EP 38: Massage Is A Vehicle For Hope With Benny Vaughn

Send us Fan MailBenny has 42 years of massage therapy experience treating athletes, fitness enthusiasts, and active adults; he is known internationally as an expert in the assessment, treatment and care of athletic related soft-tissue dysfunction using manual techniques. Mr. Vaughn produced the educational 1992 video series “Clinical Sports Massage” and the 1997 video “Functional Assessment Skills for Massage Therapists”.  He has been an invited lecturer for professional wellness and therapy conferences throughout the United States as well as Australia, Ireland, Japan, Spain and Russia.MASSAGE MAGAZINE, an international publication, in their Special Year 2000 Millennium issue, recognized Benny Vaughn as one of the fifty most influential professionals of hands-on, soft-tissue therapy, in the world, over the past 100 years.MY TAKEAWAYS WERE:-To have to human experience you must have touchAs technology begins to expand and grow in every aspect of our lives so would the need for touch.-How massage therapy in the past has been misunderstood in athletics because the model of healthcare operates from a position of something has to be wrong in order to indicate service.-How the experience of touch allows a person to be a fuller more creative and better performing human being.-Benny shares his experience and work with the Olympic Games.-Benny touches upon discrimination in the system based on knowledge/education.-How massage can be a solution to the current opioid epidemic and the consequences of treating pain with medications that are addictive and destructive over time.-How adding science to what you do enhances your intuition - coaching or treating intuitively. Connect with Benny at:http://www.bennyvaughntherapy.com/http://www.bennyvaughnworkshops.com/Access show notes at:http://www.pureenergypdx.com/integrate-yourself-podcastThrive Market affiliate link:http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-8639977-13071575Support the showFollow me on Instagram:@allisonpelot_Subscribe to my YouTube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/AllisonPelot