An introduction to clinical somatic techniques that will transform your practice and enhance your self-care.About this Event
This workshop will teach massage therapists to shift their perspective from thinking about muscles, fascia, and joints, to thinking about the nervous system, awareness, and movement. You will learn to use your massage techniques to activate your client's mind and thereby invite them to become more aware and in control of their body. You will also learn clinical somatic techniques, developed by Thomas Hanna, to quickly unlock chronic patterns of tension, pain, and trauma.
What's covered in the course
20% will be lecture and information on Somatic Philosophy and the neurophysiology of touch and movement. We will discuss how to flip your perspective from working on bodies to working with somas. We will explore the duality of structures and functions rather than mind and body to understand how somatic practices create physiological, emotional, and cognitive transformations.
10% will be somatic practices for your self-care. You will learn simple practices to resotre your own myofascial integrity that you can also teach to your clients.
70% will be learning and practicing somatic techiques, both how to modify your current massage techniques and how clinical somatic techniques out of the Hanna Somatic Education Lineage
This continuing education course is currently approved for 8 CEs by the NCBTMB. Upon completion of the two days, with your feedback, I will submit an application to make this a 16-CE course and when those CEs are approved, you will receive them.
Your instructor, Gabriel Posner, Ph.D., is a Certified Hanna Somatic Educator and Licensed Massage Therapist with 2 decades of experience working with people suffering from musculoskeletal pain and movement dysfunction. By bringing somatic concepts and techniques into massage therapy sessions, he have discovered that clients can unwind much more quickly, deeply, and lastingly. Instead of leaning in and waiting for someone's muscle to relax, these techniques will help you activate your clients' own powers of self-regulation to unwind from the inside out.
Imagine how easy your jobs would be if your clients released their own muscles.
Participants will learn to:
- Work smarter, not harder
- Invite clients to actively participate in their healing process
- Engage clients' motor and sensory centers to unwind from the inside out
- Apply clinical somatic techniques within massage session
- Use traditional massage therapy techniques to help clients develop greater awareness of and control over their bodies.
- Use simple, somatic self-care practices to help maintain and improve their own musculoskeletal health.
*DISCLAIMERS* : This workshop is for licensed massage therapists with liability insurance only. While the location of the course is the The River Yoga, it is not being offered by the The River Yoga. This is an independent CE course.
Meet Your Facilitator:
Gabriel Posner PhD, LMT, RSMT/E, NCBTMB Approved Provider
Gabriel Posner, PhD, is a Certified Hanna Somatic Educator and Licensed Massage Therapist living and working in Denver, Colorado. Gabriel has 20 years of experience working with people suffering from musculoskeletal pain and movement dysfunction. Gabriel is a trainer with Essential Somatics and is the current President of the Board of Directors as well as Director of Research for the Association of Hanna Somatic Education. He studied psychology at Ithaca College, then immediately enrolled in massage school at the National Holistic Institute, the same school he taught at for six years, later down the road. While he found a love for bodywork, Gabriel also developed chronic musculoskeletal pain and stumbled onto Hanna Somatic Education during his journey to alleviate his pain. Finding this clinical somatic work to be effective for his own pain, Gabriel completed a 3-year training program at the Novato Institute to become a Certified Hanna Somatic Educator. In 2006, Gabriel opened up his private practice and, since then, has been developing a blend of Hanna Somatic Education and neuromuscular therapy. In 2015, he went back to school to receive his master's and then a doctorate in Mind-Body Medicine from Saybrook University. His dissertation was an observational study of current-day Hanna Somatic Education practice. He has presented internationally and published multiple articles on the topic of Hanna Somatic Education. When not teaching, writing, researching, or practicing, Gabriel can be found skiing, mountain biking and generally playing all throughout Colorado with his wife and three children.
Event Venue
The River Yoga - Golden Triangle, 1212 Delaware Street, Denver, United States
USD 249.00 to USD 274.00
