Emily had been a massage practitioner for almost 10 years when she began to burn-out and experience a regular sense of exhaustion. Anyone who has given massage for any length of time knows how this can happen. But since she loved massage as a career and truly felt enriched and affirmed by giving comfort, relief and joy to people in need relief she began to research ways to give high quality massages without taxing her body, spirit or the quality of her massages.

After substantial investigation, interviews and courses she began piecing together a finely tuned combination of modalities taking additional courses and tutorials where gaps persisted. Doing this involved travel to Europe, much of the United States and even once to Asia. Slowly she combined the very best and most therapeutic aspects of each modality which benefitted both the client and the Therapist. From that eventually came the structure of Symbiotic Massage Therapy, a patented and trademarked combination of over 30 modalities, dance, stretching, and even parts of martial arts. It is quite unique and a pleasure to watch but far more important is that it allows the practitioner to give four, five, six or even on occassion more massages a day while finishing energized (even if in need of a healthy night's sleep, for sure).

If you aren't able to offer three or more massages a day without feeling fatigued, your massages are inconsistent, your hands, legs, feet, arms back of thumbs are uncomfortable during or at the end of the day, or you and your clients are suffering from a loss in quality of the experience then Symbiotic Massage Therapy is the modality of choice. Emily has been called an angel by many of her clients and is regarded as one of the best Therapists in the United States. She received a seal of approval from the Mayo Clinic prior to beginning the treatment of the Rev. Billy Graham and has helped clients time and again who had been told they would never recover or improve. Her technique is not gimmicky but quite sincerely offers a life changing experience for therapists and their clients.

Symbiotic Massage Therapy addresses Maxo-Physical needs by working alongside doctors in chiropractic, orthopedics, neurology, physical therapy and general medical practitioners. This level of understanding, familiarity and training allows the Practitioner to act as an assistant and/or consultant in assessing patient care and progress throughout the various treatments needed depending on the causes of pain, malformations and diseases.

It further provides you with a road-map for the decisions you'll make on your journey to helping clients become well again by helping determin the kind of care which may best serve their overall well-being! Symbiotic Massage Therapy patients have a higher success rate in the remediation of negative effects than any single modality can alone.

To these ends, The Symbiotic Massage Therapy Institute is regularly researching clinical techniques related to the many symptoms brought to the clinic and works to integrate any new procedures which may improve the modality remaining independent of any one particular method.

On occasion a small percentage of cases may require surgery, cortisone and other pain management methods and we do not encourage Symbiotic Massage Therapy over employing other methods where appropriate but after many years of experience and thousands of clients we feel that Symbiotic Therapies are likely to manage most related problems well. We encourage other more radical therapies only when conditions persist longer than one or two months' regular Symbiotic Bodywork or unmanageable discomfort.

One of Emily's clients notes:

The greatest value of Emily's DVD's are her instruction in Trager, a modality which is unbelievably expensive and which is one of the most valuable of all the massage modalities. Trager is a type of massage which imparts a rocking motion, as opposed to Swedish massage which requires pressing into the patients body with the practitioners's hands. It accomplishes what Swedish massage cannot, and it relieves the strain upon the practitioners body.

Paul Blair