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
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.
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.
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