New Book- Yoga for Massage Therapists and Bodyworkers
By · CommentsI just finished my second book, Create Peace Yoga for Massage Therapists and Bodyworkers. This manual is a practical guide to increase your endurance and prevent injuries. It is quite a task to write a book. If you have read my other blogs, you are aware that I have a passion for helping therapists stay healthy! I believe that it shows through in both of my books, my DVD, and my education company. Read the second chapter of the book and get 1 free CE Hour by signing up today!
I believe that massage therapy continuing education is very important. Why not take a class to help yourself prevent injuries. This is a 12 CEH Course that will enhance your body awareness, strengthen your body, and teach you how to restore your mind, body, and spirit. The abilities that you as a bodyworker should possess are strength, flexibility, and endurance. Yoga adds strength and flexibility to your body and enhances the body’s ability to practice massage. Practicing yoga helps you to gain this awareness. The principles of yoga can make your job easier and can help prevent injury.
The principles of yoga can make your job easier and can help prevent injury.
- Explore anatomy in movement
- Learn how to use your breath combined with movement
- Strategize a specific injury prevention strategy through yoga
- Explore yoga for core strength
- Incorporate balance exercises to help correct muscle imbalance
- Understand how to prevent injury while doing yoga
- Integrates your mind-body connection
- Understand how to relax and restore your body
Sta y Healthy! Karina
Vacation in Roatan
By · CommentsI just got back from my vacation on Roatan, Honduras. I took time out to relax my mind and my body. The beach was such a great way to relax and rejunvanate. The warm sun and the salt water are so cleansing. Self Care is so important when you work in the Massage Therapy and Bodywork field. What do you do for self care on a daily basis? I do yoga, take walks, use my t spheres aromatherapy massage balls to release tension and adhesions, take baths, and meditate.
On another note, I found how massage was delivered in Roatan to be very interesting. I had a massage by a professional at my resort and she was very good. She had a place in a cabana above the dive store. While you received your massage, you could here the ocean waves and feel the breezes. She was defintely trained and worked with confidence.
As I sat on the beach, I was approached by many women who would ask me if I wanted a massage or hair braiding. I politely declined. These women were not dressed appropriately and most likely were not trained. One women carried a massage table with her. I have never seen such a beat up and dirty table in my life. Others would just work on you wherever you were on the beach and some dragged lounge chairs around.
On one hand, these women are trying to put food on the table. This is a third world country and people don’t have as much opportunity as we do here in America. They are simply trying to make some money just like the other people selling jewelry. However, my issue with the whole thing was sanitation and cleanliness. I even asked one of them how they washed their hands. She answered, “She would wash her hands in the ocean.” I saw another girl take a small towel out of her bag and wipe a lady’s feet off. I am sure this towel had been used before.
The point I am trying to make is that regulation in our country has a place. The need for Massage Therapy Continuing Education is necessary. The courses on hygiene, AIDS, and Ethics are essential to our health and the health of our clients. Massage Therapists are artists and do not like rules but rules are important for many reasons.
Karina
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Think with a Beginners Mind
By · CommentsIn yoga teaching training I was taught to always have a beginners mind. Keeping a beginners mind will allow you to open your mind to more possibilities. Some people think they know everything and operate with ego. In discussions I prefer to state my opinion but try to listen and also think from the others point of view.
While I was attending a recent conference, I was pleased to find many genuine therapists who worked well together and shared information with passion. It was great to be present with so many experienced and talented teachers and therapists.
In the health care field, I really like to see each professional working as a team and maintaining the goal of health for the client. When we open our mind to other people’s ideas we may just learn something we didn’t know or see something from a view we never even thought of.
I believe that massage therapy continuing education is important to be a great therapist. Try thinking this way next time you take a class and notice how much you learn.
Karina
Do you Breathe Correctly?
By · CommentsMost people breathe only into the front of the rib cage. To breathe fully and engage you lungs properly, expand your ribcage from front to back and side to side. If you only breathe into the front of the ribs, you can shorten the paraspinal muscles. This constriction can affect you posture and create tension that is unnecessary.
Take a moment and lie on your back. Relax your neck and let all tension in your back, abdomen, legs, and feet release. Breathe into the sides of your ribcage. Feel how this motion opens the ribcage to the back. Each time you inhale, sense the ribs lifting toward the ceiling as well as, pressing against the floor. Take 10 deep breaths as you feel the ribcage moving from front to back and side to side. When you are ready, sit up and feel how open your body feels in every direction.
Breathwork 4 Massage Therapists
Many Massage Therapists need continuing education. Why not take some education for you so you can keep yourself healthy! Get In Touch offers Breathwork 4 A Healthy Life for 6 CEH and will teach you in depth anatomy, correct breathing technique, and give you massage therapy continuing education.
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Massage Therapists Should Refresh Often on Anatomy
By · CommentsToday I made a visit to Bodies here in Las Vegas. I am an Anatomy Nerd and am fascinated by the human body. I realized how important it is for therapists to keep up with anatomy and kinesiology. Every time I visit Bodies, I learn or remember something I had forgotten.
Anatomy is such a crucial component to doing bodywork. I believe continuing education for massage therapists should include a certain amount of hours just to refresh on Anatomy.
Massage therapists have to not only be able to point out bony landmarks and the certain muscle groups but also have the ability to work that muscle despite the size and shape of the client. Palpation skills are of utmost importance to be confident and perform effective work. Massage therapists greatly benefit from the constant study of anatomy.
Personal Body Maintenance for the Bodyworker® Courses offer Massage Therapy Continuing Education.This seminar not only refresh the therapist on anatomy and kinesiology, it gives experiential anatomy through kinesthetic awareness exercises and yogic techniques.
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