Sandy is the Owner, Director, and Head Educator of the Health Enrichment Center in Lapeer, MI, dedicated to achieving excellence in massage practice. Sandy is also passionate about training the next generation of quality instructors and leaders She also maintains an active massage practice with individual professional football players, basketball players and others.

Sandy is the author of several massage texts including Mosby's Fundamentals of Therapeutic Massage and Sports and Exercise Massage. An educator for many years, she designs classes with innovative concepts and teaching strategies. A naturally gifted presenter, she is a popular instructor across the country.

 Sandy with her daughter Laura and son Luke own and operate MASSAGE GREEN SPA in Lapeer Michigan.   http://massagegreenspa.com/

"Much of my world revolves around my professional activities including massage education, textbook writing and maintaining an active client structure.  The strength, joy and peace of my life however is from my family.   As a family we have navigated many life events.  I spent many years as a single parent with its own challenges and regardless of the job I as a parent did my kids are fantastic.  The support of my children, mother, Pa and siblings in times of turmoil has not faltered.  I enjoy simple things and am basically a homebody.  I play in my garden, feed and watch the birds and enjoy my pets.   I listen to lots of audiobooks and enjoy a good story.   I want to be outside in nature more than inside the house.  I have overcome serious health events which have taught me the value of every day.  Our family has experienced great loss with the untimely death of my oldest son but, we have held each other up and still laugh as well as cry together.  My granddaughter is my sons’ gift to us all. I hate getting dressed up and prefer to be comfortable which can drive my daughter to distraction but also makes her chuckle. She is a capable and wise young woman that I can depend on.  My youngest son has followed me into the world of massage therapy and that makes me happy.  In 2016 under the direction of daughter Laura we opened a MASSAGE GREEN SPA location in the same building as the massage therapy school. As a family we work together to create a valuable massage therapy experience.   A simple life is a good one when surrounded by the people we love."  Sandy Fritz

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Sandy Fritz, Educator, Author, Speaker,
had Tenth Book Published Despite Heart
Surgery and Death of her Son

(previous article written in 2007)

 Despite having open heart surgery and losing one of her sons to a horrible accident, Sandy a Massage Therapy Professional working for Professional Sports Teams and Players, mother, teacher, author, and Massage Therapy School owner, pushed on to publish her most recent massage therapy text.

She is also being honored as an inductee into the Massage Hall of Fame in Panama City Beach Florida at the World Massage Festival, for showing dedication, leadership and
excellence in all aspects of massage therapy.

As a professional massage therapist, Sandy works with many different sport professionals and is in high demand most of the time. Time is one thing she never chooses to have to herself but then time was demanded of her when her doctors told her she needed Heart Surgery. She postponed the heart test to determine if surgery was necessary because she works with professional football players that were playing the Super Bowl that year. She finally had the heart catheterization and confirmed the need for a triple bypass surgery.

Later that year while working on the final draft of her most recent book,
“Clinical Massage in the Healthcare Setting”, her oldest son, Greg, while away from home on business was hit by a car, and critically injured. The accident took her son’s life. Sandy, being the person she is, put herself back in the classroom at her massage school, Health Enrichment Center in Lapeer, using the classroom as therapy, and put her mind back to writing trying to keep her thoughts off the loss of her son.

In the dedication section of Clinical Massage in the Healthcare Setting, she dedicated the book to all those that helped her and her family through the last year, from her heart surgery, the loss of her son, and finally the birth of her son’s first child, Calee. Within the dedication of her text, she wrote about the birth
of her first granddaughter, and noted, “The head nurse saw me crying at the back of the birthing room-tears of joy and sorrow – and came and got me and put an ink print of baby Calee’s foot on my arm that I can still see as I write this
dedication.” She thanks all the doctors, three different hospitals’, and countless healthcare professionals.

Sandy is a nationally certified massage therapist. She earned her Master’s Degree from Thomas Edison State College in 2000 and her Bachelor of Science in Health Science from Central Michigan University in 1998. She is affiliated with the American Massage Therapy Association, American Massage
Professionals Association, and Advisory Board for International Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies. Every year she speaks at various Massage related conventions. Just a couple of her upcoming speaking events are at the
Massage World Festival August 1-8, and at MAC (Michigan Association of
Chiropractors September 19-21.

Sandy wants the massage profession to prosper. For that to happen, Sandy
provides a free informational lecture at the school. Some schools do not offer a quality education. BE CAUTIOUS! As a massage guru, Sandy provides quality massage alternatives for those who decide that the Health Enrichment Center doesn’t fit them. To that statement many would comment, “Who does that”?
Well, you ask anyone who knows Sandy and they will tell you that, that’s exactly the type of person Sandy is.

Sandy, who is also a worldwide public speaker and stress management educator, provides programs for the public, in the corporate arena, and with such diverse groups as kids on probation. Her educational program includes information on how
massage can benefit the individual, massage trends, what we can do for
ourselves, and how to choose effective professional support services in the holistic health area. Her outreach includes Detroit VA Hospital, to include homeless veterans, Hospice, a massage therapy clinic which is free of charge at
this time, and many more. Sandy is truly a remarkable individual and a
noteworthy positive influence in our community.

Credentials

• Master of Science in Management, Thomas Edison State College, 2000
  

• Bachelor of Science in Health Science, Central Michigan University, 1998
  

• Member of the Association for Bodywork and Massage Professionals
  

• American Massage Therapy Association
  

• Nationally certified by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and
  Bodywork
  

• Board Member of the International Advisory Board for the Journal of          Bodywork and Movement Therapies.
  
  
• Owner of Health Enrichment Center, School of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork
  

• Inducted into Massage Therapy Hall of Fame 2008
  

• Sandy Fritz appeared on the cover of Massage Magazine in 1996 and in 2000, was chosen
  as Star of the Century by Massage Magazine.

• Founding member of the Alliance for Massage Therapy Education.