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April 2025
Mayumi Hawthorne – Contrast Therapy (Using Hot/Cold Stones)
Course Description This 12 hours hands-on course will discuss a soft tissue technique using Contrast Therapy massage using Hot and Cold stones. A successful Contrast Therapy Massage depends on a clear understanding of the applications and bodily response to heat and cold applications of water using a variety of stones. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: Describe the benefits and contraindications of heat and cold applications using Basalt stones Proper protocol for a full-body Contrast Therapy…
Find out more »Lee Anna Singleton – Trigger Points: Neck, Spinal Column + Sacral Mobility & TPIS
Description In this course we will learn how to access some of the trigger points in the neck, back, spinal column and sacrum. We will learn how to treat some of the most common trigger points that contribute to headaches/Sinus pressure, neck pain, TMJ, upper, middle, and lower back pain, pain in the sacrum, glutes and hips. In doing so we will help relieve tension and pain, increase range of motion, as well as increase your client’s quality of life.…
Find out more »May 2025
Carrie Taylor’s Lumbar Disc Herniations and Sciatica & Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation
CLASS CANCELLED May 3: Lumbar Disc Herniations and Sciatica: Treatment and Management of Back Pain Lumbar Disc Herniations are becoming more and more common in our sedentary, office working culture. People are sitting for extended periods more than ever, and effectively reversing the position of the lumbar lordotic curve, which encourages discs to bulge posterolaterally. Coupled with lack of exercise and weakened core stabilization, True Sciatica symptoms result. This can cause everything from mild lower extremity weakness and instability, to…
Find out more »Craig Knowles – KM Technique – Lower Extremities
CLASS CANCELLED Description Kinetic Musculorehab technique is a blend of sports massage and medical massage that uses range of motion to treat common everyday dysfunctions. The basis of KM Technique is to learn to treat muscles in their plane of action. This course teaches how to merge passive range of motion with other massage techniques to increase their function and to relieve pain. KM Technique is also used to increase range of motion, break up adhesion and scar tissue that…
Find out more »Mayumi Hawthorne – Prior to Birth Massage (Prenatal Massage)
Description This 12 hours hands-on course is packed with information from the gestation period to the fundamentals of how a woman's body changes during the development of life. It includes how to utilize soft tissue for a Prenatal massage to ease her discomfort during her pregnancy and also provides you with recommended/suggested stretches/exercises for your client. This course will help to identify these structural changes per trimester and how massage can assist in easing her musculoskeletal discomfort due to these…
Find out more »June 2025
Carrie Taylor’s Migraine, TMD, and Cervical Tension & Whiplash and Cervical Disc Herniations
CLASS CANCELLED June 14: Migraine, TMD< 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 disorders, and how to lessen the severity, impact and frequency of migraines by treating these underlying contributors.…
Find out more »Craig Knowles – Lymphatic Drainage Part 3 – Post Surgical
Prerequisite: Lymphatic Drainage Part 1 & Part 2 Lymphatic Massage Part 3 takes the routines we learned in Part 2 and modifies them for specific ortho and cosmetic surgeries. You will also learn two techniques to treat scar tissue using scraping tools and cupping. This course will assist therapists in developing treatments specific to post surgery of Liposuction, Breast Surgeries, Tummy Tucks, and Brazilian Butt Lifts, among others. You must have completed Lymphatic Massage Part 2 to take Part 3.…
Find out more »Lee Anna Singleton – Trigger Points: Lower Extremities
Description In this course we will learn how to access some of the trigger points in the lower abdomen, hips, quads, lower leg, lower back, glutes, hamstrings, calves, ankles and feet. We will learn how to treat some of the most common trigger points that contribute to Sciatic pain, pain in the low back, hips and groin, knee pain, ankle and foot pain as well as Plantar Fasciitis. In doing so we will help relieve tension and pain, increase range…
Find out more »Mayumi Hawthorne – Prior to Birth Massage (Prenatal Massage)
CLASS CANCELLED Description This 12 hours hands-on course is packed with information from the gestation period to the fundamentals of how a woman's body changes during the development of life. It includes how to utilize soft tissue for a Prenatal massage to ease her discomfort during her pregnancy and also provides you with recommended/suggested stretches/exercises for your client. This course will help to identify these structural changes per trimester and how massage can assist in easing her musculoskeletal discomfort due…
Find out more »Carrie Taylor’s Fascial Fundamentals & Full Body Myofascial Treatment
Jun 28: Fascial Fundamentals 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 elements of fascia and how to dialogue…
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