Description

With a focus on Active and Resisted Range of Motion techniques, this Stretch Therapy barefoot massage technique allows the Massage Therapist to stand on a massage table and maneuver clients’ limbs using the strong muscles of their legs and hips to steer and control client positioning and motion. We hold onto overhead bars and lean into our suspended support straps for balance and leverage as we lift, bend, and twist clients into assisted stretches while they activate their muscles as cued by the practitioner, adding resistance and dynamic stretch theory into the mix. Our approach to assisted stretching helps a practitioner effortlessly maintain consistent pressure and counterbalance while providing deep point holds, or long fascial stretches.

We also compress or restrict clients compensating body parts down into a neutral alignment while creating various ranges of motion throughout all major joints in the body. The Barefoot Massage Therapist can observe movement patterns and queue the client into resisted actions to help build joint stability, and encourage their interoceptive awareness during passive fascial stretching and proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation.

We’ll be reviewing secure draping options while blending ROM into slow gliding, non-lubricated movements along the client’s skin. Can be adapted for more use of creme or provided with the client clothed. A full-body, (supine, side-lying and prone) 3-dimensional stretch sequence is taught.

Class is 2 days, and you’ll earn 16 Continuing Education credits. (NCBTMB and some select states)

*If the instructor is traveling to a location to teach this class, rather than teaching at their home base, then the tuition rate will be $600

Please plan your schedule to allow time to be present and punctual for the entire training experience. Partial attendance is not permitted. Any hours missed in class must be made up with the instructor, and will be charged at their hourly rate. No CE’s or access to Alumni resources are granted until the class is completed in full.

Therapists will practice on and receive feedback from:

• 2-3 other therapists in class
• 1 student clinic client
• In class, you will:
  • Give 5 hours of massage during this class
  • Receive 5 hours of massage from other students
  • Spend a total of 2 hours observing the instructor and other LMT’s demonstrate the strokes
  • Spend 2 hours testing new skills on the public

Attendees are provided with:

• Course Workbook
• Access to the free Alumni Membership website with videos of the strokes learned in class