Massage therapists learn to take care of themselves during the massage, to employ a much wider range of techniques, to select what is right for the client and invent new techniques. They find the possibility of creating real change in clients. Students learn to sense which of the many different kinds of touch they are taught is needed by a client at a given moment. Anatomy and physiology are approached both intellectually and intuitively. For example, joints, the spaces where bones meet, are seen as expanding or shrinking depending on correct or incorrect use of the body.
Students learn to increase joint mobility through movement and massage.
Study of the nervous system leads to practice of massage and coordination exercises that have proved helpful with a wide variety of neuromuscular conditions. A chance to explore yourself You will learn to sense and respond supportively to the needs of your own body. Stress, the root of most health problems, has a freezing, numbing effect, and causes us to limit movement without even thinking about it. As stiff postural patterns get locked in, tissues lose elasticity and circulation gets sluggish. What your body has forgotten is that it needs movement.