Who We Are

CAMEL is the collaborative effort of a core body of massage educators and practitioners who have been both active and pragmatic voices in the field. CAMEL thus draws on a depth and diversity of knowledge about massage training and its social context.

We are:

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Keith Eric Grant, PhD, NCTMB
Head, Sports & Deep Tissue Program
McKinnon Institute of Massage, Inc.
2940 Webster Street
Oakland, CA 94609-3407

925-423-6740

• Massage instructor since 1992
• Columnist for Massage Today.
• Author of The Massage Politics Sheet
• Physicist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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James Mally, N.D.
Director, Healing Arts Institute
112 Douglas Blvd.
Roseville, CA 95678

916-782-1275
800-718-6824

Dr. James Mally has been doing massage professionally in many different settings since 1975. He graduated from the massage therapy program at the Lindsey Hopkins School, a 1000 hour massage training program in Miami. In 1984 he graduated as a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine from Bastyr University, a four-year accredited medical school covering all aspects of natural therapeutics. Dr. Mally is able to integrate his thorough knowledge of anatomy and physiology with the practice of massage. He has been teaching massage certification programs since 1979, and is currently teaching advanced classes in deep tissue massage and sports massage in massage schools around the country. In 1996 Dr. Mally completed a video and workbook on Deep Tissue Massage which has been highly acclaimed and is being used by massage schools around the world. He has also produced videos on Swedish Massage and Sports Massage.

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Judith McKinnon
Director and Founder, since 1973
McKinnon Institute of Massage, Inc.
2940 Webster Street
Oakland, CA 94609-3407

510-465-3488

• Past gubernatorial appointee to the California Physical Therapy Examining Committee
• Past appointee to the credentialing and financial subcommittee, Physical Therapy Examining Committee
• Conceived, drafted and lobbied for legislation in 1989-1991 on behalf of over 2,000 small vocational schools in California. The legislation was signed into law in October 1991.
• International teaching includes Holland, Ireland, and Belgium

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David A. Palmer
Founder/President, 1986 to present
TouchPro Institute of Chair Massage
584 Castro Street #555
San Francisco, CA 94114

800-999-5026
415-621-6817

• Massage school owner/director 1982-1989
• 1997 AMTA National President's Award
• 1998-2004 — Co-Chair of the San Francisco Coalition that helped develop and pass a new San Francisco massage ordinance
• 2001-present — Serves on the Executive Committee that helped to conceive, pass and implement SB577, the California Health Freedom legislation

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Art Riggs, Certified Advanced Rolfer, CMT
Author, Deep Tissue Massage — Manual and DVD/Video

Art Riggs is a Certified Advanced Rolfer® and massage therapist who has been teaching bodywork since 1988 and now sells Myofascial release videos and manuals worldwide. A lifetime of hard physical activity and high level athletic pursuits including ultra-marathons led him to bodywork, first as a grateful recipient, and later as a student. The fulfillment he experienced in both receiving and performing bodywork led him away from his graduate studies in Exercise Physiology at the University of California, Berkeley to a full time career as a Rolfer and teacher of Deep Tissue Massage. He has conducted numerous workshops for health spas and for medical professionals, including physical therapists, and has assisted in Rolf Institute trainings.

For the first ten years of his practice, he specialized in myofascial release at a physical therapy clinic where an interest in the treatment of injuries was cultivated. He has worked with several Olympic athletes, professional football and basketball players, and professional dancers and musicians to treat injuries and to improve performance. However, his teaching and the practice of working with the general population to provide a better awareness of their bodies and allow more ease and comfort in their everyday lives remains the most gratifying aspect of his work.

Art Riggs lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and teaches in the Bay Area and Europe.

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Ramona Moody French
Director, Desert Resorts School of Somatherapy
2100 N. Palm Canyon C100
Palm Springs CA 92262

800-270-1175 or 760-323-5806

• Founding Member, California Alliance of Massage and Bodywork Schools (CAMBS)
• California Health Practitioners Association, Chair 1984-1989
• Coachella Valley Spa Directors Association, founder
• Massage School Task Force, DCA/BPPVE

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