Elevating assessment skills using kinesiology and palpation: Trunk muscles
By the end of class, students will demonstrate knowledge of the kinesiology of the area of the body (hip, lower leg, arm, trunk, neck, head and face, and shoulder) that is the focus of that class. They will lead the partner/client through muscle movements to assess variations in the subject’s movement and palpate the muscles of the area of the body discussed. The class will discuss modifications of treatment plans resultant of findings during palpation and kinesiology assessment.
Students should bring linens.
About the Instructor: A licensed massage therapist since 1993, Mario has worked with an array of clientele encountering many true to life situations. It is many of these antidotes that Mario shares with class participants to balance and validate the theoretical terms and concepts. Humor, class participation, and inspiration are important components of classes taught by Mario. In 2006 Mario started teaching continuing education courses to licensed massage therapists. The subjects include Postural Analysis, Neuromuscular massage for; Cervical/Neck, Shoulder/Rotator cuff, and Lumbar/ Low Back regions Mario has been an instructor for 28 years. Subjects Mario teaches are, Anatomy/Physiology and Pathology, Sports Massage, Neuromuscular Massage, and Postural Analysis. Regularly described by his students as inspirational, enthusiastic, and humorous he has the ability to take a topic such as Anatomy and make it understandable and fun. Mario enjoys the challenge of educating students and changing their preconceived notions about a topic.
Kinesiology is the study of the mechanics of movement. In this class, we will build on participants’ kinesiology knowledge to explore how understanding how our muscles move can enhance our treatment planning and massage sessions. We will review joint movements, muscle attachments, and movements and strategies to palpate these muscles efficiently. We will use these tools to explore how we can incorporate this knowledge into treatment planning, providing our clients an effective massage session. This course is a series of 6, 3-hour classes broken down into different regions of the body. Participants may choose any number of classes in the series to attend in any order.
CE Hours: 3 Cost $60 **Webinar Option Available**
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CE Hours: 6 Cost: $150
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CE Hours: 6 Cost $130
This class will begin with a thorough definition of trauma, including the three types. Next, we will explore the neuroscience involved and what it tells us about the impact of trauma. Last, we will explore the stages of trauma treatment and how massage therapy can be a part of the therapeutic process.
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An introduction Thai techniques class, for both prone and supine stretches, that can be used to integrate Thai techniques on the massage table.
CE Hours: 6 Cost $130
Kinesiology is the study of the mechanics of movement. In this class, we will build on participants’ kinesiology knowledge to explore how understanding how our muscles move can enhance our treatment planning and massage sessions. We will review joint movements, muscle attachments, and movements and strategies to palpate these muscles efficiently. We will use these tools to explore how we can incorporate this knowledge into treatment planning, providing our clients an effective massage session. This course is a series of 6, 3-hour classes broken down into different regions of the body. Participants may choose any number of classes in the series to attend in any order.
CE Hours: 3 Cost $60 **Webinar Option Available**
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CE Hours: 6 Cost $130
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CE Hours: 6 Cost $130
An introduction Thai techniques class, for both prone and supine stretches, that can be used to integrate Thai techniques on the massage table.
CE Hours: 6 Cost $130
This class will take an in depth look at injuries and massage techniques to support recovery of the head and neck.
CE Hours: 6 Cost: $150
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CE Hours: 24 Cost: $575 , $475 (Early Bird through Oct 26th)
This class will begin with a thorough definition of trauma, including the three types. Next, we will explore the neuroscience involved and what it tells us about the impact of trauma. Last, we will explore the stages of trauma treatment and how massage therapy can be a part of the therapeutic process.
CE Hours: 6 Cost $120 **Webinar Option Available**
Introduction to Cranial Sacral and MyoFascia Release
This class in an introduction in how and why Cranial Sacral Therapy and MyoFascia Release Therapy is effective. It is a deep dive into the unwinding process and the history of this amazing therapy. This is a unique look into the unwinding process and movements of the cranial and sacral bones and how this process works to heal the body on a deeper level. Including physical and emotional patterns held in the body.
Kinesiology is the study of the mechanics of movement. In this class, we will build on participants’ kinesiology knowledge to explore how understanding how our muscles move can enhance our treatment planning and massage sessions. We will review joint movements, muscle attachments, and movements and strategies to palpate these muscles efficiently. We will use these tools to explore how we can incorporate this knowledge into treatment planning, providing our clients an effective massage session. This course is a series of 6, 3-hour classes broken down into different regions of the body. Participants may choose any number of classes in the series to attend in any order.
CE Hours: 3 Cost $60 **Webinar Option Available**
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CE Hours: 6 Cost $130
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CE Hours: 3 Cost $65 **Webinar Option Available**
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CE Hours: 3 Cost $65
This class will begin with a thorough definition of trauma, including the three types. Next, we will explore the neuroscience involved and what it tells us about the impact of trauma. Last, we will explore the stages of trauma treatment and how massage therapy can be a part of the therapeutic process.
CE Hours: 6 Cost $120 **Webinar Option Available**
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CE Hours: 4 Cost: $108
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CE Hours: 4 Cost: $108
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CE Hours: 4 Cost: $108
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CE Hours: 4 Cost: $108
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Complete our Foundation Level Certification in 2024 in Arizona!
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CE Hours: Cost $2999 ($3750 Value)
A continuation of my Essentials of Cranial-Sacral class. A short review and then we will cover additional techniques that involve the following cranial and facial bones: ethmoid bone, zygoma, and the mandible. We will also be doing Cranial-Combos utilizing techniques from both trainings.
CE Hours: 6 Cost $130
This class will take an in depth look at theories and practice of fascia and myofascial restoration.
CE Hours: 24 Cost: $575
Kinesiology is the study of the mechanics of movement. In this class, we will build on participants’ kinesiology knowledge to explore how understanding how our muscles move can enhance our treatment planning and massage sessions. We will review joint movements, muscle attachments, and movements and strategies to palpate these muscles efficiently. We will use these tools to explore how we can incorporate this knowledge into treatment planning, providing our clients an effective massage session. This course is a series of 6, 3-hour classes broken down into different regions of the body. Participants may choose any number of classes in the series to attend in any order.
CE Hours: 3 Cost $60
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CE Hours: 3 Cost $65
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CE Hours: 4 Cost $80
In this transformational class, you will walk away with the understanding of how your Chakra System is
an energetic structure in which you can organize your life force.
CE Hours: 13 Cost $270
Kinesiology is the study of the mechanics of movement. In this class, we will build on participants’ kinesiology knowledge to explore how understanding how our muscles move can enhance our treatment planning and massage sessions. We will review joint movements, muscle attachments, and movements and strategies to palpate these muscles efficiently. We will use these tools to explore how we can incorporate this knowledge into treatment planning, providing our clients an effective massage session. This course is a series of 6, 3-hour classes broken down into different regions of the body. Participants may choose any number of classes in the series to attend in any order.
CE Hours: 3 Cost $60
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CE Hours: 12 Cost $360
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CE Hours: 14 Cost $280
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CE Hours: 3 Cost $60 **Webinar Option Available**
This class will take an in depth look at injuries and massage techniques to support recovery of the low back, low cross syndrome
CE Hours: 6 Cost$150
Take an aromatic journey through the world of essential oils and discover which ones support excitatory neurotransmitters (like dopamine) and inhibitory neurotransmitters (like serotonin) naturally so that you can support your brain’s desire to maintain homeostasis. Learn how you can use essential oils to help decrease your client’s stress level during session—as well as your own.
CE Hours: 3 Cost $75
This class will give you an introduction to the incredible world of essential oils so that you can use them with confidence. Top 7 oils covered to get you started right away. Tuition includes handbook, "Introduction to Essential Oils."
CE Hours: 3 Cost $75
Kinesiology is the study of the mechanics of movement. In this class, we will build on participants’ kinesiology knowledge to explore how understanding how our muscles move can enhance our treatment planning and massage sessions. We will review joint movements, muscle attachments, and movements and strategies to palpate these muscles efficiently. We will use these tools to explore how we can incorporate this knowledge into treatment planning, providing our clients an effective massage session. This course is a series of 6, 3-hour classes broken down into different regions of the body. Participants may choose any number of classes in the series to attend in any order.
CE Hours: 3 Cost $60
This introductory class provides a working knowledge and techniques for Cranial-Sacral therpy.
CE Hours: 6 Cost $130
This class provides a working knowledge and techniques for Reiki Level I therapy.
CE Hours: 6 Cost $130
This class will take an in depth look at theories and practice of fascia and myofascial restoration
CE Hours: 24 Cost: $575
This class will begin with a thorough definition of trauma, including the three types. Next, we will explore the neuroscience involved and what it tells us about the impact of trauma. Last, we will explore the stages of trauma treatment and how massage therapy can be a part of the therapeutic process.
CE Hours: 6 Cost $130 **Webinar Option Available**
This class will take an in depth look at injuries and massage techniques to support recovery of the low back, low cross syndrome
CE Hours: 6 Cost$150
A continuation of Essentials and Cranial 2 which includes 20 new techniques, unwinding, and rebounding.
CE Hours: 24 Cost $620
Kinesiology is the study of the mechanics of movement. In this class, we will build on participants’ kinesiology knowledge to explore how understanding how our muscles move can enhance our treatment planning and massage sessions. We will review joint movements, muscle attachments, and movements and strategies to palpate these muscles efficiently. We will use these tools to explore how we can incorporate this knowledge into treatment planning, providing our clients an effective massage session. This course is a series of 6, 3-hour classes broken down into different regions of the body. Participants may choose any number of classes in the series to attend in any order.
CE Hours: 3 Cost $60
This class covers the history, benefits and contraindications, physiological affects/stress response/trauma recovery, of Yoga Nidra. Students will practice with a variety of yoga poses and scripts on how to adapt them to achieve the restorative benefits.
CE Hours: 5 Cost $100 **Webinar Option Available**
This class will take an in depth look at injuries and massage techniques to support recovery of the low back, low cross syndrome
CE Hours: 6 Cost$150
Entire class is presented and practiced on a Thai floor mat. A basic introduction to Thai Massage that is suitable for new students.
CE Hours: 12 Cost $360
Walt Fritz is a physical therapist from Upstate New York, USA. Since beginning work as an educator in the physical and massage therapy domains in the mid-1990s, he has more recently applied a unique take on manual therapy for the speech pathology and voice communities. This approach attempts to move the bar from singular tissue-specific models into a multifactorial narrative, leaning heavily on biopsychosocial influences. Using a model of evaluation and intervention that relies more strongly on shared decision-making, the principles can be applied to the spectrum of intervention models. Seeing the utility of manual therapy not as a standalone treatment but as an integral part of clinicians’ more extensive work, Walt makes his approach easily assimilated into those treatment protocols.
Walt teaches internationally to speech-language pathologists, voice professionals, massage therapists, physiotherapists, and other clinicians through his Foundations in Manual Therapy Seminars, www.WaltFritz.com. Walt is a frequent workshop presenter at the annual Voice Foundations Symposiums and has presented at PAVA conferences, the 3rd World Congress of Fascia, the British Voice Association’s 2021 Voice Clinics Forum, and international online conferences for voice, swallowing, and related issues. His article, “The mechanism of action for laryngeal manual therapies: the need for an update” was published in Current Opinions in Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery
This class covers the history, benefits and contraindications, physiological affects/stress
response/trauma recovery, of restorative yoga. Students will practice with a variety of yoga poses on
how to adapt them to achieve the restorative benefits.
CE Hours: 5 Cost $100 **Webinar Option Available**
Entire class is presented and practiced on a Thai floor mat. A basic introduction to Thai Massage that is suitable for new students.
CE Hours: 12 Cost $360
Kinesiology is the study of the mechanics of movement. In this class, we will build on participants’ kinesiology knowledge to explore how understanding how our muscles move can enhance our treatment planning and massage sessions. We will review joint movements, muscle attachments, and movements and strategies to palpate these muscles efficiently. We will use these tools to explore how we can incorporate this knowledge into treatment planning, providing our clients an effective massage session. This course is a series of 6, 3-hour classes broken down into different regions of the body. Participants may choose any number of classes in the series to attend in any order.
CE Hours: 3 Cost $60
This class will give you an introduction to the incredible world of essential oils so that you can use them with confidence. Top 7 oils covered to get you started right away. Tuition includes handbook, "Introduction to Essential Oils."
CE Hours: 3 Cost $75
This class gives you a solid introduction to cupping therapy as a soft tissue technique. You will get an overview of the methods and why they are used. Learn about the history, the cups themselves, the indications and contraindications, and how to use cupping on your clients. Cups are provided as part of your tuition.
CE Hours: 4 Cost $95
This class will give you an introduction to the incredible world of essential oils so that you can use them with confidence. Top 7 oils covered to get you started right away. Tuition includes handbook, "Introduction to Essential Oils."
CE Hours: 3 Cost $75
This class gives you a solid introduction to cupping therapy as a soft tissue technique. You will get an overview of the methods and why they are used. Learn about the history, the cups themselves, the indications and contraindications, and how to use cupping on your clients. Cups are provided as part of your tuition.
CE Hours: 4 Cost $95
Take an aromatic journey through the world of essential oils and discover which ones support excitatory neurotransmitters (like dopamine) and inhibitory neurotransmitters (like serotonin) naturally so that you can support your brain’s desire to maintain homeostasis. Learn how you can use essential oils to help decrease your client’s stress level during session—as well as your own.
CE Hours: 3 Cost $75
Students will learn the Traditional Chinese Medicine modality Gua Sha which is used to invoke circulatory movement of blood and Qi in the facial tissue. Indications and contraindications along with how to use a Gua Sha Tool will be demonstrated with plenty of time to practice in class. A jade Gua Sha tool set is included with tuition.
CE Hours: 4 Cost $95
This class will take an in depth look at theories and practice of fascia and myofascial restoration.
CE Hours: 24 Cost: $575
Take an aromatic journey through the world of essential oils and discover which ones support excitatory neurotransmitters (like dopamine) and inhibitory neurotransmitters (like serotonin) naturally so that you can support your brain’s desire to maintain homeostasis. Learn how you can use essential oils to help decrease your client’s stress level during session—as well as your own.
CE Hours: 3 Cost $75
Students will learn the Traditional Chinese Medicine modality Gua Sha which is used to invoke circulatory movement of blood and Qi in the facial tissue. Indications and contraindications along with how to use a Gua Sha Tool will be demonstrated with plenty of time to practice in class. A jade Gua Sha tool set is included with tuition.
CE Hours: 4 Cost $95
Kinesiology is the study of the mechanics of movement. In this class, we will build on participants’ kinesiology knowledge to explore how understanding how our muscles move can enhance our treatment planning and massage sessions. We will review joint movements, muscle attachments, and movements and strategies to palpate these muscles efficiently. We will use these tools to explore how we can incorporate this knowledge into treatment planning, providing our clients an effective massage session. This course is a series of 6, 3-hour classes broken down into different regions of the body. Participants may choose any number of classes in the series to attend in any order.
CE Hours: 3 Cost $60
This technique course covers the muscles and organs of the abdominal cavity. Benefits, contraindications, and how to introduce to your current clients will be covered.
CE Hours: 6 Cost $130
This class covers the history, benefits and contraindications, physiological affects/stress response/trauma recovery, of Yin Yoga. Students will practice with a variety of yoga poses on how to adapt them to achieve the restorative benefits.
CE Hours: 5 Cost $100 **Webinar Option Available**
This technique course covers the muscles and organs of the abdominal cavity. Benefits, contraindications, and how to introduce to your current clients will be covered.
CE Hours: 6 Cost $130
This technique course covers the muscles and organs of the abdominal cavity. Benefits, contraindications, and how to introduce to your current clients will be covered.
CE Hours: 6 Cost $130
This class will give you an introduction to the incredible world of essential oils so that you can use them with confidence. Top 7 oils covered to get you started right away. Tuition includes handbook, "Introduction to Essential Oils."
CE Hours: 3 Cost $75
This class gives you a solid introduction to cupping therapy as a soft tissue technique. You will get an overview of the methods and why they are used. Learn about the history, the cups themselves, the indications and contraindications, and how to use cupping on your clients. Cups are provided as part of your tuition.
CE Hours: 4 Cost $95
Kinesiology is the study of the mechanics of movement. In this class, we will build on participants’ kinesiology knowledge to explore how understanding how our muscles move can enhance our treatment planning and massage sessions. We will review joint movements, muscle attachments, and movements and strategies to palpate these muscles efficiently. We will use these tools to explore how we can incorporate this knowledge into treatment planning, providing our clients an effective massage session. This course is a series of 6, 3-hour classes broken down into different regions of the body. Participants may choose any number of classes in the series to attend in any order.
CE Hours: 3 Cost $60
Kinesiology is the study of the mechanics of movement. In this class, we will build on participants’ kinesiology knowledge to explore how understanding how our muscles move can enhance our treatment planning and massage sessions. We will review joint movements, muscle attachments, and movements and strategies to palpate these muscles efficiently. We will use these tools to explore how we can incorporate this knowledge into treatment planning, providing our clients an effective massage session. This course is a series of 6, 3-hour classes broken down into different regions of the body. Participants may choose any number of classes in the series to attend in any order.
CE Hours: 3 Cost $60
This class will take an in depth look at injuries and massage techniques to support recovery of the low back, low cross syndrome
CE Hours: 6 Cost$150
Kinesiology is the study of the mechanics of movement. In this class, we will build on participants’ kinesiology knowledge to explore how understanding how our muscles move can enhance our treatment planning and massage sessions. We will review joint movements, muscle attachments, and movements and strategies to palpate these muscles efficiently. We will use these tools to explore how we can incorporate this knowledge into treatment planning, providing our clients an effective massage session. This course is a series of 6, 3-hour classes broken down into different regions of the body. Participants may choose any number of classes in the series to attend in any order.
CE Hours: 3 Cost $60
Kinesiology is the study of the mechanics of movement. In this class, we will build on participants’ kinesiology knowledge to explore how understanding how our muscles move can enhance our treatment planning and massage sessions. We will review joint movements, muscle attachments, and movements and strategies to palpate these muscles efficiently. We will use these tools to explore how we can incorporate this knowledge into treatment planning, providing our clients an effective massage session. This course is a series of 6, 3-hour classes broken down into different regions of the body. Participants may choose any number of classes in the series to attend in any order.
CE Hours: 3 Cost $60
This class will take an in depth look at injuries and massage techniques to support recovery of the low back, low cross syndrome
CE Hours: 6 Cost$150
This class will take an in depth look at injuries and massage techniques to support recovery of the low back, low cross syndrome
CE Hours: 6 Cost$150
Kinesiology is the study of the mechanics of movement. In this class, we will build on participants’ kinesiology knowledge to explore how understanding how our muscles move can enhance our treatment planning and massage sessions. We will review joint movements, muscle attachments, and movements and strategies to palpate these muscles efficiently. We will use these tools to explore how we can incorporate this knowledge into treatment planning, providing our clients an effective massage session. This course is a series of 6, 3-hour classes broken down into different regions of the body. Participants may choose any number of classes in the series to attend in any order.
CE Hours: 3 Cost $60