Events

Deep Massage for the Iliopsoas and its Neighbors

March 6-7, Friday-Saturday

Lauterstein-Conway Massage School

Deep Massage for the Iliopsoas focuses on the function and structure of the iliopsoas muscle and its supporting neighbors. The iliopsoas is surrounded and supported by the lower back muscles, the abdominal muscles, and the thoracic diaphragm. Therefore we will focus on contacting all these muscles along with a variety of ways to contact the psoas and the iliacus. “Deep Massage: The Lauterstein Method” integrates insights from the traditions of cranio-sacral work, Rolfing, and Zero Balancing,

Zero Balancing I and Zero Balancing II - July 17-19 and 24-26

The Lauterstein-Conway Massage School, TX

ZB I and II give you the entire Core ZB Protocol so with this course, you can offer your clients full Zero Balancing sessions. Why learn Zero Balancing? We are musculoskeletal beings, yet most therapists focus only on the soft tissue side of that equation. That addresses only half of that system! Zero Balancing (ZB) adds an extremely helpful focus the deeper tensions in the body - through the key joints, the bones, and the energy flowing through them, as well as on the soft tissues associated with them. Zero Balancing is the missing piece in the world of bodywork and bodymind therapies!

Participants can register for the first course, for both, or just ZB II if you’ve already taken ZB I.

Deep Massage: The Lauterstein Method, August 6-9

Bristol College of Massage and Bodywork, Bristol, UK

Deep Massage: The Lauterstein Method combines a focus on the muscles, fascia, and the nervous system with insights from Zero Balancing regarding how to cultivate the highest quality of touch. In this special 4-day workshop, David Lauterstein, the founder of The Lauterstein-Conway Massage School in the U.S. and. of this particularly method will instruct you in all the techniques (aka “fulcrums”), covered in his classic, “The Deep Massage Book: How to Combine Structure and Energy in Bodywork”.  The benefits for your clients will be:

·      relief from chronic pain and tension

·      experience of greater freedom in the joints

·      more balanced and graceful movement

·      a sense of greater wholeness and peace

·      enhanced compassion for oneself and others

·      experiencing spiritual as well as physical benefits

 You will learn new ways to relieve tension and pain from the:

·      calves, knees, thighs and hips

·      pelvis, including the iliopsoas

·      abdomen, affecting the vagus nerve

·      chest (opening up the heart and shoulders)

·      low, mid, and upper back

·      the rotator cuff and arm

·      neck and head (including the jaw and the suboccipital muscles)

 We need to work with the whole person not only to solve problems but also to facilitate their experience of the bodymind as the source of pleasure and grace.

Deep Massage - October 5-7
Geometry of Healing - October 9-11

Downeast School of Massage, Waldoboro, Maine

The first class will focus on Deep Massage: The Lauterstein Method. For a description of what will be covered - please see the above description of the Deep Massage class at the Bristol College.

Geometry of Healing is the second class listed. It is an Advanced Zero Balancing class which requires. as minimal prerequisite. ZB I and II.

“In Geometry of Healing, students learn how to work directly with fields of energy through the idiom of touch. This study of ZB relates to quantum physics and the newer sciences. In Geometry of Healing, students learn how to navigate the unseen world of vibration through their own shifting states of perception and self-referenced body signals. We know that healing is a multidimensional phenomenon. From one perspective, it involves the health and integration of the body, mind, emotions, and spirit of a person. From another, it involves the integration of one’s seen and unseen worlds. Geometry of Healing provides information and teaches skills to meet both perspectives.” - Dr. Fritz Smith