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Elements Health and Wellness

🎓3000+ hours Advanced Clinical Massage Therapist
🫶🏼I have helped 200+ Therapists save their hands & increase client’s results
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11/13/2026

Comment “TEK” and I’ll send you the link 👊

I spend all day using my hands to help other people’s bodies.
This is how I keep mine sharp. It trains your hand-eye coordination and spatial awareness, and it gets your mind and body working together.

It counts every hit out loud, so you stop counting and just stay locked in on the ball.

11/12/2026

Comment “ PK11 ” if you want to learn more ways to adapt Thai techniques to the table for the hip 👇

What makes this traditional Lanna Thai position so powerful is how many variations and how much you can reach from one setup:

-Stretch or massage the adductors
-Stretch the glutes as the hip rotates
-Create gentle spinal rotation for low back decompression
-Free up your forearms to work the quads while the client is locked in

This is the beauty of Thai massage: once you understand a foundational position, it opens up endless ways to move the body. It's how innovation, adaptation and the growth of the entire industry happens!

These techniques come from a tradition much bigger than any one of us. Grateful to be able to share them. 🙏

❌ This should only be done after assessment + WITH ADVANCED TRAINING, without understanding of the movements you can HURT your client!

Credit to Lanna Thai Massage, part of Nuad Thai, recognized by UNESCO 🇹🇭

11/11/2026

Comment "PK11" and I'll show you how to reset tight hip flexors!!

Massage Therapists and bodyworkers your client's pelvis tips forward, the hip flexors are usually the ones pulling it.
And that's where the problems start.

Tight hip flexors can cause:
- Low back pain from the lower spine arching and getting squeezed
- Weak glutes that stop doing their job
- Tight, overworked hamstrings trying to hold the pelvis in place
- A shorter stride and stiff hips when walking or running
- That posture where the belly pushes out and the butt sticks back

This is why massage alone keeps chasing the same low back pain.
But not every client can do the same stretch.

Some just don't feel it. So here are 3 different ways to stretch the hip flexors.
Pick the one that fits your client's body, not the one you always use.
Different bodies need different answers. 1 assessment is always key!!

11/10/2026

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11/09/2026

Comment "PK11" only if you're serious about learning the new hip mobility reset online masterclass.
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Laying your client over your thigh causes the same effect as them lying over a foam roller on their low back, it decompresses it. Add spinal rotation, and you're increasing trunk ROM at the same time. You can even add compression along the SI or support the QL. Adding manual massage during each movement makes it even better! Adapt the massage to what your client's needs are.
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One position, two things happening: the low back gets space, the spine gets movement through it. You don't need three separate techniques for this. You need one setup done right.

11/06/2026

BREAKING NEWS MASSAGE!!

Overnight, massage therapists became accountants.

Everyone suddenly has a tax opinion.
RMTs, hold off before you switch off GST/HST.

On November 5, 2026, Ottawa put forward a plan to remove GST/HST from qualifying massage therapy services.
Massive moment for our profession. Years of petitions in the House of Commons finally paid off.
But the internet moved faster than the facts.
Even BNN Bloomberg reported it like it's already done.
It's not.

Where things actually stand:
- Nothing is final. The plan targets November 6, 2026 as the start date, but Parliament still has to pass it.
- The CRA hasn't spoken. No official direction yet telling therapists to stop collecting.
- Not everyone automatically qualifies. Regulated province? You'll need your licence or registration. Unregulated province like Alberta or Saskatchewan? You'll need training that matches what a regulated province requires. How that gets measured is still unknown.

The real risk:
Say you bill $100,000 in treatments this year.
You stop charging GST early.
Later you find out you didn't qualify.
That's $5,000 you now owe, and it's coming from you, not your clients.
There's another catch most people miss. Once your services become exempt, you generally lose the ability to recover GST/HST paid on business costs like rent, linens, oils, and equipment. Exempt doesn't always mean you come out ahead.

My move right now:
- Keep charging if you're required to today.
- Wait for the CRA to give clear direction.
- Make sure your credentials actually meet the standard.
- Track every treatment, date, and dollar of tax collected.
- Trust official sources over social posts.

This is a win worth celebrating.
Let's just make sure we get it right. Thank you to everyone that did their part!!

This is not tax advice. Speak with a qualified accountant or tax professional about your own situation.

11/06/2026

Comment " PK11 " for more if you want to fix your client’s flat hips!!

Massage therapists, if your client never stretches their hamstrings, don’t be surprised when they end up with a flat, potato-shaped butt.

Tight hamstrings pull the pelvis down and back. That tucks the hips under, flattens the curve in the low back, and makes the glutes look flat. And it’s not just about looks. That same pull can cause low back pain, hip pain, and tightness down the back of the legs.
You can massage the glutes all day, but if the hamstrings stay tight, the pelvis stays tucked and the butt stays flat.

11/05/2026

Follow for more if you’re a massage therapist who can relate 😂

We tell our clients to stretch every day, but we skip it ourselves. We believe in the power of touch, but we can’t remember our last massage. And at every family dinner or party, someone always asks us to fix the pain they’ve had for 10 years, right there on the spot.

11/04/2026

Comment “PK11” if you are serious about learning to reset the hips!!

Massage therapists, if you keep working on your client’s IT band and their knee pain keeps coming back, you’re probably missing the real problem.
The IT band is pulled tight by a small hip muscle called the TFL. When the TFL is tight, it tugs on the IT band all day. That’s what causes outside knee pain, hip pain, and that tight, stuck feeling down the side of the leg.

Foam rolling and deep tissue massage on the IT band won’t fix it. The band is thick, tough tissue. Grinding on it just hurts your client, wears out your thumbs, and the pain is back a few hours later.

Leave the TFL tight and your client keeps coming back with the same knee pain, no matter how hard you work.

11/03/2026

Comment "PK11" for info on the new hip mobility reset masterclass 👇

TFL / IT band:
The TFL feeds straight into the IT band, so when it's tight, that tension runs all the way down to the knee, not just the hip. That's why IT band pain at the knee often isn't an IT band problem. It's a TFL problem showing up somewhere else. Release the TFL with massage and stretching, and the band finally gets room to move instead of staying cranked tight down the whole leg.

Hamstrings / posterior pelvic tilt:
Tight hamstrings pull on the sit bones, and that pull tips the pelvis back and flattens the curve in the low back. That's posterior pelvic tilt, and it's why some "tight hamstrings" are really a pelvis problem in disguise. Release the hamstrings with massage and stretching, let the pelvis settle back to neutral, and the low back gets its curve back.

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