Rhythmic Deep Tissue Sculpting
Offered in a 14-Hour Introductory or 30-Hour Comprehensive Integrative Bodywork Technique Workshop
Induce profoundly nurturing neuromuscular release with rhythmic deep tissue blended techniques. "Blends" are a creative coalesce of procedures synthesized from 35 years of study and professional body therapy practice. They are elegant, efficient, and effective myofascial therapy that is easy on your body and fun to do.
Whether you begin in the 14-hour Introductory course or in the Comprehensive 30 hour course (see curriculum distinctions below), you will learn to:
- Sensitively "sculpt" chronic tension and contraction from myofascial tissue
- Rhythmically move tissue and joints to increase quality and quantity of movement
- "Blend" sculpting and movement techniques to invite physical and emotional integration
- Utilize Tai Chi principles to organize your body usage, to increase efficiency, stability, and sensitivity
- Understand biomechanical principles, indications, and contraindications
- Synthesize blends techniques into Swedish and other soft tissue therapy sessions
The rhythmic, gentle gestures of these passive movements can:
- Create a meditative alertness and a neurological willingness to let go of habitual structural patterns.
- Assess the body for areas of decreased mobility through small amplitude, slow rocking mobilizations of joints and soft tissue.
- Introduce new movement and feeling possibilities.
Deep, melting compressions into chronic myofascial tension can:
- Relax muscles
- Effect lasting biomechanical changes to connective tissue
- Promote effortless, non-intrusive reorganization of soft tissue when sculpting is moderated to sensitively hover at the pleasure/pain borderline
Blended together, moving and sculpting simultaneously, these procedures can:
- Increase the client's kinesthetic awareness
- Evoke an atmosphere of exploration and of relaxation of somato-emotional tensions
- Help to restore functional ease and balance
- Foster integration of body, feeling, mind, and Spirit
Deep Tissue Sculpting: A Technical and Artistic Manual for Therapeutic Bodywork Practitioners $ 27.95
Prerequisites and Preparation
Blends is designed for practicing therapists and advanced students of therapeutic massage and bodywork. The introductory course is NOT a prerequisite to the four day, 30-hour course: however, it is recommended unless you have previous training in either rhythmic passive movement or deep tissue modalities or have completed the Pre- and Perinatal Massage Therapy Certification. Advance reading of textbook, Deep Tissue Sculpting, is recommended. Textbook must be purchased separately.
Dates, Times, and Tuition
Tuition varies with location and includes student handouts. Generally a $100 non-refundable deposit received one month prior to workshop will reserve registration. See schedule below for dates, locations, and tuition.