Tucson Massage Continuing Education

Benefits of Melting

2012-01-13T17:36:00.001-08:00

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.

Melting More Than Muscles

2012-01-13T15:59:00.000-08:00

Melting More Than Muscles

Melting Challenges in Life and the World

"…four effects may be ascribed to love… Of these the first is melting, which is opposed to freezing. For things that are frozen, are closely bound together, so as to be hard to pierce. …melting denotes a softening of the heart, whereby the heart shows itself to be ready for the entrance of the beloved."

--Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, question XXVIII

"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."

-- Albert Schweitzer

On the first day of massage school in 1993, forty students sat in a circle on the floor. Each of us was asked, "How do you want to be different a year from now, when you have graduated?"

When my turn came I said, "I want to be practicing the world's most effective methods to reduce others' suffering." In later years, I was a little embarrassed by what I had said--I wondered if it sounded self-important or pompous. My answer reflected a vow I had taken in connection with the Dalai Lama's visit to Seattle. Now, nineteen years later, I see how much that vow has guided my career.

By 1996 I had adequately mastered three techniques that Osteopathic Doctors had developed. But I did not feel I was really making a difference. I observed my teachers practice often and I noticed people changed more in sessions with my teachers than they did with me. And yet I was doing the techniques exactly as they had taught me. It finally dawned on me; it was not because of what my teachers were doing, but because of what they were being. So in 1997 I began intensely studying personal qualities (like presence, compassion, patience, and curiosity) and the equal therapeutic relationship. I began to feel I was making a difference, and more people were coming for ongoing sessions.

In 2001 I attended training for Reiki natural healing energy. The next day after the attunement I was massaging the back of somebody's leg when I had an amazing experience. I felt the hamstring muscles melting. The muscle was literally sinking and softening under my hands. At the same moment I had an aha experience—I suddenly knew how and why muscles melt. That evening I began writing down the method. A few days later I titled the article, Melting Muscles, and sent it off to Massage&Bodywork magazine. The published article launched my career teaching therapists how to melt muscles. It came to me as a gift, along with a responsibility, to share Melting Muscles with the world.

It's been ten years now. I had a new person come for a massage this morning and I still used Melting Muscles for most of the session. I still shorten each muscle the same way I did in 2001, palpate each muscle the same way, and it still melts. Melting Muscles will always work, as long as brains control muscle contraction. And since it is so easy to perform, I may still be Melting Muscles when I'm 100.

But Melting Muscles is so much more than a technique. It is a way of being—being present, patient, compassionate, curious, and nonjudgmental. It is an equal partnership that serves the recipient well. It serves the giver too, and the world.

Being in the moment of melting:

N activates seven qualities for both the giver and the recipient, including presence, nonjudgment, patience and curiosity

N provides an ongoing demonstration of equal partnership

N balances the brain hemispheres, multiplying creative intelligence

N trains the recipient to have more influence to relax her own muscles at will

N increases the recipient's body-awareness and body-acceptance

N queries metaphysical wonder--whose brain is relaxing the recipient's muscle? ..whose brain is guiding the giver's hands?

N optimizes conditions for intuition, energy, discovery, healing, resolution, and transformation

N an experience of unity

N releases any toxins and memories "stored" in the muscle

N rather than reversing symptoms and pain, embraces them

N rather than fighting tension, makes peace

N muscles feel they are being "heard"

Muscles are like dogs—they speak a different language that most humans don't understand. The Melting Muscles practitioner has been trained in muscle language. The moment the muscles realize someone speaks their language, they feel at ease.

At least once in each session the practitioner will say, "This muscle is beginning to melt. Can you feel it sinking?"

"Maybe," the recipient often replies.

"That means whatever your brain was tense about, is now resolving. Your brain is turning down the level of contraction as we speak."

The recipient ponders this as she feels her muscles continue to melt, like a flow. She still may not understand why and how her brain made her muscles tense in the first place, but she feels with certainty that her brain is now making the opposite choice. Sixty minutes of melting leaves her with a sense of freedom, balance, and optimistic awareness--more evidence that her life is changing.

Melting Benefits the World

þ People who give or receive Melting Muscles are more cooperative.

þ People who have experienced equal partnerships in the massage room, create more equal relationships with others outside.

þ Discovering alternatives to force in the massage room, gives people alternatives to force in politics, business and the environment.

þ People who have been heard become better listeners.

þ Resolving, and embracing muscle tension empowers people to do the same with all their life challenges.

þ Muscles compete with other muscles and cells have conflict with other cells. If muscles can resolve their conflict within one person, people can resolve their conflict within the whole world.

Patrick Moore LMT BA provides coaching, tutoring, workshops, and melting muscles therapy. www.meltingmuscles.com 520-334-8950

January CE Tucson

2011-10-29T21:54:00.001-07:00

Destination Tucson Continuing Education Series
Melting Muscles with Brain Seminar
January 16-19, 2012
portions of classes outdoors, weather permitting (average temperatures in Jan 39 low to 65 high)
Getaway from the snowy North with a mid-Winter thaw!

Details:
1. Monday, January 16, 2012 Melting Muscles Supine 7 CE hr $140.00 includes 12 pages handouts
2. Tuesday, Jan 17, Melting Atlas and Axis 6 CE hr, $130.00, includes 14 pages handouts,
3. Wednesday, Jan 18, Unwinding Atlas and Axis 5 hr, $120.00, includes handouts, (!prerequisite, Melting Atlas and Axis, offered day before!)
4. Thursday, Jan 19, Mirror Neurons (Psycho-Neuro-Immunology #6) 5 hr, $100.00 (group discussion, no hands-on) includes handouts.

5% discount for taking all four ($465.50)
5% discount for early registration (by Dec 10) ($441.00)
registration deadline Jan 6, 2012

"These four classes happen to be required classes for those pursuing the Melting Muscles Therapist Certification or the Melting Muscles Teacher Certification."

Register by contacting the hosting organization, A Rich Experience, Melissa Rich at www.arichexperience.com

Questions about the workshops please contact your instructor, Patrick Moore, LMT BA at 520-334-8950

Psycho-Neuro-Immunology Series Seven Workshops

2011-10-20T12:19:00.000-07:00

Here are descriptions of the seven new courses in the PNI series. These will be repeated again next year.

PsychoNeuroImmunology 1 — How Ailments Serve – Optimistic Interviewing
Cost/Credit: 5 CE hours, $100.00 includes handouts.

Course Description:
In 1975 experiments proved that the immune system stops working when the person expects it to stop. Health is affected by what happens in her head. You’ve probably already had the experience of hearing a person’s story, and being able to see how her interpretations, expectations, entitlements, beliefs, attitudes or judgments affect her health. When PNI is explained, many interpret the effect as self-sabotage or psychosomatic illness. However, if the person’s head can deplete her health, it can also boost it or intend greater gifts. How do you help her to have a more positive outlook? You model it. When you believe her ailments serve, she will come to believe it.
During the intake and exit interviews, you are expected to ask about the person’s ailments. The way you ask demonstrates your positive outlook. During the massage, the person may ask you your interpretation of her ailments. To her, her ailments seem malicious. There is an art to empowering her with your interpretations.
Along with group discussion, you will practice modeling the intake and exit interviews with a partner. You will practice giving positive interpretations about dire symptoms. You will practice asking the kind of questions that inspire.

PNI 2: Who Is Guarding The Muscles And Why?
(formerly called, The PsychoNeurology of Muscle Tension)

5 CE Hours-$100.00 includes handouts.

This group discussion workshop is designed to help you understand why the brain guards the muscles. You don’t need to know why, to be a great muscle therapist. But you’re curious. And people keep asking you, why are my muscles tight? The simplest answer is this: the brain has good reasons for deciding to guard each muscle. Each ounce of tension is accounted for. When tension is seen as the enemy, you turn therapy into a battle. You wear yourself out trying to persuade, even force the muscles to relent. Once you understand the brain’s simple needs, and trust its intelligence, muscle therapy becomes a simple, low-stress career. Once you understand the brain’s guarding process, you have better answers when they ask, Why?

Old Course Description:
PNI is the study of how health is influenced by what happens in the person’s mind. Muscles are the most direct reflection of a person’s inner state. Muscles contract during a) current stresses, b) recent stresses not yet resolved, c) unresolved stresses long ago, and d) in aticipation of future stresses. Even tiny stresses below awareness are enough to increase muscle tension. Tension-causing stresses include pain, discomfort, emotions, anxieties, avoidance, boundaries, and more.
Once we know how stress leads to muscle tension, what can a therapist do? 1) Massage is a way muscles may learn to embrace stress, both letting it go today and not tensing up tomorrow. 2) Suggesting movement, isometric contraction, exercise and dance as ways muscles can “burn off” stress. 3) Understanding the causes of muscle tension always helps. 4) Embracing the source of stress is something that a massage therapist can assist with. While we are not counselors, we may ask the person questions about their muscle tension and offer different perspectives.

This class is group discussion with partner communication exercises. You will practice asking your partner about her muscle tension and reframing in terms of the PsychoNeurology of muscle tension.

PNI 3: How Challenge Boosts Vitality
$100.00 / provides 5 CE hours / handouts provided

Course Description:
Eyeglasses weaken people’s eye muscles. Cushy running shoes make the legs weaker and the stride sloppy. What can a therapist learn from this? Too much support makes people weak and dependent. But too much challenge overwhelms them.

In this group discussion workshop, you will learn how to challenge in ways that assist a person to be more relaxed, resilient, vital, and healthy.
Optional further reading, Take Off Your Glasses And See, and Born To Run.

PNI 4: Treating Two People In One
Cost/Credit: $100.00 / provides 5 CE hours

Course Description:
Your client is really two people, the conscious person who wants "more pressure," and the subconscious intelligence that wants the muscles to relax. Most massage therapists are trained to treat only what the conscious person dictates. Seasoned therapists often focus only on what the body "tells" them.
This is a group discussion workshop. You will learn how to give therapy and healing that balances the two people into one whole. If you like, we have time for you to describe people in your practice and receive suggestions.
We will do one exercise where you will chat with a partner.
Extra Credit: what do craniosacral therapy and ouiji board have in common? ..In both, action is created when the subconscious fires weak muscle signals. The movement is directed by intelligence that the conscious people are unaware of, and so seems mysterious. This movement can spell out messages for the conscious person.

PNI 5: Fight or Flight
Cost/Credit: $100.00 / provides 5 CE hours, includes handouts.

Course Description:
We will discuss how to train ourselves and our clients how to live a more natural lifestyle, finding meaning and progress while remaining relaxed.

The fight-or-flight system is a natural reaction to true danger. If you are truly about to be attacked by a bear, you will happily shut down all other systems to have more energy for fighting or fleeing. The FOF system is designed to be active for five minutes, and then to remain in the “off” position until the next survival event.

However, competition and drama activate the FOF system even when there is no danger. If the FOF system remains active for more than five minutes, the body begins to eat its own tissues, normal growths are no longer pruned, and ordinary infections are not fought. The heart races at unsustainable speed, hair, skin, and nails lose their youthful quality.
With all these health risks, why would people choose to be “adrenaline junkies” and “drama queens?” Answer a) Because FOF provides a false sense of meaning and progress. Answer b) the adrenaline and endorphins are addictive.

The FOF system is switched on during any kind of competition, thrill, drama or danger, even if the opponent is imaginary, such as rooting for your football team, or other thrilling TV shows.

People who remain in FOF mode for more than five minutes lose the natural energy support of their immune, digestive, skin, hair and other systems. Prolonged adrenaline has adverse affects including blood pressure and heart trouble.

Massage restores a person to natural settings.

In this group discussion workshop, you will learn: • the allure of FOF • the enervation and hormones of FOF • caffeine good or bad? • pleasure, pain, and inflammation • how sleep is different than rest • massage techniques that restore natural settings • how a massage therapist demonstrates a non-competitive patient lifestyle • how, if and when to recommend lifestyle changes. We will do at least one partner exercise, clothed.

PNI 6: If I Were You… Mirror Neurons and Feeling the Client’s Tension
Tuesday, November 1, 2011, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. (one hour break for lunch)
$100/includes handouts by Patrick Moore/provides 5CE hours for AZ LMTs/NCBTMB
(people who do not need certificates may attend for half price)
register through http://arichexperience.com/classes.cfm
late registration after Saturday Sep 28 by calling Patrick 334-8950

Massage Therapists often report resonating with the client, as if they were one with the muscles, hearing and responding to their every need. Therapists often say they try to feel what the other person is feeling. Is it really possible for a therapist to know what another person feels? Dr. V.S. Ramachandran and other Scientists have identified neurons in the brain they call mirror neurons. Your mirror neurons provide you an accurate model of what it is like to be the other person. No other animal has mirror neurons, only humans have them. Mirror neurons account for the ability of healers to truly feel what it is like to be the person on the table.
Once this ability is allowed and recognized, it becomes an important part of improving the therapeutic experience. If you can tune in to how the other person feels, you can adjust for the correct pressure, and find exactly the spot that needs help. You’ll know exactly when that spot is finished and you’ll be guided where to go next. The recipient has mirror neurons too, which allow her to imagine what it is like to be you massaging her, your hands are hers, doing exactly to her what she would direct. When she perceives you as herself, she can then let down her guard. When you give your hands to her brain’s direction, they provide exactly what she needs.
This group-discussion workshop explores your experiences and supports your having more experiences of mirroring and oneness with others.

PNI 7: Pain, Gate Theory, and Signs of Progress
Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.,
$100.00, includes handouts, provides 5 CE hours for AZ LMT/NCBTMB
people who do not need certificates may attend for half price)
register through http://arichexperience.com/classes.cfm
late registration after Saturday November 26 by calling Patrick 334-8950

Course Description
# 7 in the PsychoNeuroImmunology Series

At the brain stem, sensation is filtered. The body is capable of sending, say, hundreds of watts of pain signals up the nerve paths. But the gate allows only ten watts at a time, or less, to pass through. This explains why people reporting their pain on a scale of one to ten, think they are not making progress. It’s still a ten, she says. Why? The one-to-ten scale only reports the amount of pain signal that the gate allowed through. If her body was making 100 watts of pain, she senses this as 10. Over nine weeks you help her reduce her pain to 90, 80, 70, but each time she still feels her pain is at a 10. Only when her body’s sensations send 9 watts or less, will her pain reporting be accurate. The gate is a safety precaution, to keep the person sane. More than a ten would overwhelm her.

With this in mind, we need other ways to monitor her progress. One way that is more accurate is ADLs—asking which activities of daily living she is not able to do. Whenever she loses faith, we remind her of how much of her ADLs she has regained. When she has accurate markers of her progress, she will see what a great job you’ve been doing for her.

This group discussion class allows time for peer feedback and supervision about clients you’ve been working with, time for your questions and perspectives.

Prerequisites: None.

About Your Instructor: Patrick Moore LMT BA was a math teacher and journeyman carpenter before training in massage therapy in 1992-94. Patrick specializes in Osteopathic Techniques. In his free time he searches libraries for rare books and reads. Students say they enjoy Patrick’s warm approach with personal attention. More about Patrick at www.meltingmuscles.com

Mirror Neurons: Sense How Recipients Feel Therapy

2010-11-02T13:03:00.000-07:00

Wednesday, December 15, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. $100 for those who need CE certificate, $50 for those who do not. Please register by Dec.1, thank you.

Human brains, but not those of other animals, are equipped with mirror neurons that imagine how it feels to be someone else. Therapists tuning in to this process will have dramatically different results. First, you have your own mirror neurons which provide you very accurate information how the recipient feels each moment of his session, from the phone call to make the appointment, intake interview, treatment, through payment and rescheduling. When you are tuned in, you no longer need to ask, “How’s the pressure?” you already know how he feels and can modify each millisecond. Secondly, the recipient also has mirror neurons. He uses his to sense what it is like to be you, treating him. Why is this beneficial? Because now you don’t have to do anything to serve him, you simply be those qualities you want him to be. If his being more patient would help him heal, all you have to do is be more patient and then he will feel how that works. Mirror neurons explain why a therapist can influence someone else’s muscles to relax.

Group discussion with exercises. There will be time for you to ask about a particular person you work with so that you leave with specific ideas how to help that person next time you see him or her. You will also engage in two exercises with a partner, one verbal, one nonverbal using touch, and time for feedback.

Please call to register, Patrick Moore LMT 334-8950
Class max 6 people, min 2.
Closest cross streets: Oracle Road and Ina Road in NW Tucson
We will take a 1 hour break for lunch, (close to Whole Foods).

Date change Melting Muscles Supine and Prone

2010-07-09T15:27:00.001-07:00

Melting Muscles Supine has moved to Tuesday, July 13

Melting Muscles Prone has moved to Friday, July 16

Both are still at www.arichexperience.com 9 to 5

Two July CE Courses at Patrick Moore LMT Home Office

2010-06-29T13:59:00.001-07:00

July 22, 2010, Melting Muscles at the Atlas and Axis, Thursday, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm (one hour lunch break), 6 CE hours, $120.00, includes handouts and e-book (pdf) by Patrick Moore. Location: Patrick Moore LMT Home Office, 7502 N. Rosario, Tucson, AZ 85704 (NW Tucson). Class minimum 2 students, maximum 6 students. Please register by calling Patrick, 334-8950, thanks.

Course Description: Muscles melt without any force when they are placed into their shortened positions. This is the opposite of stretching—head rotation is simply a joint too fragile to attempt stretching, the muscles will tighten up rather than relent. You will learn how to place the head in atlanto-axial rotation in the first hour of class, and soon after you'll learn how to find and melt the obliquus capitis inferior muscle. Then we learn finesse, hand positions, and melting two head rotating muscles at once. Once head rotation melts, the recipient is able to look further over her shoulders, her headaches, clenching and grinding are less, and all the cranial nerves supplying her face and internal organs are much happier. Working on this muscle relaxes the whole body--the recipient will feel like she is floating. Givers will be sitting in chairs or stools, and you'll be receiving about two hours, so this is a very relaxing day of learning.

Instructor Biography: Patrick Moore was a "preferred provider" of massage therapy 1995-1999 in Seattle. After moving to Phoenix he discovered and published articles about Melting Muscles and the Atlas and Axis in 2002-2003. Since then he has taught over 700 graduates. Patrick lives about a mile from Rich Experience and jogs in the foothills. He is working on two book proposals: Healing Naturally, and Better For Having Happened.

Prerequisites: none

Preparation: Please register early. About a week before the class you'll receive the e-book. Please read as much as you can before class. The e-book is a little complex but don't freak out—class will be simple and everyone will get it, guaranteed. Please wear clothing without a collar that gives good exposure to the neck—a T-shirt is fine. Two massage tables are at the office, if we have 5 or 6 students we will need a volunteer to bring one table. Please bring one bottom sheet and one pillowcase. If you have a favorite stool, please bring it.

July 23, 2010, Unwinding Muscles at the Atlas and Axis, Friday, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm (one hour lunch break), 5 CE hours, $100.00 Includes handouts and e-book (pdf). Location: Patrick Moore LMT Home Office, 7502 N. Rosario, Tucson, AZ 85704 (NW Tucson). Class minimum 2 students, maximum 6 students. Please register by calling Patrick, 334-8950, thanks.

Course Description: For those who know the motion of the atlanto-axial joint and actions of the obliquus Capitis inferior muscle*, this course slows it down. This is a class for patient hands. Using ultra slow motion palpation and cranial motion, the head will actually tell us which way it prefers to rotate. It will tell us how far and how long to hold it in the rotated position, when and how fast to return it to neutral. This super-safe method is great for people who have injured their neck or have fears or guarding issues with their neck. This method is also profoundly relaxing—recipients may go into another dimension. While you're giving, you'll be sitting on a chair and you'll be receiving almost 2 hours of treatment, so prepare for a very relaxing day of learning.

Instructor Biography: Patrick Moore studied craniosacral from Bruno Ducoux, Osteopathic Doctor from France, in 2005-6. Patrick was a "preferred provider" of massage therapy 1995-1999 in Seattle. After moving to Phoenix he discovered and published articles about Melting Muscles and the Atlas and Axis in 2002-2003. Since then he has taught over 700 graduates. Patrick lives about a mile from Rich Experience and jogs in the foothills. He is working on two book proposals: Healing Naturally, and Better For Having Happened.

Prerequisites: * Melting Muscles at the Atlas and Axis, or reading Patrick's entire 30-page e-book (pdf) in advance. This e-book will be provided for you as soon as you register.

Preparation: Please register early. About a week before the class you'll receive the e-book. Please read as much as you can before class. The e-book is a little complex but don't freak out—class will be simple and everyone will get it, guaranteed. Please wear clothing without a collar that gives good exposure to the neck—a T-shirt is fine. Two massage tables are provided, though if we have 5-6 students we will need a volunteer to bring one more table. Please bring one bottom sheet and one pillowcase. If you have a favorite stool, please bring it.

2010 August/September Classes at Rich Experience

2010-06-29T13:43:00.000-07:00

Name: Breathing Naturally

Location: Rich Experience, 7435 N Oracle (West Side in Sun Center) Wednesday, August 4, 2010, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm with one hour break for lunch

Please register at www.arichexperience.com thanks :) 6 CE hr, includes handouts and e-book (pdf)

Course Description: A relaxed class! We will do a few breathing exercises while sitting with eyes closed, to get in touch with our scalenes, external and internal intercostals, and diaphragm. We will discuss the benefits of exhaling more and belly breathing, and practice these. We will talk about running and other exercise. You will learn how ribs swivel like a bucket handle on the spne and sternum to create vacuum and pressure in the lungs. We will discuss controlled breathing and awareness of breathing without control, which I call breathing naturally.

At the massage tables we will practice massaging the scalenes, diaphragm, and intercostals during the recipient's inhale and exhale.

Instructor Biography: Patrick Moore is trained and exeperienced in breathing meditation, breathing muscles, and breathing for runners. He was immersed in za-zen Japanese breathing technique in 1982 at a 2-day experiment though the Psychology department of Whitman College. By 1989 he had read all the books by zen master D.T. Suzuki and practiced za-zen daily for almost a decade. In 1992-94 the Brian Utting School of Massage focused much attention on breathing muscle anatomy and deep tissue treatment. At age 35 Patrick began running distance, and during long runs in nature developed a natural running/breathing style that increases efficiency while loosening attachments, like free therapy. You will be receiving one chapter of his upcoming book, Healing Naturally.

Prerequisites: Please read as much as you can from the e-book that will be emailed to you.

Preparation: Please wear a t-shirt or yoga top without a bra, so that we may feel ribs through the clothing. We will not be touching the breast but working the ribs up to the breast boundaries. Please bring one bottom sheet and one pillowcase. Tables are provided. We will not be using oil or cream.

Name: Digging Up Fossils: Deep Tissue of the Spine Using Your Elbow

Location: Rich Experience, 7435 N Oracle (West Side in Sun Center) Friday, August 20, 2010, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm (one hour break for lunch)

Please register at www.arichexperience.com thanks :) 5 CE hours, $100.00, includes handouts and e-handout (pdf)

Course Description: Your elbow is so perfect, you'd think it was created just to follow the lamina groove of muscles along the spine. By using your elbow, you may relax into one very slow stroke up, or down the paraspinals. Using your elbow saves your poor thumbs and wrists! Using your elbow does not mean you will use heavy pressure; just that your pressure will be steady and unvarying, which allows the recipient to trust your pressure and relax into it.

Releasing muscle tension along the spine helps the recipient to feel more relaxed at his core. Tensions along the spine are like buried ancestors from ages long past; fossils. Digging them up is priceless.

In this class you will learn how to be very sensitive with your elbow so that you can change your pressure from light to heavy depending on what you sense from the muscles, and of course the person's preference.You will learn to feel the shapes of the various muscles and their fiber directions, and to approach each muscle from various angles. You will learn great verbal and nonverbal communication so that you're giving the perfect amount of pressure always.

Instructor Biography: Patrick Moore learned deep tissue of the spine from Brian Utting in Seattle, 1993-94. One of the other students remarked, "Your elbow is moving so slow… its like a glacier." Like Patrick's elbow, glaciers move only a few inches per year but have a massive presence. Patrick is the author of "Melting Muscles," "Treating the Atlanto Axial Joint with Cranial Motion," and is working on two book proposals.

Prerequisites: None, though Coral Robinson's class the day before is recommended.

Preparation: Please bring a set of sheets and some massage oil (not cream) that is not slippery. Be prepared to receive and give 90 minutes of deep tissue.

Name: Deep Tissue of Hip Rotators and Psoas Using Your Elbow

Location: Rich Experience, 7435 N Oracle (West Side in Sun Center) Wednesday, August25, 2010, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM (one hour lunch)

Please register at www.arichexperience.com thanks :) $120.00 6 CE hours, Includes handouts and e-book (pdf)

Course Description: Did you know your elbow is shaped specifically to fit perfectly into the abdomen to massage the psoas? And that using your elbow actually feels better to the recipient than using your hands? Your elbow also fits perfectly into the groove between the ischial tuberosity and the femur, so you can melt the gemellis, obturators, and piriformis, and of course, glutes!

Most people think that the elbow is used to provide more pressure. That's only one advantage. The elbow may be used with light pressure too. The greatest advantage for the recipient, is that your pressure will be steady—when she feels that your pressure will not waver, she can trust the pressure and relax into it. Most think the elbow cannot feel things. It is true you have no sensation in the skin over your elbow. But sensation is not the best way to feel muscles anyway. In this class you will learn to use your elbow to be very sensitive of the shape and density of muscles, and to sense when they are melting.

Instructor Biography: Patrick Moore was trained at the Brian Utting School of Massage in Seattle where he learned deep tissue of the psoas and glutes. Patrick participated in 200 hours of Osteopathic Technique including a one-week internship with Rich Phaigh in Eugene, Oregon. During this continuing education learned how Osteopathic Doctors assess joint range for hip rotators and psoas.

Prerequisites: none

Preparation: Please review origins insertions & actions of the glutes, piriformis (and the other five deep lateral rotators) Tensor Fascia Latte, and Psoas. Thanks! Please wear sweats, yoga pants or spandex that allows full range of hip motion. We will not be disrobing nor using oil or cream. Please bring one bottom sheet and one pillowcase.

Name: Low Acceleration, High Feedback Stretching

Location: Rich Experience, 7435 N Oracle (West Side in Sun Center) Wednesday, September 1, 2010, 10:00 am to 2:00 pm (no lunch break)

Please register at www.arichexperience.com thanks :) 4 hr $80.00 Includes handout and e-handout (pdf)

Course Description: Advanced Muscle Energy Technique and Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation. These are fancy-sounding names for what is better called, "Hold-Relax Stretching." You may have learned this before, but the key to making it work is your sensitivity to the "easy motion barrier." If you accidentally cross this barrier even once, the person's brain will no longer sense you as "safe" and you'll have no more luck lengthening his muscles. The remedy for this is practicing sensing the "easy" or "pathological" motion barrier, the place in the range of motion where muscle guarding first begins (high feedback). Moving a person's limbs must not only be slow, but transitions from stopped to moving must be ultra gentle (low acceleration). You will practice clear commands, unvarying resistance during the "hold" phase, and how to write notes on gains. You will practice with partners to lengthen shoulder rotators, hip rotators, or any other muscle group you wish to practice (not the neck). Learning to feel the easy motion barrier will help your sensitivity and connection with the person's brain. This is the safest way to stretch.

Instructor Biography: Patrick Moore was first inspired to become a massage therapist in 1991 while watching Randy Nakasone, PT do Osteopathic Techniques. Patrick began taking CE courses in MET before his massage school year was finished. By 1995 he had completed 120 hours of MET training with Rich Phaigh including a one-week observation of Rich's practice in Eugene, Oregon. Patrick designed assessment and SOAP charts to reflect all the muscle lengths in the body, and specialized in MET as a medical massage therapist in Seattle from 1994-99. He was a "preferred provider" for Blue Cross/Shield, auto and on-the-job injuries. He has been a CE provider and author since 2002.

Prerequisites: none

Preparation: Please wear loose or stretchy clothing so that you may be stretched by your partner. Please bring one bottom sheet and a pillowcase.

May, June, July courses at A Rich Experience, NW Tucson

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Name: Energy Work Demystified

Dates/Times: Sunday, May 23, 2010, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm (one hour break for lunch)

Cost/Credit: $100.00, 5 CE hours

Course Description: Animals and plants sense energy to see the Earth's magnetism, to sense danger and opportunity, to influence and heal. Physics proves solid bodies are made of energy and literally floating in endless oceans of energy. We will use hands 12-inches above so there is no confusing the effects of body heat or static electricity. You will practice scanning two partners, and sending energy into needed areas. Listening to your partner's feedback jumps your skill light-years ahead. Then it is your turn to receive. Great for beginners as well as experts who want to brush up on their scanning and beaming.

Instructor Biography:

Patrick first learned empathetic distance healing in 1977 through the Silva method. In 1996 he began a sort of apprenticeship with healer Stephen Bruno www.moon-rock.com . Patrick was a medical massage therapist in Seattle 1994-99 and has been a CE provider and author since 2002. on Facebook and longer bio at www.meltingmuscles.com

Prerequisites: None

Preparation: Please bring your open mind J

Name: Undeniably Different: Client Centered Presence, Response, and Feedback

Dates/Times: Tuesday, June 1, 2010, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm (one hour break for lunch)

Cost/Credit: $120.00, 6 CE hr

Course Description:

Healing is more about responding than technique. Your influence increases when you ask good questions and tailor your treatment to her answers. We will practice with partners; 1) innovative intake questions, 2) massaging a tight muscle with feedback looping, and 3) finishing questions that anchor her awareness of her changes. Then it is time to listen to your partner's feedback of how your questions made her feel. Repeating this process with at least two partners accelerates your listening and tailoring skills. You will receive a list of good questions that challenge and inspire the recipient to move forward.

Instructor Biography:

Patrick began tutoring and teaching Math in 1979 and students have always said, "He is able to understand where I am stuck and explain it in simple terms I can understand." Patrick began studying the works of Carl Rogers in the 1980s including client-centered therapy and student-centered learning. When Patrick was a Journeyman Carpenter and created this same student-centered atmosphere with his apprentice. In Seattle Patrick apprenticed as a workshop leader with Stephen Bruno www.moon-rock.com . On Facebook and longer bio at www.meltingmuscles.com

Prerequisites: none

Preparation: Please write a list of questions you ask before, during, and after your sessions.

Name: Philosophy of Natural and Holistic Healing

Dates/Times: Sunday, June 13, 2010, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm

Cost/Credit: $120.00, 6 CE hr.

Course Description:

A group discussion workshop in the compassionate-yet-challenging-question style of Plato. What is the definition of Natural? What is Holistic? How do we define Healing? Philosophy (literally, "love of knowledge") is not intended to tell you the "right" answers but to help you discover for yourself what is even more natural, what is even more holistic, what is even more healing. Learn how your definitions, expectations and beliefs about natural healing influence a) how far people are willing to heal, b) which people are drawn to your practice, and c) the resolution of your personal challenges as a healing professional.

Instructor Biography:

Patrick first studied Philosophy at Whitman College in 1983 and continues to study Plato and the neo-platonists, Giordano Bruno, and the philosophical works of Benjamin Franklin and Edgar Poe. Patrick studied buddhism as a philosophy and form of natural and holistic relief of suffering. In 1992 Patrick chose the Brian Utting School of Massage for its approach that each stroke must have an explainable purpose. Patrick has a daughter in college majoring in philosophy who engages him in long discussions Longer bio at www.meltingmuscles.com

Prerequisites: none

Preparation: please jot down your own thoughts or philosophy about what is natural, holistic, and healing, and/or any questions you have.

June 22, 2010; Standing Wave Jostling; 5 hr; Movement and Exercise Therapies (MET), Tuesday, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Name: Standing Wave Jostling

Dates/Times: Tuesday, June 22, 2010, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm (one hour break for lunch)

Cost/Credit: $100.00, 5 CE hrs.

Course Description:

Jostling is far simpler once you understand the rhythms of each part of the body. Jostling rolls limbs through a short range of motion in a cycle, and if the person's proprioceptors feel safe, the jostling helps to release guarding at that joint. Jostling is like music. Each joint has its own comfortable frequency range and this is different person to person, and may be different on the person's left and right sides. You will practice with ropes making a standing wave, in first and second overtones. We will jostle legs in hip rotation, shoulders in rotation, and the spine in rotation and sidebending. You will learn from your partner's feedback what helped her relax and feel safe and what brought up her guard. Lots of hands-on and table work. You will make music with limbs and joints as your instrument.

Instructor Biography:

In college Patrick studied music theory, wave physics, dance and was keyboard player in a reggae band. Patrick learned Trager in 1994 and has been a independent CE instructor since 2002. On Facebook and longer bio at www.meltingmuscles.com

Prerequisites: none

Preparation: Please wear loose or stretchy clothing. We will be lying on massage tables but not disrobing. Please bring one bottom sheet to protect the tables.

Name: Melting Muscles 1: Supine Massage

Dates/Times: Thursday, July 8, 2010, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm (one hour break for lunch)

Cost/Credit: $140.00, 7 CE hrs.

Course Description:

Muscles feel safe to relax when they are held in a shortened position. You will learn a new way to palpate muscles with one hand while your other hand nudges the limb into a shorter position. In this position, you quickly feel the muscle melt and soften. This melting is so dramatic that the recipients can feel it melt, which gives them a sense they are making good progress. The supine day covers levator/upper traps, pec minor, neck sidebenders, biceps, wrist extensors, thumb opposers, psoas, TFL, quads, tibs, and intrinsic toe flexors. Not intended to cover all muscles in a full-body massage, just those that have not been given enough training in your previous massage education. Includes both light and deep work.

After 8 years, Patrick's book Melting Muscles is almost finished. To celebrate the book's completion, each registrant will receive a PDF version of the 100+ page book as an email attachment. The book covers theory, supine and prone massage, and atlas/ axis treatment, with several high-resolution b/w photographs on each page.

Instructor Biography:

Patrick first published Melting Muscles as an article in Massage & Bodywork in 2002, followed by Treating the Atlanto-Axial Joint With Cranial Motion in Massage Therapy Journal in 2003. Since then he has taught the method to 700+ graduates in twenty US cities from Baltimore to Juneau. On Facebook and longer bio at www.meltingmuscles.com

Prerequisites: none

Preparation: reviewing your origins, insertions, and actions for the muscles mentioned above, in advance, will help you learn faster on Thursday J

Name: Melting Muscles 2: Prone Massage

Dates/Times: Friday, July 9, 2010, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm (one hour break for lunch)

Cost/Credit: $140.00, 7 CE hrs.

Course Description:

Muscles feel safe to relax when they are held in a shortened position. You will learn a new way to palpate muscles with one hand while your other hand nudges the limb into a shorter position. In this position, you quickly feel the muscle melt and soften. This melting is so dramatic that the recipients can feel it melt, which gives them a sense they are making good progress. The prone day covers levator, lower traps, triceps, wrist flexors, lumbar sidebenders, glutes including piriformis, gamellis, obturators, hamstrings, and extrinsic toe flexors. Not intended to cover all muscles in a full-body massage, just those that have not been given enough training in your previous massage education. Includes both light and deep work.

Instructor Biography:

Prerequisites: none

Preparation: reviewing your origins, insertions, and actions for the muscles mentioned above, in advance, will help you learn faster on Friday J

Name: Low Acceleration, High Feedback Stretching

Dates/Times: (later july, when works for you?),10:00 am to 2:00 pm

Cost/Credit: 4 hr

Instructor Biography: Watching the magic of a muscle energy technique session, given by Physical Therapist Randy Nakasone in 1992 inspired Patrick to become a massage therapist. Patrick began taking CE courses in MET before his massage school year was finished. By 1995 he had completed 120 hours of MET training with Rich Phaigh including a one-week observation of Rich in his practice in Eugene, Oregon. Patrick used MET as a medical massage preferred provider in Seattle 1994-99. On Facebook and longer bio at www.meltingmuscles.com

Prerequisites: none

Preparation: Please wear loose or stretchy clothing so that you may be stretched by your partner. Please bring one bottom sheet for a massage table. We will be lying on massage tables but not disrobing.

Name: Holistic Treatment Plans

Dates/Times: (..was postponed.. can repeat anytime between now and?), 10:00 am to 2:00 pm

Cost/Credit: $80.00 4 CE hr

Course Description: Creating a plan includes asking good questions to find out what the recipient wants different, discussing realistic expectations, and choosing approaches that you think will complete the goal. The plan also includes the recipient's reply to this question: "How will you know when your goal has been reached?" We will practice interviewing partners, taking notes and writing treatment plans for their real ailments. Written plans help just as much, or more, for therapists who consider themselves holistic, and for recipients who seek natural healing. Written plans help the recipient to be engaged in his own healing, from the design of his plan to its steps, his assessment of progress and completion. Written plans help the giver to observe and assist his progress without personal attachment.

Instructor Biography: Patrick was a medical massage therapist in Seattle 1994-99, writing treatment plans as a preferred provider for Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Patrick has been a CE provider and author since 2002. longer bio at www.meltingmuscles.com

Prerequisites: Recommended, not required reading: Healing HandsThe Proof Is In the S.O.A.P. by Diana Thompson

Preparation: Bring pen and paper.

Patrick New Phone 520-334-8950

2010-05-13T10:41:00.000-07:00

It was time to change to a Tucson prefix. The old number that begins with 623 is no longer mine. My new business number/ cell phone is 520-334-8950. Please use this number for questions about CE classes in Tucson and abroad, about the Melting Muscles technique, to make appointments for massage, cranio-sacral, melting muscles in Phoenix and Tucson, and for phone coaching. Thanks!

Warm hugs, Patrick.

How Touch Makes Other Appear As Oneself

2010-03-22T09:02:00.000-07:00

Hi, I have added a new class I'll be teaching Wednesday at Rich Experience in NW Tucson, see more and register through www.arichexperience.com .

This class explores how touch actually gives the toucher and the touched person the sense that I am you, you are me.

Even if you can't attend on Wednesday, Dr. Ramachandran has posted his new findings on mirror neurons as a short video that you may find as fascinating as I did. The video is 7 mins 44 seconds and he begins talking about touch mirror neurons at 4:40 but you'll want to watch the whole thing at http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/vs_ramachandran_the_neurons_that_shaped_civilization.html

About Wednesday's class:

I have long wondered if, when I am massaging someone and they are slumbering, something very interesting is happening. As my brain says, relax, their muscles relax. It works as if the nerves that tell his muscle what to do, are now connected with my brain. My brain says relax and his muscles relax.

No longer something to wonder. Science has suddenly discovered "mirror neurons" which feel what others feel. These neurons are in the front of the brain.

In Wednesday's class we will repeat an experiment published by brain researcher V.S. Ramachandran. We will use a fake, plastic hand and a cardboard screen to block your view of your shoulder so that the hand looks like your own. Then a partner will stroke the impostor hand. You may feel sensations as the hand is stroked. We will do another experiment and discuss our findings in relation to massage therapy.

2010 April May June classes at Cortiva Tucson

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April 3, 2010, Hearing Muscles Melt 3: Atlas and Axis; 6 hr, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, $110.00 includes e-book by Patrick Moore. (This class was formerly called, Melting Atlas and Axis), please register through Cortiva Tucson

View Patrick Moore's 2003 Atlas Axis article from Massage Therapy Journal. You'll receive the 2008 version (simplified and expanded) by email as soon as you registerplease read as much as you can in advance of class.

Learn to invoke the brain to relax the obliquus capitis inferior and superior muscles that rotate the atlanto-axial joint and sidebend the occipito-atlantal joint. Sound complex? We begin so simple you'll be yawning. We add small steps so that your hands easily digest the maneuvers. Halfway through the day you'll be surprised to notice your hands happily performing the complex technique. Now, I guarantee your hands will learn to release the atlanto-axial joint, but if you want to remember it, you'll have to read the e-book either before or after the class, or both. We'll work in pairs throughout the day, and you'll be so relaxed you may want to call someone to pick you up after class. We won't be disrobing for this class but we'll need to reach your neck so wear a shirt without a collar. Please bring one bottom sheet. Thanks.

April 4, 2010 Hearing Muscles Melt 7: Unwinding Atlas and Axis, 5 hr, (prerequisite Hearing Muscles Melt 3: Atlas and Axis, offered the day before, or teacher's permission, 623-670-0442) 10:00 am to 4:00 pm $95.00, includes e-handouts. please register through Cortiva Tucson

For those who know the atlanto-axial joint and Obliquus Capitis Inferior muscle, this course covers assessing and treatment using the aid of cranial muscle motion. Slow motion muscle contraction guides you into the safest, most comfortable treatment position. The more you listen to slow motion muscle contraction, the more it tells you. This is a relaxing day spent giving and receiving very nurturing work. Following slow motion muscle contraction is sedating for the recipient and very interesting for the giver, as you feel you are having a conversation with a different part of the person. This ultra-gentle work can unravel serious neck injuries. We will not disrobe but please wear clothing without a collar that gives good exposure to the neck. Please bring one bottom sheet, thanks.

Instructor Biography[T1] : Originally trained as a math teacher and construction surveyor, Patrick Moore first received training in the Atlas and Axis from Rich Phaigh, www.onsentherapy.com in 1994 including a 40-hour internship in Eugene Oregon. To this technique Patrick added craniosacral technique learned from Bruno Ducoux, D.O. from Bordeaux, France. In 2003 Patrick published Treating The Atlanto-Axial Joint With The Help Of Cranial Motion in Massage Therapy Journal. He has helped many people with neck injuries in 15 years as a medical massage therapist. Patrick has been a professional: math tutor & teacher, musician, journeyman carpenter, preferred provider of medical massage, reiki healer & teacher, discovery group leader, published author, and video composer. Patrick and his wife moved to Tucson in 2008.

May 1, Tendinitis : Removing Scar Tissue, 6 CE hr, includes e-book, $110.00, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. please register through Cortiva Tucson

Tendinitis responds well to treatment for scar tissue. There are two problems with scar tissue--first, it solidifies into a lump that creates pain. Second, scar tissue is weaker than the original tendon tissue. If the person lays low, he may only feel pain when the weather changes. But if he is active, the scar is likely to tear again the moment he contracts with 90% of his strength or endurance.

Removing the scar tissue resolves both problems.

Removing scar tissue is simple: the secondary effects of ice do most of the work, which is explained in my free tendinitis article online. The only difficult part is finding the exact site of the scar, which is smaller than a grain of rice. That's why we need six hours of class time so we can practice finding these common tendon scar sites: subscapularis, infraspinatus, supraspinatus, extensor digitorum, flexor digitorum, the plantar fascia, pectineus, TFL and the patellar tendon.

An important part of healing is to redirect the person's perspective. Hope, visualization, metaphor and expectation, research has shown, dramatically influence the immune system. Learn to enlighten clients that 100% restoration is possible and likely!

Tendinitis is like a frayed rope that has been patched with fiberglass and polyester resin. Ice is like a lure that attracts macrophages. The increased blood flow washes away the scar tissue like erosion in a creek bed.

Please wear clothing that allows access to the head of your humerus (tank top) and knees.

June 19, Touching The Brain I--Calming Fight-or-Flight, Cerebellum and Amygdala, 5 CE hr, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, $95.00, includes e-handouts with active links to books and slideshows online. please register through Cortiva Tucson

The brain guards against anything it considers a risk. Guarding takes many forms including muscle tension, raising blood pressure and heart rate, and seeing people as competitors. By placing your hands alongside the amygdalæ, or behind the cerebellum, and slowly drawing your hands off the head, sort of suctioning the skull away from the brain, you give the brain the sensation of more space. When there is plenty, nobody needs to fight. Giving the brain more space allows it to find a better balance. The brain parts each operate differently and have different values. If they can cooperate better physically they are likely to cooperate more in their operations.

Massage therapists, especially those who have been practicing for years, have developed sensitivity in their hands. This is not energy work; hand sensitivity gives you the sense of brain tissue behind the bones of the cranium.

I ask each student after the class if you feel you are well prepared to touch the brains of others outside class so far every graduate has said yes. It is a simple technique that has dramatic results. You will feel the brain tissue as if it is in your hands. Some in the class will feel actual twists or other changes in the brain tissue as it returns to a better balance.

The amygdala and cerebellum guard in different ways. Once inside the head we will address these organs to switch the fight-or-flight nervous and hormonal stimulation back to rest-and-digest. Experts like Brian Utting have said that the 50 most deadly diseases all stem from staying too long in the "fight or flight" mode. Hands-on therapies are perfect for returning brains back to natural settings, which will restore immune response and all other processes in the healing process.

Please bring one bottom sheet for the massage tables. We will not be disrobing, only expanding our heads J.

June 20, Touching The Brain III-- Touch Triggers Brain to Perceive Other As Self, 5 CE hr, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, $95.00, includes e-handouts with active links to books and slide shows online. No prerequisite. please register through Cortiva Tucson

Brain researchers recently published in Scientific American that a person's brain will interpret seen touches to an artificial hand as if his own hand were being touched, when his other unseen hand is touched in a similar manner. We will repeat the Ramachandrans' "Phantom Hand" experiment in class using a plastic hand.

How is this relevant for bodyworkers? Perhaps the most unusual (and rare) effect of massage is when the giver and/or recipient forgets that they are two separate beings. The giver may feel she has direct infuence over the recipient's limbs or muscles, as if they were her own. The recipient allows the giver to "take over" his limbs or muscles.

We will do a second experiment in which another class member's hand is used instead of the plastic hand, and then interview the givers and recipients. When one brain adopts another limb as its own, is this an illusion? What else could be happening?

Course includes:

lecture: brain's perception of touch
two touch experiments using plastic hand and a living partner's hand
plenty of time for feedback, questions, and group discussion
When would you not encourage shared perception (discussion of boundaries)?

This class is not intended to be scientific; to give you answers, but philosophical; to engage you in a process of discovery through asking better questions.

Patrick Moore taught math in high school, college, and middle school. A lifelong learner, he stays abreast of new research in superstring theory, the holographic brain, and quantum biology, especially as these relate to healing. In his youth, Patrick had many blows to the head from motorcycle injuries, skiing, football, and fisticuffs. His small blows added up to two decades of depression and difficulty. He was treated by Laura Bruno, medical intuitive and author of If I Only Had A Brain Injury, for two years. Laura also provided Patrick individual training in the techniques of brain injury healing. Patrick's massage training was at the legendary Brian Utting School of Massage in Seattle where he became one of the first Medical Massage "Preferred Providers" to bill health insurance from 1995-1999. Patrick and his wife moved to Tucson in 2008.

March-April 2010 courses at A Rich Experience

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March 24, 2010; Touching The Brain IIITouch Triggers Brain to Perceive Other as Self; 5 hr; Therapeutic Massage (TM), Wednesday, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Name: Touching The Brain IIITouch Triggers Brain to Perceive Other as Self

Dates/Times: Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Cost/Credit: 5 hr

Course Description: Following recent brain research published in Scientific American, we will do an experiment with a "phantom hand" that demonstrates your brain will adopt any limb that you associate visually and through touch. You will repeat the experiment with the living hand of a partner from the class. We will discuss how the brain includes another friendly person, through touch, and interprets the other as "self." This discovery has amazing consequences when you consider both that bodyworkers' brains may adopt the recipient as self, and the recipent's brain may adopt the bodyworker as self. To conclude we will do short massage exchanges with the new understanding of "self" and "other." Guarantees to be a very interesting class, different from anything you have taken before!

Instructor Biography: Patrick Moore completed 3 classes toward a Psych minor at Whitman College, 1981-1984 including "Cognitive Psychology." Since then he has kept abreast of developments in mind/brain/body research through subscriptions to Science News and Scientific American. How the individual distinguishes and values oneself differently than others, occupied him as he studied zen and Tibetan buddhism and the Essence teachings of Plato, and Stephen Bruno (www.moon-rock.com ). Patrick was a medical massage therapist in Seattle 1994-99 and has been a CE provider and author since 2002. on Facebook and longer bio at www.meltingmuscles.com

Prerequisites: none

Preparation: please bring one sheet set and massage oil/lotion of choice

April 11, 2010; Why People Don't (Choose To) Heal And How To Respond; 6 hr; Body Psychology (BP), Sunday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Name: Why People Don't (Choose To) Heal And How To Respond

Dates/Times: Sunday, April 11, 2010, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Cost/Credit: 6 hr

Course Description: Following the popular book/CD series by medical intuitive, Caroline Myss, we will discuss the recipient's responsibility in his own healing. I disagree with Myss' pessimism about people not wanting to change. People have the right to change as fast or slow as they want. The healer may assist a person to make wiser or faster healing choices by making the session a safe place to challenge himself. There is wisdom and service in people's hesitance to change and when we honor the person's choices, he feels safer to change. This is a group discussion class where the teacher demonstrates the same principles as the content of the class. If we make good progress through the content above, we will also briefly survey how to be more intuitive and examine the benefits/consequences of being "medically" intuitive.

Instructor Biography: Patrick Moore has studied medical intuition since 1977 when he began studying the Silva method at age 14. He participated in classes, groups, and individual instruction from healer Stephen Bruno ( www.moon-rock.com ) from 1996-2006 and from animal/ nutritional/ medical intuitive Laura Bruno (www.laurabruno.wordpress.com ) from 2007-2009. Patrick was a medical massage therapist in Seattle 1994-99 and has been a CE provider and author since 2002. on Facebook and longer bio at www.meltingmuscles.com

Prerequisites: none

Preparation: If you have read any of Myss' books or listened to her CDs in advance, that is good but not a necessary prerequisite. I know some are available at the library if you feel inclined to check one out.

April 20, 2010; Low Acceleration, High Feedback Stretching; 4 hr; Movement and Exercise Therapies (MET), Tuesday, 10:00 am to 2:00 pm

Name: Low Acceleration, High Feedback Stretching

Dates/Times: Tuesday, April 20, 2010,10:00 am to 2:00 pm

Cost/Credit: 4 hr

Course Description: An accelerated course covering Muscle Energy Technique and Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation. These are fancy-sounding names for what is better called, "Hold-Relax Stretching." You may have learned this before but the key to making it work is your sensitivity to the "easy motion barrier." If you accidentally cross this barrier even once, the person's brain will no longer sense you as "safe" and you'll have no more luck lengthening his muscles. The remedy for this is practicing sensing the "easy" or "pathological" motion barrier, the place in the range of motion where muscle guarding first begins (high feedback). Moving a person's limbs must not only be slow, but transitions from stopped to moving must be ultra gentle (low acceleration). We will practice with partners to lengthen shoulder rotators, hip rotators, and any other muscle group you are interested in lengthening. The description sounds compicated, but really this is a simple technique, a safe way to stretch.

Instructor Biography: Watching the magic of a muscle energy technique session, given by a Physical Therapist in 1992, was what inspired Patrick Moore to become a massage therapist. Patrick began taking CE courses in MET before his massage school year was finished. By 1995 he had completed 120 hours of MET training with Rich Phaigh www.onsentherapy.com including a one-week observation of Rich in his practice in Eugene, Oregon. Patrick wrote new assessment and SOAP charts to reflect all the muscle lengths in the body, and specialized in MET as a medical massage therapist in Seattle 1994-99 for Blue Cross and Blue Shield, auto and on-the-job injuries. He has been a CE provider and author since 2002. on Facebook and longer bio at www.meltingmuscles.com

Prerequisites: none

Preparation: Please wear loose or stretchy clothing so that you may be stretched by your partner. Please bring one bottom sheet for a massage table.

Digging for Fossils: Deep Tissue of Spine

2010-02-10T11:19:00.001-08:00

Digging Up Fossils: Releasing Cellular Memory through Deep Tissue of the Spine
5 CE hours - $100.00

Weds, March 10, 2010 10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Location: A Rich Experience, NW Tucson

please register through A Rich Experience http://arichexperience.com

Your elbow has been specially designed to follow the lamina groove of muscles along the spine. By using your elbow, you may relax into the very slow strokes along the paraspinals. In this class you will learn how to be very sensitive with your elbow so that you can change your pressure from light to heavy depending on what you sense from the muscles. Using your elbow also saves your poor thumbs and wrists! Using your elbow does not mean you will use heavy pressure; just that your pressure will be steady and unvarying, which allows the recipient to trust your pressure and relax into it.

Releasing muscle tension along the spine helps the recipient to feel more relaxed at his core. Tensions along the spine are core issues which may have been there for ages, and resolving them can be life-changing. Please bring a set of sheets and some vegetable based massage oil that is not slippery.

Patrick Moore learned deep tissue of the spine from the infamous Brian Utting School of Massage in Seattle, 1992-94. One of the other students remarked, "Your elbow is moving at a glacial speed." Like Patrick's elbow, glaciers move only a few inches per year and have a massive presence, but melt when the sun shines. Patrick is the author of "Melting Muscles," and is working on a new textbook for massage therapists.

Patrick's 42 CE classes for 2010

2010-01-14T16:19:00.001-08:00

Hi friends,

I just completed my NCB renewal as a provider of CE courses. Below are the classes I will now be offering.

Please note: there are two new classes below aimed at those who would like to become NCB teachers, which is more affordable for therapists than hiring me to help them complete the NCB application.

Also note: some of these classes you may have already taken, just that the names have been changed a bit :)

As the classes are scheduled at different schools and venues, I will continue to post the dates at http://meltingmuscles.blogspot.com

Warmly,

Patrick

Patrick's CE Classes for 2010-2011:

1-12 taught 2002-2008

1. Hearing Muscles Melt 1: Full Body Supine; 7 hr; Therapeutic Massage TM

2. Hearing Muscles Melt 2: Full Body Prone 7 hr; Therapeutic Massage TM

3. Hearing Muscles Melt 3: Atlas and Axis; 6 hr: Therapeutic Massage TM

4. Hearing Muscles Melt 4: Teaching melting Muscles; 7 hrs; Teacher Training Program TTP

5. Hearing Muscles Melt 5: Unwinding Supine; 6 hrs; Therapeutic Massage TM

6. Hearing Muscles Melt 7: Unwinding Atlas and Axis; 5 hr; Therapeutic Massage TM

7. Equality in Therapy and Business; 6 hr; Ethics including Standard V ESV

8. Reiki I; 5 hr; Energy Work EW

9. Reiki II; 5 hr; Energy Work EW

10. Reiki III (Master); 5 hr: Energy Work EW

11. How To Train Successful Reiki Practitioners; 6 hr; Teacher Training Program TTP

12. Tendinitis: Removing Scar Tissue; 6 hr; Health Care/Medical HCM

13-20 new in 2009

13. Washing with SOAP—Healing Cellular Memory through Interviewing and Feedback; 5 hr; Body Psychology BP

14. Three Muscles Fight to Rotate the Head; 6 hrs; Science; Advanced Kinesiology S

15. Length And Strength: Hip Rotators And Psoas; 6 hrs; Movement and Exercise Therapies MET

16. Touching The Brain I— Calming Fight or Flight; Cerebellum and Amygdala; 5 hr; Therapeutic Massage TM

17. Touching The Brain II—Balancing 6 Brains; 5 hr; Therapeutic Massage TM

18. Actions of the Obliquus Capitis Inferior Muscle; DVD Home Study Course + Test… gives certificate of achievement; 5 hr; Science-Advanced Kinesiology S

19. Breathing Naturally: Relaxing the Breathing Muscles; 6hr; Therapeutic Massage TM

20. The Brain's Good Reasons for Muscle Guarding; 4 hr; Science-Advanced Physiology S

21-42 new for 2010

21. Hearing Muscles Melt 6: Unwinding Muscles in Prone and Sidelying Positions; 7 hr; Therapeutic Massage TM

22. Hearing Muscles Melt 8: Recipient's Awareness Of Melting; 5 hr; Body Psychology

23. Touching The Brain III—Touch Triggers Brain to Perceive Other as Self; 5 hr; Therapeutic Massage TM

24. Standing Wave Jostling; 5 hr; Movement and Exercise Therapies MET

25. Length and Strength: The Shoulder's Seven Actions; 7 hr; Movement and Exercise Therapies MET

26. Assessing the Atlanto-Axial Joint; DVD Home Study Cognitive + Test; 5 hr; Therapeutic Massage TM

27. Holistic Treatment Plans; 4 hr; Body Psychology BP

28. Negotiating Realistic Expectations communication: 4 hr; body Psychology BP

29. Socrates, Father of Ethics; 6 hr; Ethics (incl. Standard V) ESV

30. Latest Discoveries in Quantum Physics for Healers; 4 hr; Research R

31. Latest Discoveries in DNA and Epigenetics for Healers; 4 hr; Research R

32. Energy Work Demystified; 5 hr; Energy Work EW

33. Energy Work: Palpation Lab; Hands Above; 4 hr; Energy Work EW

34. Healing the Past and Future using Energy: the Nature of Time; 5 hr; Energy Work EW

35. Advanced Energy: Providing Matching Grants, Ramps, and Other Healing Effects; 5 hr; Energy Work EW

36. Low Acceleration, High Feedback Stretching; 4 hr; Movement and Exercise Therapies MET

37. Digging Up Fossils: Releasing Cellular Memory through Deep Tissue of the Spine; 5 hr; Deep Tissue Therapies DDT

38. Creating and Growing a Holistic Business; 6 hr; Business/Marketing B/M

39. Undeniably Different: Client Centered Presence, Response, and Feedback; 6 hr; Body Psychology BP

40. Why People Don't (Choose To) Heal And How To Respond; 6 hr; Body Psychology BP

41. Philosophy of Natural and Holistic Healing; 6 hr; Body Psychology BP

42. Teacher Training; Developing Measurable Learning Goals; 4 hr; Teacher Training Program TTP

LMT Support Group begins Jan 5, NW Tucson

2009-12-09T16:04:00.000-08:00

Is being a therapist/healer more challenging than you thought it would be? This group is NOT about how to avoid or sidestep challenges, but how to embrace them, to "make them better for having happened." Once you are on the other side of a challenge, you see that it was a gift. Of course, that's not so easy to see on the front side.

By working with others in service and healing, certain issues will very likely arise for you. This is the place to share with others who have had, or will have, similar issues. You may be able to help them or they may be able to help you. It's always good to talk.

Are there are certain people you work with--employers, other therapists, or recipients--who sort of drive you crazy?
Do you get unwanted "vibes" from some people?
Do you ever wonder why similar "lessons" keep happening to you? Would you like to finish those lessons and move on?
Do you feel you are "heard?"
Would you like to share your "stories of challenge" and "stories of healing" with others?
Would you like to teach or mentor other therapists/healers?
Have you "grown out of" your current work situation but you don't know how/where to go next?
Do others treat you as equal?
Are you receiving compensation equal to what you are giving in service?
Would you like it if everyone would treat each other more equally?

This is a light hearted, good humored, non-judgmental "peer supervision" group. "Supervison" does not mean that someone is the authority supervising you, but that you arrive willing to both offer support to those who you may assist, and receive support from those who may assist you. Support does NOT mean advice. People need to tell their stories and be heard, without being fixed. If they want suggestions, they will ask! If you habitually give advice without being asked for it, you will receive support in changing that pattern :) We maintain confidentiality within the group both by withholding names and indentifying information of the people in our personal stories, and by not sharing what others in the group share with us.

January 5 is the first group. Space is limited so please register through the following link which allows me to count RSVPs:

http://www.meetup.com/Massage-Therapist-Training/calendar/11992656/

After the first group will meet monthly on a Tuesday evening at Rich Experience.

Location: A Rich Experience on Oracle Road btw Orange Grove and Ina. http://arichexperience.com ...

$10 fee (please pre-write checks to Patrick Moore or A Rich Experience) for 90 minute group, occasional handouts by your presenter, Patrick Moore LMT BA.

Patrick cell: 623-670-0442
more about patrick http://meltingmuscles.com

Sept CE at A Rich Experience

2009-08-12T13:37:00.000-07:00

Location: A Rich Experience, Oracle Rd btw Orange Grove and Ina, E side, please register through http://arichexperience.com

Name: Length&Strength Series: Shoulder

Dates/Times: October 24, Saturday: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm with one hour break for lunch.

Cost/Credit: $108.00 / 6 CE hours

Course Description: You may be familiar with the common complaint of tight rhomboids. Massaging the rhomboids only makes them longer, which is not helpful in the long run. A better solution is to a) massage the pecs so they lengthen and b) strengthen the rhomboids so they can "hold their own" when stress tightens up all the muscles. You may not be familiar with similar battles between other antagonists. We will examine the battles and show how the path back to balance for scapula elevators (levator, upper traps) vs. depressors (lower trapezius), and for inward rotators (subscapularis plus pecs, lats, and teres major) vs. outward rotators (only the infraspinatus and teres minor).

Please give your email address when registering early so that we may email you the included .pdf e-handouts on lengthening shoulder muscles using a) massage and b) Hold-Relax Stretching, and strengthening shoulder retractors and rotators.

A brief introduction to Tendinitis (course offered Sep 5 and again in 2010) will be given.

Instructor Biography: Patrick Moore worked from 1979 to 1994 as a construction worker and math teacher, including geometry, algebra, aviation math, surveying, reading blueprints, machine operator, crane rigging, temporary scaffolds, and concrete forming. He also advanced in Scouting mastering knots, lashing, first aid and outdoor survival. He successfully rebuilt several four- and two-stroke engines from the crank up. This hands-on background prepared him well for his 1994 career change to massage therapy, in understanding how muscles act upon bones at various angles.

Prerequisites: none

Preparation: Please review your origin/action/insertions for: 1) Levator Scapula, 2) Upper Trapezius, 3) Lower Trapezius, 4) Subscapularis, 5) Infraspinatus, 6) Teres Minor, 7) Pectoralis Major, 8) Pectoralis Minor. Please wear tank top, loose T-shirt or exercise clothing that allows palpation of the shoulder blades.

Name: Brain's Good Reasons: the Intelligence of Tight Muscles

Dates/Times: Sunday, October 25, 10:00 am to 2:00 pm

Cost/Credit: $72.00 / 4 CE hrs

Course Description: Tension is not something that happens to muscles accidentally, but an effect of the brain commanding muscles to tighten. Why is the brain doing this? Has the brain made some kind of mistake? No, the brain has very good reasons for creating tension. The brain and body love the person and want only to serve the person. What are some of the brain's good reasons for tension? a) to prevent a particular motion or function that is not serving, b) to motivate a change of behavior or perspective, c) to lead to new connections, such as with a wonderful therapist, doctor, or counselor, d) to give an important message to the person through symbolism or other seeming coincidences, e) to assist a loved one and/or a relationship, for example by creating a situation that requires receiving nurturing The brain is vastly intelligent and even when we cannot discern its reasons, we should trust that it acts only for the person's best well-being. The brain is concerned with the person's being spiritual, emotionally balanced, and natural, and therefore is sometimes willing to trade temporary suffering and smaller losses if that is what it takes to achieve the person's deeper levels of health and growth. The brain is capable of a) predicting likely future outcomes of branching life choices, b)n perceiving intuitively and c) holographically, and d) communicating to its host metaphorically, e) symbolically, and f) literally. You'll receive the rough draft of the forthcoming book by your instructor, Patrick Moore.

Instructor Biography: Patrick Moore has been fascinated with brain research since High School in the 70's. 22 traumatic brain injuries (TBI) in the 70's and 80's added up to a dramatic drop in intelligence, social, spiritual, and emotional balance. Patrick's efforts in meditation, tai-chi, craniosacral therapy, reiki and other energy work, group therapy, counseling, coaching, nutrition, and ongoing brain research helped him to recover with accelerating speed. Having been "there and back," he has much to share from both the inside and outside views of the brain. His "Melting Muscles" technique uses the cerebellum's assistance to help muscles relax, and has been published in Massage&Bodywork and Massage Therapy Journal with graduates in 12 U.S. States and home-study on four continents.

Prerequisites: nonethis is a discussion-only class with no hands-on bodywork, in the "research and science" category of NCBTMB credits.

Preparation: please register early with email so that you'll be able to receive the email .pdf and read the handouts before class.

Upcoming Classes at A Rich Experience

2009-07-27T16:10:00.000-07:00

Here are links to upcoming classes with Patrick Moore at A Rich Experience in NW Tucson:

Unwinding the Atlas and Axis - August 8th

Length and Strength: Hip Rotators and Psoas - August 9th

Tendinitis—Removing Scar Tissue - September 5th

Standing Wave Jostling - September 26th

Length & Strength: Breathing Muscles - September 27th

Balancing Inner with Outer - October 4th

August CE courses in NW Tucson

2009-07-10T13:58:00.000-07:00

August CE courses at Patrick Moore Home Office near Tohono Chul Park in NW Tucson. To register please call Patrick at 623-670-0442

Length And Strength: Balancing the Shoulders, Saturday, August 22, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm; 5 CEhr; $85.00 half price for students not needing certificate. Our focus is on balance—most people's pecs are already too strong compared with their scapula retractors so we'll learn how to find weak muscles and support greater strength and chi-endurance with Tibetan postures. Balanced strengthening does not leave you feeling sore the next day. You will receive, learn the difference between short and weak muscles, and remedies for both. Muscle groups we will review: inward and outward rotators, scapula elevators, retractors and depressors. Please wear clothing that allows full range of shoulder motion.

Releasing Cellular Memory II—Interviewing Cells and Following Their Directions; Sunday, August 23, 2009, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm; 5 CE hr; $85.00, half price for students not needing certificate. Prerequisite: Releasing Cellular Memory I. In Level I we met the cells, which are like citizens of a Nation. In Level II we learn to ask them good questions such as, "which cells are in the greatest need?" "Are the symptoms meant to serve the whole person?" Do you have a message for the whole person?" "What do you need different, to be healthy and productive?" "What can I (therapist) do in the next half-hour with my hands?" By talking with cells and doing what they suggest, we find immediate changes in muscle tension, breathing, and positive comments from the recipient. Becoming trusted with cells enables further conversations with the person's DNA which may harbor this-life trauma, ancestral, archetypal or past-life attachments. Asking is a very simple method that allows any practitioner to have the effectiveness of a specialist, because the part of the person guiding you is the world's foremost specialist in that area of their own body.

Awareness of Melting; Friday, August 28, 2009, 10:00 am to 2:00 pm; 4 hr; $68.00, half price for students not needing certificate; Prerequisite: ability and experience feeling muscles melting. In the Melting Muscles and Unwinding Muscles classes, when you felt the recipient's muscle melting you were encouraged to ask, "Do you feel the muscle melting?" This brings the recipient's conscious awareness to a process that is normally subconscious. In this course we take the next step; both giver and recipient aware of melting, aware that the other is aware of the same thing. Three therapeutic benefits of identical awareness are: a) giver can modify instantly for greater effect, b) directions to the roots of the situation are clear to the giver, and c) recipient has undeniable experience that they have changed. àMost of the class time is spent at massage tables: melting muscles with awareness-prompting questions and in-the-moment feedback. Time for questions during and between trades.

Medical Intuition; Saturday, August 29, 2009, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, 5 CE hr; $85.00, half price for students not needing certificate. handouts will be emailed when you register--please read in advance. The human body communicates simlarly to animals, nature, and through symbols and metaphors, as in poetry and literature. Intuitive information arrives and is processed by your brain all the time, it is simply discounted or relabeled by your Left brain. You will learn ways to use your left brain as an assistant rather than the one in control. In partner exercises you will hear, see, smell, and feel intuitive information arriving.

Reiki Level One, Sunday, August 30, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, 5 hr, $155.00, Includes flash cards for hand positions, Level I e-book, and a kanji calligraphy certificate. e-book will be emailed when you register, please read in advance. Rediscovered in 1914 by Mikao Usui, Reiki is an ages-old natural healing method. Reiki is transmitted from teacher to student by an attunement given into your chakras and palms of your hands. Level One is all you need to offer Reiki professionally to the public. In the class you'll practice giving and receive, with time for your questions and concerns, and you'll receive the Level One Reiki Attunement. You'll learn both the hands-upon body and the hands-above body methods, and how to give Reiki to yourself. Because Reiki begins to flow as soon as you think about it, many LMTs add Reiki energy to their existing massage sessions. This course is open to all people regardless of licensing or not, anyone who would like to do provide healing and comfort to friends, family, animals, the Earth, and oneself. Receiving the Reiki attunement is healing and enlightening for the student. Reiki does not replace but complements all medical treatments including chemo, radiation, and makes transition more peaceful. Reiki is very effective as self-care for alleviating physical stresses in your body, and mental, emotional and spiritual resolution of old patterns. Reiki also empowers goals, abundance, starts broken cars, assists first aid, connects you with nature, animals, and boosts creativity. A fun, low pressure class open to anyone, licensed or not, children 7 and up welcome with permission.

July CE NW Tucson

2009-07-01T14:11:00.000-07:00

Five Courses in Seven Days!
Friday, July 24,
Science for Relaxation Therapists Series: Intelligence of Muscle Tension
10:00 AM to 2:00 PM; 4 CE Hours, $68.00* Includes handouts by Instructor, Patrick Moore.
Is tension a mistake of perception that can be fixed by a skilled therapist? Or does the brain design tension "knowingly?" In this discussion we'll talk about theories of what causes cranial motion including the theory of brain cells expanding, hydraulic pressure of cerebrospinal fluid, and muscles varying contraction, how cranial motion acts in ideal conditions (flexes and extends every 20 seconds in nice cycles), and how it acts under stress (motions pull away from neutral and remain there without cycling). We'll also talk about proprioception (the sensation of movement) including the Strain-Counterstrain principle of "signal gain."
This talk will not be over your head—the discussion is tailored to match the preparation of the day's participants. Those students who would like to challenge the teacher more may study in advance of the class may view these or other links: by Warren Hammer P 550-553:
http://books.google.com/books?q=%22the+return+to+neutral%22+%22must+be+done%22+%22slowly+at+least+for+the+first+30%22&btnG=Search+Books and two references to cranial motion responding to muscular influences in Leon Chaitow: http://books.google.com/books?q=%22cranial+motion%22+%22response+to+muscular%22+%22influences%3F%22&btnG=Search+Books
Saturday, July 25
Unwinding Muscles with Cranial Motion Series: Unwinding the Spine in Sidelying Position; 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM; 4 CE Hours; $68.00*; Includes handouts by Instructor Patrick Moore; Prerequisite: any Melting Muscles course, any craniosacral course, or "Intelligence of Muscle Tension" (held the day before).
This is a hands-on class at the massage tables. With your partner lying on his or her side, you will touch spinal segments with each hand to discern the motion between any two vertebrae. We'll experiment with two hand placements; over the Transverse Processes or by softly pinching the Spinous Processes. In the Thoracic region, we will experiment with one hand on the ribcage to sense rotation. Unwinding muscles provides the spine the opportunity to relax its long-standing twists and bends.
Preparation: please wear loose or stretchy clothing.
Sunday, July 26
Unwinding Muscles with Cranial Motion Series: Unwinding Atlas & Axis
9:00 AM to 3:00 PM; 5 CE hours; $85.00*; Prerequisite: "Melting Atlas & Axis," or "Intelligence of Muscle Tension (offered two days before).
Cranial muscle motion shows you how to prioritize and release the person's tensions. This slow motion contraction of muscle shows you which way the joint is imbalanced by guiding you into the safest, most comfortable treatment positions. So guided, you may discern which muscle is most shortened and add muscle work to your slow motions. When you've learned how to "listen," cranial muscle motion will also "tell" you when the guarding begins to release, when the contraction is less than antagonist contractions (because the head will begin to move back toward neutral), the satellite contractions of antagonists, and give you an accurate foretelling of how much more treatment, if any, is necessary for a full resolution. What you'll gain: àExperience feeling cranial muscle motion acting to rotate the head. àAbility to assess whether the head "wants" to tighten into L or R rotation. àAbility to follow cranial muscle motion into the safest, most comfortable position. àFeel muscles relaxing, and àFeel the motion of resolving tension as the head "wants" to move back to balance.
Wednesday, July 29
Equal Relationships in Therapy and Business
9:00 AM to 4:00 PM; 6 hr Ethics (incl. Standard V); $102.00*; Preparation: Upon registration, you will receive the Equality Questionnaire—please fill out before class. Rather than a list of "Do's" and "Don'ts" this ethics class shows you how to adjust professional relationships to be more equal. Equality feels friendly to both people and takes the pressure off. Because therapists (and teachers) are often placed on a pedestal, we'll learn ways to empower the patient or student, (which also accelerates their healing/learning). Sometimes it is the massage practitioner who enters the relationship with less power (for example, in a ritzy spa where the practitioner must call the guest by their last name and only speak when spoken to). In this case, we find ways to empower therapists to rise to equality. Equality dissolves power differential, transference and dual relationship; well-studied factors influencing unethical behavior. The teacher is not above but demonstrates equality with students, as a model to demonstrate how therapists may interact with clients. We will cover your written questionnaires, group discussion, and time for volunteers to share their work situations with feedback for equalizing.
Thursday, July 30
Touching the Brain—Left and Right Balance
9:00 AM to 3:00 PM; 5 CE hours; $85.00*; Recommended Advance Study: If I Only Had A Brain Injury by Laura Bruno, Cell Talk by John Upledger pp. 129-179 , and view 20 min video by Jill Bolte Taylor
As we see in Jill Bolte Taylor's video, the left and right brains have very different values, definitions of self, approaches to doing and being. Jill felt at peace without a functioning left brain though she was unable to speak or move, only to embrace all beings as oneself. She did decide that the left brain was worth saving and now she has the best balance of both. Through hands-on we may negotiate between both sides for balance in regard to coordination, strengths, values, definitions of self, doing, being, and any other needs the brain communicates.
You will learn: --to feel the motion of the brain within the cranium --to feel the motion of the brain stem and spinal cord within the spine --techniques with recipient both face up and face down --how the brain communicates and understands through symbols -- how to gain the brain's blessing so that a) any mistakes you make are forgiven and b) it actually coaches you how to heal it --Parasympathetic responses, Sympathetic reactions, and how to inspire the brain to choose rejuvenation --In addition to work with our hands, we will begin learning how to speak with the recipient in a way that stimulates him to reprogram and restructure his own neural pathways.
Location: Patrick Moore's Home Office near Ina Road and La Canada. Address is given upon registration. please reply by email or call 623-670-0442—Patrick's cell phone.
Policies: $25.00 non-refundable deposit guarantees your place in class. Payment by check or paypal. The home office has a maximum class size depending on the type of course. When a larger space is needed, you will be notified of the change in location, within 10 miles of the original location. No minimum class size, maximum of 14 unless we have a student-teacher assisting. I also teach CE at Rich Experience and Cortiva, where the prices are different and discounts do not apply.
* Normal CE price is $17 per CE hour at the home office. Discounts available:
a) those not needing a CE certificate may participate for $8.50 per hour.
b) Graduates of any class are welcome to repeat that class for $5 per hour; no certificate is given for repeating.
c) You may take 5% off for full payment two or more weeks in advance of the class
d) you may take 10% off any five courses paid two or more weeks in advance or 25% off ten.

Dear Tucson LMT,

2009-06-12T13:02:00.000-07:00

Dear Tucson Massage Therapists and Healers,

I’ve been a full-time therapist and bodywork trainer since 1994 when I graduated from the Brian Utting School of Massage in Seattle. Teaching has been my aim since I began tutoring high school math in 1979 and later taught college and middle school algebra. When I came to teach at Cortiva Institute last July, I fell in love with Tucson. By November, my wife, Traci, and I found the ideal house in northwest Tucson with a separate office for my classes and services, which I’d like to tell you about, in order of ascending individual attention:

NCBTMB CE Provider: for teachers, assistance with your application, including appeals.

Live Literary Magazine: Traci and I host monsoonvoices.wordpress.com open to the public where you will hear poetry, fiction, memoir, and original music with reverence for life. The site includes links to services we provide for writers including submission, editing, and coaching.

CE Classes are listed in the calendar above where you’ll see some of the 42(and growing) courses that I offer at Cortiva, A Rich Experience, and my home office. Students say my classes are fun and immediately applicable to their practices.

Group Trainings custom-designed in advance for a specific group including church groups, corporate, and nonprofits, then tailored again in the moment to meet the needs of each person participating.

Discovery Groups: Thursday evenings I present a two-hour workshop called “the Power of Asking,” described at meetup.com/Great-Questions-Discovery-Group . Open to all curious people, those in service professions will be able to apply great questions to assist their clients and students.

Advanced Certification: I certify Healers and Teachers in four major areas: Natural Energy, Muscle Therapy, Healing Relationship, and Brain/Cellular Healing. You’ll receive accelerated training, fresh handouts, process and content beyond what you can get from books and academic classes.

Tutoring: You may bring one of your clients over for a teaching appointment and I’ll demonstrate how the two of you can make more balanced progress in your sessions together.

Body/Brain Healing Sessions at my NW Tucson office match your therapeutic goals. I see my job as reacquainting parts of yourself with yourself. Parts of your brain and cells remember being fully functional and know the steps to resolve your symptoms once and for all.

Creativity and Service Coaching is for dedicated Artists, Educators, Healers and Service Professionals who aim to embrace the essence of their practice. A Natural Philosophy approach helps you discover bits of your big picture which inform your next practical steps.

I hope to learn more about you, as we discover more connections in Tucson.

Warmly,
Patrick

After-Class Review: Touching The Brain

2009-05-24T13:48:00.000-07:00

The Importance of Gradual Transitions

Last Sunday I presented Touching The Brain at Cortiva. This is the second time I have taught this class, the first was at Rich Experience a couple months ago.

I was hesitant to begin teaching this class. It is my version of what I imagine Dr. Bruno Chikly and Dr. John Upledger are teaching in their brain classes. Their classes require tons of prerequisites and mine has none. I wondered if students would really come away from a 5 hour course feeling they could really touch the brain, could really learn something useful for their practice. I asked this at the end of Sunday and every one of the 5 students said a confident, “Yes.” Feedback forms all put 5 out of 5 in every category, the only suggestions for improvement were to make the class longer. I am very excited to continue providing this class in Tucson! I won’t make the class longer but you may repeat as many times as you want for only $25 as a repeater (no certificate given for repeaters), space permitting.

We began the class gradually by touching the cerebellum while the person was prone in a face cradle. All the students felt this was non-threatening to give or receive and I think they were not challenged enough. So I speeded up the pace a bit with a circle exercise, where each person was working on the brain of the person seated in front of them, sending healing forward, while sensation went rearward. This definitely woke everyone up.

One thing I emphasized at both Saturday’s and Sunday’s class was that soon you therapists will have enough tools and skills that you can help a person move very fast, releasing lots of issues and becoming more of their true nature. You can move a person too fast for their lifestyle to accommodate. While a person is lying on a massage table feeling safe in your kindly presence, they may agree to move very quickly through a lot of stuff. The parts that open and shift and change are then scrutinized by other parts of themselves, and the culture they accept. If the “majority” of inner and outer influences “vote” that the new changes are too radical, there will be a reaction. A person experiencing this may feel worse the next day, even though you did really good work. Another evidence that the person is moving too fast is that they have an emotional reaction on your table. If you are moving at a comfortable pace for the person, you will sense emotions arising and moving on, perhaps cleansing breaths, and maybe a single tear. The person will feel calm and the change is not so much that when they go back into their normal world, they are shocked. Over a course of years or a lifetime, a person will make more progress with these more gradual shifts and have more fun and less suffering in life, than if they jerk forward and have reactions, three steps forward and two steps back. The jolting jarring effect tends to make people not want to progress any more and they give up.

People make more progress in the long run if their transitions are gentle. The peak of progess should be in the middle, then coasting the second half of the treatment, to give time for assimilating the experience. Steps should be well-defined (verbally explaining what to expect and checking-in to see where the person is in regard to the steps) and gradual.

During the third exercise we touched the Amygdala, for about five minutes with hands-on then gradually lifting the hands off the head a few inches. Some people preferred to do their treatments silently while I demonstrated keeping a running conversation (about what they were feeling) going with the people I worked on.

This third exercise was after I gave the little talk about gentle transition and making small changes, and wouldn’t you know, there was an emotional burst during this session. The giver did a great job providing support, safety, and grounding. I do not think the giver was moving the recipient too fast, just that this recipient was very ripe for the shift and just popped with little warning. We had enough time after the session for the giver and recipient to talk together and then for the group to provide a transition back to what is normal life. While the person who changed shared that it was very intense, the person had no regrets, in fact I thought looked lighter after the exercise. This person wrote on the feedback form that they gained intuition, skills, and balance.

A Note to All Therapists Regarding the Pace of a Session:
Most therapists who have worked on me in the last 17 years seem to save their most precious maneuvers (like reiki or craniosacral) for the end, as if they had to “talk me into” receiving the good stuff. So with five minutes to go, I feel, Wow, this is great! and suddenly its over and we’ve said goodbye. It was too confusing for me to accept these healing gifts.
I think a therapist should start with his best stuff, rising to a peak of change about halfway through, then sort of coast through the second half using more traditional maneuvers like Swedish Massage and Jostling.

Most massage therapists tend to create a silent, meditative space for the recipient. This is good. Still, checking-in verbally is very important in the first few minutes to see how the recipient is responding to “the good stuff.” Then about 30 minutes of silence in the middle is fine, if that’s what the person wants. With 15 minutes to go, the therapist should again ask a few questions because this causes the recipient to do some brain processing, perhaps open her eyes once or twice. You might think this would disturb their peace, but the interruption serves the recipient in several ways. You’ll get more feedback about what you could do differently, and guess what, there’s still time to give them some more treatment based on this feedback! Secondly, as they speak about what is happening, they begin to assimilate the changes with the other parts of self that were “out of it.” The inner negotiation and balancing begins here, while you are still around to help, rather than beginning once they step out into the street with no nice person to help. Your speaking begins to gradually shift their body back from delta and beyond to an alpha awake state in a nicer transition. Transitions that are too quick lead to reactions, “two steps back.”

By asking her a few “check in” questions with 15 minutes to go, she will be able to assimilate and keep more of what has just occurred than if she were comatose up to the last minute and then rushed out the door.

After-Class Review of Melting Atlas&Axis

2009-05-24T13:41:00.001-07:00

Feedback Review of Melting the Atlas and Axis

The class was held at Cortiva on the East side of Tucson. The Cortiva people treat me well and prepare well before the event. The space was a nice large room with North facing windows, and not too noisy even though they had two other classes going on.

Nine people attended. Whenever there is an odd number, this means that I must join in the trades rather than wandering around tables to supervise. There are benefits either way—when I do not participate in trades, the students get more of my time watching them work and making comments on their hand positions and finesse. When I do participate, more people get to feel how the teacher does it and then when I lay down to receive, more people get to try it on the teacher to receive feedback.

Inspired by a picture that appeared in my mind two weeks before, I tried something I have not done before in this class: I introduced the AA joint and the OCI muscle with recipients face-down in the face cradles. Therapists used pens to circle the spinous process of C2 on recipients, then drawing where the Obliquus Capitis Inferior muscles would be, before palpating. This came easily to the students.
(photo 1)

In the second hour, still prone, I described how C2 would be pulled to one side if the Obliquus Capitis Inferior muscle were spasming on one side. Students understood this concept quickly, especially since we saw a few people in the class whose necks actually showed this condition. When it is right there in front of your eyes on a real person, your brain can really “get it” so I am glad to have presented this.

Just before lunch, after seeing C2 off-center, I quizzed the students, “In this prone position, how would you shorten the Obliquus even more?” None of the students could really answer --and that is fine, unanswered questions switch students into “sponge mode.” I showed the first group of students how to roll the head a little in the face cradle so that one obliquus would be a little shorter, then students practiced massaging that one muscle. OOPS! I showed them the wrong way to rotate--they were actually lengthening that obliquus. Teaching them the wrong way sort of shocked me, so I spent more time correcting what I had said and making sure everyone knew and understood how rotating the head R shortens the R obliquus. Because I had showed it mistakenly the first time, students were more challenging now and I felt I had to defend or prove the shortening effect by drawing the obliquus vs other potential rotators on the white board, which took more time. I could have skipped all that: Everyone “got it” when I showed on a prone person that rolling her head as if I could bring her earlobe to touch her spine, shortens the obliquus muscle. (photo 2)

What I learned about teaching Atlas and Axis:

Pacing
Several feedback forms showed that the most need for improvement in pacing One person said “could have learned material a lot faster,” so the pace was too slow. The new way I taught the introduction to the AA joint and OCI muscle prone, is simpler for students to understand, which means it needs to speed up: a) so they don’t get bored, b) so they don’t think the whole course will be this simple, and c) so we have plenty of time to spend on the parts that are challenging to grasp intellectually.

Written materials
Feedback forms rated the second greatest need in written materials. Several people did not receive the materials in advance (some registered only one day in advance). When I register people myself, I send them the written materials at the same time they register and ask them to read in advance. Most do not. It is clear to me who has read in advance because of the questions they ask. Most people who have received the materials several weeks in advance and have time to read them in advance, usually give the written materials high praise. Still, there is always room for improvement.

Originally the AA portion of the textbook was about 10 pages and this week I began expanding it, its now at 67 pages and growing. I expect it will be about 100 pages when finished. At that time I may also write a condensed, speed version for people who absorb things very quickly. In the expanded version, I am providing more preparatory remarks and more gradual, well-defined steps to understanding this extremely valuable technique. I want to help the world relax its poor, overworked Obliquus Capitis Inferior muscles. This requires my teaching and writing on the subject to continue to refine so students will feel always more empowered at the end of the class, that they really understand and are ready to begin relaxing OCI muscles the next massage they give.

No Demonstrations
One person said she wanted “more of instructor coming around to my table to show me how to do it.” It is my teaching style to not demonstrate. Instead I explain to them how to do it and while they are experimenting, I acknowledge when they are doing it well, I give them subtle adjustments if they are struggling, and I encourage the recipient to give feedback to the giver. In these ways, the giver stumbles upon the discoveries as if they were her own, and often students come up with better ways than I would have shown them. When I come around to the tables to answer questions, the givers always take their hands off, expecting me to put my hands on the person and show them the right way. Instead I ask the giver to put her hands back on the person and then I put my hands on top of the giver’s hands. Rather than show, I feel the body using that person’s hands until they feel it too. I believe this teaching style is more empowering for the students to come away feeling competent.

Overview
One person “wanted an overview exercise at the end to tie everything together.” I agree and normally provide this. If I had not spent too much time on the things mentioned above, these students would have received these things that I normally over-provided in all my classes. I am writing more pre-overview and post-overview into the written materials and these blog reviews are another way that I am now providing this for the students.

Don’t forget, I offer students the opportunity to repeat any class I teach, as often as they want, for $25 per day.

What I learned about teaching in general:

For my next classes I will give course-specific feedback forms at the end. This way just filling out the form will be a refresher of what we learned. Rather than rate the whole class pacing, for example, students will rate pacing on each named exercise. Rather than rate the teaching quality as a whole, they will rate how well they understood each of the most important named concepts.
Students need an overview at the beginning to peek at what we will learn that day, to know which parts are for their hands, for their eyes, and for their intellect to grasp, so that when these areas appear there is no surprise.

Its kind of like giving students specific enzymes to eat before a big meal so that when the salad, veggies, meat, potatoes and butter arrive they will be able to digest it.

Cortiva Tucson May classes

2009-05-01T08:14:00.001-07:00

Cortiva is in Central Tucson

May 16, Melting the Atlas and Axis

May 17 Touching the Brain

http://www.cortiva.com/locations/tucson/continuing-education/

One more Energy at Rich Experience

2009-05-01T08:11:00.001-07:00

June

Using Tibetan Fire Serpent symbol for Safely Increasing Kundalini, Aligning the Spine

http://www.arichexperience.com/classDetail.cfm?id=15

Open to all interested practitioners

Energy courses at Rich Experience

2009-05-01T08:08:00.001-07:00

Please visit the Rich Experience website for further details and registration.

Rich Experience is in NW Tucson with a cozy atmosphere ensuring small class size and individual attention.

http://www.arichexperience.com/classes.cfm

Releasing Cellular memory Saturday June 6

Reiki Topics: Using the Distance Symbol for Healing the Past and Future, Sunday, July 12

Reiki Teacher Training: How to Be an Effective Reiki Teacher, July 19

hope to see you there!

Warmly,

Patrick

May 3 Phoenix Melting Muscles Photo Shoot/ 7 CE

2009-04-01T17:41:00.000-07:00

Clear Day
Melting Muscles Teacher Training, Sunday, May 3 2009, 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.
provides 7 CE hours, and covers:

a.. time for your advanced and specific questions
b.. how to stimulate clients' excitement for new technique, change, and
melting old patterns
c.. a taste of the new course, "Awareness Of Melting,"
d.. how to teach specific sections of Melting Muscles
e.. understanding the market for CE presenters
f.. how to become NCB certified as a presenter
g.. finesse, timing, pace, speed
h.. understanding the scope (what you can realistically expect to heal) of
melting muscles
i.. includes latest version of the Melting Muscles e-book (now 90 pages)
This will be a fun and loose day with hourly breaks. One or two people who
agree to be filmed will receive a complete treatment from me. While I am
teaching, some of you will hold video cameras and shoot photos as I answer
your great questions!

Tuition for the one-day workshop is $140.00 with sliding scale down to
$70.00 for those in hard times who need the CE hours.

This will be a lighthearted day to celebrate the long awaited blossoming of
the textbook, videos, and a home-study course.

Bring your best most challenging questions to stump me on video so that I
can come up with new great information on the spot!

Location To Be Announced.

Please RSVP with Patrick 623-670-0442.

Tucson CE courses at Cortiva May 2009

2009-04-01T17:08:00.000-07:00

Melting the Atlas and Axis
May 16, 2009 / 9:00am - 5:00pm / 7 hours / $140

View Patrick Moore's 2003 Atlas Axis article from Massage Therapy Journal at http://meltingmuscles.com You'll receive the 2008 version (simplified and expanded) by email as soon as you register - please read in advance of class. Learn to invoke the brain to relax the obliquus capitis inferior and superior muscles that rotate the atlanto-axial joint and sidebend the occipito-atlantal joint. Sound complex? Because we begin simple and add small steps, your hands easily digest the maneuvers. Halfway through the day you'll be surprised to notice your hands happily performing the new technique. Because we work in revolving pairs throughout the day, you'll be profoundly relaxed after receiving this gift from your classmates. Your conscious brain will remember the complex steps your hands learned, when you read the included e-article again after the class.

Touching The Brain
Register Now
May 17, 2009 / 9:00am - 3:00pm / 5 hours / $105

Required Advance e-Reading: If I Only Had A Brain Injury by Laura Bruno, Cell Talk by John Upledger pp. 129-179, and view 20 min video by Jill Bolte Taylor. Once only the most skilled Osteopathic Doctors could actually feel and influence brain tissues. Now these healing skills may be embraced by any sincere person. You will learn:

to feel the motion of the brain within the cranium
to feel the motion of the brain stem and spinal cord within the spine
techniques with recipient both face up and face down
how the brain communicates and understands through symbols
how to gain the brain's cooperation and blessing so that the amused brain will forgive any mistakes and actually coach you how to heal it
properties of the Parasympathetic responses and Sympathetic reactions, and how to influence the brain toward choosing rejuvenation

Healing brain injury and disease is a balance of stimulating the brain from the inside and the outside. In addition to work with our hands, we will begin learning how to speak with the recipient in a way that stimulates him to reprogram and restructure his own neural pathways.

Instructor: Patrick Moore - Patrick's love for science, nature, and spirituality was apparent from an early age. In Oregon he camped every weekend for four years including two 50-milers and Order Of The Arrow. In 1977, he attended the Silva method of distance healing, which he repeated ten times for 320 hrs by 1987. He completed a degree in Math from Whitman College in 1984 and taught Math at Western Washington University and Mountain View Middle School. Patrick received five Tibetan attunements, including Medicine Buddha from Jigdal Dagchen Sakya and Chenzezi (compassion) from the Dalai Lama in 1992. He attended the legendary Brian Utting School of Massage from 1992-94 in Seattle and since has completed over two thousand hours of continuing education in Cranio Sacral, Osteopathic Techniques, Medical Massage, Healing Energy, and Therapeutic Relationship. You can read more of Patrick's essays at Ezine Articles and Melting Muscles. Patrick hosts an ongoing literary reading called Monsoon Voices with his wife, Traci. They recently moved to a secluded NW Tucson home with a guest house where Patrick provides services and is working on a novel. http://www.cortiva.com/locations/tucson/continuing-education/

April 11, 12, 18 CE classes NW Tucson

2009-03-01T16:28:00.000-08:00

Three Courses upcoming at A Rich Experience Massage Studio,

6814 N Oracle Road, Suite 220

NW Tucson

Melting the Atlas and Axis

with Patrick Moore, LMT, BA

Saturday, April 11, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, 7 CE hours, $140.00. View Patrick Moore's 2003 Atlas Axis article from Massage Therapy Journal. You'll receive the 2008 version (simplified and expanded) by email as soon as you register—please read in advance of class.

Learn to invoke the brain to relax the obliquus capitis inferior and superior muscles that rotate the atlanto-axial joint and sidebend the occipito-atlantal joint. Sound complex? Because we begin simple and add small steps, your hands easily digest the maneuvers. Halfway through the day you'll be surprised to notice your hands happily performing the new technique. Your conscious brain will remember the complex steps your hands learned, when you read the included e-article again after the class. Because we work in revolving pairs throughout the day, you'll be profoundly relaxed after receiving this gift from your classmates.

Releasing Cellular Memory –Advanced Topics in Energy Series

with Patrick Moore, LMT, BA

Sunday, April 12, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. 5 CE Hours $105.00. Required Reading: Cell Talk by John Upledger, pp. 1-36 pp. 110-127,

Students learn to speak with any cells in the body using the person's own voice. In this way we may:

quickly locate the highest priorities for this person's healing
know the methods that this person will respond to
gain the person's partnership, guidance, and support in their healing.

By talking with cells and doing what they suggest, we find immediate changes in muscle tension, breathing, and positive comments from the recipient. Practicing this method enables further conversations with the person's Genetic, DNA, Archetypal, and Past-life memories. A very simple method that allows any practitioner to have the effectiveness of a specialist, because the part of the person guiding you is the world's foremost specialist in that area of their own body.

Charles Darwin believed that genes changed only over thousands of generations, but one of his contemporaries, Chevalier de Lamarck (1744-1829) argued that DNA changes intelligently during one lifetime in response to life events. In 2007, Science News verified Lamarck's view--studies with rats proved that DNA in fact does adapt and change in one lifetime.

Patrick Moore has been practicing and studying energy healing for more than thirty years, including over a thousand hours of classroom, internship, and private instruction.

Touching The Brain

with Patrick Moore, LMT, BA

Saturday, April 18, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. 5 CE hours, $105.00

Required Advance e-Reading: If I Only Had A Brain Injury by Laura Bruno, Cell Talk by John Upledger, pp 129-179, and view 20 min video by Jill Bolte Taylor.

Once only the most skilled Osteopathic Doctors could actually feel and influence brain tissues. Now these healing skills may be embraced by any sincere person.

You will learn:

to feel the motion of the brain within the cranium
to feel the motion of the brain stem and spinal cord within the spine
techniques with recipient both face up and face down
how the brain communicates and understands through symbols
how to gain the brain's cooperation and blessing so that the amused brain will forgive any mistakes and actually coach you how to heal it.
properties of the Parasympathetic responses and Sympathetic reactions, and how to influence the brain toward choosing rejuvenation.

Incentives: 5% discount when taking any two classes, 10% if taking all three. Additional 5% discount for payment in full by March 31. Checks and cards accepted, please contact Patrick Moore to register; by phone 623-670-0442, by email. NCBTMB #396103-00 applies to State of AZ Massage Licensing.

Course Descriptions--Five Therapeutic Massage CE Courses

2009-03-01T16:17:00.000-08:00

Reversing Tendinitis

4 CE Hours NCBTMB $70.00

Required reading: Article by Patrick Moore: http://ezinearticles.com/?Heal-Your-Own-Tendinitis&id=1106944

When Tendinitis is treated not as inflammation, but scar tissue, reversing tendinitis becomes a simple mechanical matter. You'll learn to removing the overgrown scar tissue with the effects of ice, massage, and intention. An important part of healing is to redirect the person's perspective. Hope, visualization, and expectation, research has shown, dramatically influence the immune system. Learn to explain to clients: "This is how your body got this way and this is why it will improve with my treatment and your homework."

Reversing Tendinitis

$80.00, provides 4 CE Hours toward NCBTMB and AZ State. Handouts.

Tendinitis is scar tissue. There are two problems with scar tissue--first, it creates a lump that rubs on other things which creates pain from friction. Second, randomly directed scar tissue fibers are not as strong as the original parallel tendon fibers. Reversing tendinitis is simply a matter of removing the non-parallel fibers of scar tissue with the effects of ice. The only difficult part is finding the exact site of the lesion, which is smaller than a grain of rice. That's why we'll practice drawing, palpating and icing these tendon sites: subscapularis, infraspinatus, supraspinatus, extensor digitorum, flexor digitorum, plantar fascia, pectineus, and psoas. Please read the article by Patrick Moore in advance at http://ezinearticles.com/?Heal-Your-Own-Tendinitis&id=1106944

Standing Wave Jostling

People bring heavy emotions and hard muscles into the massage room. Jostling lightens up the tone of any bodywork session. In the last five years, research has shown that playful teasing aids a depth of trust and communication. Jostling is playful and aids depth of nonverbal communication and trust.

Jostling is both an art and a science. The science part is the "standing wave," which we will diagram. Hands-on exercises include learning to play "overtones" on a guitar and to jostle a rope into a standing wave. Once the waveform is seen, heard, and felt proprioceptively, we move on to create standing waves through your partner on the massage table. We will also do seven dance/movement exercises to jostle our own bodies free at the chakras for an "inside" experience of standing wave jostling.

Technique you will learn: By poking the bottom of the foot you will learn to create a vibration of hip elevation and lumbar sidebending. From the knee we can vibrate the hip into medial and lateral rotation. While working the hand we vibrate the shoulder and neck.

Digging Fossils: Elbows in Low Back and Psoas Treatment $80 5-hr

Muscle Tension was created at some time in the past. The person experienced an event or injury too intense to process in the moment. The person's brain then stored the intensity in the muscles to process later. The tension is stored as a puzzle, just difficult enough that the person won't accidentally re-expereince the injury.

Our job as muscle therapists is to unravel this puzzle in a respectful way that does not overwhelm the person. The skilled therapist allows just the right amount of intensity to seep out of the muscles so that the comfortable person may process at a rate that is perfect for them.

Using your elbow does not mean you have to use your whole body weight to crush a muscle to death! Elbows can be used at any pressure level that you would use your hands.

Elbows are a great tool for massage for several reasons. They don't fatigue. Muscles are more likely to relax if your contact point provides steady, unvarying pressure for long enough to feel the muscle change.

No lecture: During partner exercises we will re-train your awareness through your friendly elbow so that you can a) "feel" small changes in muscle, b) experience featherlight pressures, and c) vary pressure in repeatable increments from one to one hundred.

Muscle groups we'll melt with friendly elbows: lumbar paraspinals, lumbar sidebenders, psoas. Bring sheets and massage oil only; lotion is too slippery.

Digging Fossils: Elbows for Hip treatment $$80 5-hr

Using your elbow does not mean you have to use your whole body weight to crush a muscle to death! Elbows can be used at any pressure level that you would use your hands.

Muscle groups we'll melt with friendly elbows: gluteus minimus, medius, maximus, piriformis, tensor fascia latte, pectineus. Bring sheets for diaper draping and massage oil only; lotion is too slippery.

Course Description--Touching The Brain

2009-03-01T16:16:00.000-08:00

Touching The Brain, 1:30 p.m. 5 CE hours, $105.00

Required Advance e-Reading: If I Only Had A Brain Injury by Laura Bruno, Cell Talk by John Upledger pp. 129-179, and view 20 min video by Jill Bolte Taylor.

Once only the most skilled Osteopathic Doctors could actually feel and influence brain tissues. Now these healing skills may be embraced by any sincere person.

You will learn:

to feel the motion of the brain within the cranium
to feel the motion of the brain stem and spinal cord within the spine
techniques with recipient both face up and face down
how the brain communicates and understands through symbols
how to gain the brain's cooperation and blessing so that the amused brain will forgive any mistakes and actually coach you how to heal it.
properties of the Parasympathetic responses and Sympathetic reactions, and how to influence the brain toward choosing rejuvenation.

Course Descriptions--Melting Muscles Overview

2009-03-01T16:15:00.001-08:00

Melting Muscles--Shortening Phases courses

Melting Muscles is a conversation you initiate with a person's subconscious brain. Your hands say "safety" through positioning short of the subtle motion barrier, movements that are slow and steady, pressure that gradually builds and retires, and by seeking to feel the cranial muscle motion. The person "hears" through their muscle proprioceptors and pressure sensors. The person "replies" by reducing muscle contraction, and by reversing or releasing cranial muscle motion. You keep the conversation interesting by adding your own personal strokes to the muscles. Whether the person's forebrain falls asleep, talks about the weather, tries to "help" or resist, you remain engaged in a lively conversation with the person's subconscious brain. Because treatments are gentle and thumb-free, your hands are happy. Their muscles relax more fully and permanently than ever before.

Negotiating directly with the brain does far more than relax muscles: the immune system finds more joy in supporting the person. The digestive, endocrine, integumentary, nervous, and cardiovascular systems return to efficient balance. A person in a state of peace rethinks behaviors and relationships. The world becomes a better place.

No sitting at desks--100% table time! Theory is presented verbally as your hands work on, or receive from, your partner. Each Melting Muscles photo-workbook will be emailed to you as soon as you register so that you may read ahead if you like.

Melting Muscles - Upper Body

9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. with one hour break for lunch, $125.00, includes 24-page bound color Upper Body workbook by Patrick Moore. 7 CE Hours toward NCBTMB and AZ State

You'll learn (and receive) melting of neck sidebenders and extensors, scalenes, scapula elevators and depressors, shoulder rotators, pectoralis minor, elbow extensors and flexors, wrist flexors and extensors, and thumb. You'll learn assessments and treatment for shoulder rotators. We finish the day by giving and receiving a 60-minute upper-body massage trade using your oil or lotion.

Course Descriptions--Four Melting Muscles CE Courses

2009-03-01T16:15:00.000-08:00

Melting Muscles - Lower Body

9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. with one hour break for lunch, $125.00, includes 26-page bound color Lower Body workbook by Patrick Moore, provides 7 CE Hours toward NCBTMB and AZ State

You'll learn (and receive) melting of lumbar sidebenders and rotator (psoas), hip rotators, knee flexors and extensors, toe flexors and extensors. You'll learn assessments and treatment for lumbar sidebenders, lumbar rotator, and hip rotators. We finish the day by giving and receiving a 60-minute lower-body massage trade using your oil or lotion.

Melting the Atlas and Axis

Saturday, March 21, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, 7 CE hours, $140.00

View Patrick Moore's 2003 Atlas Axis article from Massage Therapy Journal. You'll receive the 2008 version (simplified and expanded) by email as soon as you register—please read in advance of class.

Learn to invoke the brain to relax the obliquus capitis inferior and superior muscles that rotate the atlanto-axial joint and sidebend the occipito-atlantal joint. Sound complex? Because we begin simple and add small steps, your hands easily digest the maneuvers. Halfway through the day you'll be surprised to notice your hands happily performing the new technique. Because we work in revolving pairs throughout the day, you'll be profoundly relaxed after receiving this gift from your classmates. Your conscious brain will remember the complex steps your hands learned, when you read the included e-article again after the class.

Muscle Unwinding - Advanced Melting Muscles

Friday, February 6, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm =7 CE Hours NCMTMB / $140

Instructor: Patrick Moore, LMT, BA Required Reading: supplied e-book.

Combines the graceful motions of unwinding with melting muscles. Ideal for massage therapists who have grown familiar with muscle locations and actions, who would like to have a new topic of conversation with the body. We will treat the major muscle groups of our partner who is supine and clothed (please wear loose clothing, cotton or lycra). Can be used as a full-body muscle massage or for specific needs. You'll learn to listen to the body tell you where it wants you to work. The body sometimes requests we spend 45 minutes or longer in one area, as long as we are making steady progress the whole while. You'll also learn how jostling is the perfect complement to cranial motion.

Muscle Unwinding--Advanced Melting Muscles

9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. with one hour break for lunch, $140.00, includes 10 pages of text handouts by Patrick Moore, provides 7 CE Hours toward NCBTMB and AZ State

Unwinding Muscles 7 CE hours includes e-book

Unwinding Muscles is a method of listening to the muscles which always know just how much they are willing to release at any moment. By following the body's hints, adding actual motion to their cranial motions, and adding muscle massage, you help the body comfortably release what has been wound tight for years or longer.

Unwinding Muscles is the advanced Melting Muscles technique. You may take Unwinding Muscles without having graduated from the Melting Muscles courses if you agree to read the included e-book in advance.

Melting Muscles Teacher Training Day

prerequisites: Melting Muscles upper and lower body, Atlas and Axis, Muscle Unwinding, Ethics: The Equal Therapeutic Relationship. Several documents including "How To Teach Melting Muscles."

In this course we'll review what's taught in the Melting Muscles courses, give teaching strategies, and practice teaching each other with feedback. Graduates of this course may apply to become Melting Muscles teachers and provide CE hours.

Awareness Of Melting $110 gives 5-CE hours, $95 if no CEU, $25 for repeaters.

Prerequisite: any Melting Muscles class or advance practice of melting technique from Melting Muscles e-book ($25)

In the Melting Muscles classes, when you felt the recipient's muscle melting you were encouraged to ask, "Do you feel the muscle melting?" This brings the recipient's conscious awareness to a process that is normally subconscious. In this course we take the next step; while the giver and recipient are both aware of melting, your Subjective and their Objective awareness is identical. Three therapeutic benefits of identical awareness are, a) giver can modify instantly for greater effect, b) directions to the roots of the situation are clear to the giver, and c) recipient has undeniable experience that they have changed.

No lecture. Entire 5 hours spent at massage tables: melting muscles with awareness-prompting questions and in-the-moment feedback. Time for questions and theory between trades.

Course Descriptions--Two Advanced Energy CE Courses

2009-03-01T16:12:00.000-08:00

Advanced Topics in Energy—Guiding Kundalini Safely with Spinal Curvature

Advanced Energy Topics: Releasing Cellular Memory

Releasing Cellular Memory –Advanced Topics in Energy Series

with Patrick Moore, LMT, BA

5 CE Hours $105.00. Required Reading: Cell Talk by John Upledger, pp. 1-36 pp. 110-127,

Students learn to speak with any cells in the body using the person's own voice. In this way we may:

quickly locate the highest priorities for this person's healing
know the methods that this person will respond to
gain the person's partnership, guidance, and support in their healing.

Patrick Moore has been practicing and studying energy healing for more than thirty years, including over a thousand hours of classroom, internship, and private instruction.

Course Descriptions--Five Reiki Courses NCB CE

2009-03-01T16:05:00.000-08:00

Reiki Level One, 5 CE hours, $150.00, Includes workbook that shows hand positions, history, and philosophy of Reiki
Rediscovered in 1914 by Mikao Usui, Reiki is an ages-old healing method transmitted from teacher to student by an attunement given into your chakras and palms of your hands. Course is student-centered, focusing on your questions and concerns, with lots of partner practice and fun. This course and attunement are all you need to offer Reiki to the public, either by placing hands lightly on the body in 12 preset positions, or by holding your hands 12 to 18 inches above the body. Many LMTs simply add Reiki energy in to their existing massage sessions. This course is also open to people who are not bodyworkers, who would like to do Reiki on friends, family, animals, and oneself. Receiving the Reiki attunement and practicing on yourself is a wonderful healing complement for those undergoing chemo, radiation, or other treatments. Reiki is very effective as self-care for alleviating physical stresses in your body, and mental, emotional and spiritual resolution of old patterns. Reiki also empowers goals, abundance, starts broken cars, assists first aid, connects you with nature, animals, and boosts creativity. A fun, low pressure class.

Reiki Level Two, $250.00, Includes Level II workbook that shows how to draw and pronounce the three level two symbols, and a calligraphed Level II diploma.
Level II is offered for those Reiki Level One graduates who want more precise influence for mental/emotional assistance and for directing Reiki at a distance. Level II practitioners may send healing to any moment in the past or future as well as to anyone at any location no matter how distant. For Level II, your hands are attuned to three of the four Usui Reiki symbols to make your access to enhance your awareness of the energy flow. You will be encouraged to memorize the drawing and pronunciation of these three symbols, to aid your specialization. Open to all people who want more specific tools to direct energy for other people, animals, the globe, ones own healing and goals.

Reiki Topics—Distance Symbol (prereq level II and above)

Reiki Level Three (Reiki Master),
5 CE hours, $400.00, Includes Level III workbook with step-by-step instructions how to give Attunements. Reiki Master diploma is printed on special heavyweight canvas.
Considered the "Master" level of Reiki, offered to those people wishing to commit to a lifestyle of service. All four Usui symbols are given into your hands during your attunement. This empowers you to then give attunements to others, both Reiki Level (I, II, and III) attunements and "healing" attunements. You will be encouraged to memorize three more symbols for a total of four Usui Reiki and two Tibetan symbols. Reiki is the sweet and gentle way to change your life and the lives of others!

Reiki Teacher Training Workshop
5 CE hours, $95.00.
This class gives you no more Reiki attunement--you already received the highest level attunement in your Reiki III-Master class. This workshop is for those Reiki Masters who want a little more instruction, support and confidence in getting their Teacher business going. We will learn teaching methods and philosophy, pricing, advertising, practice teaching with feedback, and practice giving attunements to each other. Patrick has been teaching since 1986 and loves teaching teachers more than anything else!

Advanced Topics in Reiki—Healing the Past and Future using the Distance Symbol

Course Descriptions--two NCB Ethics courses

2009-03-01T16:04:00.000-08:00

Ethics—Creating Equal Relationships
includes handouts, covers Standard V of NCBTMB
A fun way to get your Ethics credits, and valuable for anyone who wants work to be more fun and relaxed. Rather than a list of "Do's" and "Dont's" this ethics class explores more about how to adjust professional relationships to be more equal. Equality not only is more serving, but feels relaxed and friendly. Because therapists (and teachers) are often placed on a pedestal, we'll learn ways to empower the patient or student, (which also accelerates their healing/learning). Sometimes it is the massage practitioner who enters the relationship with less power (for example, in a ritzy spa where the practitioner must call the guest by their last name and only speak when spoken to). In this case, we find ways to empower therapists to rise to equality. This course is taught in the "student-centered" approach of Carl Rogers. We will cover written questionnaires, group discussion, and time for you to share your own working situation if you would like help adjusting your power differential.
Ethics Topics: Equal Therapeutic Relationships
6 CE hours covers Standard V of NCBTMB. $95.00
Rather than a list of "Do's" and "Dont's" this ethics class explores more about how to create professional relationships that are more healing and serving, through the process of Equality. Whether you are a therapist or a teacher, taking steps to empower the patient or student accelerates their healing. Sometimes it is the massage practitioner who enters the relationship with less power, for example, in a ritzy spa where the practitioner must call the guest by their last name and only speak when spoken to. In this case, it is the therapist who needs empowering to be equal to the recipient. This course is taught in the "student-centered" approach of Carl Rogers. We will cover written questionaires, group discussion, and time for you to share your own working situation if you would like help adjusting the power differential to be more equal.

Father of Ethics
A fresh approach to professional ethics using the methods of Socrates, who is considered the Father of Ethics, the first Philosopher. Like Socrates, your teacher will not tell you the right answers, but question you, which activates your essence; the source of knowledge and understanding. Topics vary depending on students’ interest and may include some or all of the NCBTMB Standards of Practice including 2 hours of Standard V—Boundaries. Please read in advance any of these four Socrates dialogues written by Plato, published freely from many sources online: simply google “Apology, Euthyphro, Crito, and Phaedo.” Jot down anything that seems interesting. The more questions and topics you bring, the more interesting class will be! Like Socrates, we will engage in group discussion without giving advice but instead asking good questions. Socrates' theory was that good questions activate your essence, the source of knowledge and understanding. Topics vary depending on students’ interest and may include: intake questions, client comfort questions, screening to get the type of clients you want, interviewing, employee and employer relations…

Tucson April 2009 3 Classes

2009-02-26T18:53:00.000-08:00

Three Courses upcoming at A Rich Experience Massage Studio,

6814 N Oracle Road, Suite 220

NW Tucson

Melting the Atlas and Axis

with Patrick Moore, LMT, BA

Learn to invoke the brain to relax the obliquus capitis inferior and superior muscles that rotate the atlanto-axial joint and sidebend the occipito-atlantal joint. Sound complex? Because we begin simple and add small steps, your hands easily digest the maneuvers. Halfway through the day you'll be surprised to notice your hands happily performing the new technique. Your conscious brain will remember the complex steps your hands learned, when you read the included e-article again after the class. Because we work in revolving pairs throughout the day, you'll be profoundly relaxed after receiving this gift from your classmates.

Releasing Cellular Memory –Advanced Topics in Energy Series

with Patrick Moore, LMT, BA

Sunday, April 12, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. 5 CE Hours $105.00. Required Reading: Cell Talk by John Upledger, pp. 1-36 pp. 110-127,

Students learn to speak with any cells in the body using the person's own voice. In this way we may:

quickly locate the highest priorities for this person's healing
know the methods that this person will respond to
gain the person's partnership, guidance, and support in their healing.

Patrick Moore has been practicing and studying energy healing for more than thirty years, including over a thousand hours of classroom, internship, and private instruction.

Touching The Brain

with Patrick Moore, LMT, BA

Saturday, April 18, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. 5 CE hours, $105.00

Required Advance e-Reading: If I Only Had A Brain Injury by Laura Bruno, Cell Talk by John Upledger, pp 129-179, and view 20 min video by Jill Bolte Taylor.

Once only the most skilled Osteopathic Doctors could actually feel and influence brain tissues. Now these healing skills may be embraced by any sincere person.

You will learn:

to feel the motion of the brain within the cranium
to feel the motion of the brain stem and spinal cord within the spine
techniques with recipient both face up and face down
how the brain communicates and understands through symbols
how to gain the brain's cooperation and blessing so that the amused brain will forgive any mistakes and actually coach you how to heal it.
properties of the Parasympathetic responses and Sympathetic reactions, and how to influence the brain toward choosing rejuvenation.

Tucson Cortiva To Host MM Courses and 2009 Teacher Training

2008-12-10T20:24:00.000-08:00

Continuing Education

For The

Next Generation Bodyworker

January 10-15, 2009

Cortiva Institute Tucson

Incentives for registering before January 1.

N C B T M B # 396103-00 counts toward AZ State CE hours.

Register by phone: 623-670-0442. Register by email by assembling this address; at gmail dot com, healing brain (all one word)

2009 marks seven years of Melting Muscles training!  Please join Patrick Moore in beautiful Tucson, Arizona for one or all of these courses January 10^th through 15^th, 2009.

1/10/09  /Melting Muscles Upper Body Massage / 9:00am - 5:00pm / 7 hours / $125 / includes e-book

1/11/09 / Melting Muscles Lower Body Massage  / 9:00am - 5:00pm / 7 hours / $125 / includes e-book

1/12/09 / Atlas & Axis Advanced Melting Muscles Treatment  / 9:00am - 5:00pm / 7 hours / $140 / includes e-book

1/13/09 / Unwinding Muscles  / 9:00am - 5:00pm / 7 hours / $140 / includes e-handouts

1/14/09 /  Ethics - Creating Equal Relationships  / 9:00am - 4:00pm / 6 hours / $90 / Fulfills NCBTMB Standard V requirement

1/15/09 / Melting Muscles Teacher Training  / 9:00am - 6:00pm / 8 hours / $160 / prerequisites: all above classes / includes teacher's edition e-book

CE hours: The above courses are NCBTMB approved which covers State of Arizona and many other State requirements. To verify, go to NCBTMB and enter "Patrick Moore" or the provider number 396103-00. http://www.ncbtmb.org/cgi-bin/ActSearch.cgi Location: These courses will be held at Cortiva Institute Tucson, 6390 East Broadway Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85710. http://www.cortiva.com/locations/tucson/continuing-education/ To Register: Please register and make payment arrangements through Patrick Moore. Email is his preferred contact--assemble this: at gmail dot com, healing brain (all one word) or you may call his business line at 623-670-0442. Repeating: As always, any classes you've already taken from Patrick, you may repeat for only $25 per day. Incentives: take $15 off if you refer a friend, per day, per friend (you could pay your whole tuition by referring friends!) take 5% off if taking any three of the above courses, 10% off if taking four. take 5% off if paying in full by January 1. these incentives may be combined. Melting Muscles Saturday, upper body. Sunday, Lower Body. Monday, Atlas and Axis release. Choose any one day or take all three. Includes "Melting Muscles" e-book. Melting Muscles is a way to communicate safety to the brain, which decides to relax the muscles. When it is not force, but the person's own brain that chooses relaxation, the muscles release old tensions and remain relaxed. If you'd like to learn more about Melting Muscles technique, please visit: http://meltingmuscles.com

Unwinding Muscles

Tuesday, Includes "Melting Muscles" e-book by Patrick Moore. Preview the method and book at http://meltingmuscles.com/

Unwinding Muscles is the advanced Melting Muscles technique. You may attend Unwinding Muscles without having graduated from the Melting Muscles courses only if you agree to read the included e-book in advance.

Ethics --Creating Equal Relationships

Wednesday, includes handouts, covers Standard V of NCBTMB

A fun way to get your Ethics credits, and valuable for anyone who wants work to be more fun and relaxed. Rather than a list of "Do's" and "Dont's" this ethics class explores more about how to adjust professional relationships to be more equal. Equality not only is more serving, but feels relaxed and friendly. Because therapists (and teachers) are often placed on a pedestal, we'll learn ways to empower the patient or student, (which also accelerates their healing/learning). Sometimes it is the massage practitioner who enters the relationship with less power (for example, in a ritzy spa where the practitioner must call the guest by their last name and only speak when spoken to). In this case, we find ways to empower therapists to rise to equality. This course is taught in the "student-centered" approach of Carl Rogers. We will cover written questionnaires, group discussion, and time for you to share your own working situation if you would like help adjusting your power differential.

Melting Muscles Teacher Training  is offered once per year, this time on Thursday, January 15.  To become a Melting Muscles Teacher, you must first complete the above four classes; Melting Muscles, Atlas and Axis, Muscle Unwinding, and Ethics - Creating Equal Relationships.  This is why six consecutive days--to accommodate those who may be traveling to the courses and/or want to complete Teacher Training at one time.  Melting Muscles Teachers may offer CE hours in partnership with Beyond Education, NCBTMB Education Provider Organization # 396103-00

About Your Teacher, Patrick Moore

Patrick's love for science, nature, and spirituality has been apparent since childhood. He completed a degree in Math from Whitman College and taught Math at Western Washington University. He attended the legendary Brian Utting School of Massage from 1992-94 in Seattle, and has since completed over two thousand hours of continuing education in Cranio Sacral, Osteopathic Technique, Medical Massage, Healing Energy, and Therapeutic Relationship. He has published articles related to the Melting Muscles technique twice in Massage&Bodywork magazine and Massage Therapy Journal (Visit http://meltingmuscles.com for full text), and has published numerous online articles at http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Patrick_Moore . Patrick also loves writing poetry and an upcoming novel. He hosts an ongoing literary reading, http://monsoonvoices.blogspot.com with his wife, Traci.