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Oh, Teacher, My Teacher

11/30/2017

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For Over Twenty-three Years, Lama Lodu Rinpoche Has Been Bringing Vajrayana Teachings To St. Louis And Changing My Life For The Better.

Lama Lodu Rinpoche in red robes, giving blessing
Lama Lodu Rinpoche
By David Kenyon, JD, President, The Healing Arts Center
    I should start out by saying that while I have been practicing Buddhism under my root guru, Lama Lodu Rinpoche, for over twenty-three years, I am not a particularly good Buddhist practitioner nor the best example of the power of his teachings.  Lama Lodu has trained thousands of people, many who have gone on to become lamas in their own right.  I have some of that training, but I am a lama-school drop-out never having cracked the code as to how one 

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"Buddha In My Facebook Feed" - A New Ten-Week Class To Be Offered At HAC Starts October 29

10/9/2017

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A Non-Religious Look At Buddhism Exploring An Ancient Model Of Consciousness In the Context Of the Digital Age

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     Recent graduates of The Healing Arts Center often hear HAC president, Dave Kenyon, make references to Buddhism.  A long-time Tibetan Buddhist, Kenyon integrates Buddhist thinking into virtually everything he does, works on or talks about.  "I have been fortunate, to have received rather extensive training from very accomplished Buddhist teachers during much of my adult life", says Kenyon. "To me, Buddhism makes perfect sense largely because you can test it in your life experience without having to take anything on faith - I am, after all, a natural skeptic."
     Kenyon is an attorney by training and says that he used Buddhist principles even during the first twenty years of his career when he was a litigator.  "It was often challenging to zealously advocate for a client and still keep the moral precepts while working your way toward inner calm, but then again, all life is challenging in this way and everyone has to make their way through Samsara ("the ocean of suffering") one way or another regardless of their career path. But there is a way to be effective and compassionate in nearly every occupation, if you take the time to reflect on it and figure it out."

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The Evolution of the Massage Therapist Into The Modern Wellness Professional

7/19/2017

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Training In A Spectrum Of Holistic Healing Techniques Can Make All The Difference Between Having A Job As A Wellness Worker And Creating A Wellness Practice

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Kwan Yin by Zeng Hao, www.zhdhart.com
For nearly thirty years, The Healing Arts Center has been training massage therapists and has evolved to be, by far, the largest and most well-loved massage training program in the St. Louis region.  It ain’t braggin’ if it’s true and statistically, it’s true.  The HAC curriculum has always been unique.  We have always required Reiki training as a requirement for graduation and every student s required to have at least some transformative breathwork training as well.  We require an entire term
 of Myofascial Release, one of the most useful massage modalities for injury recovery, scar rehabilitation and sports recovery.  Our students start clinical practice after their first term in school.  HAC is nothing if not a “learning by doing” school.  Our students will spend the better part of a year working on the public so that when they graduate they are as comfortable with clients as they are with their friends.  Like most massage therapists nation-wide, roughly 60% of our graduates will wind up running their own independent wellness practices.
And this is the new gold standard at HAC: comprehensive wellness practice.

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The Healing Arts Center Adds Entrepreneur Studies To Its Business Curriculum

6/19/2017

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With 60% Of All Massage Therapists Practicing As Independents, HAC Ramps Up Business Development And Marketing Skills In Business Class And Looks At Business Incubation.

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   The Healing Arts Center trains more licensed massage therapists in the St. Louis region than all other programs combined.  As the oldest and largest school around, we feel that we have a responsibility to train massage therapists for prosperity in the real world.   Given that nearly 60% of all massage therapists are self-employed, independent operators, HAC has decided that it must improve its business training to assist its graduates in creating their own massage practices should they chose that direction.
     Massage therapy is a wonderful profession, but it does not have be practiced full-time to be useful for personal prosperity.  A significant segment of the massage therapy community are part-time therapists who use the practice to augment income  that they earn in other professions.

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It Is Time To Dispel The Myth That Massage Therapy Franchises Are Causing Low Wage Rates For Therapists

2/26/2017

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What Is Really Going On Inside The Economics Of Massage Therapy

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Healing Arts Center President, David Kenyon J.D.
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On Friday, February 24, 2017, The Healing Arts Center sponsored a first-ever St. Louis Regional Massage Therapy Summit.  This conference presented nine (9) industry insiders as panelists and was attended by over 100 industry professionals.  The conversation was frank, respectful and opened the door to the possibility of industry-wide cooperation for the first time in this area.  And yet, it is clear to nearly everyone in attendance at the Summit that there is much to be done if we are to create a "mature" and fully functional massage therapy service industry.   Over the next weeks and months, HAC intends to present portions of the economic analysis and discussion that it hopes will pave the way for a massive expansion of massage therapy as a multi-faceted healing modality and as a honorable and profitable profession for the benefit of the entire massage community.

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Healer, Who Are You?

5/7/2015

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David Kenyon

David Kenyon in a Nutshell

  • President, The Healing Arts Center, St. Louis, Missouri
  • Social entrepreneur and business developer
  • Tibetan Buddhist with monastic training
  • Former martial arts instructor
  • Author, The Lotus Blossom, a feminist novel 
  • Licensed attorney, former trial litigator
The body heals itself.  

Whether you need brain surgery or nutritional counselling, this is the one universal truth about the human body and being – the body heals itself.   Whether you take pharmaceuticals or not, whether you vaccinate your kids or not, all medicine is based on this one simple principle.  When we take an antibiotic, it is for the purpose of fortifying our immune system against disease so that the body can heal itself.  When we have surgery to repair an injury, we may sew tissues together, but only for the purpose of holding those tissues together long enough for the body to grow new tissue to heal the wound.   Medicine, all medicine, is the art of empowering the body toward generating its own wholeness and wellness.

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The Healing Arts Center Gets A New President

4/12/2015

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HAC's New President, David Kenyon, J.D.
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  • Graduate, Washington University School of Law
  • Business and employment law litigator for twenty years
Tom Tessereau, the Headmaster and CEO of The Healing Arts Center, and David Kenyon have been friends for twenty years.  David, an attorney by training, helped Tom acquire the Healing Art Center back in the day.  Both men are members of Kagyu Droden Kunchab, a Tibetan Buddhist group under the direction of Lama Lodu Rinpoche.  In addition to their training in trantric Buddhism, both men have studied the martial arts.  Both men have written books.  But that is pretty much where the similarities end.

In 2004, Kenyon retired from the practice of law where he had been a trial attorney for twenty years.  His practice had centered on business litigation and employment law, primarily, and he says that he simply got tired of "fighting with people all the time".  "I worked with a lot of workers over the years handling workers compensation cases and I despised the way many companies treated workers", he adds.  


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