This course is for you if you work with body, breath or movement as a therapist, teacher or coach and want to integrate Clean Language into your practice. Clean Language is a set of very simple questions which help your clients listen to themselves in a different way - questions that take them beyond everyday language into mindful, embodied inquiry. It’s called ‘Clean’ because the questions are designed to stop us, as practitioners, bringing our own models, presuppositions or unconscious bias into the process.

This creates a clarity which, for many clients, is like being listened to in a much deeper way. Instead of theorising or analysing bodily experience, this simple mindful inquiry process activates the organic healing power of the body-mind, ensuring your clients reap the maximum benefit from their sessions with you by
* Developing their somatic awareness
* Making insightful connections between symptoms and the life issues underlying them
* Devising realistic steps towards healthier behaviour patterns

 

This workshop gives insight into remedial massage techniques and the application of massage in a sport setting. This advanced workshop is aimed at individuals looking to expand their clinical massage skills, learn advanced techniques as well as gain insight into the Remedial & Sports Massage Diploma. The 2 day workshop will incorporate:
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- Introduction to Remedial Massage Techniques 

- Advanced Massage Techniques

- Sports-specific Massage 

- Postural Assessment

- Functional Anatomy

                

Whether you're enhancing your current expertise or stepping into the world of advanced massage, this workshop delivers practical skills and real-world application as well as acts as part of the Introductory Bridging Programme. 

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Working with women’s health is becoming an increasingly popular area, whether it's from menstrual problems to fertility or menopause.

 

Working holistically while using our understanding of the anatomy and physiology, we explore how massage can help support your female clients with issues like regulating menstruation, fertility and menopause.

This two day workshop includes:

• Safe ways to adapt abdominal work for clients with reproductive pathologies.

• How to support the sacroiliac joint and pelvis during hormonal changes and pelvis balancing.

• Ampuku Japanese abdominal massage through a sheet and directly with oils.

• Eastern energy techniques to balance our energies and release stored emotion.

• Acupressure points to support women’s health

• Non-intrusive breast work

• Self abdominal massage for self care for you and your clients aftercare.

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Massage offers a powerful tool to support women and babies through the journey of pregnancy. This workshop offers an understanding of the benefits of massage, as well as the areas in which you need to exercise caution. You will come away feeling more confident and excited about working with pregnant women.

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This day will be perfect for you if you:

• Feel unsure or daunted by working in pregnancy

• Would like to develop a better understanding of working with pregnant women

• Already work frequently with pregnancy women but would like to learn new techniques and gain a better understanding of the postural changes

• Would like to review contra-indications and learn energy techniques that connect the Mother and Baby

 

The day will include:

• Contra-indications and working safely

• Specific techniques, including integrating energy and muscle work.

• Gaining an understanding of the postural changes in pregnancy and how to work with them.

• Exploration of different positions for working in pregnancy including side position.

• Relevant anatomy and physiology

A complete foot and lower leg treatment for your clients.

This can be performed on its own or as part of a longer treatment. It couples perfectly with the Facial acupressure workshop for a fantastic head & toes treatment.

The course details:

• Review of foot structure anatomy and how it affects all our body’s structures to support clients’ postural issues and with concerns like plantar fascial and other foot pain.

• Including some key Acupressure points and reflex zones on the feet to support deep relaxation.

• Learn to use crystal wand to ease areas of tension and work acupressure points.

This workshop explores the acupressure points on the face and releasing the muscular and fascial structures.

The skin, muscles and fascia of the face have a unique structure to allow us to express ourselves intellectually and emotionally. We therefore hold a huge amount of tension and stress in our facial structure. You will learn a whole treatment working on the face, neck and shoulders, that will release tension, allow emotional processing, deeply relax the nervous system and promote rejuvenation of the facial structure.

This treatment works at two ends of the spectrum from relieving stress and deeply supporting the nervous system to having the feel of an indulgent rejuvenating treat.

The day will include:

• Review of facial anatomy and skin types.

• Preparing the face for treatment with warm towels

• Identifying the right massage medium for your individual clients face.

• Muscular structure, fascia and acupressure point techniques for the face, neck and shoulders.

You will also learn a self-facial massage for your own use and as after care for clients.

Seated massage is the perfect way to add versatility to your massage practice. It is usually offered through clothing, without the use of oils. Therefore making it extremely practical for those who are limited with time or who do not wish to remove clothing. It can therefore reach a more diverse customer base than a typical couch based session.

 

Learn new techniques and become a more mobile therapist, chair massage is perfect for the workplace, festivals, events and more.

This 3 day Deep Tissue Massage workshop is designed to build confidence, skill and knowledge in working on a deeper level with your clients.

Over the three days we’ll explore what deep tissue massage means to us:

• What does it mean to facilitate a deeper experience

• What is deep massage good for? When is it appropriate?

• How can we comfortably affect deeper muscles?

• How can we release the key postural muscles of piriformis, psoas and diaphragm?

We’ll also use muscle energy technique (MET), neuromuscular technique (NMT), myofascial release (MFR) and Trigger Points (TPs) to get to the heart of working effectively, efficiently and enjoyably with our clients.

Emphasis is placed not just on technique, but also on:

• Communication

• Responsiveness

• Creativity

• Body use

• Self-care

The workshop is open to all massage therapists and is an excellent stepping stone to our Remedial and Sports Massage Diploma for those who wish to take things further.

Please note this workshop is open to experienced (6 months minimum) therapists only.

Effortless massage is all about working more effectively, more efficiently and more enjoyably. It starts with a state of mind and translates into action. And there are techniques, skills and approaches we can learn that support the process.

This one day workshop will explore effortlessness through a variety of exercises and activities, including plenty of hands-on massage. We’ll consider how much more ‘less’ can be, how the quality and focus of our attention makes all the difference, and how self-care, effortlessness and personal growth are inextricably linked.

If you fancy embracing the amazing side of laziness, the essential side of selfishness and the perversely paradoxical power of pausing, then come along and have some fun!

This 1 day Mobilisation workshop is designed to deepen your skill and confidence in using passive movement to reach greater degrees of release for your clients.

 

We explore:

• How passive mobilisation is about deep muscle release as well as easing joints.

• How to access and release deeply held tensions. And when not to!

• Whether emotions as well as muscles can be released through movement.

• How engaging a client can strengthen the effects.

• What related aftercare can support clients

Drawing on principles of pulsing, Tai Chi movement and remedial massage, you will learn to:

• Generate movement from your ankles, hips, shoulders and hands;

• Use vibration, joint mobilisation and focused trigger point work to release and energise your clients

• Do all these with ease, economy and flow.

We will work prone and supine and focus on the shoulders and pelvis.

This will include specific muscle releases for the piriformis, pectoralis minor and subscapularis.

Two day course - working in the side lying position offers many creative opportunities and is not just for pregnancy!

The human body is 3-dimensional. Yet many massage approaches work only with clients in a prone or supine position.

By placing clients in this position, without predetermined response, they are more easily able to let go. This workshop offers a range of bodywork and energy techniques, including:

• spinal mobilisations and stretching

• connecting complementary muscle groups in the lower back and abdomen

accessing deeper muscles in the shoulder girdle
deep relaxation and energy holds