CE INSTITUTE LLC BLOG

Today, we saw a massage therapy social media post where a massage employer is trying to hire a massage therapist based on a select ethic/national origin decent.

CE Institute LLC does not provide legal advice.  We also try to refrain from telling anyone how to operate their business.  However, after seeing this today we thought it might be helpful to share these government website links from the US DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, especially for those who might face federal prosecution for bad or illegal business practices in the massage employment industry:

• Equal Employment Opportunity
• Ethnic/National Origin
• Age Discrimination

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For the past several years, CE Institute LLC has offered in-person training and trade show education, providing thousands of CE hours to students and trade show participants, until COVID19.  

Today, much of our population continues to self-isolate, suffer or lose their lives to this horrible virus. Our thoughts and prayers are with all those who suffer. We hope here will be an end to this soon.

At CE Institute LLC, we will not schedule any in-person training for the rest of 2021 due to the close personal contact our bodywork training entails for many hours at a time.  With great effort and expense, we have successfully launched our live interactive webinars which have been a tremendous success.  We hope to see old faces and new in any of these successful and discounted educational offerings.

Unfortunately, we are unable to plan future in-person training until we can better understand how to prevent the acquisition and/or transmission of this lethal contaminant.  And while we've become better as a world in recognizing the symptoms and treating this illness, plus developing a vaccine to help prevent hospitalization, our goal would be to hold an in-person training that provides minimal to zero risk to all participants.

We will continue to monitor the progress of COVID19 prevention and treatment options and plan in-person training according to COVID19 prevention and treatment success. So the answer is yes, one day we will resume in-person training when it is safe to do so.  We do not feel it is worth the risk to anyone's life to hold an in-person training, whether it be the student themself or someone else they could trasmit the virus to.  As such, until minimal to zero risk to in-person class participants can be achieved, we will not schedule or hold any in-person classes.

Did you know that you could use select essential oils to make your own sanitation products? CE Institute LLC founder Selena Belisle explains in this aromatherapy article published by MASSAGE MAGAZINE!

Trigger Point Therapy is here to stay! According to the AMTA, a private business applied for exclusive use of the term "triggerpoint", which would have deprived many LMTs from applying/selling the therapy by it's proper name.  The AMTA states they won this fight against the application so that we can all continue to practice and use the modality Trigger Point Therapy - BRAVO!

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You can read more about AMTA's efforts at Massage Today: https://www.massagetoday.com/articles/1615381760757/behind-the-scenes-of-the-fight-to-save-triggerpoint-

CE Institute LLC is offering $25 refresher classes for past students who would like to repeat one of their previous trainings.  There are no certificates or CE credit provided with a refresher class (as of right now they are only available for live interactive webinars); however, it's a great resource for students who want to see the educational materials again, watch the instructor demonstrations and/or practice their hands-on skills.  

There is EXTREMELY LIMITED availability in the refresher program - not all classes will have refresher seats available in them.  Refresher seat availability will be posted on our Facebook, Instagram and Twitter social media accounts.

The next 2 refresher classes we have with 3 available seats in each are:

• 6 Hour Lymphatic Drainage Basics REFRESHER course next week, April 27, 2021, 1:30 - 7:30 pm
• 6 Hour Advanced Foot Massage REFRESHER course this Tuesday, April 20, 2021, 10 am - 4:30 pm  

If you would like to take any of our posted refresher classes, please email us with your name and email address used to process your original class registration with which course you would like to repeat.  We will email you an invoice for the refresher class if seats remain available.  Please keep in mind refresher class seats are nonrefundable and are available on a 1st come 1st serve basis only.  Sending an email or receiving an invoice does not guarantee a seat in a refresher class.  Only paid reservations in the refresher class will reserve your seat and access.  Thank you and we hope you enjoy this refresher trainng opportunity if and when needed!

We'd like to applaud FSMTB for being one of the first massage agencies to publish COVID-19 considerations for massage therapists and bodyworkers.  Please click HERE to view their incredible 45 page manual which was put together almost a year ago from now - and is still relevant! 

To learn more advanced massage practices, please register for quality, affordable, professional training at: https://ceinstitute.com/

https://www.fsmtb.org/media/2319/fsmtb20200519guidelinesforpracticecovid-19.pdf?fbclid=IwAR31Jbq2ZcJyussuFl_SB_foImxKmIDfkzd1nf57LDIqru1UqGBn9f69kMQ

Massage therapists, spa and bodyworkers have stepped up their sanitation habits in our new pandemic of COVID-19; however, there is one additional step that can be taken in addition to sanitizing a treatment table.

If you must work during COVID-19, it is best to work on clients in a prone position/face down to avoid direct airway-to-airway exchange.  And for best sanitation practices, it would be wise to sanitize the face cradle cushion then allow it to sit with a proper amount dwell time, aka contact time, by using a 2nd cushion for your next client.  Swapping 2 cushions back and forth is a little extra effort and expense, but could additionally minimize COVID-19 exposure, especially when proper sanitation and safety measures are exercised. 

To learn more, please register for quality, affordable, professional training at: https://ceinstitute.com/

Air quality is an increasing concern for massage therapists given they often work in small, poorly ventilated treatment rooms.  The CDC and other government sites are now acknowledging that COVID-19 can aerosol and linger in the air for longer periods of time, even after an infected individual has left the room.  

Please click HERE to view Massage Magazines publication of CE Institute LLC founder Selena Belisle's article regarding how you can improve your air quality in massage treatment room if you must practice massage therapy, spa sessions or bodywork during times of COVID-19.

To learn more, please register for quality, affordable, professional training at: https://ceinstitute.com/

Les Nouvelles Esthétiques & Spa Magazine has published Selena Belisle's SPA SAFETY 101 article.  It includes how to minimize the acquisition and transmission of COVID-19 in a spa or massage workplace.  While the best way to avoid COVID-19 is to self-isolate, if you must work, then this article will help estheticians, massage therapists, cosmetologists and other personal care service providers to decrease their exposure while improve both their sanitation and air quality practices.  

To learn more, please register for quality, affordable, professional training at: https://ceinstitute.com/