Abdominal Massage Intensive
posted: 11/28/2023 12:14 PM
Enhance your bodywork practice with Abdominal Massage! Taught from a Chinese Medicine perspective to build your toolset in addressing symptoms such as digestive disorders, menstrual irregularities, depression/anxiety, fatigue/insomnia, back/hip pain, headaches, and much more. You will learn to formulate your sessions to meet each clients' unique needs. Engage with students in this hands-on intensive AND enjoy online access to recorded presentations+ videoed techniques.
Abdominal massage is very important in Chinese Medicine, as the core contains most of our vital organs, and muscles and ligaments that are pertinent to stability and balance. From a more energetic perspective, the organs store unprocessed emotions and traumas.
Topics we'll cover:
~How to weave abdominal massage into your current practice.
~How to focus your sessions on abdominal treatment.
~An intro to Chinese Medicine theory and application
~Basic western anatomy of the abdomen
~Acupressure points commonly used to address certain presentations, and how to use them.
~To feel qi, connecting to the abdomen by feeling and connecting with another's energy.
~To feel the abdomen to detect internal imbalances in the organs and meridians. A specific focus on balancing excess vs. deficiency.
~How to modify sessions to meet the needs of your clients' unique presentations.
Who is this class for?
Bodyworkers, massage therapists, acupuncturists, energy workers, physical therapists, chiropractors, or doctors who want to explore the potential of connecting with the core in their healing practice. You do not need to be a massage therapist, but you should have experience working one-on-one with clients/patients in a healing, clinical, or spa setting, using hands-on manual therapeutic techniques. Current massage school students are encouraged to enroll!
Your teacher...
Caitlin Perry is a Chinese Medicine practitioner and body + energy worker. In her bodywork, she specializes in Abdominal Massage.
Caitlin is a certified massage therapist with 800+ hours of schooling through Elements of Healing School of Massage and Chinese Medicine, where she took their fundamentals (2016) and advanced training (2017). These trainings focused on theory and application of Classical Chinese Medicine through bodywork. As Abdominal Massage is a very important part of holistic massage treatment in Chinese Medicine philosophy, it was a central part of her schooling.
Always working to continue her own education, Caitlin is currently working through a series of Visceral Manipulation courses.
From consistently incorporating (and receiving) abdominal massage into her treatments, Caitlin began to understand WHY abdominal massage is such an important part of providing a comprehensive, holistic massage session. The abdomen is our core, our center, where we make our gut decisions from. It holds and protects most of our vital internal organs. To allow our bodies to function properly, our minds to find clarity, and our spirits to feel settled, we must not overlook the abdomen.
Despite Abdominal Therapy seeming "taboo" or different from the norm in our culture, Caitlin has diligently (and gently) educated each of her clients about the importance of abdominal massage, giving them the opportunity to have it woven into their session. Over her 8 years of being a massage therapist, Caitlin has worked with 100s of abdomens of all shapes, sizes and symptom presentations. Her first time clients are often surprised at the depth of relaxation and immediate relief they feel during a session that includes abdominal massage.
Before Caitlin was a Massage therapist, she was a caregiver and physical therapy assistant for young adults with cerebral palsy and muscular dystrophy. Her love of teaching bloomed at this point as she was often in charge of training new employees how to do very specialized and hands-on personal care tasks and physical therapy exercises. This is her second year teaching Abdominal Massage and she is very excited to continue to enrich the practices of her students from Vermont and beyond.
Abdominal massage is very important in Chinese Medicine, as the core contains most of our vital organs, and muscles and ligaments that are pertinent to stability and balance. From a more energetic perspective, the organs store unprocessed emotions and traumas.
Topics we'll cover:
~How to weave abdominal massage into your current practice.
~How to focus your sessions on abdominal treatment.
~An intro to Chinese Medicine theory and application
~Basic western anatomy of the abdomen
~Acupressure points commonly used to address certain presentations, and how to use them.
~To feel qi, connecting to the abdomen by feeling and connecting with another's energy.
~To feel the abdomen to detect internal imbalances in the organs and meridians. A specific focus on balancing excess vs. deficiency.
~How to modify sessions to meet the needs of your clients' unique presentations.
Who is this class for?
Bodyworkers, massage therapists, acupuncturists, energy workers, physical therapists, chiropractors, or doctors who want to explore the potential of connecting with the core in their healing practice. You do not need to be a massage therapist, but you should have experience working one-on-one with clients/patients in a healing, clinical, or spa setting, using hands-on manual therapeutic techniques. Current massage school students are encouraged to enroll!
Your teacher...
Caitlin Perry is a Chinese Medicine practitioner and body + energy worker. In her bodywork, she specializes in Abdominal Massage.
Caitlin is a certified massage therapist with 800+ hours of schooling through Elements of Healing School of Massage and Chinese Medicine, where she took their fundamentals (2016) and advanced training (2017). These trainings focused on theory and application of Classical Chinese Medicine through bodywork. As Abdominal Massage is a very important part of holistic massage treatment in Chinese Medicine philosophy, it was a central part of her schooling.
Always working to continue her own education, Caitlin is currently working through a series of Visceral Manipulation courses.
From consistently incorporating (and receiving) abdominal massage into her treatments, Caitlin began to understand WHY abdominal massage is such an important part of providing a comprehensive, holistic massage session. The abdomen is our core, our center, where we make our gut decisions from. It holds and protects most of our vital internal organs. To allow our bodies to function properly, our minds to find clarity, and our spirits to feel settled, we must not overlook the abdomen.
Despite Abdominal Therapy seeming "taboo" or different from the norm in our culture, Caitlin has diligently (and gently) educated each of her clients about the importance of abdominal massage, giving them the opportunity to have it woven into their session. Over her 8 years of being a massage therapist, Caitlin has worked with 100s of abdomens of all shapes, sizes and symptom presentations. Her first time clients are often surprised at the depth of relaxation and immediate relief they feel during a session that includes abdominal massage.
Before Caitlin was a Massage therapist, she was a caregiver and physical therapy assistant for young adults with cerebral palsy and muscular dystrophy. Her love of teaching bloomed at this point as she was often in charge of training new employees how to do very specialized and hands-on personal care tasks and physical therapy exercises. This is her second year teaching Abdominal Massage and she is very excited to continue to enrich the practices of her students from Vermont and beyond.
posted: 12/04/2023 03:00 PM
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| Class/Workshop Schedule |
Jan. 25 & 26, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
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| Cost |
$360
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| Cost Description |
2-day training w/ online materials
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| Venue Name |
The Wellness Collective
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| Venue Address | 875 Roosevelt Hwy., Ste. 120 |
| Venue Town | Colchester |
| Venue Zip | 05446 |
| Venue Location | Google Map |
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