Massage Therapy Graduates Making a Life
Since most of our students already have work experience when they come to school here,
they are looking for ways to do more than support themselves, they want to keep the life
in making a living. They are also looking for meaningful ways to contribute to the well
being of others. How do they express their passion once they leave school and return to
their communities?
Here is a sampling of what graduates are doing today in the community.
Turning Personal Experience into Vision
Triathlete Charles Pegg,('97), knows the value of sports massage first hand
and has an ambitious goal of bringing it to elite althetes world
wide. Read more
Energetic Evaluation
Shiatsu practitioner Tom Banasiak, who works with the
bioenergy of the body, asks the question, "How can you
grasp that which is non-physical?"
Read more
 A Role on Broadway
Working with Cats and other Broadway shows, Fanny
Mandelberger ('83) helped pioneer a role for massage as part
of backstage therapeutic care. Today, massage therapy is
often part of the contract for key cast members. Read more
Teaching Massage Near Angkor Wat
 Every
opportunity begins with a connection to a person and
affection for a certain kind of work. For Ellen Roth ('06) a
personal link to Doctors
Without Borders brought her to a children's hospital in
Cambodia. Read more
Learning for a Lifetime
 Joe Lubow (’87), now the owner of Sarasota School
of Massage Therapy in Florida, feels an important part of bodywork involves awareness,
relationship and community. Read more
 An Imaginative Approach for Dancers and Athletes
Russ Beasley, L.M.T., (’89) is an in-demand therapist with elite athletes and
Broadway performers. What makes his work unique?. Read more
Trading in Wall Street for a License in Massage
The stress of a job in the stock market, followed by the events of 9/11,
led Laura Conroy to our school, and now a new career at a luxury spa in Manhattan.
Read more
 Taking Massage to an EXTREME!
Kristen Sykora's peaceful practice was disrupted not once, but twice,
when she answered the call to provide massage on the set of ABC-TV's popular
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.
Read more
Traveling Light
Her skilled and sensitive hands,
diverse education and peaceful personality have provided Lizabeth Gottsegen (’95) the
opportunity to work around the world as a massage therapist.
Read more
When Work is a "Holiday"
Pascale Josephson ('00) went on the set of Last Holiday, starring Queen Latifah
and LL Cool J to provide massage therapy for director Wayne Wang. Her six weeks on
location was a unique opportunity for which she felt well prepared.
Read more
Corporate Massage Pioneer
 In 1987, when Donna DeFalco, LMT ('81) had a vision of bringing massage therapy to
corporate clients, her first meeting with Wall Street executives was a disaster. Instead
of being crushed, she was galvanized and today leads her own corporation providing
massage and education programs in the U.S. and Europe.
Read more.
Aloha to Hawaiian Life
 A recent transplant from the island of Manhattan to the island of
Maui,
Geoff Dawe, LMT ('95) has practiced and taught sports massage for athletes,
exercisers and performers. When not working or performing himself, he might be
found exploring some of the most beautiful waters in the world.
Read more.
Innovative Massage in a Pediatric Oncology Unit
 One
of the graduates bringing massage into extraordinary
situations is Evelyn Li, LMT ('94) who works with the
Integrative Therapy Program at Columbia Presbyterian
Hospital’s Pediatric Oncology unit. As part of a team of
dedicated nurses and physicians, Evelyn finds the work as
uplifting as it is challenging. Read
more.
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