I honestly wouldn't wish the training process on my worst enemy. It's a week-long training where you relocate to the corporate location for a week. The textbook has multiple grammatical errors, and when you go to ask about the possible anatomical errors in the book or naming of the muscles, they refuse to answer your questions, and they treat you rudely when you do ask politely, even though they just said, "any questions?" Sometimes, they have a student who is testing out to be a Master Practitioner be your teacher, and you'll miss a lot of KEY points about the stretches. I didn't learn that your body should be facing north, south, or towards the table until AFTER I had taken the test and the test proctor was explaining that to me. The teacher just didn't explain it. There are multiple things that we as students missed on the test because they were not explained. The person grading the Master Practitioner student was on their cell phone most of the time. During class, after we had been instructed on the stretches, our teacher would zone out for most of the time instead of giving corrections. You better pray that one of the test proctors doesn't come around in their free time and see you practice the stretches (probably wrong because you haven't been given notes and corrections) because they will treat you like a stupid person for not getting it right, even though you are clearly a new student learning a completely new skill. You can tell that many of these people have never taught because how rudely they treat students is horrendous. The juxtaposition of how badly higher ups treat the students vs. our actual role is astounding. For example, the people in suits and all corporate positions walk around like they are better than us, all the while in the backs of our heads, we are reminded that people pay about $50 a stretch and we are only making $12-20 an hour depending on the location. We know that our hard work makes the company money and keeps clients happy, yet we don't get benefits in many locations (depending on who your franchise owner is), and are left without health insurance for a job that is very skilled. So we are helping people feel better all day long, yet we don't have access to health care through our jobs, and in many cases, are making just enough that we don't get help from the government to buy healthcare on the marketplace either. You sign a contract before you come that if you leave before 3-6 months (depending on the location) you have to pay back the salary they gave you in training.
