Real success in massage therapy, or any method of hands-on healing, depends largely on your mastery of mindfulness and palpation. When Andrew Taylor Still founded the first Osteopathic medical school, his first-year students devoted one hour each day to developing palpation skills. These were true practitioners of manual medicine. There just isn’t enough time for that in a typical massage…
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Training Your Touch: Palpation and Manual Assessment
Description: This two-day class blends lecture, discussion and guided exercises with plenty of hands-on practice in order to develop and refine tactile awareness. On the first day, working with inanimate objects, living tissues and subtle pulses, we will experiment with strategies from world-renowned doctors and educators to enhance our palpatory skills. Then, we will use those new skills to evaluate…
