Course Title:
Rhythmic Deep Tissue Sculpting
Date Offered: June 28-29, 2008
Times: Saturday & Sunday; 9:00am-5:00pm
NCBTMB Approved Continuing Education: 14 Contact Hours
Cost: $300 prior to May 30th; $350 thereafter
Early Registration Deadline:
May 30th, 2008
Who May Attend: Graduates of at least a 500-hour professional
massage therapy program or equivalent.
What To Bring: Upon enrollment, participants will be
mailed a list of equipment to bring and preparatory reading.
Course Description:
A 14 Hour Introductory Integrative
Bodywork Technique Workshop where you can learn to:
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Sensitively "sculpt" chronic tension and contraction from
myofascial tissue
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Rhythmically move tissue and joints to increase quality and
quantity of movement
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"Blend"
sculpting and movement techniques to invite physical and
emotional integration
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Utilize
Tai Chi principles to organize your body usage, to increase
efficiency, stability, and sensitivity
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Understand biomechanical principles, indications, and
contraindications
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Synthesize blends techniques into Swedish and other soft tissue
therapy sessions.
Induce profoundly nurturing neuromuscular
release with blended techniques. "Blends" are a creative coalesce of
procedures synthesized from 25 years of study and professional body
therapy practice. They are elegant, efficient, and effective
myofascial therapy.
The rhythmic, gentle gestures of the
passive movement create a meditative alertness and a neurological
willingness to let go of habitual structural patterns. These small
amplitude, slow rocking mobilizations of soft tissue locate areas of
decreased mobility and introduce new movement and feeling
possibilities. Deep, melting compressions into chronic myofascial
tension relax muscles and effect lasting biomechanical changes to
connective tissue. When sculpting is moderated to sensitively hover
at the pleasure/pain borderline, effortless, non-intrusive
reorganization of soft tissue ensues.
Blended together, moving and sculpting
simultaneously, these procedures increase the client's kinesthetic
awareness. Blends evoke an atmosphere of exploration and of
relaxation of somato-emotional tensions. They help to restore
functional ease and balance. They foster integration of body,
feeling, mind, and Spirit.
Instructor Bio:
Carole Osborne-Sheets has been an integrative body therapist
since 1974. In addition to private practice, she has worked in
osteopathic, women's medical clinic, and psychological practices. Her
work focuses on facilitating somato-emotional and neuromuscular
integration. She is a specialist in family issues, including
pregnancy, sexual and emotional trauma, substance and eating
disorders, self-image, and nurturing.
Her earliest bodywork studies were with the Arica Institute, Milton
Trager, and Tai chi with Master Abraham Liu, and in an apprenticeship
in the teachings of Ida P. Rolf with Edward Maupin, Ph.D. More recent
studies have included osteopathic soft tissue therapies. Carole
cofounded IPSB, in San Diego, in 1977, where she continues to teach.
She is also an original faculty member at Big Sky Somatic Institute,
Helena, Montana. She has taught throughout North America and in
Europe.
In 1980 she began collaborating with perinatal professionals and
colleagues in researching and developing infant and maternity
massage therapy protocols and instructional programs. She pioneered
the reintroduction of therapeutic masssage and bodywork to
healthcare for the childbearing year. Over the years she has trained
parents, hospital association staffs, and over 3,500 maternity
massage therapists.
Carole has published two books, Pre- and null Massage
Therapy and Deep Tissue Sculpting, and her articles
and contributions appear in many professional and mainstream
publications. She provided consultation on several videos, and for
other prenatal and infant massage media items and curricula at
massage therapy schools. Penny Simkin and Phyllis Klaus'
newly released book on pregnancy and sexual abuse survivors includes
Carole's input. She is a key contributor to the upcoming book
Teaching Massage Therapy. She is a professional member of many
organizations and is Nationally Certified in Therapeutic Massage and
Bodywork. She is the mother of Josh and Elizabeth whose gestations,
births and lives inspired and continue to contribute to her work.