CE For The 21st Century Massage Therapist!
No dull continuing education here! Our interactive NCBTMB-approved courses feature striking visuals, audio, video, critical-thinking scenarios, learning games, downloadable resources, and more! Start your course minutes after you purchase and receive your certificate for CE reporting within minutes of completion.
Online Continuing Education Courses
Aromatherapy Foundations for People Serious About Authentic Aromatherapy
This comprehensive, research-informed course is perfect for therapists who want to build high-level aromatherapy knowledge and skills. This course offers 8 NCBTMB-approved 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.
The "Boundary" Bundle
Ethics just got interesting! Discover how to improve your personal and therapeutic relationships by setting boundaries that serve you. Purchase this bundle to get all three Boundary courses (listed below) totaling 12 CE ethics hours. Save $60 by buying these engaging multimedia courses as a bundle.
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.
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.
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.
Chair Massage Techniques
Learn effective stress-free chair massage techniques in the most comprehensive guide to seated massage you’ll find anywhere. Learn how to do anything from a two-minute massage at the 9th hole on the golf course to a one-hour full-body massage right in the chair. Coming November 2021.
Boundaries in an Ethical Massage Practice CE Package
Need ethics CEs? Then take advantage of this special 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. You save more than $60! These courses never expire, so you can complete each course (4 hours of CE each) in the CE reporting years that you choose.
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Multimedia Digital Textbooks
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.
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 until January 2022.
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.
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.
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!
Continuing Education Just Got More Interesting!
Hate to read? Watch a video presentation. Going for a walk? Take your phone and listen to your course. Want practical, real-world information? Let’s Talk interviews with well-known massage professionals give you a sense of community. Get bored easily? Visually rich pages, and subtle animations that direct your focus will help. Explore the unique learning features that make these courses different.
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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 linked 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.
Continuing Education That Fits Your Life
For continuing education to be practical, it has to fit into the margins of your busy life. In our courses and digital textbooks, you’ll find a carefully designed structure that breaks content into bite-sized topics so you can learn on the go at a time that’s convenient for you. You can complete a topic on your laptop, tablet, or phone while you wait for a friend at a café, ride the bus to work, or even on a break between clients.
Easy Technology
If you can open a webpage you can use these courses. No program, software, or download necessary. Mobile friendly on a phone, laptop, or tablet with an internet connection.
Great Value
While our digital textbooks and courses take a lot of time to create, we don’t have printing, storage, and shipping costs so we can pass on the savings to you.
Always Up-to-Date
At Massage Mastery Online we update textbooks and courses regularly and can fix issues immediately. When you purchase a course or textbook, updates happen automatically for the life of the product.
Environmentally Friendly
No trees were harmed in the making of these textbooks and courses! Give yourself a better learning experience and reduce your carbon footprint at the same time.
We Are Massage Therapists, Educators, and Authors with a Passion for Online Learning and Instructional Design
Eric Brown started his massage career in 1989 in Canada. He worked in private practice for 20 years managing two successful massage clinics in downtown Toronto. He has taught extensively in the advanced massage training colleges in Canada developing curriculum in massage theory, physiology, assessment, and technique. Eric was also involved in developing the Standards of Practice for massage legislation in Ontario, Canada.
In the early 90’s Eric pioneered chair massage in Canada and has worked with some of the largest companies in Canada, including IBM, Dell, Levi Stauss, Kellogg, Amex, as well as major hospitals, banks, law firms, and financial institutions. He opened a massage school in 1994 and managed the school until 2011 training over 1,000 students.
He is a pioneer in online education. In 1999 he started BodyworkBiz, one of the first companies providing massage business and marketing classes online. In 2006 he established Massage Therapy Radio and with his partners produced over 200 podcasts. In 2008, he launched World Massage Conference, the first online conference in the massage profession. It featured some of the top leaders in the profession and produced over 400 online presentations. It was the largest event in the massage profession year after year for ten years before being sold to ABMP in 2018.
In collaboration with the Education Department at ABMP, Eric produced the ABMP Business Summit, ABMP Back Pain Summit, Eric Dalton Online Workshop, and ABMP Head & Neck Summit attracting more than 16,000 registrants and hosting more than 7,000 people online, live at one time. He has written extensively for massage journals internationally and has served as the editor-in-chief for Canadian RMT magazine. He is the author of five number one bestsellers on Amazon, including 60 Clients in 60 Days and Fill Your Practice 101.
Today, Eric lives in Louisville, Colorado where he pursues his passion for online education in partnership with his wife, Anne Williams and his passion for photography. He is learning to enjoy camping.
Anne Williams has been a licensed massage practitioner (LMT) for 24 years, and is a former esthetician, certified reflexologist, clinical hypnotherapist, former registered counselor, aromatherapist, spa consultant, author, and educator. She is the former Director of Education for Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals (ABMP), where she pursued her passion for instructional design and developed support materials and resources for massage students, instructors, schools, and professional members from 2006 until 2019.
Anne worked as a massage instructor for eight years with an emphasis on curriculum development and program implementation for Ashmead College in Washington State, and in 2004 became their director of education at the Tacoma campus.
She has offered a number of different continuing education programs including workshops on hot stone massage, aromatherapy, spa therapies, and reflexology.
Anne has served on the Federation of State Massage Therapy Boards’ (FSMTB) test writing committee and developed ABMP’s Student Life Program, ABMP’s Exam Coach, ABMP 5-Minute Muscles, and many other resources for schools and instructors. She also wrote the curriculum for the “Instructors on the Front Lines” massage teacher training program for ABMP from 2008-2019, and the content for the ABMP School Forum from 2007-2019. She is the author of Spa Bodywork: A Guide for Massage Therapists (2006), Massage Mastery: From Student to Professional (2013) both previously published in print by Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.
Anne served as project leader for the Entry-Level Analysis Project (ELAP), a research project that described what a person must know and be able to do to practice massage safely and competently at the entry level. The ELAP curriculum blueprint outlines the learning outcomes and learning objectives all schools should teach in foundational education and was published in 2013 by the Coalition of National Massage Therapy Organizations. Anne partnered with Eric Brown and the team at ABMP to produce the ABMP Business Summit, ABMP Back Pain Summit, Eric Dalton Online Workshop, and ABMP Head & Neck Summit attracting more than 16,000 registrants and hosting more than 7,000 people online, live at one time.
Today, Anne lives in Louisville, Colorado where she explores her passion for instructional design for adult learners, now in online formats with her husband, Eric Brown. When not writing, Anne loves rock climbing, ice climbing, hiking, biking, skiing, hanging out with friends, and anything that gets her out into Colorado’s beautiful countryside. She is teaching Eric to enjoy camping.
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