Continuing Education for Licensed Massage Practitioners Workshops at Passages Retreat Center

Exceptional Instruction at Reasonable Rates

These classes are the regular offerings of our gifted instructors.  Currently, we are teaching & studying in other locales, but are open to suggested dates as our schedules allow.  Please call us with your requests.   All requests cheerfully considered, especially for groups.  Check the web site periodically for new dates. 

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Abilization: Putting the body back in bodywork
Abilization is a tool that benefits us personally and directly improves the quality of our sessions.  Our tablework reflects our ability to be present, connected and awake. Using our bodies as a textbook, we'll take an extended vacation in our bodies as we study the concepts of breathing, lengthening,strengthening and the relationships of different body parts as they integrate into movement.  Sal likes to think of it as "pre-hab".  Instructor Sally Van Dusen, LMP
 Cost $100  7 CEUs

Active Client / Focused Applications
Learn techniques to deal with chronic pain from injury and tendonitis.  Focus on individual muscles of the upper and lower body to start the client on the path to optimal function.  Methods include assessment, Pin & Stretch, Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation and increasing range of motion.   
Instructor Sheila Morris, LMP  Cost $125 per day: Upper Body and Lower Body 7 CEUs per day. 

Dialoguing With Tissue

People ask, "How do you do that?" Well, here's the class.  Learn how 
to listen to the qualities of the tissue and other body parts as they
translate into essence.  Instructor Sally Van Dusan
Cost $100  7 CEUs
 

Esalen Massage & Self Care
This weekend will offer an introduction to the elemental skills of Esalen massage with an additional focus on self-care for the practitioner.  Through demonstration and hands-on practice, participants will learn the long, flowing strokes that define Esalen style.  This approach emphasizes body awareness and quality of contact so the work is easy on the practitioner while bringing a sense of integration and connection to the receiver.  In addition to table work, group members will learn ways of attending to their own bodies using movement, touch and breath awareness.  Simple self-care techniques will be presented in a way to help rediscover flexibility and ease of movement in your practice and your life.  Instructor Dean Marson, LMP

Hot Stone Massage
This one day workshop includes everything you need to practice immediately.  Heater unit and stone set that you hand select included in price.  We cover safety, choosing stones, & set up.  Learn, practice and receive a full body procedure, plus how to use stones as treatment tools.  Marketing tools to “make it your own”.  This class has established Hot Stone Massage practices for spas & independent practitioners in Alaska, Oregon, Washington & Idaho since 1998.   Instructor Sheila Morris, LMP 

Integrative Body Movement, Moving the Mind with the Body
Offered only as a private tutorial!

A neuromuscular approach, IBM is taught as a 4 part series that presents the basics of incorporating movement into tablework.  The use of movement provides the practitioner with the tool necessary to access and assess joints, gauge tissue response, and re-educate those patterns that cause pain and inhibit ROM.   By working in a way that invites softness, freedom, openness and release, the possibilities for change become profound.  Due to the complexities and intricacies of this work, Sally now teaches it solely on a one-to-one basis.  Instructor Sally Van Dusen, LMP.  Request the date!

Thai Massage

More than 2,000 years old, Thai Massage is a branch of Traditional Chinese Medicine that incorporates stretching & massage using the practitioner's hands and feet, while simultaneously accessing energy points on the body.  From weekend warriors to computer junkies, our approach is adapted for the Western lifestyle.
A fun change of pace for practitioners, Thai massage is done with the client fully clothed on floor mats.  As in any great session, the interchange between practitioner and client provides a full circle of vitality. 
Please welcome guest instructor Licia Sky, team teaching with Sheila Morris. 

Reflexology for LMPs
Reflexology provides us with insight about the client’s level of health and where we need to spend time working on their body.  Competent footwork can be an integral and effective part of your session.  Instructor Sally Van Dusen, LMP
Monday, March 17, 2008   9-5:30    Cost:$100  7 CEUs 

Wings: a shoulder work lab
This entire class deals exclusively with the upper quadrant of the body.
Work that focuses on the clavicular collar, shoulder blade, ball of
humerus, and the upper rib cage will be presented. Tying the torso in
fully with the neck, the arms and chest, helps to realign the body. This
is an advanced class. The work is applicable to any modality of massage
practice no matter what your style may be.  Instructor Sally Van Dusen
Cost $100  7 CEUs