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Our 103 hour
Massage Therapist course is dedicated to developing professional massage
therapists. This course threads muscle function with palpation, visual
assessment, communication skills, and marketing.
This program
is ideal for the graduate of our basic Swedish massage program as well as
the practicing therapist who is seeking deeper understanding of the body
and their role as a health care provide. We are certain that each student
will leave with the confidence and knowledge that will lead them to a
successful practice in massage therapy.
Students will develop:
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Kinesthetic Awareness
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Body Reading skills
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Expanded massage techniques
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Deeper
therapeutic abilities
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Self-Care techniques to avoid repetitive strain
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Ways to maintain intention and focus throughout a full session
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Confidence to achieve their professional goals
Class Overview:
Kinesthetic Awareness:
Students will examine the relationship between muscle function in regards
to daily tasks and common complaints from clients. Palpating familiar
muscles determines their direction and action. With practice, you will be
able to identify variations of muscle patterns.
Massage Technique:
Working within the familiar format of Swedish massage, students will
utilize new knowledge of posture and muscle function to inform their
massage work, applying strokes and new techniques with a specifically
therapeutic intent and approach. By utilizing this increased awareness of
muscle function and structural anatomy, students will be better able to
tailor sessions specific to each client. New techniques will enable
students to address specific areas of tension in muscles to facilitate the
release of holding patterns, pain, and dysfunction.
Deepening Mindfulness:
Our clients deserve our undivided attention. Each week we will explore awareness and meditative practices
that will be
woven throughout the course through in classroom and at home
assignments that will enhance, support, and expand students’ abilities to
be totally present with clients, their work, and themselves.
Building
Professional Visibility:
Students will explore the possibilities of several professional situations
as well as marketing and practice building techniques, cultivating
essential skills from networking with other health professionals to basic
record keeping, including exposure to working in a clinical setting
through a visit to a chiropractic office.
Our next Massage Therapist program
begins: September 4th, 2008
PREREQUISITE: Completion
of a 100 hour Swedish massage certificate program.
Tuition for the Massage Therapist Program
is as follows:
| Program |
Books |
Total |
Down Payment |
Monthly Payments |
| Massage
Therapist |
not included |
$1450.00 |
$700.00 |
3 X $250.00 |
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