Massage Therapy Continuing Education Classes

East Meets West Thai Fusion demonstrates “fearless draping” so you can confidently stretch your clients while respecting modesty. Provide this as a standalone modality or apply these profoundly deep and relaxing stretches into any full-body massage. Benefits every body type — from athletes to sedentary clients — delivering relief from low back, hip, shoulder, and neck pain. This award-winning modality is featured at premium Las Vegas resorts including the Fontainebleau, Resorts World, Waldorf, Encore, and the Wynn.

This popular workshop features video animation, anatomy dissection, and head-to-toe techniques to enhance your skills as a manual therapist. You will learn Myoskeletal Alignment Techniques® to assess and correct nerve mobilization, foot and ankle issues, plantar fasciitis, knee and hamstring issues, SI joint, piriformis, sciatica, low back pain, thoracic and cervical spine restrictions, and spinal stenosis. Recognized by NCBTMB, FSMTB, and most State Licensing Boards. Counts toward the Master Myoskeletal Therapist (MMT)® Certification.

Recover from physical and mental burnout. Rediscover how to work sustainably. Somatic Mindfulness bridges somatics and bodywork, teaching self-care as a professional skill. Choose 1, 2, or 3 days: Aug 29 GROUNDING (8 CEs, $209) · Aug 30 EXPANSION (16 CEs, $389) · Aug 31 RADIANCE (24 CEs, $529). Each day can be attended independently. Physical and emotional burnout and injury are prevalent among massage therapists — this approach makes embodied awareness and self-regulation central to how touch is applied, received, and sustained.

Myotherapy is a targeted therapeutic modality grounded in comprehensive assessment and individualized treatment planning. This approach begins with evaluating postural and movement patterns to identify areas of muscular holding and dysfunction. Treatment focuses on locating and releasing trigger points, while integrating joint mobilization and passive stretching to restore balance, mobility, and functional movement. Practitioners will explore myofascial release techniques, trigger point referral patterns, zone therapy, and mirror muscle concepts, leaving with a complete two-hour treatment protocol.

Neck pain accounts for a large percentage of visits to massage therapy offices — about 1 in 4 people will experience a bout of neck pain in a given year. While general massage approaches to the neck can be very relaxing, PNMT focuses on specific problem-solving. Neck pain is complex, and releasing the suboccipitals can be wonderful in certain circumstances and disastrous in others. PNMT doesn’t teach routines — it focuses on reasoning and problem-solving with hands-on experience and expert instructor guidance.

Myofascial Barefoot Massage protocols for whiplash and forward head posture. Based on tried-and-tested myofascial release techniques, this neck-focused sequence addresses structural alignments contributing to complex cervical pain — including histories of whiplash, forward head posture, degenerative disc disease, and other neck injuries. Practitioners will learn how to use a combination of feet and hands for a focused myofascial barefoot massage session.

A 3-day hands-on training seminar. Day 1: Medical Massage Protocol for Middle Back Pain and Intercostal Nerve Neuralgia — covering lower trapezius, paravertebral muscles, rhomboids, and the role of intercostal muscles. Day 2: Medical Massage Protocol for Pectoralis Major and Minor Muscle Syndrome — evaluation and treatment of tension and spasms of the pectoral muscles, including their role in False Cardialgia Syndrome. Day 3: Medical Massage Protocol for TMJ Dysfunction and Benign Positioning Vertigo — including Semont’s Protocol to reset otoliths in the inner ear. Each day can be attended independently.

Myofascial Barefoot Massage protocols for whiplash and forward head posture. This neck-focused sequence addresses structural alignments contributing to complex cervical pain — including whiplash, forward head posture, degenerative disc disease, and other neck injuries. Practitioners will learn a 20-30 minute protocol to increase efficiency in treating neck issues, visual assessment of cervical alignment, and how to integrate new techniques with previously learned FasciAshi strokes. Prerequisite: FasciAshi Advanced.

Focusing on Active and Resisted Range of Motion techniques, this Stretch Therapy barefoot massage approach allows the therapist to stand on a massage table and maneuver clients’ limbs using the strong muscles of their legs and hips. Using overhead bars and suspended support straps for balance and leverage, practitioners lift, bend, and twist clients into assisted stretches while the client activates their muscles as cued. A full-body supine, side-lying, and prone 3-dimensional stretch sequence is taught, with draping options for skin or clothed work.

Save your hands, activate your client’s parasympathetic nervous system effortlessly, and release fascia throughout the body without stress or strain — for either of you. Directly address a wide variety of cervical and cranial dysfunctions as well as pre- and post-surgical conditions and complications. This 11-step protocol will allow you to confidently address all of the above and more. This hands-on class is designed to have you effectively integrating this modality into your own practice the day after the class ends. A nickel’s worth of pressure to release dysfunction at the deepest layers of the body.

Fundamentals is the starting point for those wanting to train in the Myofascial Ashiatsu “FasciAshi” style of Barefoot Massage. Learn how to use your feet to provide a full body deep tissue, myofascial focused ashiatsu barefoot massage session. This class focuses on techniques applied on posterior aspects of the client’s body, using overhead support bars and the proprietary Ashi-Strap. Class is 3 days; 24 CE credits (NCBTMB and some select states).

This intermediate ashiatsu barefoot massage class empowers the experienced barefoot massage therapist to work even slower, maintain long sustained pressure holds on trigger points or adhered layers of tissue, and deliver deep myofascial strokes to the anterior and lateral aspects of the client’s body. Supine and side-body strokes give you the tools to provide a comprehensive feet-on practice in often forgotten, hard-to-reach areas. Intricate use of the FasciAshi support strap is a big focus, allowing variable angles and vectors with consistent, controllable pressure. 16 CE credits (NCBTMB and some select states).