QUALITIES OF A GREAT MASSAGE THERAPIST

A great massage therapist can command a long list of loyal clientele. To be the most successful in this business, one must have a certain set of qualities that makes people want to come back. Some of those top qualities include:

•Business Management Skills: A great massage therapist has excellent business management skills and can handle running a practice or working on a freelance basis. They are good with finances and marketing.

•Creates a Relaxing Atmosphere: A great massage therapist employs a variety of means to ensure a relaxing atmosphere, including dim lighting, soothing scents, or music.

•Interpersonal Skills: A great massage therapist has excellent interpersonal skills and can create a rapport with a client that helps put them at ease during a treatment. They answer questions readily and explain what they are doing during a massage.

•Manual Dexterity: A great massage therapist has excellent manual dexterity and is able to easily perform the complicated maneuvers massage therapy requires.

•Sense of Empathy: A great massage therapist has a strong sense of empathy and strives to use their massage techniques to help improve a client’s well-being.

Questions to testing a therapist…

Would I make a good Massage Therapist?

Do you enjoy working with your hands?

Are you looking for a career that will allow you more professional freedom?

Do you have a desire to help others?

Do you see yourself as a nurturing person?

Are you interested in learning about human anatomy and how the body moves and functions?

Would you like having a flexible work schedule or a full time work?

Do you enjoy working one on one with people?

Do you consider yourself a good listener?

Would you enjoy coaching people on better ways to care for their bodies?

Have you been told you have a great touch?

Have friends/family told you that you would make a great Massage Therapist?

Would you enjoy working in a calm healing environment?

*Work with heart and soul, the therapist hands are like a sacred instrument that gives the treasure that is inside(golden hands!).

*It is a good listener and empathizes with the client’s needs perfectly.

*Understand what it means to work intuitively.

*Understand that massage is a whole  therapy  that beginning with the first look, the first handshake,the first touch, the first smile, massage is an art that is inside us, massage is not a mechanical thing.

* The therapist  gives the best attitude! Work emotional, spiritual…

*Undestand what meens a energetic therapies. Buddhattitude therapies are a combination of knowledge of Ayurvedic Tibetan concept, but also a combination of other therapies from all the word- like Shiatsu, Thai, Lomi Lomi, Swedish…The trainer speake about energetic points, energetic meridians, chakras and the therapist must have knowledge about this, is information collected in many years, a good therapist know all this things.

Daniela Dumitru,