Posts Tagged ‘city sports massage’

Want a job with City Sports Massage? Looking for a training course? We need therapists!

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011

Would you like to train with an internationally-renowned sports massage company?

City Sports Massage regularly attract referrals from across the globe – North and South America, all across Europe, even China recently! We are well known because we’re friendly, approachable, and have a very high standard of work.

CSM run a Graduate Training Scheme for appropriately qualified freelance sports massage therapists. If you’ve done a sports massage course, but feel like you need help in developing your confidence and building a practice, we might be just the right people to speak to.

Our training includes a full program of intensive workshops, training sessions developed individually around specific needs, and close mentoring and support. Teaching ratios are often three teachers to one student, and never less than one teacher to two students! After an initial series of workshops, those undertaking our training program are considered fully-fledged members of our team, and are promoted through our marketing channels and large, ever-growing database of clients. As graduate trainees thus begin working and earning as CSM Therapists, they receive continuous feedback via our extensive support network, which greatly assists in the fast-track learning process.

Entry is limited to a very small number of applicants per year. Applicants are expected to continue working freelance for us post-completion of all training.

If you are interested in working in a supportive atmosphere, and being part of the best, most widely known sports massage team in London, please read more here to find out how to apply.

Please note that you must be a graduate of a sports massage course in order to train on our Graduate Training Scheme.

What is massage therapy?

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

You’re in pain, stressed, and you need a massage – but you’re not sure where to go. There’s deep tissue massage, sports massage, and remedial massage, to name but a few. But why so many definitions? Is somebody trying to confuse us?

At it’s most fundamental, massage therapy (and for that matter most bodywork) is about *manipulation* of the muscoskeletal system.

So far, so simple.

But historically, business people have tried to name, and define their brand. By naming their product, they are able to to market it – to sell it, and in the case of massage therapy, to teach it.

So every massage therapy has a different name, and, when you consider that every massage therapist has had a different a different training, and has different personal skill sets, it’s easy to see why you can find yourself both confused and disappointed when you go for a treatment.

It is worth noting that an experienced, developed, able therapist will allow these imaginary divisions to blur – as each person who requests a treatment has their own unique requirements. We at City Sports Massage constantly challenge our therapists during their in-house training, with perceptions of what constitutes ‘sports massage’.

To give you an idea of ‘definitions’, you can read an outline of our massage treatments here.

But please remember; what is essential to you receiving a good treatment, is that your therapist is *listening* to you, and has the skills and experience to communicate with your body.

It’s not really about the definition of the treatment, it’s about the definition of the relationship.