Laura Allen is the President of Sales & Marketing at CryoDerm, a licensed massage therapist, educator, and author of more than a dozen books and numerous articles that have been published in trade journals. Her regular column, Heart of Bodywork, appears in Massage & Bodywork Magazine. She is a 2011 inductee into the Massage Therapy Hall of Fame and is on the visiting faculty of the Obus School of Healing Therapies in Leixlip, Ireland. She resides in Rutherfordton NC with her husband, James, and their two rescue dogs.