Students learn advanced methods of seeing bodies, deep-tissue bodywork, and related structural and functional bodywork techniques. Students learn how to coach their clients after a session of structural bodywork to retain the benefits of the work. A comprehensive course in structure and function of the human body, emphasizing the muscular and skeletal systems, designed specifically for bodyworkers. An optional cadaver lab is offered. This course is designed to teach efficient movement while conducting bodywork.
Students learn how to move more efficiently to reduce potential trauma to their bodies.
Students learn the skills necessary to be successful in the bodywork industry. Customer service, promptness, efficient use of time, and perfecting a 50-minute session of bodywork are some of the skills gained through this course. This course provides students with specific treatment protocols for common sports injuries such as sprains and strains on shoulders, knees, and ankles, contusions, shin splints, and inflammation. Students gain knowledge of how to assess an injury and what protocols are called for in specific instances. Students learn methods and protocols for massage of myalgia, myositis, periostitis, and radiculitis.