Next Class: September 2011

Learn massage techniques that give instant deep relief to pain!

We've taken a series of ancient & modern massage modalities and put them together in a way that you can use daily—and especially when you have pain that needs immediate attention.

These techniques go way beyond the standard Swedish massage that most Americans are familiar with, and introduces solutions to common pain patterns.

Instead, you will learn how to provide deep relief in a new way. The majority of this workshop day will be spent teaching you how to trust your instincts, and with some professional pointers, provide you the means to have remarkable results.

While the basic techniques are intended for the public, everyone will benefit. Even career massage therapists will find delightful solutions to confounding problems from clients in the past.

Who Should Attend?

The techniques you will learn are intended to bring immediate relief to pain, yours or others. You'll walk away knowing how to deal with a large array of common issues that the typical modern lifestyle creates. Here are examples of people that will want to be in this workshop:

• You have a low-level muscular pain somewhere in body that has plagued you for months, perhaps even years. It may have been triggered by an injury, or perhaps a sports activity, or repetitive strain. You've gone to many professionals from many different fields, and you've had no success at getting the pain reduced. You've practically given up on ever being rid of the pain.
  
  Pain is the body's way of telling you that you need to do something different.
  
  In this workshop, if it is a muscle pain, we'll get it identified and most importantly, you'll learn how to have anyone, at anytime, work on you. Yes, you'll learn the language, through "active receiving" to instruct others whenever your pain "flairs-up".

• We have days when a pain flairs up in our body. For some of us it may be like an ice-pick pain in your upper back, or like needles in your arm. We all practically know what to do with cramps in our calves, but how do we deal with a spasm in the back?
  
  You'll learn the techniques in this class to deal with these issues when they arise, anytime. Why wait to get an appointment with a specialist if it can be quickly remedied at home by a partner? You'll learn the technique for a quick solution, as well as contraindications when you'll need to go to the doctor instead.

• Are you a caretaker, or have a partner that frequently is in pain? You'll want to attend this course. Save your thumbs and fingers. Learn how to give an hour therapeutic massage to your receiver that gives amazing relief.

• Massage therapists will want to take this workshop add techniques to your toolbag. You'll gain a new insight into ways of working with an entirely new field of clients—those with acute and chronic muscular pain.

Modalities and techniques

This workshop adapts several modalities, and boils them down to the top 10 of pain reduction methods.

• Adapted Thai Massage & Stretching with a focus on American lifestyle needs (Thai is focused a lot on feet & legs for rice fields). Learn how to stretch others to eliminate a series of pain patterns (back pain, leg pain, neck pain, etc.)
• Adapted ZEN Shiastsu to undo pain caused by scar & adhesion
• Adapted floor, chair, & table techniques will allow you to work on anyone in any setting.
• Fully clothed class. Bring loose fitting clothes that cover your arms and legs. These techniques will work best with cloth between you and the other, and to prevent "sliding." Shirts might be off in one technique, for the should/neck release work taught from a regular chair & sitting position.