NEW !!!
Self-Care Strategies for Bodyworkers
(1)
Body Dynamics – a
Multidimensional Approach: (6 CE Units)
- move, sense, integrate and communicate with your clients in new ways; learn techniques to increase
momentum during massage and ease back and shoulder strain while inviting
your hands to be extensions of the energetic connection from your feet;
movement activities as well as table experiences; sets the stage for the
mobility approaches used to release and resolve shoulder & hip issues
(to be addressed in subsequent modules)
(2)
Saving Your Hands and
Shoulders: (6
CE Units)
workshop
designed to learn self care tools for releasing tensions in hands, arms
and shoulders; share these techniques with others as you learn to
transform upper extremity massage into a win-win setting for both you
and your clients; learn to view the term circulation as reflecting
multiple layers of tissue viability; embrace self-empowerment as a noun,
as a way of life as a framework that offers benefit to all
(3)
Saving Your Hands and
Shoulders – part II (6 CE Units):
come
ready to expand your tool kit as we explore side lying techniques for
assessment, treatment, range of motion, various stretches, tractioning
options and rotational releases of tender upper extremity areas; of
interest for clients reporting frozen shoulder, tears, limited ROM,
tennis elbow, carpal tunnel
issues, stiff neck, rotator cuff issues, etc; explore the expansive
fluid layers that assist in targeting multiple issues in tandem
(4)
One Body, One Muscle:
(6 CE Units)
learn to view the body as its own messenger –
entertain the concept that bodies offer clues thru sensation; explore
effective rotational strategies to release neck issues from the feet;
invite piriformis/psoas tenderness to dissolve thru soothing joint
manipulation; watch ITB issues resolve as tendons relax and shoulder
tension melt with hip release; expand your appreciation of body unity as
these patterns effect changes on many levels
(5)
Honoring the Sacred
Sacrum: Multiple strategies for Effortless Psoas Release (6 CE Units)
spend the day receiving and offering a
variety of techniques designed to open the psoas to its flowing nature;
learn to coax release thru stretches, various tractionings, tissue
activations and gentle engagement; consider these tissues as dynamic and
full of vitality; view your challenge as an opportunity to nourish these
fibers so as to return them to their fluid resonance
(6)
Saving
Your Hands and Shoulders (part III):
(6 CE Units) synthesize and expand the
massage strategies from all integrative massage trainings as you prepare
for certification; assess, problem solve and fine tune challenges
offered from experiences and with specific clients.
Movement, Sensation & Perception
– The Voices of the Silence
Nurturing the Intrinsic Mysteries
Deep within the body lie the
untold numbers of un-named muscles, tendons, and other connective fibers
that often remain tender despite your best efforts. These smaller fibers
tend to be closer to the bone, and seem reluctant to let go and feel
‘full and vital’. We will explore these many layers from an eclectic
framework, using principles that are shared by other fluid models
including: Watsu, Continuum, Lymph Drainage, Craniosacral therapy, IMT,
& Nia.
Students will also learn to feel
and treat the embryonic articulations that often parallel these smaller
fibers and contribute to the release of lymphatic flow. In addition,
there are patterns of movement generated by the need to adapt to these
tissues, adaptations that may often be revealed following successive IMT
treatments.
We invite students to dance with
these smaller, yet powerful participants in the fluid dance with bones
and joints.
Each human organism offers a
mysterious and unique contribution to this planet thru its storehouse of
sensory awareness and creative movements. One often manages to maintain
day to day activities despite the extensive array of tissue records that
can impede a relaxed state of being. There are those times when the
voices of the tissues begin to share, to express their own insights,
adaptations and impressions.
In this seminar, students will
learn to recognize and dialog with these signals as they reveal their
stories. They will learn to
be open to the shifts in interpretation as tissues recognize change and
begin to respond with new awareness thru movement, images, dialog or
energy shifts. Students will be encouraged to let the elements of
sensation and movement contribute to their own therapeutic understanding
and evolution.
We will be moving into the water
for this workshop, learning to explore these deeper fibers by increasing
your awareness of how effortlessly these gentle tissues serve our
internal selves. The world of sensation and perception will be a focus
of this phase, and will serve to bring the academic information deeper
into your body
24 CE Hours/NCBTMB Registration fee: $425.00
Facilitator: Contact Information
Joyous Living Therapeutic Massage
106 Dominion Circle
Goose Creek, SC 29445
Cell:
843.813.2834
Email: hkahrs@charleston.net
“Joyous
Living is approved by the National Certification Board of Therapeutic
Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a Continuing Education Approved
Provider (#450109-06)
Introduction to Nurturing the Mother
Throughout the world, and across time, massage has been used to support
women during the childbearing year. In keeping with this tradition,
Claire Marie Miller has developed a program which integrates the mystery
and power of the birth experience with sound clinical knowledge and
effective therapeutic massage methods for pregnancy, labor, postpartum
and more. Nurturing the Mother Introduction to Pregnancy Massage is
offered for AMTA chapters and groups desiring an introduction to
pregnancy massage for their members and/or staff of massage therapists,
to give a safe and therapeutic pregnancy massage.
Introduction to Integrative Reflexology®
Claire Marie Miller has conceptually and in practice, created her
4-Theory integrated approach to reflexology. This new and evolutionary
approach to reflexology is grounded as a massage therapy modality. Many
students are thrilled to use the whole hand
techniques and save their thumbs from the conventional reflexology of
finger and thumb walking. With an x-ray background the charts Claire
created are anatomically inspired and make more sense thenother
reflexology charts. The workshop creatively weaves together: Theories of
structural integration through foot alignment; Meridians as precursors
to modern foot reflexology; Zones as a grid application to finding the
reflex point and areas; Proprioceptors, the messengers to the nervous
systems and the organs; Techniques that are easy on the hands