***STARTING SOON*** Introduction to Tai Chi
Join Tom for a 10 week intro series starting Tuesday, Sept. 5th from 10-11am at Alchemy Center.
Weekly classes continue each Tues. concluding on Nov. 7th. No experience necessary.
In this series Tom will guide you through a taiji, "short form" and you will come away with a practice that will enhance your health and well being for years to come.
Taiji brings increased energy and improved balance, coordination, immunity and mental clarity, as well as strengthens your core, legs, hips and low back.
Tom keeps classes fun, gentle and encouraging!
Class size is limited so don't delay
Qi Gong
Qi means "breath"; Gong means "skill". This energy science has over 5000 years of experience and a proven track record in promoting self-healing. The movement of breath is the very essence of living. Qigong teaches you to move with your breath and breathe with your whole body. Learn the skills you need to cultivate your life force for healing and peace of mind!
(Private Sessions Available)
Upcoming NCBTMB Approved CEU Classes
October 20-21, 2023
Manual Medicine for Massage Therapists, Part 1 (class 1 & 2 of a 4-class series)
Class 1 is a series of lower leg interventions beginning with a full day of working on at the feet. This class is based on the universal principles of expansion and contraction. These can be felt in life through our own breath, heartbeat, Cranial and Spine fluid dynamics.
When our legs are working harmoniously with the entire body, our feet, knees and femur will correctly move muscle and bone through space. This musculoskeletal experience is fueled by a correct connection to the heart (vascular), Brain (Nerve and CSF flow), the health of fascia , condition of joints, and the physical connection to the mechanics of breathing.
We will:
- Explore how to diagnose and treat simultaneously.
- Engage in a spectrum of touch using all parts of our hand, elbow, and potentially knees and our chest.
- Correctly apply specific pressure and direction to access change in the intended tissue through brain engagement.
- Engage the feet locally at every bone and joint.
- Examine blood, nerve, CSF flow, joint dynamics locally at the feet and "globally"
- Learn to patiently balance and harmonize our movements to better serve ourselves and clients.
Class 2 builds on the ideas of class 1 and expands into the knee. The knee is predicated on the health of the communication between the pelvis and foot.
We will
- Engage in specific testing , similar to the foot class, to determine the state of the various tissues explored in day one.
- Add subtler connectivity due to the proximal location of major neural and vascular components.
- Continue to explore intervention while observing the principles of expansion and contraction.
This 2 day workshop is good for 14 CEU.
Cost $400
Alchemy classes (provider #242) are approved by the NCBTMB
Manual Medicine Study Group
This group will have the opportunity to explore techniques learned in class. 5-7 One Thursday per month . Good for 2 CE's. $60 . Start date TBA
Ethics of Communications
October 19, 2023, 5pm-8pm Vicki Peltz, MA
Ethics Of Interpersonal Communications 3 CE $75
Covering communication, boundaries and the phenomena of transference & projection with self-care. We explore aligning our actions with our hearts.
Continuing Education and Workshops
Manual Medicine
Manual Medicine is defined as " as a clinical approach utilizing specific hands-on techniques, including but not limited to manipulation/mobilization, used by the physical therapist to diagnose and treat soft tissues and joint structures for the purpose of modulating pain; increasing range of motion (ROM); reducing or eliminating soft tissue inflammation; inducing relaxation; improving contractile and non-contractile tissue repair, extensibility, and/or stability; facilitating movement; and improving function. "
As massage therapists, we are taught to stay on the "muscle" but without knowing it, we are all working with the brain.
I introduced this coursework back in 2012, then as "Myotherapy" and now Manual Medicine.
This course is broken up into 12 one day classes starting at the feet, all the way to the cranium jaw. The classes are organized in 3 parts, each part takes 4 classes.
The complexity of this is incredible! 84 hours is clearly not enough! Osteopaths take 8000 hours. We can however get our hands educated enough in 84 hours to continue our journey with our patients in our practice, which is where the learning really begins.
This course teaches how to connect deeply with yourself, your client, and their tissue. Moving beyond just bones and joints, we explore various ways to touch your clients. Anatomy is important, so we experience an anatomical tour of the major joints and Connective Tissue (NeuroMyofascia) systems. The therapist is given a lens to see how this Fascial network locally at the joint and globally through the body.
Manual Medicine Manual Therapy that teaches you how to work within the neuro-myo-fascia (NMF) web system. These workshops are influenced by Ida Rolf's Structural Integration, Moshe Feldenkrais's Functional Integration, Tom Myer's Kinesis Myofascial Integration and Jean Barral's Visceral and Neuro Manipulation and Manual Articular approach.
Our goal is show you how to integrate movement while mobilizing Arterial-Neuro-Myo-Fascia to carefully redistribute tension. Elements of Myofascial Therapy, Conscious Deep Tissue work, Cranial-Sacral Therapy, Thai Yoga massage are mixed in. Therapists learn how to make each session informative for the client and themselves alike while taking a more "medical" approach to massage.
Asking ourselves questions to better serve our sessions and pay attention to patterns that our clients may be engaging in.
Classes are refundable until 14 days before class date, and non-refundable after that.
Ethics: Principles of Communication
Vicki Peltz, MA, teaches this ongoing ethics class covering communication, boundaries and the phenomena of transference & projection with self-care. In this Ethics class we explore aligning our actions with our hearts. 3 hours per class.