14 hr Introductory Continuing Education Massage Therapy

Does your bodywork style engage your curiosity? Your heart? Your creativity?

Are you enjoyably exploring with your clients rather than relentlessly attempting to “fix” them?

Rather than drained and exhausted, do you end your session days feeling gratifyingly tired?

For almost fifty years, I’ve been able to answer an enthusiastic “Yes!” to each of those questions. And I’d love to help you to equally relish your work for decades to come. One way to accomplish that is to pass on to you my signature style of Rhythmic Deep Tissue Sculpting.

What is Rhythmic Deep Tissue Sculpting?

Rhythmic deep tissue sculpting is elegant, efficient, and effective myofascial therapy that is easy on your body and fun to do. Every client is unique, but in a typical session, I almost always use soothing, subtle rocking movements blended simultaneously with firm deep pressure; yep, both hands are working but creating a yin/yang contact effect.  As I focus that contact to deeper layers and the nervous system, this calms the autonomic nervous system and reduces tension and pain resulting from misalignments, past lingering injuries, repetitive movements, traumatic experiences and chronic stress. Always moderated to be pleasurable yet deep, most clients find this work to be both soothing and demanding in its intensity. And it is oh-so exquisitely effective!

The rhythmic, gentle gestures involved in these passive mobilizations can:

  • Create a meditative alertness and a neurological willingness to let go of habitual patterns.
  • Assess for decreased mobility
  • Introduce new movement and feeling possibilities.

The deep, melting compressions into chronic myofascial tension can:

  • Relax muscles
  • Effect lasting changes to connective tissue and autonomic functions
  • Promote effortless, non-intrusive reorganization of soft tissue when sculpting is moderated to sensitively hover at the pleasure/pain borderline

Blended together, moving and sculpting simultaneously, these procedures can:

  • Increase the client’s kinesthetic awareness
  • Evoke an atmosphere of exploration and of relaxation of somato (body) emotional tensions
  • Help to restore functional ease and balance
  • Reduce pain and physical and emotional tensions
  • Foster integration of body, feeling, mind, and Spirit

What will you be able to do after this workshop?

Here’s what you will learn to do in the 14-hour Introductory workshop:

  • Sensitively “sculpt” chronic tension and contraction from myofascial tissue
  • Rhythmically mobilize tissue and joints for increased quality and quantity of movement
  • “Blend” sculpting and movement techniques to invite physical and emotional integration
  • Utilize Tai Chi principles for body usage that increases efficiency, stability, and sensitivity
  • Understand biomechanical principles, indications, and contraindications
  • Synthesize Rhythmic Deep Tissue techniques into Swedish and other soft tissue therapy sessions

Introductory workshop includes demonstration and practice of techniques for the neck and back only. You will leave with approximately one session hour of techniques for the body area most clients request.

Come prepared for lots of table time! You will spend over 90% of workshop learning techniques through demonstration, practicing and receiving the work.

Do NOT enroll in this workshop if

  • You want a “recipe” or protocol for this or that condition.
  • You prefer your clients stay superficial in their responses.
  • You believe in “no pain/no gain.”
  • You like to “fix” your clients’ “problems”.
  • A meditative state feels like torture to you.

Continuing Education Massage Therapy Credits

Receive 14 CE hours (1.4 CEU credits with NCBTMB) with attendance and satisfactory participation in the fourteen hours of class activities of the Introductory workshop.

Recommended Advance Reading

Read and study the first two sections of Deep Tissue Sculpting:  A Technical and Artistic Manual for Therapeutic Bodywork Practitioners, second edition , by Carole Osborne. Purchase a new copy of the book here, and you’ll also be creating more compensation to Carole than if you buy from other sources.

Terms of Enrollment & Cost

Tuition is dependent on arrangements with the sponsoring entity. Generally a portion of any deposit or full tuition paid is non-refundable. Refund Policy

Enrollment in this workshop constitutes agreement to the following terms. PLEASE CALL or e-mail us if there are any questions or concerns before you register.

1. Prerequisite preparations to improve your participation in the workshop

Read and study sections one and two of Deep Tissue Sculpting, 2nd Edition – Carole Osborne.

2. Participation

In order to complete the workshop and earn CE credits, you are expected to actively engage in all aspects of the workshop: lecture, demonstration, and both giving and receiving the work demonstrated. You are expected to attend all 14 hours. If necessary, instructor will arrange for make-up work on the content and hours that you miss up to ¼ of total. Larger absences will require a retake of the entire workshop.

For more information and to register for the 14-Hour Introductory workshop, please contact us.

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This book {Deep Tissue Sculpting, 2e} and the modality itself are grounded firmly in the history of body-mind approaches, in careful references to medical science, and in Carole’s own generous philosophy of healing. The philosophy is made concrete by including solid self-care principles for the therapist, fluid techniques, and clear listening skills. But on an even deeper level, it honors the uniqueness and dignity of each client and therapist.

Carole is one of the premiere bodyworkers, and her presentation of deep tissue touch guides the student gracefully and well. But more than that, her personal compassion and sensitivity are always in the background, where intuition exceeds technique, and genuine substance underlies the outer form.