CE Credits: 8 Hours

Cost: $250 ($295 if registering within 7 days of class)

This course is a combination of lecture and experiential exercises to further your knowledge of the Chakra System.

• • Explore your own Chakra Map.
  • Find Balance and Equanimity through your spiritual anatomy.
  • Discover how working with the Chakra Energy Centers can improve the well-being of your clients, as well as your own.
  • Experience your Energy Centers.
  • Learn techniques for bringing the Chakras into harmony.
  • Understand how to bring the wisdom of life force energy into your daily living.

There are no prerequisites for attending this class.

What to Bring: Wear comfortable clothes, Bring Linens/Blankets for tables.  A lunch break will be taken midday.

Call or text Teresa Greene at 615-370-9794 if you have any questions.

CE Credits: 21 Hours

Cost: $480 ($525 if registering within 7 days of class)

The class will focus on non-lubricated bodywork techniques for releasing connective tissues. You will learn to approach and release tensions and holding from a 3-layer perspective.

The three main focuses for the class will be ‘work smart not hard’, maintaining good body mechanics, and increasing your ability to sense and follow individual clients’ needs. Fascial Freedom Techniques will be immediately useful in your practice, providing you and your clients with work that is effective and feels great.

What to bring: Set of sheets, chest cover, face cradle cover & blanket for each day of class for your personal use, 1 hand towel per day and materials to take notes.  Massage tables are provided.

A lunch break will be taken midday. You may bring your lunch, or eat at one of the many restaurants located nearby.

Instructors: Suzan Sommers, LMT & Steve Sommers, LMFT, LMT

Call Teresa Greene at 615-370-9794 if you have any questions.

This class can be taught in-person and via LIVE webinar.

2-Hour TN Massage Law Class for Establishment Owners was created as the board requires all owners who are not licensed massage therapist to take a 2-Hour TN Massage Law Class once every two years.  If you are already a TN LMT, you need the TN Massage Law and Ethics class.

CE Credits: 2 Hours 

Cost: $200.00 

A copy of the current Tennessee Massage Board Rules, Regulations & Policies will be provided.

General review of all rules and regulations with emphasis on:

1. Practice standards and inspections of establishment
2. Necessity of Licensure
3. Establishment licensure process
4. Licensure renewal
5. Retirement, Reinstatement, Inactivation and reactivation of licensure
6. Continuing Education
7. Disciplinary actions and civil penalties
8. License/Establishment address and name
9. Advertising
10. Consumer Right-To-Know requirements
11. Professional and ethical standards 

Clarification and current standards will be reviewed.

Call Teresa Greene at 615-370-9794 if you have any questions.

**For all taking the class via live webinar, you will receive an email from Meredith directly with a Google Meets connection.  Meredith@noroads.com and her cell: 615-500-3007.

CE Credits: 8 Hours

Cost: $250.00 ($295.00 if registering within 7 days of class)

This class is designed to teach advanced lymphatic techniques to move lymph from the hands, arms, feet and legs. This class is mostly all hands-on.

Prerequisites: The 10-week Lymphatic Drainage course in 2017 or later. In addition to Cumberland classes above, each therapist should also have taken a minimum of one of the following:

• C321 – Fascial Freedom Techniques taught at Cumberland
• Myofascial Release 1 by John Barnes
• T502 – Craniosacral Therapy 10-week class taught at Cumberland
• Upledger’s CS1 Certification

The review is minimal, so be sure that you have been actively using the lymphatic full body sequence. Lymphatic Drainage is the basis for this class and will be demonstrating how to integrate with other modalities.

This will be clothed work. Please bring your own sheets, blankets, lubrication and lymphatic essential oils for your own usage. Massage tables are provided. Please wear comfortable clothing with regards to the shirt - be sure there is easy access to the neck (anterior and posterior). Some lecture material will be provided, bring a pen or pencil to take notes. 

A lunch break will be taken midday. You may bring your lunch, or eat at one of the many restaurants located nearby. Call Teresa Greene at 615-370-9794 if you have any questions.

CE Credits: 40 Hours

Cost: $1040 ($1085 if registering within 7 days of class)

This is a 2 weekend course of 6 days: March 21-22-23 and April 25-26-27, 2025. Students must attend all days of the workshop for credits.

Jin Shin Do® can help to relieve tension and stress, reduce pain and discomfort, reestablish the balance of energy between body and mind, and increase client self-awareness. It promotes a pleasant trance state in which the client can move out of the head and into the body, to access creative self-healing and release stagnant energy and stress patterns.

Jin Shin Do® combines gentle yet deep finger pressure on acupoints with body focusing techniques to facilitate the release of physical and emotional tensions and armoring.

The class will cover release methods for 32 points of common stress, tension, and pain, introduction to body-focusing, segmental release using 45 Jin Shin Do® points and the bodymind associations of the segments, master and couple points, and using contact statements and tracking. It will also include strange flow theory and basic release patterns, and how to combine strange flows with the segments.

What to Bring: Sheets/Blanket & face cradle cover for each day.  Massage tables will be provided. A lunch break will be taken each day.

Call or text Teresa Greene at 615-370-9794 if you have any questions.

Instructor: Steve Sommers, LMFT, LMT – an authorized instructor of Jin Shin Do® Bodymind Acupressure™ has been teaching acupressure for integration into massage therapy since 1995. He became a registered practitioner in 1993, an authorized instructor of Jin Shin Do® Bodymind Acupressure™ in 1998, and a Senior Teacher of JSD since 2005. He is currently the only authorized instructor of JSD in Tennessee.

CE Credits: 20 Hours - This class is 2.5 days: All day Mon/Tue 8:00 am - 5:30 pm and 1/2 day Wed - 8:00 am - 12:30 pm.

Cost: $525 ($570 if registering within 7 days of class)

Course Description

A prenatal massage is often the only time that a client may experience nurturing touch during pregnancy.

This course will dispel myths and provide massage therapists with techniques for imparting nurturing touch to physically and emotionally support clients throughout their prenatal and postpartum experience.

In this Prenatal Massage course, therapists will develop confidence and comfort with treating pregnant clients. Students will delve into the technical aspects of pregnancy including contraindications and the emotional, anatomical & physiological changes that take place during each trimester. The course will also include discussion and techniques for caring for postpartum clients, an often overlooked area.

Students will leave this class with side-lying techniques to treat key areas of prenatal discomfort, including: hips, low back, abdomen, neck & shoulders. These techniques will emphasize fascial work to relieve muscular restrictions, improve circulation and create space for the client as their body grows and changes. Students will leave class with a 60-min side lying prenatal routine and a semi-reclined sequence.

Throughout the course, students will have opportunities for hands-on work to practice positioning, draping and massage techniques. Course work will emphasize body mechanics and a variety of client positioning and draping options to ensure comfort. During the last day of class, students will massage a pregnant client.

What to Bring to Class:  

• Linens:  3 sets of sheets (1 set for each day-Queen or Full size highly recommended for top sheet and bottom sheet can be any size)
• 4-6 Pillow Cases
• 3 Hand Towels
• 3 Bath Towels – Large
• 4-6 Pillows of various sizes and densities
• Optional:  Yoga Bolster 24” x 6” x 12” or similar size and Wedge Pillow (only if you already have these or you desire them)
• Wear comfortable clothing in which you can easily receive bodywork

A lunch break will be taken midday. Call or text Teresa Greene at 615-370-9794 if you have any questions.

Kimberly Vaughn, LMT is a certified prenatal massage therapist and massage doula.  She has received continuous training by various organizations such as Baby Inc, Sprinning Babies, Harbor Birth Institute and Homeland Heart Birth Collective.  She has furthered her massage practice to specialize in prenatal massage as well as train many birth worker in the Nashville area to become a massage doula.  Kimberly's backhground in exercise science and kinesiology allows her to formulate a unique approach to addressing prenatal client's needs.

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CE Credits: 20 Hours - this class is 2.5 days: 1/2 Day Wed from 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm & 2 full days Thurs/Fri: 8:00 am - 5:30 pm.

Cost: $525 ($570 if registering within 7 days of class)

Course Description:

When it comes to supporting mothers to be, Massage Therapy and Birthwork go hand in hand. 

Birthwork through Touch is a training course designed specifically for massage therapists wanting to pursue a career as a Doula. This course will cover the unique approach of how massage therapists can care for women during pregnancy and throughout their birthing journey. Students will walk away with the skills needed to assist mothers in labor as well as give guidance and support during and post pregnancy. This course will also give student a blueprint on how to start a birthwork business and give them opportunities to observe and learn from pregnancy clients in the form of mock interviews, panel discussions and listening to birth stories. Upon completion of this course and other requirements, student will receive certificates of completion and move forward with their massage careers as SBK certified Massage Doulas.

What to Bring:  Set of sheets/face cradle cover/blanket for each day and your favorite lubrication/lotion.

A lunch break will be taken midday.  Call or text Teresa Greene at 615-370-9794 if you have any questions.

Kimberly Vaughn, LMT is a certified prenatal massage therapist and massage doula. She has received continuously trained by various organizations such as BABY Inc, Habour Birth Institute, and Homeland Heart Birth Collective. She has furthered her massage practice as well as expanded the birthwork field in the Nashville area to become a more collective blending. Kimberly’s unique approach to joining these two fields in a holistic and inclusive manner is what the “Birthwork through Touch” Training is all about. With a therapeutic mindset, nurturing energy, and birthwork knowledge, any LMT can become an amazing doula.

THIS CLASS WILL BE OFFERED IN PERSON, ONSITE AND SIMULTANEOUSLY  VIA ZOOM LIVE WEBINAR WITH TWO INSTRUCTORS. WE WILL HAVE A LIMITED NUMBER OF ONSITE SPOTS AND YOU MUST LET TERESA KNOW WHICH WAY OF LEARNING YOU SELECT BY TEXTING AT 615-370-9794 OR EMAIL: TERESA@CUMBERLANDINSTITUTE.COM.  COST FOR CLASS IS THE SAME FOR EACH OPTION. CLASS CERTIFICATES WILL BE EMAILED TO ALL ATTENDING VIA LIVE WEBINAR

CE Credits: 4 Hours

Cost: $170.00 ($215.00 if registering within 7 days of class)

This law and ethics class is designed for the working massage and bodywork professional.  The orientation of the class is to develop an understanding of ethical issues in a working practice, and, where necessary, to manage any conflict between the personal ethics of a therapist, the national standards of the bodywork profession as they are outlined by various trade organizations, and legal parameters of practice as they might apply to four main areas:

• Required Curriculum for Tennessee Massage Law Continuing Education Courses and Massage School Instruction

• Business Practices
• Dual Relationships
• Sexuality

Participants are encouraged to bring examples from their own experience in practice to share or explore in class discussions. Wear comfortable clothes and bring materials to take notes. A copy of the current Rules & Regulations will be provided either in person or by emailed PDF forms.

Call Teresa Greene at 615-370-9794 if you have any questions.