Deep Tissue Fundamentals

Instructor: Eloise Albrecht

6 Hours $99

Class description:

This introductory day to the Deep Tissue series could be taken by anyone to help expand awareness of how to make your massage into a moving meditation, and will also teach you how to deliver deeper work safely, right now, no matter what you know about anatomy.

Deep Tissue Massage is a vague term. Some people use it only to mean “Push Harder”. As presented at HHI, DT massage includes knowledge of various techniques, knowledge of anatomy and kinesiology, and an expanded awareness of who, what and how you are touching.

The physical techniques presented and blended into a whole include Neuromuscular Re-Education, Myofascial plane hold and stretch, Trigger Point Release, and Positional Release - and a little awareness of Oriental meridian pathways. The combination of all of these techniques allows the therapist to shift from accessing the client on a neurological basis to a structural basis – back and forth. The point is to work as efficiently as possible, saving the therapists’ energy and body, while keeping the work delicious feeling while addressing specific healing issues for the client.

In the Fundamentals class, during the morning we will talk about present-centered awareness, holding a transformative and safe space, and boundaries and emotion surfacing on the table. There is a handout of specific verbal techniques for dealing with emotional responses to bodywork. We will also talk about the nerve reflex arc and the statement “Pain is an opinion.”

In the afternoon, we first will do some simple exercises to show you that you already have the perceptual tools to go deeper into the body, once you recognize what they are. Then we will get out tables and do some really specific body mechanics education, and learn the “warm-up” palpation for deep work, and how to use more of your body to safely deliver more pressure. The work that we do in the afternoon will help you deliver deeper pressure to the people you work on right now

Required materials: Please bring a set of sheets, Biotone Massage Cream (No oil, please! And rarely do other lotions have enough ‘grip’). Wear loose shorts and sleeveless tops so that we can spend more time working and less time changing clothes.

Prerequisite for: All Deep Tissue classes

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