Christopher and Xerlan Deery are not only award winning and nationally recognized massage therapists, but we are Massage Therapy Instructors – at the Institute for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork in Chadds Ford, Pa; and also nationally, with Anatriptic Alchemy as Continuing Education providers.
Education is the heart of our practice – whether it is listening when we work with your body, attending conferences and continuing education ourselves, or bringing the best evidence informed, knowledge based content to our students.
The educational segment of Phoenixville Massage & Bodywork, Anatriptic Alchemy seeks to help massage therapists recognize the skills and talents they have, and helps all of us realize that the application of what we know is just as important as recognizing the challenges of what we can (and cannot) work with.
Massage is an art, and as such must be acquired by study and patient practice, under competent guidance. It cannot be picked up at a moment’s notice by any broken down nurse or disappointed cobbler. As certainly as a trained nurse is superior to an untrained, so certainly, ever more certainly a trained and well-instructed manipulator better than a self taught “rubber”.
~Benjamin Lee, A.M., M.D.,Ph.D. 1885
So if you find us a bit difficult to schedule with, please understand, we are probably teaching, learning, or supporting our students.
Please visit Anatriptic Alchemy by clicking the link here,
and the Institute for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork through this link.