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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The Kinesiology Connection
This one-day seminar is an introduction to the art and science of muscle testing. You will learn how to test for a variety of neuromuscular dysfunctions and how to correct them quickly and efficiently using techniques available to massage therapists. Topics will include tests and corrections for dehydration, hypotonicity, and emotional stress. Simple self-help exercises for coordination and balance will…
Training Your Touch: Palpation and Manual Assessment
Description: Take this opportunity to build a real foundation for success in massage therapy. This two-day class blends lecture, discussion and guided exercises with plenty of hands-on practice in order to develop and refine your sense of touch. On the first day, working with inanimate objects, living tissues and subtle pulses, we will experiment with strategies from world-renowned doctors and…
