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An Interview with Thomas Myers

By Darren Buford

In an exclusive one-on-one interview, massagetherapy.com was fortunate enough to discuss past, present and future with Thomas Myers and to flesh out his experience with some of the massage industry’s biggest names (Ida Rolf and Moshe Feldenkrais), under whom he studied.

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