Laura Allen is the author of the Plain & Simple Guide to Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork Examinations (2nd ed, LWW, 2009) and One Year to a Successful Massage Therapy Practice (LWW, 2008. Her new book, A Massage Therapist's Guide to Business, will be available in January 2011. She has although authored a romance novel, Affair of the Heart, that's available as an e-book through Amazon and affiliated sites. Allen is a sitting member of the North Carolina Board of Massage & Bodywork Therapy, and is North Carolina's delegate to the Federation of State Massage Therapy Boards. She is also Nationally Certified and an Approved Provider of Continuing Education under the NCBTMB. Allen is a regular contributor to Massage Magazine, Massage & Bodywork Magazine, and Massage News. Allen is an accomplished musician, singer and songwriter who has made appearances on public radio, public television, and has appeared as a guest on 5 CDs, as well as recording one of her own with the band Hogwild. She is the owner of THERA-SSAGE, an alternative wellness clinic located in Rutherfordton NC employing over a dozen practitioners of different disciplines. "

For more information visit: www.LauraAllenmt.com.

Art Riggs is a Certified Advanced Rolfer® and massage therapist who has been teaching bodywork since 1988 and now sells Myofascial release videos and manuals worldwide. A lifetime of hard physical activity and high level athletic pursuits including ultra-marathons led him to bodywork, first as a grateful recipient, and later as a student. The fulfillment he experienced in both receiving and performing bodywork led him away from his graduate studies in Exercise Physiology at the University of California, Berkeley to a full time career as a Rolfer and teacher of Deep Tissue Massage. He has conducted numerous workshops for health spas and for medical professionals, including physical therapists, and has assisted in Rolf Institute trainings. For the first ten years of his practice, he specialized in myofascial release at a physical therapy clinic where an interest in the treatment of injuries was cultivated. He has worked with several Olympic athletes, professional football and basketball players, and professional dancers and musicians to treat injuries and to improve performance. However, his teaching and the practice of working with the general population to provide a better awareness of their bodies and allow more ease and comfort in their everyday lives remains the most gratifying aspect of his work.

For more information visit: www.DeepTissueMassageManual.com.

Dr. Michael Lenarz practices chiropractic in a small northwest Washington town called Sedro-Woolley. He is also founder of a small chain of chiropractic offices in Washington State and Michigan. He received his doctorate from Sherman College in Spartanburg, SC where he was awarded the B.J. Palmer Philosophical Distinction Award. He is now a member of the SHerman COllege Board of Regents and Board of Trustees. He was awarded the Chiropractor of the year award from the Blair Chiropractic Society (A chiropractic technique group) in 2003.

For more information visit: www.TheChiropracticWay.com.

by Coach Cary Bayer

At the end of the 1980's, futurist John Naisbitt wrote a book that envisioned, among other things, a more sensitive world emerging as a response to the high tech revolution. His Megatrends camped out at the top of the New York Times best-seller list for nearly two years, selling eight million copies in 57 countries. Naisbitt's polished crystal ball saw the forthcoming trend, "High Tech/High Touch" that has much to teach healers, whether they work in traditional modalities or their more alternative counterparts.

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by Vietta Wilson, PhD, and Erik Peper, PhD

Biofeedback and neurofeedback training procedures are often different for athletes than for clinical patients. Athletes come to improve performance whereas patients come to reduce symptoms. This article outlines factors that distinguish work with athletes from work with clinical patients. The differences in training include the purpose of training, the nature of the participant in training, session design, and covert factors underlying the training. Unlike clients, athletes often do intensive transfer of learning training, between 2 and 6 hours of daily sport practice across days, weeks, and months. Although biofeedback and neurofeedback are important factors for enhancing peak performance, there are many covert and overt factors producing performance success such as motivation, intensity of training, ''A-ha'' experiences, experimental expectancy, behavioral consequences, and mastery learning. The training process with athletes is illustrated through a case example of a young tennis player who mastered control of his anger.

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by Tim Brunson, PhD

Frequently a person undergoes psychotherapy due to their inability to integrate life's experiences in a healthy and productive way. This is caused by problems with their values and beliefs, which are the patterns that they use to filter reality. I see these values and beliefs functioning as a lens, which both limits options and gives a rather incomplete and inaccurate view of the universe and its unlimited possibilities – which is the ultimate reality. Such a person regularly and inadequately accommodates and assimilates their perceptions, which survive the filtering process. This leaves them ill prepared to handle the breadth of life's experiences. Although psychotherapy should help a client or patient overcome this problem, too often it can contribute to its perpetuation.

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