Get ready for the last rush. AMPs could be under fire, soon.
New rule going in, effective November 29,2014, the last licks of Jenny Granholm. Massage professionals have to be totally certified and licensed, or expect to be closed. And this is based on the individual provider and not the Spa itself. Expensive license fees and requirements that ask for background checks, fingerprinting, high school records or GED for every instance and then some degree of hours in training. There appear to be some exceptions based on the ABMP (Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals) one of the authorizing agencies under these conditions:
"Different requirements apply if you hold a current massage license issued by another state. Also, if your practice is limited to one or more of the following modalities, you are not required to obtain a Michigan massage therapy license:
The Feldenkrais method.
The Trager approach.
Polarity or polarity therapy.
Asian bodywork therapy.
Reiki.
Shiatsu.
Reflexology, or.
Structural integration."
However, I downloaded the certification form and it doesn't look good. They make no mention of those exceptions under the grandfathering rule which is supposed to cover those techniques. But all of them DO say that if the license from the other state has to be sent directly to the state of licensure in Michigan. No photocopies. With the turnover that most of the area AMPs experience, do you think that these ladies have obtained that level of certification in ANY other state? And they did put in a section to cover international licenses with this tricky little stipulation that is designed to still fulfill Jenny G's legacy:
"If you completed a massage therapy curriculum outside of the United States, you must have your education reviewed.
And certified for equivalency by a credentialing agency that is accredited by the National Association of Credential.
Evaluation Services (NACES). The list of accredited NACES credentialing agencies can be found on their website.
[URL]www.naces.org[/URL], under "Current Members". The review must be a course-by-course evaluation that determines whether.
The massage therapy curriculum you completed was equivalent to an approved program in Michigan. A copy of the.
Credentialing report must be sent directly to the Michigan Board from the agency that performs the review.
If your curriculum was not taught in English, you must satisfactorily complete both the TOEFL (passing score is 550 on the.
Written examination or 230 on the computerized exam) and TSE (passing score is 50) examinations OR the TOEFLibt.
(overall passing score of 89 or above). Required section scores on the TOEFLibt are:
Not less than 22 on the reading section.
Not less than 22 on the listening section.
Not less than 26 on the speaking section.
Not less than 24 on the writing section.
Results of the examination (s) should be sent directly to this office from ETS. Contact ETS at (609) 771-7100 or at their.
Website at [URL]www.toefl.org[/URL] (e-mail: [EMAIL]toefl@ets.org[/EMAIL]) to arrange to take these examinations or to have results sent to our office.
The Institutional Code needed to send scores to the Michigan Board is 9715."
So smoke 'them while you got 'them! Because after seeing this, now I know why some local smokies didn't care what was going on. They knew that once this kicks in, they don't have to do a "kick in the door" raid. They just need to send in the suits with clipboards to close things down with a whimper and not a bang.
Research may have found an out to licensure using a cultural ethnicity clause
Well some good news, but it may require additional signage or sign changes at your favorite places. It does appear that there could be an exception to getting fingerprinted and licensed if the shop is classified as a provider of Asian Bodywork Therapy and not "massage". That is a key term because of this defintion.
"Asian Bodywork Therapy is the treatment of the human body / mind / spirit, including the electromagnetic or energetic field, which surrounds, infuses, and brings that body to life by pressure and / or manipulation. "1 This statement is the lead-in to the general definition of about adopted by the American Organization of Bodywork Therapies of Asia' (AOBTA), the largest membership organization in the United States representing the interests of about professionals across a broad spectrum of practices. By this definition, ABTs are holistic approaches addressing and affecting the whole person through the use of movement, manipulation, or pressure techniques. This definition could also describe many bodywork disciplines of non-Asian origin, such as reflexology, Ortho-Bionomy (R), Trager (R), or Breema (R). " These techniques include the use of cupping, pressure points, including the application of pressure to areas along the medians of energy as proscribed through Chinese medicine. Amma, Shiatsu and Jin Shin Jyutsu (a form of accupressure) fall into this category. So anyplace that has the word "Spa" in their name may have to change it unless they are the places like Warm Hands and Spa Time, which already fall into this category and last time I looked do have traditional State License Certificates in their place of operation.
I'm not a lawyer, so don't take this as legal advice. However, there are resources which may provide some useful information to avoid unwanted closure of businesses, incarceration and fines. Jenny G's legacy was so focused on being politically correct and not threatening the culture ethnicity of these businesses that they may have instead given them a loophole to continue. NOW, the real issue is if a place has to re-incorporate as a different type of service, and whether it may be affected by zoning laws that they may have been grandfathered out of is a different story, and that will vary between locations and jurisdictions.
New Massage Place; Anyone Been?
I just saw this on CL: [URL]https://lansing.craigslist.org/thp/4768456854.html[/URL].
Anyone been? Thoughts on the ad?
