Sandra K. Anderson

Title: 1st Vice President, AMTA-AZ Chapter

Email: anderkauf@msn.com

2547 N. Sparkman Blvd.
Tucson, AZ 85716

Contact Number: 520-881-5438

Extended Biography:

Sandy Anderson, BA, LMT, ABT, NCTMB, has been a volunteer for the Arizona Chapter of the American Massage Therapy Association since 1992 and is currently serving on the Board of Directors as 1st Vice President, and Chair of the Awards Committee.

Most of Sandy Anderson’s professional career has been as a bodyworker and a bodywork educator. After graduating with a BA in biology from Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, she worked in various settings until she moved to Tucson and discovered massage therapy. She graduated from the Desert Institute of the Healing Arts in Tucson, Arizona (now Cortiva Institute Tucson) with certification in massage therapy, 1991; in shiatsu, 1999; and in Thai massage, 2002. During this time she also built her private practice, and taught at the Desert Institute. For twelve years she instructed students, primarily in the areas of anatomy and physiology, and shiatsu techniques.

For five years she served as chair of the Examination Committee for the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork. She is author of The Practice of Shiatsu from Mosby Elsevier, and co-author, with Ann Mihina, of Natural Spa and Hydrotherapy from Pearson Prentice Hall.

Sandy and her husband, David, own Tucson Touch Therapies, a bodywork treatment center in Tucson, Arizona. In addition to seeing clients, Sandy conducts workshops and is writing several more massage and bodywork text books.