It's the LAW!

Here it is folks--this is what we energy practitioners have been working so hard for these past 16 months.  This very simply says that what we do is NOT massage and therefore we are NOT under the authority of the North Dakota Board of Massage.  Praise God for this victory which was made complete when the Governor signed it into law last week.  I thank each and every one of you who supported me through this trying time with your prayers and words of encouragement!!

Many of you may recall when the home school movement was threatened in the early '90s by an attempt to require all home school teachers to be certified teachers.  This threat came along the same lines.  The NDBOM said that we were doing massage without a license and that we would have to become massage therapists in order to do our energy work.  How ridiculous--I would never be strong enough to do massages all day long.  Besides that, if we had all wanted to become massage therapists, we WOULD have become massage therapists. 

Our bill simply states that we are exempt from their demands that we become massage therapists in order to continue doing our energy healing.  This is how it reads. 

Thanks again to all who showed support for me during this whole ordeal!

Dawn

A BILL for an Act to create and enact a new subsection to section 43-25-04 of the North Dakota

Century Code, relating to an exemption from massage therapy licensure for energy workers.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA:

SECTION 1.

A new subsection to section 43-25-04 of the North Dakota Century Code is created and enacted as follows:

Any individual practicing healing by manipulating the energy field or the flow of energy of the human

body by means other than the manipulation of the soft tissues of the human body, provided that the
individual's services are not designated or implied to be massage or massage therapy. For purposes of
this subsection, a light touch or tap is not a manipulation of the soft tissues of the human body.