Vision: Being

About 15 years ago we articulated the school’s vision:

              ”  To  instill in each student, the marriage of informed honed skill and a giant heart of compassion, united by a spirit of service.” 

The  spirit of service is about being not doing. It’s not only about skills or techniques or what we’ve learned about structure and function. It’s about serving from our center, our core and observing what is present with compassion.

What do you love about your experience here?
A student, who is completing our program today, wrote in response to that question: “I like the person that I’ve become and it’s been an enlightening journey”.

The school’s unique contribution is our commitment to a holistic, client-centered approach not only to teaching massage and skincare but also in our day-to-day function as an organization. Remaining true to the vision while growing a business isn’t easy. It’s about work.

“Human relationships are why we are here. Through them we grow and awaken. Our purpose here in this school called earth, is to remove all the fears that block our true nature, love, from emerging and expressing itself. We accomplish this through our interactions with others. Though this may be somewhat more obvious in our family and social relationships, this is no less true for the relationships in our work-lives. Nor are these work relationships any less important to our learning process. Though relationships take many forms, each comes with the same lesson, to teach and learn love, for that is what we are here.”

Robert Roskind, In the Spirit of Business

Leticia Allen

Where the fruit is

Writing this blog will be challenging for me but I do hold the belief that we grow whenever we venture beyond our comfort zone. Frankly, I don’t enjoy writing and I’m inclined to be shy. But it was my idea to create this blog site so I’m climbing out to the skinny branches. And I’m going to have fun.

With almost 27 years of growing a business Read the rest of this entry »

A Child Is Born

• Welcome to our blog. We’re absolutely thrilled to be one of the first to launch a blog that is dedicated to all things massage and skincare.
• Our interest in blogs was really sparked last Spring. But with major distractions in the Fall we set the project aside. So, for us, it’s been a long gestation.
• Many thanks to our intrepid bloggers, Laurie, Abigail, Lovelace and Melinda. They’ve jumped right in as baby bloggers and they’re natural swimmers.
• Special appreciation to our nurturing “doulas”. Our own Debbie Hellmann, Marketing Coordinator, Luiz Varanda of Reason Labs, website master extraordinaire, and our friends at Prominent Placement who have guided our Internet presence for years.
• Also, much gratitude to Toby Bloomberg of Diva Marketing. When we were referred to a “blog” expert, we Read the rest of this entry »