Clinical Massage Therapy class. … Now, you might ask, Why in the world would I want to do THAT?�Well, I am mostly self-taught, and never went to massage school. So I never got the credentials to sit for the national certification exam which most states require for licensure as a massage therapist. Since I have mostly lived in states that had no licensing laws, and I have significant philosophical issues with the whole testing procedure and professional licensing in general, I did not bother to get that certification.�After all, I was teaching continuing education at some of the top massage schools across the country, so what did I need a license for? …Well, the nation is going more and more bureaucratic (instead of less and less, as I had naively hoped), more states have passed licensure laws, and it is harder to function without a license nowadays. So while I personally am anti-licensure and anti-government�intervention in private and economic matters, and held out for many years, I guess I'm going to do it.�Yes, some people are going to say I told you so … meaning that I would someday have to let go of my resistance to my anti-licensing stance. But I will still be telling people why I think it's a bad idea. … Even if they call me a�hypocrite�for doing so. You can only fight so many battles in a lifetime.The other reason for me taking Kyle's program is so I have an exact reading on where I can, in my advanced trainings, pick up where he left off in his Core�Curriculum. We can have a more cohesive beginning to advanced program structure for those who want to get more education beyond the basics. And I am sure Kyle and I will be doing some really cool team teaching at some point in the future for people who really want to go not just to the next level, but several levels up.Now, don't get me wrong. A person can go a LONG way, and become one of the best, in Clinical Massage Therapy with what you would learn in his 1st level program. But there's no way anyone with the�experience, knowledge and skills that people like Kyle and I have could transmit that amount of material in 6 months and 500 hours. So be prepared to hear more about this school from me and others.And by the way, the reason I am writing this in a Yoga Blog is because I will be teaching my yoga basics and yoga therapy programs through his school. If things take off I won't have time to go anywhere else to teach. I'll be too busy here (see exception, below).�And yes, a big, long-term interest of mine is working with people who want to be yoga/bodywork therapists, with the two disciplines being fully integrated as a whole system. So me working through a clinical massage school is a natural thing.EXCEPTION: I AM planning to do at least one 10 to 12 day intensive every 3 to 6 months at some location in the Caribbean, in Ecuador, or somewhere�exotic like that.�Okay. That's all I have time for right now. I'll be in touch soon as all this develops.Take Care,David Scott LynnDSL:�Your Hi-Touch Up-Link to the Inner-Net �

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