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New Jersey Massage & New Jersey Massage Training Center
Our Staff
We have an elite staff of licensed, teacher level practitioners all trained, or directly influenced by our massage therapy Grandmaster. Our therapists specialize in Medical, Sports Massage and Manual Lymph Drainage along with dozens of other styles of massage and bodywork, and they will customize the massage therapy session to meet the specific needs, goals and pains of their clientele. So whether you have lower back pain, a pinched nerve, are preparing for or recovering from surgery, we can help you. Cancer, mastectomy, pregnancy, geriatric, craniosacral, myofascial, trigger point therapy.
We also specialize in traditional Swedish and Deep Tissue Massage with hot steam packs.
In the Asian styles, we offer Traditional Barefoot Shiatsu, Thai Massage and Hawaiian Lomi Lomi.
We also cover all the Hot Stone and Raindrop Therapy work, as well as Reiki and deep tissue Reflexology. We are especially fond of our Deep Tissue Massage Therapy Facial, which combines deep tissue massage with hot towel facial hydration and a terrific line of organic skin care products.
We also specialize in traditional Swedish and Deep Tissue Massage with hot steam packs.
In the Asian styles, we offer Traditional Barefoot Shiatsu, Thai Massage and Hawaiian Lomi Lomi.
We also cover all the Hot Stone and Raindrop Therapy work, as well as Reiki and deep tissue Reflexology. We are especially fond of our Deep Tissue Massage Therapy Facial, which combines deep tissue massage with hot towel facial hydration and a terrific line of organic skin care products.
Larry Heisler, M.A., LMT
One of New Jersey's massage therapy pioneers (since 1975), Larry Heisler, M.A., LMT is the founder and director of the longest running massage school in the Garden State, The North Jersey Massage Training Center (originally called The New Jersey School of Massage). Located since 1980 at the Parsippany Medical Complex, Larry has literally taught massage therapy to thousands of students and has dramatically affected the massage and bodywork landscape of his beloved State of N.J.. His early career included a five-year stint running the largest private special education summer camp in the United States, Camp Lymelight; as a special education classroom teacher; a three-year stint as a special education Assistant Principal and as an adjunct professor of Counseling for three years at Montclair State University. Larry became Director of Nutrition for the Parsippany Medical Complex after attending two alternative nutrition programs; the Kushi Institute and the Donsbach School of Nutrition. It was at the K.I. that Larry learned how to combine the macrobiotic nutritional counseling with traditional barefoot shiatsu. In fact, the first 8,000 massages Larry performed was exclusively Traditional Macrobiotic Barefoot Shiatsu. Larry's skills were so dynamic, that within a few years, Larry had a substantial massage therapy clientele and dozens of students apprenticing with him. To counteract the negative sexual implications associated with massage that was rampart in the early 1980's, Larry required his students to perform five massages a week, a minimum total of 150, hour and a half massages on the professionals in their lives. Their family doctor, attorney, dentist, broker, etc. each professional had to fill in a two-page evaluation form and personally sign it after each session. So in essence, tens of thousands of free massage sessions were given to professionals throughout northern N.J. Larry says it made a dramatic difference in legitimizing the profession in the tri-state. By the mid-eighties, Larry had a full-fledged massage therapy program with a cutting-edge curriculum combining a fusion of Eastern and Western medical massage applications. His revolutionary approach to bodywork is based on the direct influence the acupuncture meridian system (Energetic System) has on the human musculature. His upcoming book, Soft Tissue Revolution: A New Bodywork Paradigm is based on the clinical experience Larry has in treating over 60,000 patients including thousands of athletes. Larry has presented thousands of lectures, classes and workshops and has given keynote presentations for hundreds of organizations. In addition, Larry's school has been widely acknowledged for its volunteer massage team participation in many hundreds of state-wide fund-raising events for organizations like the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Muscular Dystrophy, the Diabetes Foundation, the Red Cross, the Leukemia Society, Make A Wish Foundation, Multiple Sclerosis Foundation and the 9/11 Port Authority Ground Zero Command to name some of them. In the 1980’s, Larry was one of the very first in New Jersey to present what is now called Integrative Medical Programs in Wellness, Nutrition, Massage and Meditation for the hospital medical staffs at six different Grand Medical Rounds Symposiums including the New Jersey School of Medicine and Dentistry. Each one of those hospitals began offering Integrative Medicine divisions after Larry's direct involvement. In addition, Larry's school created the very first hospital-based massage therapy program offered in NJ. In the 1980's, as an act of political and career survival, Larry created a massage organization entitled, the United Bodywork and Massage Practitioners of NJ. This group was as large as the NJ Chapter of AMTA and was directly created to prevent the AMTA from enacting an exclusive Swedish massage license that would wipe out every massage modality except Swedish massage. To stop that monopoly from occurring Larry had an inclusive massage certification bill created specifically by a bill writer in the N.Y. Legislature that became the model for a fair and just certification bill in the Garden State. His personal activism culminated on television with then Governor Christie Todd Whitman, where the Governor made it clear that a bodywork monopoly would not be tolerated and that the AMTA had better relent and listen to the other bodywork voices. Larry's United Bodywork organization then became one of the founding member groups of the ABMP. In addition, Larry has presented programs on over thirty college campuses, for a dozen health departments, for a hundred different religious organizations, at many hundreds of New Jersey/New York corporations, has written the holistic wellness curriculum for three Universities and has done dozens of popular radio health shows like the Gary Null Show. Currently, Larry's school no longer teaches an undergraduate massage program. He stopped offering a beginner’s program when the economy crashed in 2008. Schools in NJ were going under and folks that routinely received a weekly massage were hesitant to spend money. Turned out massage therapists in NJ could not even afford simple necessities like rent and health insurance. Larry felt it was bad mojo to take money from new prospective students under the guise that they were entering a lucrative, wide open profession and decided to stop offering an entry level program all together. Instead he decided to offer classes to improve the competitive skills of already licensed practitioners by offering advanced education on a continuing education basis. Today, Larry's school is one of the major continuing education providers in the tri-state region. And while dozens of highly qualified educators share their talents at his school, Larry personally teaches over a dozen different classes himself. There are thousands upon thousands of glowing evaluations on file at his school written by students after taking one of his classes. Whenever you see therapists using a weird rocking elbow technique to clear trigger points and break down adhesion to the posterior body, chances are they studied with Larry. In massage and bodywork, Larry is a Grand-Master, having personally treated 60,000 patients including thousands of world class athletes. His email newsletter goes out to 9,000 massage therapists and he is very excited to having an exclusive arrangement for his school to offer Certification in Manual Lymph Drainage from the prestigious Manual Lymph Drainage Institute. Larry believes MLD will change the entire massage profession! Aside from his extensive education in massage therapy, Larry holds additional degree's and certifications in psychotherapy, nutrition, education and ministry, This year Larry celebrates the 44th anniversary of officiating at his weekly meditation class called the Open Heart Healing and Meditation Circle. Since 1975, Larry has taught over 3,500 meditation classes. He has never charged for a meditation class. Larry states that the thing he's most proud of is being a vegetarian since 1971. When he heard that Buddha said, "Cause no suffering," he took that to heart and tries to live by that. Larry's philosophy of life is two-fold; to learn and grow in every way you can and then to uplift, inspire and serve wherever you are sent. Essentially, to grow and serve. Finally, Larry wants to personally thank his wife, children and office staff for their continued support, endless service and unconditional love and his teachers, the great meditation master Hilda Charlton, Sensei Michio Kushi, Sensei Masahiro Oki, Sensei Shizuko Yamamoto, Dr. Wally Burnstein, D.O. and Ingeborg Schlobohm, RMT, C.I. |
Kathleen McCready, LMT
Kathy is the Founder and Director of PROVIDENCE! Health and Fitness located in New Providence, NJ, one of the elite wellness and fitness facilities New Jersey Massage offers massage services in. As a young woman growing up in New York, Kathy became a student of The Julliard School and graduated from The School of American Ballet. She danced under the direction of the great Russian choreographer George Balanchine. Later, she performed classical ballet with the Pacific Northwest, San Francisco and the New Jersey Ballet companies. She was the principle dancer (prima ballerina) with the New Jersey Ballet. Her dance career blossomed on Broadway starring in such well-known productions as “Sugar Babies.” Following her dance career, Kathy jumped into the fitness industry and eventually became Jack Lalanne’s number one personal trainer in the tri-state area, during jack’s Bally days. A true world class athlete, she is a constant advocate of vibrant health and wellness. With licenses and certifications in Barre, massage therapy and spa therapies, Hatha Yoga, Gyrotonic® and Pilates, Kathy has given tens of thousands of massage therapy treatments since the 1980’s and has personally taught over 16,000 fitness classes! “Rarely does one ever meet a Prima Ballerina. Like an Olympic athlete, the grace and excellence that goes into creating a career as one of the very best dancers in the world can only be achieved by harnessing sheer determination, unbridled passion and a consummate sincerity for world class excellence. Kathy is one of the most gifted human beings I have ever met, and she shares her special healing gifts unconditionally to one and all!” Larry Heisler, M.A. LMT |
Bianca Franchi, LMT, NCBTMB
Bianca is an extraordinary woman with special massage therapy talents who has been offering massage therapy since the 1980’s. Offering many styles of therapy including Swedish and deep tissue massage, cancer and hot stone massage, shiatsu and her specialty: traditional Hawaiian Lomi Lomi which she also teaches. Bianca is one of the most sincere, outward thinking people I have ever met. A true healing practitioner, and her massage and Lomi work is a total knock-out. Larry Heisler, M.A., LMT |
Michelle Frost, A.A., LMT
Michelle is a state licensed massage therapist with close to a decade of clinical experience. One of our most popular therapists, she specializes in Medical, Swedish and Deep Tissue massage therapy, as well as Hot Stone, Cranio-Sacral, REIKI and Manual Lymphatic Drainage. Michelle has ‘special’ healing gifts that she backs up with years of clinical experience. Larry Heisler, M.A., LMT |
Leslie Dondarski, B.A., LMT
Leslie is a graduate from The Institute for Therapeutic Massage. She has been a state licensed Massage Therapist since 2005, is a Reiki Practitioner and specializes in Deep Tissue, Swedish Massage, Pre/Post-Natal Massage and Hot Stone Therapy. Leslie has found that massage offers her the opportunity to share her nurturing spirit and extraordinary healing gifts with others. Leslie is a very talented therapist with amazing hands and a beautiful healing presence. Larry Heisler, M.A., LMT |
Tatyana Govorova, M.A., NCBTMB, LMT
Tatyana is an extraordinary healer and massage therapist from Kiev. She has performed massage therapy in a vast array of clinical environments including the Atlantic Health System hospitals. Most importantly she is enthusiastic, kind and especially dedicated to using her knowledge, experience, and warm hands and heart to improve her clients’ health and well-being. Tatyana is adept in the use of integrative massage and energy bodywork for relaxation; pain and stress relief; injury healing; increased energy; and physical, mental, and emotional balance. A gifted, caring healer in the massage tradition! Larry Heisler, M.A., LMT |