Your client’s body is stuck in its usual spots—that’s no surprise. But is your work stuck in a rut, too? Learn new ways to resolve those issues you see session after session—and reinvigorate your routine at the same time—by approaching the body from unfamiliar angles. In this streaming CE course we’ll address the crucial, but often ignored, lateral musculature of the upper body—from the QL to the pecs, from the rotator cuff to the scalenes. You’ll expand your technique toolbox and envision your client’s whole body anew.
In my experience teaching continuing education courses around the country, what I've noticed is that we massage therapists start to see the body more in two dimensions than three. We get used to seeing our clients like a pancake, just a front and a back. And from there it is all too easy to get stuck in a rut; we spend session after session pressing down, down, down, on that pancake, trying to flatten it even further.
Nobody benefits from this all too common, and all too reductive, approach to the body. The complexity of our clients' complaints are often not addressed sufficiently, and we get bored, and burnt out, from repeating some variation of the same session hour after hour, day after day.
This course challenges us to see the client's body in all its dimensions, and all its actual complexity, and offers ways of working—namely, by focusing on the lateral aspects of the musculature—that is often unfamiliar for both therapist and client alike. The result is that you learn new ways of using your own body, and new ways of tackling those common problems that don't seem to be responding to your typical work. Come join me.
(NOTE: This is the companion course to
The Solution Is the Sides: Approaching the Lower Body from All Angles, and it is a part of the
Neglected No Longer series. You can take these courses in any order you like.)