Robert Gardner Wellness

03/01/2026

Hey these links are broken.

I got a message and took a quick look to realize that amazon periodically changes links so old links on a blog post are broken. It's a small clerical issue in what has become the largets tech overhaul I've had in the last 10 years.

We're 90% done....oh boy, giving users something user friendly on the current budget? Oof

If amazon does it? If netflix does it? I'm supposed to do that but I gotta stitch it together without millions of dollars in developers to put architecture in place.

robertgardnerwellness .com
thaimassagejam .com
nextlevelpainrelief .com

umpteen pages, instagram and social media pages then someone complains because, "there's all these poker videos and I wanted massage videos!" Apparently your sense of wellness doesn't include taking pots off a guy who thinks his A2o is good from the sb.

We'll finishing the school. When the school is done we revamp redo rewrite and include materials that lay out structure on the websites. That layout sets students expectations and yes, my stuff has often been broken. I am however the only educator I know handling their own tech support by still texting you personally to handle it.

Give me some time, infrastructure takes as long as it does. I'm not in trajectory with other educators in the massage industry. I don't have the same goal. I'm trying to change the whole game from 4 camera angles live...globally.

When stuff isn't working? That's just because it's challenging to build the future.

02/23/2026

Classes are coming up in Austin, Dallas and Conway, AR. There's also a jaunt in MO later this year.

Classes are interesting to me and the nuances of 24 years in the industry are hard to explain. At 48 years of age I've dedicated myself to what I do for half of my current life. I don't intend to stop telling the truth until the good lord calls me home.

Years ago I wrote my first workbook on Thai massage. It was 54 pages and covered a beginning mat sequence to get students started. Then I kept going:

Intro Thai workbook 54 page
Intro Thai videos
Table Thai workbook 152 pages
Table Thai videos
Phase 1 workbook 220 pages
Phase 1 videos
Phase 2 workbook 262 pages
Phase 2 videos

In total I had something like 700 pages of sequence manuals and 9 dvds of video to "get students started."

Someone would look at the first workbook and declare, "this is too long." I'd smile and say, "mastery might take a lifetime."

Once after an Intro Thai class where we covered that workbook a student said, "I don't understand what do I do for clients with low back pain?"

I said, "pages 24-30 of the Intro Thai sequence we just covered."

The confusion is people think Thai massage is stretches. Stretches after all are awesome and everyone knows how amazing Stretch therapy is. Students would ask me, "well what's the sequence?"

I'm teaching Brazilian jiujitsu to an industry full of boxers. This is not the same sport, it's not the same art and I won't do you a disservice. In my interaction with you I will help inspire you to become the practitioner you're capable of. Part of that is jettisoning silly notions fed to us in massage school and by a larger culture that is more comfortable with lies than it is asking questions about truth.

My work isn't stretches. I'd argue that 80% of my work is compression of some sort.

Students can't see the forest for the trees.

They thought I was teaching "sequences." I was teaching you how to use movement as an assessment tool to find tension so we could then address it with our clients.

Muscles cause movement. We use movement to access those muscles.

Those stretches are mobilization. Where's mobility zone? Where's mobility lab?

You see the line between bodywork and sales marketing and advertising is deeply encoded into American DNA. It's not what you do, it's how you package and sell it to an audience that needs help.

If a client asks me what sort of massage I do I say, "wrong question? Where do you hurt?" If a client asks me while groaning where I learned to do this I say, "a drunk driver taught me when I was 22."

Most have a job. I have a calling. I will never stop moving forward and bringing those who care to continue along with me. Health is your birthright.

Next Level Pain Relief® is condition specific sequences for upper back and neck pain then low back and hip pain. These sequences will help 80% of your clients 80% of the time with 80% of what we see every day as therapists.

It took me 24 years to refine it via practice. Classes are Skymat & Mat! We cover "table" work so you can use it immediately in your practice. We also help you see what the mat does to the work and why it's the future of the massage industry.

In classes 24 years in I ask students about their pain. We've just covered upper back and neck pain and they've dropped 5/10 points on a pain scale. They were at a 5. Now when I ask they're at a 0.

They look at me as if to ask, "did we do it right?"

Guys you just removed someone's pain. I call it Next Level Pain Relief® for a reason.

If I ask these same therapists, these licensed professional colleagues if they've ever seen anything like what we just did they say, "No, this is totally different."

At the end of class you'll likely hear the following. "We did upper and lower body relaxation what did you prefer the table or mat work?"

Mat is said in the crowd.

We did lower back and hip pain what did you like better the table or the mat?

Mat!

We did upper back and neck pain what did you prefer?

Mat! Dude the mat is amazing. It's So much easier.

I'll slap the mat and say, "congratulations. No major franchise in the US would even allow therapists to work on a mat. Class dismissed."

I can help you change your and your clients lives. I even have payment plans available. I do all in my power to make the work easy and accessible for all.

The real question is what do you want your life to look like in ten years?

If you want to be esteemed for taking bodywork somewhere no one had even considered? If you want to work effortlessly and garner public respect for helping people out of pain? I can show you that path.

See you in class this year. You can get started immediately in the membership vault.

Robert Gardner Wellness conducts in person Educational Classes in Thai Massage, Table Thai Massage, and Reboot Insider's Club.

02/22/2026

Step 1 take out a mat

Step 2 play with friends

Step 3 practice the rest of your life.

02/21/2026

02/20/2026

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02/17/2026

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02/12/2026

Massage needs a rebrand.

It's interesting to see colleagues begin to criticize the structures they work within and human trafficking to my understanding doesn't seem to have diminished at all due to massage licensure. I've been an outspoken critic with my dissent and it's led to a sort of ostracism on my part.

The main idea is, "you're not one of us. You don't believe like we do."

As I continue teaching and sharing it's very common for therapists to eventually look at me and go, "wait, I don't understand. You're trying to get us to work on clothed clients publicly on a mat? Then you're trying to get us to to these Next Level classes for 8 people at a time to help them out of pain? This doesn't make sense. This isn't massage."

My response is to say, "well if it's not massage then we don't need licenses in all 50 states."

If you're frustrated with the legal and medical infrastructure around massage just wait until you find out how behind the educational architecture is.

I can teach from 4 camera angles live globally. I'm still looking for an audience. I'm starting to think the best way to teach is just go direct to the public because Lmt don't want education, they want the prestige that comes from going through the appropriate professional steps and paying more $ than is necessary.

The public wants help. I can provide that.

Therapists? Within a Very small window they're ok with help but mostly they look at me and go, "can we keep doing the things that are causing the problems because we don't really want to change. It's too much work and it's hard."

I don't offer lack of change. I don't offer prestige or status in an industry gone awry.

I offer pain relief that's simple effective and universal.