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November 2024
Bradford Donnaud – Creative Ensemble Massage
Bradford Donnaud - Creative Ensemble Massage Description Creativity is a learned behavior. Learning to be more creative in your massage will ensure that your work stays fresh and never boring. This course is designed to unleash your creative massage potential. We learn many modalities over our careers as Massage Therapists. We then take parts of those modalities and choose what to incorporate into our work, this is a creative process. Through group exercises and directed creative play, you will discover…
Find out more »Carrie Taylor – Migraine, TMJ disorder & Cervical Tension / Whiplash, Cervical Disc Herniations & Related Disorders
Carrie Taylor - Migraine, TMJ disorder & Cervical Tension / Whiplash, Cervical Disc Herniations, & Related Disorders Course Description Migraine, TMJ Disorder, & Cervical Tension Migraines can strike without warning, leaving the victim debilitated, and suffering from a "migraine hangover" that may last several days. Many patients, also have TMJ Dysfunction and cervical tension, two of the many contributing factors to the severity and duration of the headache. In this advanced workshop, you will learn the intimate dynamic between these…
Find out more »Mayumi Hawthorne – Heated Herbal Ball Massage
Mayumi Hawthorne - Heated Herbal Ball Massage Course Description This 12 hours hands-on course will discuss and demonstrate manipulation of soft tissue techniques using heat application of hydrotherapy with compressed balls filled with herbs to relieve pain from sore, hypertonic muscles, detoxification of waste from the muscles, and respiratory issues; Reinvigorate the body, mind, and spirit and relaxation as they are used in massage today. A successful heated herbal ball massage depends on understanding hydrotherapy using heat application and the…
Find out more »December 2024
Carrie Taylor – Neurology Plexus
CLASS CANCELLED Day 1: Neurology Cervical Plexus This Neurology hands-on class will be anatomy, physiology and palpation based, with assessment & treatment of upper body nerves and their possible entrapment sites. The cervical and brachial plexi will be covered, with a focus on which muscles and structures each nerve supplies, and what dysfunctions may arise if these nerves become compressed or compromised. In addition, relevant assessment strategies followed by possible myofascial and osseous treatment options for these pathologies will be…
Find out more »Arnold Askew – Understanding & Transforming Chronic Pain
CLASS CANCELLED Description Would you like your practice to be more 'medical' based? Would you like your practice to help transform people's lives? Would you like your practice to be easier on your body and more mentally stimulating? Develop these results when you take Understanding and Transforming Chronic Pain. Some people get a massage because it "feels good". Others come to "feel better". Still others come because they want to be better. They want to improve. They want to get…
Find out more »February 2025
Carrie Taylor – Myofascial Assessment & Treatment of the Abdomen, Ribcage and Pelvis & How to Give a Full Body Myofascial Session
CLASS CANCELLED Course Description Day 1: Myofascial Assessment and Treatment of the Abdomen, Ribcage, and Pelvis This course will remove any discomfort felt by therapists when working on the Abdomen, Ribcage & Pelvis, by combining in depth assessment approaches with effective myofascial release techniques. Therapists will spend time doing direct techniques, such as release of the abdominal/peritoneal fascia, and iliac/inguinal fascia, as well as indirect techniques, such as release of groin/pubic fascias. Proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) will be employed, along…
Find out more »Lee Anna Singleton – Trigger Points: Upper Extremities
CLASS CANCELLED Description In this course we will learn how to access some of the trigger points in the head, face, neck, arms, wrists, hands, shoulders and back. We will learn how to treat some of the most common trigger points that contribute to headaches, neck pain, frozen shoulder, elbow pain, hand/wrist pain, and upper, middle and lower back pain. In doing so we will help relieve tension and pain, increase range of motion, as well as increase your client’s…
Find out more »Carrie Taylor’s Fascial Fundamentals & HOPMNRS Approach
CLASS CANCELLED Feb 22: Fascial Fundamentals: Introduction to the Taylor Technique This workshop will give participants an introduction to the "Taylor Technique" style of myofascial assessment & treatment, and how to incorporate this work into their current practice. Specifically, strain/counterstrain, using limbs as levers, pin & drag, skin rolling, pick up & roll are all shown in several areas of the body, focusing on palpation of superficial and deep layers of fascia, and differentiating between the two. Learning about the…
Find out more »March 2025
Craig Knowles – Lymphatic Drainage Part 1 – Techniques
Description Lymphatic Massage is a type of gentle massage which is intended to encourage the natural drainage of the lymph, which carries waste products away from the tissues back toward the heart. The lymph system depends on intrinsic contractions of the smooth muscle cells in the walls of lymph vessels and the movement of skeletal muscles to propel lymph through the vessels to lymph nodes and then beyond the lymph nodes to the lymph ducts which return lymph to the…
Find out more »Carrie Taylor’s – TMJ Disorder and Thoracic Outlet Syndrome & Myofascial Assessment and Treatment of the Shoulder, Elbow, and Wrist
CLASS CANCELLED Mar 15: TMJ Disorder & Thoracic Outlet Syndrome This workshop will take therapists through a detailed HOPMNRS assessment of the TMJ and Cervical Spine, then progress into treatment ideas to release the TMJ/Thoracic Outlet and surrounding fascial tissues. Focus will be on release of the Trapezius & SCM, which share the same fascial sheath, and how to differentiate this superficial layer from the deeper muscles of the cervical spine. How to use the ear, which connects directly to…
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