Is massage therapy school difficult?

I have been licensed in New York, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Each state has its own requirements for licensure, and the massage curricula are customized to those standards. For instance, when I went to school, the New York minimum requirement for class hours was 650; so my school offered 650 hours. read more

Long-story-short, I am considering getting my certification in massage therapy, and want to know how difficult the classes/programs are for becoming one. I am in my senior year of studying to become an accountant, but need 30 more credits after my graduation to be eligible to take the Certified Public Account (CPA) exam. read more

Each individual Massage school will be a different experience but they all require one thing— hard work. I though Massage school would be one thing going in and graduated with a whole new perspective. read more

It's very physically difficult to massage people on a full time basis. It sounds like the pay isn't too great either. Both the people I know who have done massage therapy don't do it any more (at least as their primary occupation). One is a registered nurse and the other one is a chaplin with my hospice and does massage therapy part time. read more