Intern Clinic available for appointments

Fall Quarter Intern Clinic massage appointments will be available to the public starting the week of September 29, 2008. It is $60 for a ninety-minute session, integrating techniques from Swedish Massage, Advanced Swedish Techniques, Acupressure and either Neuromuscular Therapy or Craniosacral Therapy in a personalized treatment plan created to meet client needs.   Student interns are in their last quarter of training, gaining professional experience before they leave school.

Apppointment times vary each quarter to accommodate the schedules of our interns, and the availability of sessions is limited.  The ninety-minute sessions are the only length session we offer.  Please call 615-370-9795 to schedule an appointment.  If you reach the voicemail, please leave a message with your name, and a day and evening contact number, and the next intern working will call you back to schedule an appointment.

Five-hourTennessee Massage Law class for New Licensees

Therapists moving to Tennessee who are seeking licensure are required to have 5 hours of Tennessee massage law.  Our class, M507 Mentoring in TN Massage Law for New Licensees is an answer to that need.  Each quarter we offer the class based on requests from incoming prospective licensees, and the availability of instructors.  It will be taught by Mindy Oldham RN, LMT or Steve Sommers, LMT.  The tuition is $150.00 for the course, which includes a copy of the current Tennessee laws pertaining to massage therapists and massage establishments.  Please contact Chris Murov at 615-370-9794, ext. 10 for more information or registration.

Changes to Continuing Education requirements

Starting March 1, 2006 the 25-hours of Continuing Education required for licensure renewal every two-year cycle includes 2 hours of training in the laws governing massage therapists and establishments in Tennessee and 2 hours of training in the management of practice, professional ethics, or substance abuse (Rule 0870-1-.12)

Two year cycles are the same for all therapists, regardless of the renewal date of their individual licenses.  Each two-year continuing education cycle begins on January 1st of an odd-numbered year and ends on December 31st of an even-numbered year.  The current cycle we are in started on January 1, 2007 and ends on December 31, 2008.  You must complete your 25 hours of training for this cycle by December 31, 2008. 

New licensees (in their first two-year cycle) have their continuing education requirement pro-rated over the cycle based on the month in which they were first licensed (not graduated).  The 2007-2008 pro-rate schedule is as follows:

If you licensed in 2007: January - 25 hours, February - 24 hours, March - 23 hours, April - 22 hours, May - 21 hours, June - 20 hours, July - 19 hours, August - 18 hours, September - 17 hours, October - 16 hours, November - 15 hours, December - 14 hours.

If you licensed in 2008: January - 13 hours, February - 12 hours, March - 11 hours, April - 10 hours, May - 9 hours, June - 8 hours, July - 7 hours, August 6 -hours, September - 5 hours, October - 4 hours, November - 3 hours, December - 2 hours.

Please check our current schedule for the date and time of C505 Tennessee Massage Law and Ethics, a four-hour class that fulfills both the two hour TN law requirement and2 hours of ethics. 

Alumni DIrectory

We are assembling a directory of Cumberland graduates for an email newsletter of current school events, and news of interest in the bodywork community. If you would like to be included, please contact Chris Murov at chris@cumberlandinstitute.com.

Current plans in the works include monthly networking meetings for graduates; quarterly supervision classes with Cumberland faculty addressing your concerns in your practice including special needs clients, body mechanics, core curriculum modality tune-ups, ethics concerns, and business challenges; a yearly alumni reunion; and an alumni practicum volunteer list for current students to contact.

We look forward to hearing from you!