Email from a practitioner in Canada

Hi Brandon,

I am a Holistic Practitioner and I've read a lot of your articles and what I have found here in Ontario Canada is this;

I work at a spa and am booked for massage just as much as the RMT that works there, the only people that don't book with me are the ones who want to be able to get their money back from a insurance plan so cheap people who don't really care about having a great massage, they just want one for free. I get more compliments on my massage I give and return bookings than the RMT does. People leave my treatment room feeling they have had an awesome experience not just a massage.

I also do massage for mentally and physically disabled people, nursing home residents, group home(foster kids), these places have all had RMT's work there prior to me and none lasted for more than a few months, they are not trained to work by intuition, with energy or anything other than a massage by numbers routine that requires very certain and stable positioning which cannot be obtained when working with these people. I have great success with people of all kinds because of my training and natural intuition and love for the work I do.

I feel that the only time massage should be covered by insurance is for rehabilitation after an accident. It should only be allowed to be covered for extreme therapeutic measures, and in only a clinical setting. It urks me to see people come into a spa atmosphere and want a hot stone massage and want it to be written off by the RMT so they can get there money back...

One time I had a fellow booked in for appt, he canceled because he couldn't write the massage off and get his money back, but as he waited in the lobby for his wife, he heard one of my clients come from my massage treatment, just raving about how it was the best massage he had ever had, felt amazing, couldn't believe a massage could be this unbelievably relaxing and therapeutic at the same time, that I had magical hands and could feel the energy through my hands on his body and in different places then where my hands were actually touching him.... so he booked another appt for the next day he loved it so much... so he left and went on his way and the fellow that had canceled his appt says to me, can I please book in with you for later today or tomorrow,(he was from out of town) please I want to have this experience, I shouldn't have canceled my appt..he even offered to pay a little more than the regular price, if I could fit him in... well I turned him down, told him I did not have availability for him, even though I did, because I thought you were too cheap a few hours ago to try my treatment, but now you want it and will pay more.... NO you are not going to get this great experience from me.....he was quite disappointed.(but I felt good)(I didn't say that last part to him, but I thought it).


You have massage because you want it and need it regardless of the cost, not just because you can get it for free.....

I have had RMT's in with me for massage and they say that my massage is incredible and that the only thing that separates them from me is a piece of paper and over $20,000 dollars in debt.. that there experience with me is better than any RMT they have been too.

Its because my heart is in my work, I absolutely love what I do... being paid for my job is simply a bonus... Its amazing to be able to work at what you love... I'm sure you feel the same way!

Anyways, I hope your freedom ride continues on with great success and if I can be of any assistance, let me know.

talk to you soon

Name withheld by request so she doesn't upset the RMTs that work with her