15 minute Atlas Axis Session with Dialogue

This morning my wife woke with a kink in her neck., and asked me if I wouldn’t have a few minutes sometime today. Standing, she rotated her head to her left, then pointed at the left side of her neck where it meets her shoulder. “When I turn this way, it hurts here.”

I asked her to lie on the bed diagonally, with her head at one corner of the foot-end of the bed. I pulled up a chair to that corner, spread my knees and slid the chair right up to touching the corner of the bed. This is an excellent way to reach the neck, it brings the head within very close easy reach of your hands, perhaps even better than a massage table does.

Holding her head, I felt that it wanted to rotate to her right, so I helped it. For it to want to rotate right, the right-rotating muscles must be contracting more than the left-contracting muscles. The two most influential right-rotating muscles are the right OCI muscle and the right Splenius Capitis. In right rotation, I palpated the OCI with a crossing motion with one finger and then pressed it and waited. With my other hand I pressed into the Splenius. Getting into this position took about half of a minute, my hands just do this naturally now, I could do it in my sleep.

“That feels complicated,” she said, “like you’re doing a lot. But why are you working on my right side when I feel the pain on my left?”

“Well, my hands felt that your head wanted to rotate right. That told me that your right-rotating muscles are tighter.” In the midst of melting the muscle, I crossed it twice as I was speaking, to give her another way of sensing what we were talking about. “When this muscle contracts, it rotates your head to the Right. Do you see?”

“Yes.”

“So if this muscle is too tight, then it does not want to lengthen to its full length. For your head to rotate to the Left, this muscle must lengthen to its full length. But since it is too tight, it begins providing resistance when you try to turn your head to the left. Get it?”

“Yes. But shouldn’t I feel that resistance on the right?”

“You would if what you are feeling was muscle tension. But you feel more of a pinch. What’s happening is, the tight muscle on the right prevents the two parts of the two bones from sliding apart from each other on the right. Still, other larger muscles are still pulling. Since the larger muscles can’t separate those two bone parts, they become the immovable fulcrum and something else has to move. Instead of those two bones sliding apart, the joint has to compress and pinch. Depending on the joint, that pinch could be felt on the Right or the Left, you can’t always predict what is going to be pinched first.”

“So a nerve is being pinched?”

“It could be a nerve, or simply the two bones are pressed together on a surface that is not designed for contact, and the bones actually hurt.”

She pondered this while I slowly returned her head from Right rotation to neutral, since the Right-rotators were melting. Then I crossed her left Levator Scapula a few times (to provide sensation for her and to give me a good sense of the fibers) then I pressed into its thickest part and waited. It began melting.

“Now you’re working where I feel the pain.”

“Yes, first I worked where your subconscious brain told me was the muscle that was most tense, and now I am working where you consciously feel you need work. I’m showing your brain that I am listening to both versions, so you’ll be balanced.” After the Levator melted, I asked her to try to move her head.

“It’s a little better,” she said, and her hand went to the left levator again, telling me there was still pain there.

I felt her head again in neutral and again it wanted to rotate to the Right. So I melted the Right-rotators again, until the head wanted to return to neutral again. The head actually appears to pull itself back to neutral when the Right-rotators relax to the degree they are contracting equal to, or less than the Left-rotating muscles are contracting.

“How about now?”
She rotated her head left and right and said maybe she felt a little more relief. Her hand again went to her Left Levator. “I’m sure it will feel better in time, you’ve done enough.”

But I wanted to do one more thing. Again I rubbed, then melted her Left Levator Scapula at the shoulder. This time I also sidebent her neck to the Left which places the Levator in a shorter position.  I found the upper fingers of the Levator and lightly pressed them against the TVPs of C1 through C3. I was thinking that the Levator probably gets cranky when three of its insertions are long and one is short, or vice versa. This would happen whenever the head is rotated for long periods, or when there is excess tension in one of the OCI muscles. I believe the muscles really have individual personalities, and they literally experience emotions like cranky, competitive, bullied, and fatalistic, and then when relieved of their stresses they feel grateful and cooperative.  I felt her Levator melt again, and allowed her head to come out of Left sidebending back to neutral.
“Try it again,” I said.

“Wow, it’s way better. Thanks! What did you do?”

“You had a big muscle that was trying to guard the area. It had a good reason to guard when your bones were being pulled out of their natural balance. But even after the cause of the problem was reduced, the big muscle still was feeling it out to keep guarding. So I spent more time with it to call it back from duty.”

She saw that the rug in the room needed cleaning so she began moving furniture and rolling up the rug. I took this to mean she was back in balance.

 

2012 Workshop Descriptions -- April May June

Register through http://arichexperience.com/classes.cfm

 

Tuesday, April 17th from 9am - 4pm

Reiki Level Two—Accelerating Your Spiritual Path

Hours: 6 CE Hours

Cost: $220.00

 

Reiki naturally accelerates you along your spiritual path!

Reiki Level Two is for those who have already completed Reiki Level One. Level two increases your awareness of natural healing energy in your own life, and allows you more influence over energy in assisting others. Reiki level two dramatically increases your intuition. Your instructor, Patrick Moore, brings many years as a healer and spiritual seeker to assist you in your journey.

(If you have not yet received level one, please contact Patrick at 334-8950 to complete your level one attunement before April 17.)

You will have more time practicing the hands-above method with feedback from your partner. Time Travel: you will learn three methods for sending Reiki to anyone at any distance at any time or place.

We will have time to talk about your particular natural path. Each of the 3 levels of Reiki attunement accelerates you along your path in directions you might not have foreseen. Patrick can assist you in discerning and embracing spiritual directions that are natural for you.

We will also discuss intuition, which becomes more active with each Reiki level attunement.

 

Tuesday, May 1^st, 2012, 9:00 A.M.

Creative Anatomy—Sculpting The Neck with Clay

Four CE hours, $??(+20), (this tuition already includes lab fee for colored clay, which will be provided)

Course Description: You will be sculpting double-size colored muscles onto double-size white cervical vertibrae and occiput which will be provided. You get to choose what position you place your head/neck in: sidebent, rotated, flexed and/or extended. You will apply at least five muscles to your skeleton in class. Air-dry clay will harden by itself to a nice treatment-room model that is sure to start conversations with your clients.

Instructor Biography: Patrick's first exposure to sculpting the human body was at Whitman College for a one-semester course in 1983. Patrick graduated from the anatomy-intensive Brian Utting School of Massage in Seattle in 1994. He has been teaching CE courses since 2002. Questions about Course Content? Please contact Patrick at 520-334-8950

Prerequisites: none

Preparation: clay is provided. Please bring a small box (at least 8" x 8" bottom) and a trash bag to take your project home.

 

 

May 14th & 15th - Reiki Master/Teacher Attunement and Training

Tuesday, June 5th - Breathing Naturally

 

 

Tuesday, June 19^th, 2012, 9:00 A.M.

Home Exercises for Hip Rotators and Flexors

Four CE hours, $??, includes short homemade DVD showing exercises.

Course Description: You will learn: how to assess hips for weakness in medial rotation, lateral rotation, and bent-knee hip flexion; how to strengthen the same actions; tips for runners; how to talk with clients gently about "weakness;" how to suggest home exercises and realistic expectations. Individual exercises, partner exercises and demonstrations.

Instructor Biography: Patrick learned strength assessment from Rich Phaigh in 140 hours of CE including a week observing Rich Phaigh's practice in Eugene, OR, in 1995. Patrick has been practicing Tai Chi, Chi Gung and Kum Nye since 1991. He used the best of a number of teachings to create these hip rotation exercises that he now practices daily. Questions about Course Content? Please contact Patrick at 520-334-8950

Prerequisites: none

Preparation: arrive prepared to do a few exercises J

 

2012 Workshop Descriptions -- July August September

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Tuesday, July 3rd - PNI 4: The Rocket's Red Glare - Fight or Flight

 

 

Tuesday, July 17^th, 2012, 9:00 A.M.

Activating Your Intuition

7 CE hours, $??, includes bullet handouts.

Course Description: You will learn both things that inhibit awareness of, and activate your intuition. Why learn things that inhibit your awareness of intuition? Because intuition is natural—you'd be experiencing it all the time were it not for the inhibitions. For example, one inhibition is denying that intuition exists. If you deny it, then it will be difficult to be aware of it. Intuition is working all the time, even when you are not aware of it. For example, when driving, everyone is using intuition to avoid collisions. If they weren't using intuition, there would be far more collisions. Still, very few people are aware that they are swerving and braking just in time, or turning a mile before a big pileup. Intuition is a safety skill that has kept animals and humans alive and prosperous for a million years. We will be doing at least five partner exercises with feedback, to increase our awareness of intuition. Based on the Intuition workshops given by Stephen Bruno in Seattle 1995-99.

Instructor Biography: Patrick began his education of intuition in 1977 through the Silva method and has read many books and attended hundreds of hours of Reiki, aura reading, chakra balancing, intuition and energy healing workshops since then, most notably from Stephen Bruno moon-rock.com . Questions about Course Content? Please contact Patrick at 520-334-8950

Prerequisites: none

Preparation: none

 

 

 

Tuesday, August 7^th, 2012, 9:00 A.M.

Eating Naturally

five CE hours, $??(+20 for food ingredients), includes snacks. includes handout.

Course Description: Eating naturally is a matter of percentages. If you currently eat about 30% of your calories from raw greens, then moving up to 35% would be greener. Eating too green too fast would not be natural, so we will discuss the simplest ways anyone can make their diet slightly greener. Includes fast, easy recipes and samples of: green smoothies, flax crackers, green juices, raw chocolates, and raw puddings. The class is not intended to convert you to a vegan diet but about moving toward a more natural relationship with food for you and your clients. We will discuss detox, protein, weight loss, inflammation, irritation, muscle soreness, and how to speak with clients about nutrition. Includes a handout you may copy to give to clients.

Instructor Biography: Patrick first became vegetarian in 1992 and since has experimented with organic, 40/30/30, vegan, gluten free, and raw vegan diets. Continuing to work out in a gym and distance running, he has seen no decreases in strength, increases in endurance, and weight loss with the raw vegan diet. Questions about Course Content? Please contact Patrick at 520-334-8950

Prerequisites: none

Preparation: please write a food journal for at least one 24-hour period and bring to class.

 

 

 

Tuesday, August 21^st, 2012, 9:00 A.M.

Hands-Above Muscle Therapy with Energy

Five CE hours, $??  no handouts.

Course Description: This is a practice class—most of our time will be spent at the tables palpating muscles with our hands above at a distance of 18 inches or more. Short practices on shoulder, hip, foot and head-attaching muscles, followed by detailed feedback from your partner. You will be receiving about two hours of energy work focused on your muscles. Exercises focus on: soothing muscles, finding trigger points, deactivating triggers, assessing tight/weak muscles. Be prepared to give good feedback to those working on you, as is this feedback that accelerates your learning to palpate and influence muscles with energy.

Instructor Biography: Patrick's first exposure to energy work was through the Silva method in 1977. He studied at the Brian Utting School of Massage from 1993-94 and became one of the first medical massage practitioners in Washington State to be covered as a preferred provider for Blue Cross/Blue Shield health insurance. Patrick became a Reiki Master/Teacher in 2001, having studied energy with Stephen Bruno since 1996. Questions about Course Content? Please contact Patrick at 520-334-8950

Prerequisites: none

Preparation: none

 

 

Tuesday, September 4th - PNI 3: How Challenge Boosts Vitality

 

 

Tuesday, September 18^th, 2012, 9:00 A.M.

The Relationship of Energy Work

6 hr (incl. Ethics NCB Standard V: Boundaries) Includes handouts.  $??

Course Description: If you stay in the profession long enough you will one day have enough great technique and ability that it becomes time to wonder if you should do less for people. For if you were to do things for people that they were capable of doing for themselves, these people would grow dependent upon you. Seasoned therapists tend to expect that clients do more for themselves, so that the healing is more of a partnership and less of me fixing you. If energy is unlimited in its influence, the moment-to-moment question is, to heal or not to heal? This workshop will not answer these questions for you, but provides a safe environment to dialogue about your comfort with helping others, and where you choose to place your limits. Together we can design your ideal therapeutic/healing relationship with your clients. This workshop is 80% group discussion with one or more partner dialogue exercises.

Instructor Biography: Patrick has been studying energy and the healing relationship with Stephen Bruno since 1996, with several thousand hours of training, workshops and dialogue. Stephen was a counselor from 1969-1999 and a pioneer in the lifecoaching movement. Questions about Course Content? Please contact Patrick at 520-334-8950

Prerequisites: none

Preparation: If you have any questions about therapeutic relationship or energy relationship, please jot these down before class and bring.

 

 

 

2012 Workshops October November December

Register by going to http://arichexperience.com/classes.cfm

 

Tuesday, October 2nd - PNI 5: Treating Two People

 

 

Tuesday, October 16^th, 2012, 9:00 A.M.

Exercising Naturally

Five CE hours, $??, includes handouts.

Course Description: Begins with the belief that every human needs regular moderate exercise to maintain minimum natural health. We start the day with a one-hour walk up Suffolk drive chatting about the day's topics: exercising for mental health; circulation of fluids; aerobic and anaerobic breathing; muscle soreness from anaerobic exercise; the benefits of awareness of one's body during exercise (not watching a TV screen while you exercise); and how two people of unequal fitness can both get a good workout while walking/jogging together. This class is all about noncompetitive exercise; not keeping track of performance, speed, and not competing with others or even yourself, as competition releases adrenaline and other fight/flight hormones into your blood and leads to muscle soreness with toxins. This is not a class for building muscle mass, but for moving toward a more natural relationship to exercise for ourselves and our clients. Includes how to speak with clients about exercise.

Instructor Biography: Patrick began running distance outdoors in1979 to prepare for High School Football and rediscovered running as mental therapy at age 35. Now 48 he is in the best health and fitness of his life and improving every year. Questions about Course Content? Please contact Patrick 520-334-8950

Prerequisites: none

Preparation: Come prepared for a one hour walk outdoors: a water bottle, proper shoes, a hat.

 

 

Tuesday November 6th - Deep Tissue of Hip Rotators and Psoas

 

 

Tuesday November 20^th, 2012, 9:00 A.M.

Giving Thanks: PNI 1 - Optimistic Reframing During Intake

5 CE hours. ??$  Includes handouts.

Course Description: The way we ask intake, check-in, and post-interview questions is very important for the healing process. The recipient doesn't notice all the changes we notice. He is not aware of how much he is changing. The way we pose questions brings his awareness to these changes. If he can acknowledge even a fraction of how much he is changing, his belief and expectation changes, which fuels faster changes. This invigorates his immune system and relaxes his brain's tension settings to match his beliefs and expectations. PsychoNeuroImmunology is the study of how minds influence bodies and how bodies influence minds, both toward disease and toward healing. This is a group-discussion class only with no hands-on exercises.  

Instructor Biography: Patrick has always been a fascinated reader of science. Attending massage school at the medically oriented Brian Utting school in Seattle awakened his fascination with physiology and the influence of the mind over matter and vice versa. PNI is one of the many topics outside of massage therapy that Patrick reads avidly, informing and expanding his courses. Questions about Course Content? Please contact Patrick 520-334-8950

Prerequisites: none

Preparation: none

 

 

Monday, Dec 3^rd, 2012, 9:00 A.M.               

Melting Muscles Prone

7 CE hours. ??$  Includes handouts.

Course Description: Muscles are like little animals, and they like it when you say their name. How do you say a muscle's name? They don't know Latin! You show you know the muscle's name when you know how to shorten it and paplate it precisely. In this class you will learn to shorten a dozen muscles with one handd while you palpate them with the other. You are guaranteed to experience muscles melting in your hand. Recipients can also feel their own muscles melt, which gives them a sense they are making good progress. Class time is 95% hands-on: levator, lower traps, triceps, wrist flexors, lumbar sidebenders, glutes including piriformis, gamellis, obturators, hamstrings, and extrinsic toe flexors. Includes both light and deep work.

Instructor Biography: After attending 96 hours of craniosacral and 140 hours of osteopathic assessment and correction, these two methods coalesced in 2001 into Melting Muscles. Patrick published his first article on Melting Muscles in Massage&Bodywork in 2002. His second article, in Massage Therapy Journal in 2003 described Unwinding Muscles at the Atlanto Axial Joint. More articles, video, and pictures about Melting Muscles on his website at meltingmuscles.com . Questions about Course Content? Please contact Patrick 520-334-8950

Prerequisites: none

Preparation: Please bring a set of two sheets and a pillowcase, and your oil or lotion.

 

 

 

Tuesday, Dec 4^th, 2012, 9:00 A.M.           

Unwinding Muscles Supine

6 CE hours. ??$  Includes handouts.

Course Description:  Muscles vary their contraction slightly due to normal cycles and abnormal guarding. You can feel this slight variation as the limb wanting to move a certain direction. When you feel this slight motion, you can deduce which muscle must be contracting more, and melt that muscle. Class time is 95% hands-on exercises and switching with partners. We will be treating people only in the supine position and working on muscles through clothing.   

Instructor Biography: After attending 96 hours of craniosacral and 140 hours of osteopathic assessment and correction, these two methods coalesced in 2001 into Melting Muscles. Patrick published his first article on Melting Muscles in Massage&Bodywork in 2002. His second article, in Massage Therapy Journal in 2003 described Unwinding Muscles at the Atlanto Axial Joint. More articles, video, and pictures about Melting Muscles on his website at meltingmuscles.com . Questions about Course Content? Please contact Patrick 520-334-8950

Prerequisites: Any Melting Muscles course. (You need to be able to melt muscles before you can attend an Unwinding class. Sorry, no exceptions. The prerequisite, Melting Muscles is offered the day before..)

Preparation: Please bring one bottom sheet. Please wear loose stretchy clothes (no jeans).

 

 

Wednesday, Dec 5^th, 2012, 9:00 A.M.        

Melting Atlas and Axis

6 CE hours. ??$  Includes handouts.

Course Description: One muscle is mostly responsible for rotating the head. You'll learn to find the obliquus capitis inferior and relax it. If you only learn how to relax one muscle in the body, this would be it; once this muscle relaxes, everything else is so much easier. The OCI muscle connects C1 and C2, the atlanto-axial joint. The technique is complex when you read the handout, but its easy to learn in a class. We begin simple and add small steps, so your hands are guaranteed to "get it." You will spend half of the class time giving, the other half receiving. This is profoundly relaxing work, both to give and to receive. You are guaranteed to feel the OCI muscle melting, proof that the atlantoaxial joint has released. 95% of class time is spent at the tables, recipients supine, givers sitting in a chair or stool at the head of the table.

Instructor Biography: After attending 96 hours of craniosacral and 140 hours of osteopathic assessment and correction, these two methods coalesced in 2001 into Melting Muscles. Patrick published his first article on Melting Muscles in Massage&Bodywork in 2002. His second article, in Massage Therapy Journal in 2003 described Unwinding Muscles at the Atlanto Axial Joint. More articles, video, and pictures about Melting Muscles on his website at meltingmuscles.com . Questions about Course Content? Please contact Patrick 520-334-8950

Prerequisites: none

Preparation: Please bring one bottom sheet.

 

 

Thursday, Dec 6^th, 2012, 9:00 A.M.              

Unwinding Atlas and Axis

5 CE hours. ??$  Includes handouts.

Course Description: For those who have mastered Melting the Atlas and Axis, now you are ready to unwind the muscles that move the head. One solid hour will be spent reviewing the actions of muscles that rotate the head. Then you will learn to follow cranial motion, which is caused in part by the extra contraction of tighter muscles. With the actions fresh in your mind, you will know which muscle is responsible for each motion. Then you melt the indicated muscle. By doing these two things at once, you have provided her brain both the problem and its solution. Of course the brain will respond by reducing the muscle tension. At this moment, the head begins to return toward neutral.  This is a seriously relaxing maneuver and you'll be receiving about two hours of it.

Instructor Biography: After attending 96 hours of craniosacral and 140 hours of osteopathic assessment and correction, these two methods coalesced in 2001 into Melting Muscles. Patrick published his first article on Melting Muscles in Massage&Bodywork in 2002. His second article, in Massage Therapy Journal in 2003 described Unwinding Muscles at the Atlanto Axial Joint. More articles, video, and pictures about Melting Muscles on his website at meltingmuscles.com . Questions about Course Content? Please contact Patrick 520-334-8950

Prerequisites: Melting Atlas and Axis. (You need to know how to melt muscles before you can unwind them. Sorry, no exceptions. The prerequisite, Melting the Atlas and Axis, is offered the previous day J )

Preparation: none

 

 

Friday, Dec 7^th, 2012, 9:00 A.M.                    

Melting Muscles Teacher Training (presented only once per year)

6 CE hours. ??$  Includes handouts.

Course Description: This course is only for people who intend to teach Melting Muscles. We will cover the philosophy and teaching methods of melting muscles including how to assist with palpation, and creating a safe learning environment.

Instructor Biography: After attending 96 hours of craniosacral and 140 hours of osteopathic assessment and correction, these two methods coalesced in 2001 into Melting Muscles. Patrick published his first article on Melting Muscles in Massage&Bodywork in 2002. His second article, in Massage Therapy Journal in 2003 described Unwinding Muscles at the Atlanto Axial Joint. More articles, video, and pictures about Melting Muscles on his website at meltingmuscles.com . Questions about Course Content? Please contact Patrick 520-334-8950

Prerequisites: Melting Muscles Supine or Prone, Melting the Atlas and Axis. Sorry no exceptions. These two prerequisites are offered earlier in the same week.)

Preparation: You must have read the handouts from your previous melting and unwinding classes in their entirety. If you have lost your handouts, please visit meltingmuscles.com for pdf duplicates.

 

 

 

Tuesday, December 18^th, 2012, 9:00 A.M.

The Ethics of Mirror Neurons

6 CE hours (meets Standard V for NCBTMB). ??$  Includes handouts.

Course Description: The human brain contains mirror neurons. This allows a person to see things the way another person sees them, to sense what it is like to be the other person. Massage therapists' mirror neurons allow them to feel what it would be like to be the recipient, including the soreness, the tenderness to touch, and the relief of relaxation. How useful! And yet, are there any risks to using our mirror neurons? Do we really want to feel what others feel? Do we want to see ourselves the way they see us? Can we be too involved in how they feel? How much empathy is serving for them? How much is healthy for us? This is a group-discussion workshop with no hands-on practice. We will do at least one partner exercise, non-touching, to help us understand the mirroring process.

Instructor Biography: Patrick has always been a fascinated reader of science. Attending massage school at the medically oriented Brian Utting school in Seattle awakened his fascination with physiology and the influence of the mind over matter and vice versa. An avid reader, the discovery of Mirror Neurons in the late 1990s and subsequent books and articles by V.S. Ramachandran bring exciting new perspectives to Patrick's teaching. Questions about Course Content? Please contact Patrick 520-334-8950

Prerequisites: none

Preparation: none

 

 

2012 Workshop Titles

First and Third Tuesdays at A Rich Experience, NW Tucson

 

A Rich Experience, 7435 N. Oracle Road, Tucson AZ 85704. If you are driving North on Oracle, it's the second left after you cross Ina, on the West side of the road, in the Sun Plaza, before you reach the light at Suffolk. phone: (520) 544-8086.

 

December, January and February of each year we hold multi-day

Destination CE Intensives for people from cooler climates

 

January 3         High Feedback Stretching

January 16, 17, 18, 19 Melting Muscles Four-Day Intensive

February 7       PNI 2- How Mental and Muscle Tension Parallel

February 21, 22, 23 Intuitive Energy Three-Day Intensive

            Tuesday, Feb 21,         What Is Energy—Quantum Physics for Healers*

            Wednesday, Feb 22,   Hands-Above Muscle Therapy with Energy*

Thursday, Feb 23,       The Relationship of Energy Work* 6 hr (incl. Ethics NCB Standard V: Boundaries)

March 6           Digging For Fossils--Deep Tissue of the Spine

March 20         Reiki Level One Attunement and Training

April 3                         Equal Relationships in Therapy and Business 6 hr (incl. Ethics NCB Standard V: Boundaries)

April 17           Reiki Level Two Attunement and Training

May 1              Creative Anatomy—Sculpting The Neck with Clay*

May 15 Reiki Master/Teacher Two Day

Monday, May 14,       Reiki Master Attunement and Training

Tuesday, May 15,       Reiki Teacher Training

June 5              Breathing Naturally

June 19            Home Exercises for Hip Rotators and Flexors*

July 3               The Rockets' Red Glare -- PNI 4- Fight or Flight

July 17                         Activating Your Intuition*

Aug 7              Eating Naturally*

Aug 21                        Hands-Above Muscle Therapy with Energy*

Sep 4               PNI 3- How Challenge Boosts Vitality

Sep 18                         The Relationship of Energy Work* 6 hr (incl. Ethics NCB Standard V: Boundaries)

Oct 2               PNI 5- Treating Two People

Oct 16                         Exercising Naturally*

Nov 6              Deep Tissue of the Psoas and Hip Rotators

Nov 20                        Giving Thanks -- PNI 1- Optimistic Reframing During Intake

Dec 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Melting Muscles Five Day Intensive

Monday, Dec 3,          Melting Muscles Prone

Tuesday, Dec 4,          Unwinding Muscles Supine

Wednesday, Dec 5,     Melting Atlas and Axis

Thursday, Dec 6,         Unwinding Atlas and Axis

Friday, Dec 7,                         Melting Muscles Teacher Training (presented only once per year)

Dec 18                         The Ethics of Mirror Neurons* (covers Ethics NCB Standard V: Boundaries)

 

* New workshops for 2012

 

Reiki Next Tuesday

Tuesday, March 20th - Reiki Level One Attunement and Training
Dates/Times: Tuesday, March 20th from 9am - 4pm
Hours: 6 CE Hours
Cost: $132.00
online registration: http://arichexperience.com/classes.cfm

Course Description:
Includes 21-page Level One manual.

"Reiki" may be translated as "universal natural energy." In addition to being a technique you can use to help clients, Reiki is a step down your unique spiritual path. Receiving the Reiki attunement triggers your natural self to be more active in your life purpose and plan. Using Reiki after the class, for others and yourself, reinforces your new direction, reveals opportunities you did not see before, and provides you support like a nurturing friend.

You will learn:
....the standard hand positions for giving Reiki to others and to oneself
....the advanced hands-above method that gives you more sensitivity to energy flow
....when to give Reiki to others and when not to
....what to expect from Reiki treatments to others, and to oneself
....the spiritual process Mikao Usui went through to rediscover Reiki

You will gain:
....the Reiki attunement, which activates your new sensitivity to energy, and opens your new life directions
....technique, tips, and real life examples
....energy as a partner that supports you during your own healing, challenges, and changes

Patrick Moore has been practicing energy work since the age of 14 (34 years' experience), and spiritual path since the age of 7. In the 1970's Patrick contemplated the Catholic Priesthood, in the 1990's was a member of the Sakya Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism studying under the Dalai Lama and other Lamas, and in the 2000's studied to be a Unity Prayer Chaplain. Patrick took his Reiki training under Stephen Bruno and continues to receive guidance from Stephen for improving Reiki classes. Students enjoy Patrick's warm approach with personal attention. More about Patrick at www.meltingmuscles.com.


Prerequisites: None.

Preparation: If you like, you may download the manual in advance and read as much as you care to  http://meltingmuscles.com/uploads/Reiki_Level_One_2011.pdf  ..also please reduce alcohol and caffeine for 24 hours before the class. Please drink lots of water. Please wear loose, comfortable clothing.

More about your Instructor, Patrick Moore, at www.meltingmuscles.com

There will be a one hour break for lunch. There are many restaurants and Whole Foods salad bar within a mile of A Rich Experience. You are also welcome to bring your lunch and eat on the patio.

For questions about the course, content, or instructor, please call your instructor, Patrick Moore at (520)334-8950
For questions about the location, or to register by phone, please call (520) 544-8086

Online registration closes 48 hours prior to the class. Late registration may be available by phone. Easy Cancellation Policy. Cancel more than 48 hours in advance and receive a full refund minus a $25 processing fee. Cancel after this date and receive a full refund minus a $50 processing fee. No refund will be granted for same day cancellation or not showing up for class.

*Courses are approved for AZ Massage License and National Certification continuing education credits. A Rich Experience, Inc. is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a Continuing Education Approved Provider #450963-09.

Directions: A Rich Experience, 7435 N. Oracle Road, Tucson, AZ 85704. Going North on Oracle Road, once you cross the intersection at Ina rd, get into the left lane. Your second avialable left will turn you into the Sun Plaza where A Rich Experience is located. If you miss the turn you can make a U turn at Suffolk, then turn Right into the Sun Plaza.

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Benefits of Melting

Benefits of Receiving Melting Muscles:

 

• Melting Muscles is a comfortable and pleasant experience, without any need for pressure beyond your comfort.
• You don't have to wait until the session is over to tell if it worked. You can tell during the session it is working, because you can actually feel your own muscles soften and relax, as if a drain were opened and the tension is leaking away.
• Even when the session focuses on one muscle or one region, like a shoulder, your brain feels safe and makes your whole body relax.
• When the session is over you feel lighter, like you are floating.
• You can move more freely with less effort.
• Balances your body and brain, your mind and spirit.
• Reduces soreness, and causes no extra soreness the next day.
• The relaxation lasts, because it was your brain's choice to relax.
• Empowering: with each session you gain more and more influence to relax your own muscles. With a series of sessions you can graduate, when you are able to relax your own muscles without a therapist.
• Relaxed muscles allow greater circulation of fluids, including the White Blood Cells of the immune system.
• You'll have more endurance and more effective strength since your antagonist muscles won't be working against you.
• Increases creativity, resiliency, connection, and flow.
• Supports progress, growth, personal discovery and spiritual development.

 

 

Conditions that may improve with Melting Muscles:

 

• heart conditions
• muscle or joint aches
• sacroiliac joint pain or stiffness
• poor circulation
• nervousness, worry or anxiety
• tremors, tingling, sciatica
• difficulty relaxing
• hormone imbalances
• depression
• fibromyalgia
• carpal tunnel syndrome, golfer's elbow, tennis elbow
• achiles tendinitis, plantar fasciitis
• rotator cuff overuse and injuries
• difficulty sleeping
• jaw clenching and grinding
• immune system weakness
• ADHD
• lacking empathy and sympathy
• body acceptance issues
• self judgment
• posture, torticollis, frozen shoulder
• PTSD
• recovery from surgery, injury and trauma
• Fight-Or-Flight hyperactivity

 

Melting Muscles Reduces Fight-Or-Flight Reactions

Disease of all kinds is made worse by an active Fight or Flight reaction. In the olden days when humans were confronted by Saber Toothed Tigers, it was natural to activate the fight/flight instinct. More blood and nerve energy is directed to the arms for fighting, to the legs for running, the eyes narrow focus, the heart beats faster, and blood pressure rises, adrenaline and other hormones are dripped into the bloodstream, and the brain switches to black or white thinking, where everyone is either an enemy or an ally. All functions of the human body that are not necessary for survival in the next five minutes, are stopped, so their energy can be diverted to fighting or fleeing. That means no digestion, and no immune system protection. Face it, if a Saber Toothed Tiger is leaping toward you, you don't really need to digest the contents of your stomach and you don't need to fight cancer or prevent catching cold. Lose are lower priority when you may die in the next minute. So the Fight/Flight instinct was very helpful in the days when survival was frequently at risk.

 

The inventions of law, law enforcement and fire fighters have greatly increased human safety. There are still threats to our survival but they aren't nearly as frequent. Still, people seem to be using their fight/flight instincts as much, or more than they were when survival was truly at risk. Any time you see others as competitors, say (even in jest) you have to finish a job or you'll lose your job and be out on the street, or tell yourself you must win, you activate your fight/flight cascade. It's like pushing the panic button.  

 

The fight/flight system is designed to stay on for five minutes, and then switch off. If the Saber Toothed Tiger is leaping, it's going to be over one way or the other in five minutes, so there's no purpose for adrenaline in the sixth minute. Still, people in today's world continue to tell themselves, its do or die, eight to ten hours a day, forty to eighty hours a week.. you see the problem. For every minute and hour that the fight/flight system is active, there is no support for fighting the common cold, for replenishing hair and skin, for digesting the food properly. The food just sits in the intestines fermenting and creating problems. Tumors are not nipped back by the immune system.  

 

Relaxation isn't a luxury, it's a necessity for life. Only when the fight/flight system is turned OFF can the body replenish, rejuvenate, protect and repair itself.

 

It is unfortunate that many people in our world have not been trained how to relax. Melting Muscles is training in relaxation. Every time a muscle melts, that means your brain is actively deciding to relax. If twelve to thirty muscles relax in an hour, that's many repetitions of a skill you really need to survive and have quality life while you are alive.

 

 

 

More than 700 therapists nationwide have attended Melting Muscles training since 2002. Sessions are still offered by the developer of Melting Muscles, Patrick Moore LMT BA in Tucson, AZ. Please visit www.meltingmuscles.com for details.