Workshop Menu
Touch Education offers a variety of workshops to advance you career in massage therapy.
Bodywork for PTSD (1 & 2)
This 2-day workshop (16 CE) helps massage professionals gain clarity between stress, trauma, and PTSD/PTSI. It provides an in-depth look into the power of a ‘healthy touch’ and its impact on trauma survivors. Participants will learn to anticipate and treat triggers of PTSD episodes, understand their role and scope of practice in the healing process, and get hands-on time with the techniques in instructor-monitored sessions. The lecture will discuss clinical Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) taken from the DSM-V and how it shows up on a massage table and in life. Attendees will explore how a ‘healthy touch’ can facilitate change in the client’s tissues, empower the client to be part of the healing process and grow their understanding of listening, assessing, and treating stress and PTSD. This workshop provides a fully-clothed, trauma-informed, patient-centered approach to treating trauma/PTSD/PTSI through healthy-touch bodywork.
Inspiration and Execution
This is a hands-on interactive workshop designed to get attendees into the creative and business mode. Students will learn several different options for adding services that can integrate into their existing menu of services. They will explore the difference between add-on and add-in services and how they can benefit your bottom line no matter where you practice. Attendees will learn about the most popular offerings, such as, aromatherapy, hand and foot treatments, applications for hydrotherapy, scalp treatments, and sleep! The business and marketing side of these treatments will be explored and illustrated. Students will be able to streamline the inventory needed for those services that fit their practice. Upon completion, students will have the skills and resources to build a successful business plan for creative and profitable menu development.
Integrative Craniosacral Therapy ICST
This 3 part series dives deep into the world of Craniosacral Therapy. With each level, you will learn new techniques and approaches to the body to restore health. Foundations, Connections, and Craniosacral Dynamics.
Prenatal Massage
This class is all about mommy & baby(ies)! We discuss all four trimesters (1st, 2nd, 3rd, and postnatal - 4th) through the lens of massage therapy. Learn or review anatomy, physiology, pathology, and benefits of care. Hands-on time covers draping, side-lying, reclined, and semi-reclined positions using massage, mindful stretching, and breathwork. This one-day class will set you up with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to confidently work with this population.
Rapid Relaxation Techniques
This class teaches students how to slow down themselves as well as their clients. We teach breathing techniques that can be used to center a therapist pre or post massage, but also to train clients into body awareness. We also describe the anatomy of relaxation so students that need the science of it.
Tools for Affective Deep Tissue
This class is designed to help attendees extend their career by learning to increase their awareness and tissue reading skills. We discuss different ways to approach the client and their issues. Attendees learn how to slow down, get deeper releases with less effort, use gravity and client positioning to their advantage, and plenty of time to practice. We teach how to work ‘with the tissue vs. on the tissue’. Our goal is to help the attendee extend their career by using less effort while getting better results. Working Smarter NOT Harder