Category: History of Massage
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History of the National Certification Board for Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB)
Timeline History of the NCBTMB In 1958, AAMM (now AMTA) required that members of the organization must go to an AAMM school and pass a final exam. They also used to have to pay state fees and dues and also must be sponsored by an active member. For a brief time in the early 1970’s,…
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The Rolfing Lineage: First Rolfers to trademark nightmare
Emmett Hutchins was one of Dr. Ida Rolf’s first students. Dr. Rolf appointed Emmett as one of the first teachers of her work. As Dr. Rolf requested, in the 1970s Emmett moved from California to Boulder to focus on the work that would eventually bring into being the Rolf Institute of Structural Integration. In the early 1990s,…
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History of Massage in the NY Times
Oct 14, 1897 – OCCUPATION FOR THE BLIND. A Proposal to Teach Them Massage. Times Machine April 30, 1905 – Osteopathy confused with massage. Times Machine. Jan. 13, 1907 – HELPING THE BLIND TO SEE Remarkable Work by Two New York Women in Behalf of the Sightless Teaching Carpentry, Telephone Operating, Massage, Sewing and Stenography…
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Rolfing® – History, Offshoots, The Process
Rolfing® aka Structural Integration was created by one woman, Ida Rolf in the mid-1940s with the goal of helping family members who were suffering in pain. She also had been injured from being kicked by a horse which led her to search for answers. Early Rolfing® was extremely painful (yes like screaming at the top…
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Ida Pauline Rolf, PhD : The recipe, her life and legacy. Pluck and grit.
Ida Pauline Rolf, PhD (1896–1979) – The Woman, The Researcher and Bodyworker extradonaire: Where did the The Line and The Recipe come from? 1896 – Born in NYC and raised there in public schools in the Bronx. 1916 – Graduated from Barnard College (article on her class and grad photo), with honors in Chemistry and…