"Outside the Room" Podcast: Erik Dalton

This article is sponsored by Massage Heights.

The November 2, 2022, edition of Massage Heights’ “Outside the Room” podcast features inspiring healer, leader, and teacher Erik Dalton—2017 Massage Therapy Hall of Fame Inductee and 2012 “One Concept” Lifetime Achievement Award winner. Dalton shares his discovery of bodywork, his early practice and love of learning, and many words of wisdom that he lives by.

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