Students practice their therapeutic, communication and business skills by working on the public in a supervised context. The internship is an extremely useful preparation to becoming a therapist, as we learn best by doing. Further study of the musculo-skeletal and fascial systems, utilizing both left and right brain approaches to learning. We use drawings, palpation skills, and the Maniken , a model skeleton upon which the student sculpts the muscles with clay, learning three-dimensionally. We also study in detail the anatomy and physiology of soft tissue injury and healing.
Pathology examines illness and their contraindications or indications for massage therapy.
This course helps develop the student's understanding of the role various muscles play in particular activities. Practice on athletes, and individualized instruction enables the student to work confidently with this very important and active group of people. Structural Bodywork plays a powerful role in de-stressing the body through circulatory work, friction, and myofascial release. This approach is a synthesis which is unique to our school. The emphasis is on simultaneously contacting the client's structure and energy, concentrating especially on the deeper muscle layers.