A recent movement that opposes state massage licensing is finally here.  Brandon Raynor , a Naturopath and massage school owner from Austraila is here on a nationwide tour to show his opposition for massage licensing.  Why is someone from Australia opposing licensing?

I think the main reason is that he has created a massage school empire and has a few schools in the US in unlicensed states.

I think what he is doing is great but it is very interesting that it takes someone from another country half way around the world to do this for us.

Here is an article from Salem OR newspaper and his blog - The Freedom Ride which does need some serious help and promoting which I have offered to help with if he can provide more information.

What he is opposing (which I do agree with) is that :

From the news article:

“We want the laws to be less restrictive so that they allow practitioners of other forms of massage therapy to practice according to the traditions and standards of their particular form of massage therapy. Right now, the current state of affairs standardizes all massage training into one particular philosophical and cultural approach that many massage practitioners find to be unfair.”

One example he cites is Thai massage. “Thai massage, as taught at the Wat Po temple in Bangkok, where Thai massage has its origins, is taught in the traditional Thai manner focusing on learning the Sen or energy lines and also on practical application, rather than on Western anatomy.”

He says people can practice this technique effectively after only 10 days of instruction.

“Raynor massage, which I teach, can also be learned effectively in 5 or 10 days and in many people’s experience around the world is a far more effective form of therapy than many conventional forms of massage therapy.”"

From his blog:

“Change the massage laws to ones that don’t discriminate against Thai, Shiatsu, Raynor and other forms of massage therapy and massage therapy training methods.”

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