Lower body Deep Tissue
2 days devoted to invigorating your approach to deep tissue techniques & therapeutic care for the lower body. An emphasis on creative and confident client positioning and therapist ergonomics. Time is built into the workshop to explore sidelying draping and techniques. Taught in an exploratory style of demo & repeat you should come prepared to not only practice but receive.
Upper body skillbuilding
2 days devoted to invigorating your approach to deep tissue techniques & therapeutic care for the upper body. An emphasis on creative and confident client positioning and therapist ergonomics. Time is built into the workshop to explore sidelying draping and techniques. Taught in an exploratory style of demo & repeat you should come prepared to not only practice but receive.
Sidelying skillbuilding
Sidelying and all its variations should be a trusty tool to effective care for every RMT. After this workshop you’ll be able to confidently drape and access techniques that keep your posture lifted allowing you to feel more energetic and creatively invigorated.
“Let the focus of a therapist centric approach to care be driven by a measurement of physical skill, boundaries, energetic value and balance to create not necessarily a painful experience but a curiously peaceful and therapeutic experience. ”
Seated Barefoot Massage
Come explore the wonderful world of barefoot massage therapy. Therapists will familiarize themselves with massage therapy techniques using their feet as a point of therapeutic contact with the patients muscle, joints and connective tissue. Our introductory workshop allows therapists to take techniques back to their practice right away without concern for specific equipment. This is a wonderful place to start if you are curious about this modality, just want to try something completely new or seriously considering about refreshing and up-leveling your massage therapy practice.
Barefoot Basics
In this 3 day workshop, therapists will learn the basics of safe and effective placement of technique using a high stool and overhead bar system for barefoot massage therapy. At the end of the workshop you will be able to provide a full body barefoot massage therapy treatment and understand the relevant clinical applications. This workshop requires that you attend one of our introductory workshops in advance.
Barefoot Advanced - 4 days
Once your single footed standing & seated barefoot practice has been established then you are eligible to continue advanced training that includes a variety of integrations. These include mobility practices, positional release, more choreography of technical & texture options as well as two footed strokes. In order to participate in this Barefoot Advanced workshop therapists must complete an audited barefoot session in person or virtually.
Other deep tissue skill building formats include isolated, immersive shoulder & lumbar work / expanding the hands-off massage therapy approach via props, bolsters & productive positioning as well as a hands-on or barefoot 3 day masterclass. In the hands-on as well as the barefoot realm we conduct additional skill building via our open clinic community nights. If any of these additional topics appeal to you then please do not hesitate to reach out via email.
To register, please visit our shop page or click here to be redirected. We will require payment in full to secure your spot. We will supply all tables, linens & oil/gel/lotion for the duration of our workshops.
“In bodywork, it’s imperative to maintain boundaries that protect and benefit the therapist client relationship. Working at the expense of your own body creates an energetic vulnerability and disharmony with the overall goals of care. We are working to support a healing container – this happens best by putting the wellness of the providing healer first. To stretch, press, pull and squeeze tissue requires patience, care and attention to ‘how’ we are doing our work. We invite tissue and tension to release and avoid ‘stripping’ muscle tissue. ”