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