Celina Mckenzie

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Massage Therapy Instructor - 5.5 yrs

Massage Therapy Business Owner - 8yrs

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Celina Mckenzie

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Hands-on training

I find when demoing a technique for massage, that most students are so caught up in the hands moving and most seem to miss out on body mechanics. So, afterwards I have another student perform the demo as I did and I have the students only watch the body mechanics...This way the student is able to practice the motion of the hands without judgement and learns both good and bad body mechanics.

Celina Mckenzie

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Creating a test on policies & syllabi

When you are going through a bunch of material on the first day; the students are sometimes a bit overwhelmed. In order to ensure that they each understand the most important parts of the course syllabi or policies; I have them take a quiz on the material. This quiz is not graded. However, this will let each student what they need to pay attention to.

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Losing the role is sometimes alright!!

I teach massage techniques and there have been moments that I felt as though a student wanted to take my spot in front of the class. The student was catching on to everything that I was mentioning... Since she was doing so well, and the students all looked up to her, I allowed her to recap a few things that I had hoped EVERYONE would grasp by my lecture. It worked wonders! She was able to stand up and student teach, her peers asked more questions...It was truely a win-win situation for us all. I was able to catch a… >>>

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