While working at Massage Envy, one has the opportunity to develop wonderful relationships with clients, staff and other therapists.  Developing these relationships can lead to a full schedule for every workday.  The booking of sessions, making reminder phone calls, charging cancellation fees, providing the space and equipment is all done for you at Massage Envy.  This enables the therapist to continue focusing on studies, and could even be counted as part of the payment - becuase you don't have to do it.

Students who finish the 250 program can start working at Massage Envy right away, continue their 550 program, and practice what they learn in the classroom immediately with the added bonus of geting paid to do it. My experience was that as long as my clients were in agreement, I could implement any form of massage. The ability to take a new modality learned in class and implement the new moves I just learned the next day was fantastic - creating neural pathways from book-knowledge to kinesthetic-knowledge immediately, priceless.

 
 A year and a half ago, I stepped out of the spa world into Orthopeodic massage at the Deep Tissue Massage Center, www.dtmcsb.com. There I work with people to educate and facilitate change in people's bodies.  In my work, clients set goals towards what they wish to experience in their body, such as pain free life, or increased range of motion. 

Last fall, I stepped back into the classroom at SBBTI as Spa Deep Tissue Instructor. I advise students to maintain a perspective on their long term goals, while working at Massage Envy- ie to work on 1000- 2000 bodies, then reevaluate where you want to be. That is what my wife Aeon and I did, and after two years at Massage Envy, we set out working for ourselves and our own practice. Now we are self-sustaining,  and autonomous while still growing personally and professionally."

Jordan Terry, SBBTI Spa Deep Tissue Instructor