About Our School
Lauterstein-Conway Massage School was founded on the belief that people want and deserve radiant health of body, mind and spirit. We believe fundamentally that each person contains everything he/she needs for health. Massage therapy is the fascinating vocation of facilitating this self-healing capacity for each individual.
The Lauterstein-Conway Massage School is one of the finest massage and bodywork training programs in the U.S. We are dedicated to graduating massage therapists who can be therapeutically masterful, economically successful, and personally fulfilled.
Our educational approach is wholistic — committed to honoring the spirit as well as the body and the mind. Therefore, we balance technical studies in massage, anatomy and physiology with the development of each student's creativity, graceful movement and capacity for compassionate touch.
 It is our mission to run the school in a manner as healing as the subjects we teach. In every respect we attempt to practice what we preach. We strongly believe that health is as much a global as individual issue. We hope that we, as well as each graduate, can make the world a better place in which to live. The Lauterstein-Conway Massage School donates a minimum of 5% of our annual net profit to environmental groups and other organizations benefiting the ecosystem.
Our society has under-emphasized the requisites for basic health — an honored environment, deeply satisfying work, life-long learning with body, mind and spirit, and nourishing relationships. All too often we struggle with frustrating work, education that is not life-oriented, and a social emphasis on satisfaction through buying things, rather than relating healthily to ourselves and one other.
 We have lost some of our closeness with the land, other people, and ourselves. The study and practice of this unique discipline, massage therapy, can help break this pattern. Touch is real. It gets us in touch with who we really are.
The History of Lauterstein-Conway
The Lauterstein-Conway Massage School (TLC) was founded in 1989. The core curriculum began in 1982 when David Lauterstein began teaching Deep Massage and the Anatomy Training Program at the Chicago School of Massage Therapy. These programs proved fertile ground for more development as John Conway and David Lauterstein later co-evolved the curriculum at the Texas School of Massage Studies (1985-1989). The Lauterstein-Conway School was founded to provide a supportive environment for education and healing, through the teaching, administration, and physical and spiritual context in which we learn.
Now in our 19th year, the TLC curriculum has grown to include 300, 550 and 750-hour programs. Our Comprehensive Program (Semesters One and Two) is one of the only programs of its length that includes detailed Advanced Clinical Massage Therapy and Bodywork. You become an extremely skillful therapist with training in orthopedic massage, sports massage and deep massage, as well as interweaving structural and integrative bodywork. Semester Three, consisting of 200 advanced hours, is one of the only programs in the U.S. which integrates Zero Balancing, Asian Bodywork, Psychology of Bodywork, and Advanced Integrative Bodywork.
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