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From this dashboard you can access your courses and textbooks, find out about featured courses, view the course catalog, link to your state CE requirements, and more. If you are new to Massage Mastery Online, watch this short orientation video to get your bearings, and learn how to do important activities like print your CE certificate.
Your CE Courses & Digital Textbooks
Save $60 on this Featured CE Package!
When you purchase the Boundaries in an Ethical Massage Practice CE Package, you get three high-quality online home study courses worth 12 hours of NCBTMB-approved ethics CE, and ongoing access to our premier digital textbook titled, Boundaries: The Foundation of Ethical Massage Practice. With this bundle you save more than $60 on these engaging courses which are full of video and immersive learning features.
Online CE Course Catalog
Preventing Disease Transmission in a Massage Practice
The COVID-19 pandemic reminded the massage profession that our knowledge base related to disease prevention should be an ongoing area for continuing education. This practical and comprehensive course offers 8 NCBTMB-approved CE hours.
Personal Space & Personal Boundaries in Massage Practice
This fascinating exploration helps us understand, establish, and maintain our personal space and personal boundaries to build healthy therapeutic relationships with massage clients. This course offers 4 NCBTMB-approved ethics CE hours.
Essential Boundary Skills in an Ethical Massage Practice
Together, we’ll deepen our understanding of boundary types, forms, and violations. We’ll use simple but powerful communication skills that make it easier to maintain healthy therapeutic relationships. This course offers 4 NCBTMB-approved ethics CE hours.
Healthy Professional Boundaries in a Massage Practice
Let’s get clear about our professional boundaries and work with the confidence that we can unravel complex client-therapist scenarios and keep sessions on track, even when clients misbehave. This course offers 4 NCBTMB-approved ethics CE hours.
Pregnancy Massage
If you’ve wanted to explore working more regularly with pregnant clients, but feared you lacked the proper skill foundation, this course will give you the confidence you need to pursue this goal. Video demonstrations walk us through the subtleties of draping, positioning, and technique adaptations. This course offers 8 hours of NCBTMB-approved CE.
Teach Touch to Your Community
Let’s make touch a positive social value. We’ll lead you step-by-step through the process of conducting simple massage workshops in your community. You’ll learn how to teach powerful, but easy to master techniques that connect people in safe ways. This course offers 2 hours of NCBTMB-approved CE.
View a Sample Video from the Boundaries Series
The Boundaries in an Ethical Massage Practice CE package features 23 videos that teach important concepts. This example, comes from Lesson 04: Healthy Professional Boundaries.
Digital Textbooks Catalog
Preventing Disease Transmission in a Massage Practice
When it comes to disease prevention, we must have a strong knowledge base, exceptional professional hygiene, and effective protocols and policies. Written in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this text is available for free for a limited time.
Massage Mastery: From Student to Professional
This comprehensive introductory massage text first published in print by Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins offers twenty-four clear, easy-to-follow chapters that explore all the key areas that are typically addressed in most massage training programs.
Spa Bodywork: A Guide for Massage Therapists
This second edition spa body treatment text originally published by Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins guides massage therapists through each step of delivering a spa treatment. Offer your clients new ways to experience wellness, without a wet room or expensive equipment.
Boundaries: The Foundation of Ethical Massage Practice
All of us as massage therapists, experience times when clients challenge our boundaries and the therapeutic relationship feels unsettling and confusing. We’ll meet boundary issues head-on through this compelling text full of video and immersive learning features.
Ethics in the Massage Profession
This dynamic text, full of video and exciting learning features brings the fascinating subject of ethics to life. We’ll compare and contrast our personal ethics with massage ethics and examine ethical principles through the lens of real-world client-therapists scenarios. Address ethical dilemmas with confidence!
Are Massage Mastery Courses Accepted by My State for License Renewal?
All Massage Mastery Online CE courses are approved by NCBTMB and accepted by most states for license renewal. However, each state is a little different. Follow the CE REQUIREMENTS link to review your state continuing education requirements (updated annually on January 2) and check to ensure that Massage Mastery courses are accepted in your state.
English as a Second Language?
You can translate the text! So long as you use Chrome as your browser, you can translate the text and quizzes into your native language with a few clicks. Toggle between your language and English to improve your concept knowledge and word recognition. This short video will show you how.
Never Underestimate the Power of a Checkmark!
In our modern society, checkmarks carry powerful, positive connotations. Find out how to harness the power of a checkmark and why we use them in our digital textbooks and CE courses in this short video.
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CE Requirements and Massage Mastery Courses
Alabama
16 CE hours every 2 years. Courses must be approved by the state board. Massage Mastery courses are NOT accepted.
Alaska
16 CE hours every 2 years. 2 hours ethics and 2 hours of CPR renewal are required from the same pool of total hours. Every 6 years, 4 hours in Standard Precautions and bloodborne pathogens is required. Programs must be NCBTMB or FSMTB approved. Massage Mastery courses are accepted.
Arkansas
18 hours of CE every 2 years with a maximum of 6 hours online. Courses must be approved by the state board. Massage Mastery courses are NOT accepted.
California
No CE requirements.
Colorado
No CE requirements.
Connecticut
24 hours of CE every 4 years with a maximum of 6 hours online and 12 hours that are non-NCBTMB approved. Massage Mastery courses are accepted.
Delaware
License Renewal: 24 hours of CE every 2 years with 18 hours core and 6 hours elective. 12 hours can be online. Massage Mastery courses are accepted.
Certification Renewal: 12 hours of CE every 2 years with 9 hours core and 3 hours elective. 12 hours can be online. Massage Mastery courses are accepted.
Florida
24 hours of CE every 2 years. Minimum 12 hours hands-on, minimum 2 hours each of medical error prevention, Florida law, and ethics. Massage Mastery courses are accepted.
Georgia
24 hours of CE every 2 years. 12 hours must be hands on. Massage Mastery courses are accepted.
Hawaii
No CE requirement.
Idaho
6 hours of CE required every year. Massage Mastery courses are accepted.
Illinois
24 hours of CE every 2 years. A maximum of 12 hours can be taken online. 2 hours must be in the topic of ethics. Massage Mastery courses are accepted.
Indiana
No CE required at this time but CE requirements may be added in the future.
Iowa
16 hours of CE every 2 years. A minimum of 8 hours must be hands-on. Massage Mastery courses are accepted.
Kansas
No state regulation.
Kentucky
24 hours of CE every 2 years. 3 hours of ethics. Massage Mastery courses are accepted.
Louisiana
12 hours of CE every year. CE courses must be approved by the state board of massage. Massage Mastery courses are NOT accepted.
Maine
No CE requirement.
Maryland
24 hours of CE every 2 years. 3 hours ethics, 3 hours communicable diseases, 17 hours massage therapy related, 1 hour diversity/cultural competency. Practice building is not accepted as continuing education. Massage Mastery courses are accepted.
Massachusetts
Transitioning to licensure with CE to be determined. Currently, no CE requirement.
Michigan
18 hours of CE due every three years on October 31. Massage Mastery courses are accepted.
Minnesota
No state regulation.
Mississippi
24 hours of CE every 2 years with a maximum of 5 hours online. 3 hours of MS state laws/rules, and 3 hours of ethics. Massage Mastery courses are accepted.
Missouri
12 hours of CE every 2 years. Massage Mastery courses are accepted.
Montana
12 hours of CE every 2 years. Massage Mastery courses are accepted.
Nebraska
24 hours of CE every 2 years. A maximum of 10 hours may be completed online. 14 hours must be hands-on. Massage Mastery courses are accepted.
Nevada
12 hours of CE every year. Massage Mastery courses are accepted.
New Hampshire
12 hours of CE every 2 years. Massage Mastery courses are accepted.
New Jersey
20 hours of CE every 2 years. No business classes are accepted. Massage Mastery courses are accepted.
New Mexico
16 hours of CE every 2 years with 4 hours of ethics. Massage Mastery courses are accepted.
New York
36 hours of CE every 3 years. All 36 hours can be online. CE must be state board approved. Most Massage Mastery courses are accepted. See the "Specifications" for each course on the course information page liked from the course catalog for details.
North Carolina
24 hours of CE every 2 years. A maximum of 12 hours can be completed online. A maximum of 3 hours can be business-related and a minimum of 3 hours must be ethics. Massage Mastery courses are accepted.
North Dakota
24 hours of CE every 2 years for those practicing up to 14 years. 6 hours of CE every 2 years for those practicing 15-24 years. 3 hours of CE every 2 years for those practicing more than 24 years. A maximum of 10 hours can be completed online. Massage Mastery courses are accepted.
Ohio
No CE requirement.
Oklahoma
10 hours of CE every 2 years. Massage Mastery courses are accepted.
Oregon
25 hours of CE every 2 years with 1 hour of pain management, 1 hour of cultural competency and 15 hours of contact. Contact courses can be online if they are interactive. Massage Mastery courses are accepted.
Pennsylvania
24 hours of CE every 2 years with a minimum of 4 hours of ethics and 16 hours of classroom contact required. CPR certification must be current. Massage Mastery courses are accepted.
Rhode Island
No CE requirement.
South Carolina
12 hours of CE every 2 years. Massage Mastery courses are accepted.
South Dakota
8 hours of CE every 2 years. Massage Mastery courses are accepted.
Tennessee
24 hours of CE every 2 years with 2 hours of ethics and 2 hours of TN law. Massage Mastery courses are accepted.
Texas
12 hours of CE every 2 years. Massage Mastery courses are accepted.
Utah
No CE requirement.
Vermont
No state regulation.
Virginia
24 hours of CE every 2 years. 12 hours must be NCBTMB approved. Massage Mastery courses are accepted.
Washington
24 hours of CE every 2 years. A maximum of 12 hours can be taken online. A minimum of 8 hours must be hands on and 4 hours must be ethics or WA law. Massage Mastery courses are accepted.
West Virginia
24 hours of CE every 2 years. Massage Mastery courses are accepted.
Wisconsin
24 hours of CE every 2 years. Massage Mastery courses are accepted.
Wyoming
No CE requirement.
NCBTMB
All Massage Mastery courses are NCBTMB-approved and are accepted for NCBTMB Board Certification renewal.
FSMTB
FSMTB approval pending.