Edge

Living On The Leading Edge of Advanced Bodywork & Life Itself!

As you get to know us, you’ll understand more about The Edge. It is a central key to providing great bodywork for people and managing many of the aspects of your own life and self.

The short story is that too many people think that “deep tissue” therapy has to be painful for it to work. On the other hand, there are massage therapists who seldom or never work deep enough.

But the best results come when your Client is within their own optimal levels of sensation, on the “Edges” of pain, meaning they LIKE (or are neutral about) what they’re feeling, and are not having to tolerate the pressure you are applying to their muscles.

One of our Mottos is “It’s easier to open the door before you walk through it … and You can’t peel an onion from the inside out.”

Because we start well within the Client’s comfort levels, and have them let us know when we’re getting too deep, they develop a deep trust that we will not hurt them, allowing them to relax even more.

Each thin layer of muscle — each layer a doorway to the next layer — is relaxed, well within the Client’s comfort zone. This allows us to sink through each layer without causing pain, stress or resistance for the Client. We want them to INVITE what we’re doing, not FIGHT what we’re doing.

Since we NEVER, or seldom, intentionally cause them pain from the therapy itself, they can, and do, relax far more deeply. When they do feel pain, they KNOW we will back off instantly, and they become far more cooperative and interactive in their therapeutic process.

In this way, we very often end up working MUCH DEEPER than the “Deep Tissue Therapists.” And we can stay in the deeper tissues longer, getting more done, more effectively and efficiently than other methods.

Working with The Edge keeps You, the therapist, and your Client, more fully focused on their internal relaxation and tension release process, rather than distracted by dealing with or resisting pain, as a result making deeper neurological connections, increasing the effectiveness, efficiency, and results of the therapy you provide for them.

They soon KNOW the difference between YOU and other therapists. And YOU will learn to provide those differences at your Clinical / Medical Massage Therapy School in Charlotte, NC.

Like much of what you’ll be learning with us, there’s A LOT more to it than the above simple descriptions. Yes, our technique treats the deep tissues. Many say we go deeper than most.

Yet in many cases, the “Trick” is to let the skin and surface tissues release first, THEN go deeper, thin layer by thin layer (like working through the layers of an onion) of musculo-fascial tissue, allowing the No Pain, MORE Gain process to work. You’ll learn to deliver deeper bodywork with no significant levels of pain necessarily involved.

The entry-level program at our medical massage therapy school gives you all the tools you need to be a VERY successful practitioner with these methods.