At Peace > Webinar > Tools for Touch Webinar March 5, 2012

Webinar

Learn More >

Tools for Touch Webinar March 5, 2012

March 5, 2012

Registration Add to Cart $99.00

Theme
Description
Learning
CE Credits

Add layers of new technique to your practice while earning up to 9 NCBTMB -Approved CE's. These six presenters will join us to cover the following topics:

Val Guin - Facial Massage

In this 90 minutes webinar presentation, Val will focus on lifting of the eyes. Val will use acupressure points to create a lift and myofascial techniques to reduce fine lines and wrinkles. You will also learn Zone Therapy to release the neck and shoulders which will also create a lift in the eyes and eybrows. All of the techniques you'll learn during this presentation, you will be immediately be able to perform on yourself and apply in your massage practice. 1.5 CE hours.

Ben Benjamin - Unraveling the Mystery of Ankle Pain: Lateral Ankle Ligament Sprain

To detect which injury is causing pain in the lateral ankle, precise testing is the crucial first step. Sometimes an important tendon which helps stabilize the ankle is injured and masquerades as a lateral ankle sprain. You will learn how to assess and treat this injury and differentiate it from other injuries in the same area. You’ll come away understanding the relevant anatomy and assessment tests for lateral ankle sprains, as well as therapeutic techniques for treatment of this most common ankle sprain. Toward the end of the presentation, Dr. Benjamin will answer questions submitted live by webinar participants. 1.5 CE hours..

Tiffany Blackden - How to attract more clients using your website and social media.

1) Tips and tricks for multiplying your exposure using different social media outlets

2) Understand the basics of effective marketing strategies for massage therapists.
3) What makes a marketing message compelling for a prospective client.
4) Recognize the benefits of content marketing in current environment.
5) What works when marketing on social media, and what will sabotage your efforts.
6) Specific social media ideas for what to post and when to post it, for the most effective plan. 1.5 CE Hours.

Karina Braun - Yoga 4 Bodyworkers- Align the Body & Prevent Injury while Working

As a bodyworker, you are an athlete. Just like an athlete, a bodyworker has attained a high level of conditioning and skill. The abilities that you as a bodyworker and an athlete should possess are strength, flexibility, and endurance. In this class you will learn three important yogic principles that will be valuable to keep your body aligned. You will also be shown how yoga can help you keep a connection and direct line of energy through certain parts of your body to maintain alignment and keep your body healthy and most importantly, injury free. 1.5 CE Hours.

Chuck Duff - Shoulder Work in Thai Massage

Shoulder pain is a frequent and often mis-diagnosed complaint in any massage therapist's treatment room. Many shoulder complaints that have been diagnosed as an "injury" are actually due to imbalance and trigger points in any of 24 muscles. In this seminar, Chuck Duff will show a series of highly effective shoulder techniques from Clinical Thai Bodywork (CTB) that can be adapted for mat and table use. CTB uses techniques from the traditional repertoire of Thai massage along with a modern understanding of trigger point therapy and other modalities to provide a cutting edge treatment for soft tissue causes of pain and dysfunction. CTBs efficient combination of compression, range of motion work, and active client engagement has benefits for both giver and receiver. 1.5 CE Hours

John Maguire - Eliminate Pain and Stress with Touch for Health Kinesiology

In this 90 minute webinar you'll learn simple techniques to incorporate into your massage sessions including how to:

• Use muscle testing to find structural and energy imbalances in the body
• Remove tension and increase range of motion in the neck and shoulders
• Quickly eliminate pain, increase energy and activate the lymphatic system
• Instantly clear muscle cramps and spasms with two easy to use techniques
• Discover the five most important things to create and maintain optimum health 1.5 CE Hours
Tools for Touch™ Webinars, Produced by At Peace® Media
- Earn 7-9 CE Hours from NCBTMB-approved Providers
- All-day, online webinars 10:00 am - 7:00 pm Eastern
- Each presentation consists of Slide Show, Live Video Demo, Q&A with Hosts and Presenters
- Take CE Quizzes at your convenience
- Can't watch the whole day? No worries - each presentation is archived for viewing ON DEMAND
- Learn Technique, Earn CEs from the comfort of your home or office
- $99.00 registration fee includes all presentations, quizzes and CE certification
Who
We’ve lined up top presenters who once were newly minted massage therapists. You’ll appreciate hearing some of their personal stories and “success tips” which they’ve used along the way to get where they are today… the top of their profession.

What
What will lead you to success? Listening carefully to life stories of successful professionals and adapting their methods to your own personal bodywork style and career focus... and then being equipped to pursue success every day. The Tools for Touch Webinar Series is designed to do just that!

When and Where
On March 5, 2012, you can do all this: stay at home or in your office, dressed in comfortable clothes, and learn from top massage pro’s – successful women and men who actively practice and teach…just by going online and buying your ticket to the March 5, 2012 Tools for Touch™ Webinar from At Peace Media.

Why?
Keep in mind: technique is important to your success, but technique alone will not make you successful. Our Tools for Touch webinars represent your opportunity to gain massage skills while also building personal business and practice skills -- put it all together and you will be more successful.

More details…

Who’s Presenting, and Why They Can Help You
We have assembled an outstanding line-up of featured Presenters, co-hosted by Val Guin of Forearm Dance Massage fame. These are people from whom you can learn techniques and success methods in order to forge a productive and profitable path to success.
Earn 7-9 CE hours
- Quizzes available to take online immediately following the webinar
- Receive your score immediately!
- See which answers you got correct and incorrect!
- Successful quiz-takers receive CE certificate immediately online via emailed PDF!

Featured Presenters:

Val Guin
Creator, Forearm Dance™ Massage

Val Guin is recognized as a leader and innovator in the massage industry, through the creation of her bestselling DVD series, Val Guin's Forearm Dance, Original and Essentials. She has been an instructor and a therapeutic body worker for almost three decades, focusing her private practice of 8 to 10 people a day on creating better posture and structural function, which creates more mobility and less pain within her students and clients. Along with holding seminars nationwide, she also holds her seminars locally at her studio in Santa Monica. Val is a frequent presenter at the AMTA conferences and is an approved provider for the NCBTMB for continuing education hours.
Ben Benjamin
Founder, Muscular Therapy Institute
Dr. Ben E. Benjamin has dedicated his life to helping people cope with and overcome the pain and stress caused by injury. His therapeutic techniques help reduce and eliminate pain produced by adhesive scar tissue formed from soft tissue injury.

In sports medicine/muscular therapy private practice since 1963, Dr. Benjamin is the founder of the Muscular Therapy Institute in Cambridge, MA. As an educator and author, he conducts seminars and workshops across the country, serves as an instructor and trainer in a variety of settings, and has written several books and articles. His books include: Listen to Your Pain: The Active Person's Guide to Understanding, Identifying, and Treating Pain and Injury; Are You Tense?: The Benjamin System of Muscular Therapy; and Exercise Without Injury.

Benjamin earned a Ph.D. in Sports Medicine and Education at Union Graduate School
Tiffany Blackden
Social Media Consultant
Tiffany and Gary Blackden, who provide the massage instruction on the Couples Massage DVD, are Nationally Certified Massage Therapists. Their passion for life enhancement is reflected in their massage therapy practice, their community volunteer work and their concern for environmental stewardship.

Together, they grew and sold a successful massage business in northern Virginia before relocating to Colorado. In addition to their private practice, they have published articles on massage and they conduct massage instructional workshops. Tiffany has used online social media fo build successful practices in cities across the USA., and she recently created the ProMassage Network to facilitate social media and networking savvy within the massage and bodywork community.

"Our passion is working directly with our clients, AND helping bodywork professionals to experience the abundant practice they desire." - Tiffany and Gary Blackden
Karina Braun
Personal Body Maintenance for the Bodyworker

Karina Braun has been in the massage therapy and bodywork field for 14 years. Her focus is training Massage Therapists to maintain their body with self care and injury prevention techniques. With this in mind, she created The Braun Method, Personal Body Maintenance for the Bodyworker® a multi-faceted approach that includes techniques for proper body mechanics, warm-up, aftercare, and strengthening and stretching of the body to help massage professionals keep up with the demands of their careers and stay healthy.

Karina also teaches how to utilize Reiki in order to balance the energetic body of clients. According to Braun, "my firsthand knowledge includes experiencing a repetitive strain injury from doing barefoot deep compression massage. Feeling all the emotions that go along with being injured definitely expanded my empathy to help others in this field. Consistent maintenance of your body is absolutely necessary so you can increase your income and extend your career. "

Her book, Creating Peace with Your Hands is compiled from many hours of hands on practical knowledge and a great deal of research on injury and prevention. Karina is a massage educator based in Las Vegas, NV where she practices reiki, craniosacral therapy, yamuna body rolling, and therapeutic massage. She also received Yoga Instructor Certification in 2001 from Yogamotion. Karina's company, Get In Touch is a NCBTMB continuing education provider and offers Massage CEU Courses in Las Vegas, Nevada, Texas, California, Colorado, Florida, and Louisiana.
Chuck Duff
Certified Thai Instructor (CTI)
Since 2001, Chuck Duff has trained hundreds of basic and advanced practitioners in Thai Bodywork and Massage. Integrating his extensive background in Buddhist studies, martial arts, yoga, and western clinical approaches, Chuck’s Thai Massage DVD series offers massage and bodywork professionals a unique understanding of body mechanics, of movement without effort, and the use of core energy in healing. He is a certified Thai massage instructor and founder of the Thai Bodywork School of Thai Massage, an NCBTMB approved provider of continuing education.

Chuck produced this Thai Bodywork DVD series based on his work developing and teaching Clinical Thai Bodywork, (CTB) a modality he created that blends the techniques of Thai yoga massage with the insights of Myofascial Trigger Point, acupoint work and a structural analysis of body function. This therapeutic modality (CTB) is highly effective in reducing or eliminating patterns of pain and restruction, often in cases that have failed conventional medical treatment. Chuck’s teaching emphasizes body mechanics, using core energy and sensitivity to the body’s language, and places each technique in context as to its relationship to Sen lines, effects on specific muscles and pain conditions.

Chuck became a Certified Thai Therapist and Certified Thai Instructor (CTI) at the Luma Center with Dr. Anthony James, who was among the first individuals to practice and teach Thai massage in the US. He is certified as a Luk Pra Kob (Thai herbal compress) therapist by the Thai Ministry of Health in Bangkok. He pursued advanced studies in Thai massage and herbal compress application with Khruu Lek Chaiya in Chiang Mai, Thailand and Aachan Tawee of Wat Wiangkolok, Chiang Rai province, Thailand. Chuck joined the faculty of Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in 2003, where he teaches Thai massage within the Oriental Body Therapies program. He also teaches on-site workshops for spas and private groups throughout the country.

Chuck’s life-long experiences as a student, healer, teacher and bodywork professional also include studies in Kundalini yoga, residency in an ashram and attending Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. As a yoga practitioner, Chuck has learned that Thai massage treatments enhance and accelerate his practice. He earned his black belt in Hapkido, a Korean monastic martial art, under Master Kwang Seek Hyun.
John Maguire
Founder, Kinesiology Institute - Touch for Health
John Maguire created the Kinesiology Institute in 1989 and has trained a wide variety of doctors, therapists, and world-class athletes throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He has developed several professional training programs on how to use Kinesiology in a clinical practice to eliminate pain and optimize health and performance. John is the developer of the popular Kinesiology Certification and Mentorship Program, where many graduates have developed successful practices transforming people’s lives.

Holding degrees and certifications in Holistic Health, Applied Kinesiology, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Postural Integration, Massage Therapy, Personal Training and Electro-Acupuncture, John draws from a breadth of knowledge and skill that he incorporates into his private sessions and courses. He studied extensively with Dr. George Goodheart, DC the founder of Applied Kinesiology and he worked closely for several years with Dr. John Thie, DC, the creator of Touch for Health.

For more than 30 years, John has helped tens of thousands of people become pain free by identifying the root causes of their health challenges through muscle testing and energy kinesiology by empowering them to take action to create optimum wellness. He is particularly adept in the areas of pain relief, overcominging emotional issues, and nutrition, assisting his clients and students to live longer and healthier lives.