Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Digging for Fossils: Deep Tissue of Spine

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.

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