I recently had a Registered Massage Therapist (RMT) debate with me at Craigslist and I thought I would include some of my reply to him here ...

Why bother wasting 3 years at a big massage college just so you can use the term therapist to help keep a bunch of massage schools that have managed to get a monopoly on the use of the word therapy happy, when you can still do a fantastic massage treatment and have a great new career in the field of massage anyway.

Our massage course teaches you all you need to know to be able to do a better massage treatment than many of the so called RMTs anyway. Those courses will fill your head with a lot of jargon and anatomical terms that you will never use while our course will actually teach you to be an excellent therapist.

Don't be swayed by the arrogance of the so called RMTs and their approach. People have been practicing massage for thousands of years in places like China, Japan, India, Hawaii, Thailand and Turkey, and never learned to name all the muscles in Latin or learn how the Krebs cycle of a cell works. In fact, the best massage practitioners in Japan were traditionally blind people. In China they never dissected the human body because they believed that once the Chi has left then they are no longer interested in the dead matter.

However the arrogance of some people who call themselves RMT's would have us believe that only they know what it takes to be a good massage therapist. Unfortunately they have managed to convince a few unknowing politicians to pass a law that only they can use the word massage therapy, but who cares what word is used to describe a therapy. Apple Pie still tastes like apple pie if you call it apple pastry, and that's how your clients will feel. If they get an excellent massage treatment from you after being trained at our massage school then they wont really care what it's called, just whether it gets rid of their aches, pains, and problems and makes them feel better.

Do you really want to waste 3 years of your life and $20,000 just to use a special reserved word when you can become a better practitioner from our shorter intensive course that is only 10% of the price and uses only 1 or 2 percent of your time but makes you a 200% better practitioner?