Current Curriculum

Therapeutic Massage 150 hours Includes interviewing clients, understanding contra-indications, Basic massages, Swedish massage, draping, and corrective exercises. Student internship of hands-on experience.

Advanced Sports Massage 100 hours You will learn innovative techniques to enhance performance, reduce shin splints, work with ankle and knee problems, and tennis elbow.

Anatomy and Physiology 110 hours Study of the musculo-skeletal system; the nervous, respiratory, cardiovascular, digestive, integumentary, endocrine, and reproductive system.

Hydrotherapy 8 hours

Business Skills 16 hours

Professional Ethics 18 hours Confidentiality and Therapeutic Integrity

CPR and First Aid 8 hours

BodyMind Clearing 250 hours

A System of Transformational Deep Tissue Massage, Applied Kinesiology, and Body-Centered Facilitation skills within the Self-Expression Model of healing.

Deep Connective Tissue Massage

Aromatherapy and Shiatsu

FOR YOURSELF, LEARN: * To find your Optimal Body Mechanics while using your elbows and forearms to do deep work. * How Muscles, Emotions, and Affirmations are Linked * How to Enhance your Intuition * To work with challenging clients * To Avoid Burnout * Body reading and Postural Analysis * Visualization Skills * How to do a 10-Session Program

FOR YOUR CLIENTS, LEARN: * To assist them to find and use their Inner Resources * To Improve Structural Alignment, Posture, Function, Flexibility, and Awareness * Emotional Trauma Release and Integration * Clearing Muscles of Fear and Stress * Sports Massage Techniques * To Reduce Pain of: Whiplash, Shoulder and Low Back Pain, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, and Sciatica.

The Art of Body-Centered Facilitation

Facilitation helps others use their inner resources to heal themselves.

Body Reading: 90% of Communication is Non-Verbal

* Read the Powerful Signals of Body Language with the Virginia Satir Postures.

* Use your Body Language Congruently.

* Five Body Language Errors that Thwart your Effectiveness

* 4 Skills to Maximize Non-Verbal Communication.

* Metaforms: How each part of the body silently expresses Thought and Need

Build Rapport with Dynamic Listening:

* The Key to Effective Facilitation

* How to let Clients know they've been Heard and that you Value what they say.

* Comprehend other viewpoints.

* Gather needed Information in 6 new and exciting ways.

* Learn what the client wants

Communication Skills with a Client:

* Develop awareness of your Personal Communication Style.

* Develop Versatility with 4 nonverbal communication styles.

* 8 skills to Minimize Client Defensiveness and Maximize Cooperation

* Have intention, action and impact to be congruent.

Applied Kinesiology

You will learn skills to change the physiology and restore balance that include:

* Muscle Testing (Personal Nutrition, Self-testing Techniques)

* Stretching and Corrective Exercises

* Acupressure

* Meridian Massage (tracing)

* Lymphatics Reflex Points Massage

* Emotional Stress Release

* Chinese 5-Element Theory

* Command Point Rebalance

* Herbology and Nutrition

* Sports Massage Techniques (Enhanced Performance)

Help others use their Inner Resources

* Guide yourself and others to Full Potential.

* Clarify Intention and Establish Priorities.

* Solving Problems: Brainstorming Solutions with the Right Side of the Brain.

* Identify the Needs and Values behind Activities.

* Empower Clients through Questions.

Reality Engineering:

Bringing the Powerful Forces of the Mind into Alignment with Individual Values and Purposes.

* Techniques of Ending Mental Conflicts.

* How we as Humans are Designed to learn.

* Freeing Yourself: How your Mind keeps you stuck in your habits.

* How to Feel Good about Feeling Bad.

* Develop Effective Choice in your Life.

* Learn the Personal Power Mental Diet.

Meditation Work:

* Orbit Meditation Transmission

* Psychic Tension Release - energy exercise to consciously release stuck energy and accumulated tensions

* Smile Meditation

* SELF-AWARENESS exercises

* 6 Healing Sounds for internal organs