CE Credits: 6 Hours

Cost: $225 ($270 if registering within 7 days of class)

There are no prerequisites for attending this class.

This class is designed to help you develop clear, effective communication while implementing boundaries that care for both you and your client.

Some questions to ask yourself:

Do you have difficulty saying ‘no’ to people?

Do you have difficulty asking for what you need?

Do you spend time and energy helping others so much that you

     neglect your own needs?

Is it hard for you to make decisions?

Do you tend to get caught up in other people’s problems?

Do you feel responsible for other people’s feelings?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, this class may be for you.

It is an experiential class where you will be helped to identify and communicate boundaries both in your business and everyday life.

Wear comfortable clothes. 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.

This class will be held two consecutive Tuesdays: March 10 & March 17, 2026 from 9:00 am - 4:30 pm each day.  You must attend both days for class credits.

CE Credits: 13 Hours

Cost: $345 ($390.00 if registering within 7 of class)

Massage therapy requires self-care of its practitioners to have a sustainable practice/career. It is ideal for therapists to have the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual balance required to give the energy it takes to consistently practice massage therapy.

This class will target each of the aspects for overall self-care.

Our goal is for you to leave class having participated in different methods of self-care, so you may bring some or all of these elements into your life and have a more sustainable massage therapy practice.  Class will include yoga asana, savasana, drumming, musical listening and visual art meditation, intuitive movement, tea time among other self-care methods.

This class will be a mixture of discussion, demonstration and supervised practice. Modifications will be offered for those with injuries or conditions that require it. 

Please wear comfortable clothing, bring a yoga mat, set of sheets, blanket, face cradle cover, hand towel, and lubrication.  Massage tables are provided.

This class will include lecture, self–reflection, sharing and exchanging bodywork. Participants need to be prepared to receive and give bodywork.

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.

THIS CLASS DATE IS A LIVE WEBINAR CLASS ONLY.

This course is designed to familiarize massage specific therapists -  LMT's from out-of-state) who are applying for licensure in TN, with the laws governing massage therapists and massage establishments in the state of Tennessee.

Materials include:

• An overview of the Tennessee code governing healthcare professionals including massage therapists
• A review of the Rules and Regulations of the Tennessee Massage Licensure Board for therapists and massage establishments
• Resources for keeping current on the changes to the laws and rules
• Proposed changes which may affect therapists in the near future
• Review of the licensure packet and the licensure process

The TN Massage Board now has online licensure applications available at https://www.tn.gov/health/health-program-areas/health-professional-boards/ml-board/ml-board/applications.html

You will be provided with a copy of the laws, and the Rules & Regulations as part of the class. You may also wish to bring note-taking materials to class. Official transcripts will be sent directly to the TN Board for each participant and each participant also receives an original.

There will be several breaks during the class; no lunch/dinner break will be taken. Please bring snacks to eat during break times. 

Please contact Teresa Greene, Director, at 615-370-9794 or her assistant, Candis, if you have any questions or visit our website – www.cumberlandinstitute.com.  School office hours are Monday through Thursday, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM and Fridays 9:00 am - 2:00 pm.

**For all taking the class via live webinar, you will receive an email from Adam directly with a Google Meets connection.

CE Credits: 8 Hours

Cost: $265 ($310.00 if registering within 7 of class)

This eight-hour class is designed to assist therapists in developing skills in using forearms for broad, flowing strokes, and using elbows for specific or point work, to give alternatives for the use of hands and thumbs. The use of long flowing strokes with the forearms allows therapists to treat large areas of the body quickly, while simultaneously layering into muscles with both depth and gentleness. The connective, repetitive flow of the strokes sinks clients into a deep state of relaxation, while each consecutive stroke opens the body more and more. Elbows offer an alternative to hands and thumbs for delivering deep, specific, pressure to points of tension.

Although most therapists are aware of the option of using forearms and elbows in their massage work, and would enjoy the opportunity of giving their hands a break, many feel awkward or reluctant to use these techniques on clients without first gaining skill in controlling pressure, coordinating movement, and experimenting with feeling the client’s response to the work using these parts of their arms.

Mindy Oldham, RN, LMT, introduces participants to these techniques for integration into their massage routine. Topics to be covered include:

• Forearm massage techniques for back, posterior arms, hips and legs
• Draping for long, connective forearm strokes
• Footwork to enhance body mechanics using forearms
• Positioning & supporting elbow work
• Learning to feel the body’s response when working with elbows
• Body mechanics for the different center of gravity required by these two techniques

This class will primarily be demo and supervised hands-on work, employing vigorous, repetitive arm movements and footwork. Please come to class well-rested and hydrated. If you have not practiced massage regularly in the past few months, you may find the physical demands of this class overwhelming. The techniques require working close to the body using generous lubrication, so dress accordingly. 

What to Bring:  Dress to be able to give very lubricated massage work. Bring your favorite lubrication, set of sheets for your table, blanket and one hand towel.

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.

If you have any trouble the morning of your class, please contact Mindy Oldham, instructor, on her cell: 615-957-7129.

CE Credits: 40 Hours

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

This is a 2 weekend course of 6 days: March 20-21-22 AND April 17-18-19, 2026. 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.

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.

IF STUDENTS ELECT TO TAKE THE COURSE VIA LIVE WEBINAR, THEY MUST STAY ONLINE - VIEWABLE BY CAMERA, AND KNOW HOW TO USE THE CHAT FEATURE OF ZOOM.

CE Credits: 4 Hours

Cost: $185.00 ($230.00 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.

THIS CLASS WILL BE A LIVE WEBINAR CLASS ONLY.

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 Adam directly with a Google Meets connection. 

CE Credits: 8 Hours

Cost: $265 ($310.00 if registering within 7 of class)

This eight-hour class gives therapist time to focus on their own self-care and bodywork needs and how that can improve their well-being and practice. This class is designed to help therapists learn how to connect with their own self- care needs and how to practice self-care before, during and after sessions.

Topics to be covered include:

• The impact of being a therapist and ways to care for oneself.
• Methods of energy management.
• Physical care of the body
• Emotional care
• Mental and spiritual care
• Importance of receiving bodywork.
• Sharing of benefit of day and how to carry forward…

This class will include lecture, self –reflection, sharing and exchanging bodywork. Participants need to be prepared to receive and give bodywork.

PLEASE BRING TO CLASS:  SET OF SHEETS, FACE CRADLE COVER, BLANKET, YOUR FAVORITE LUBRICATION AND A RELAXED SPIRIT.

Class Agenda:

• Introduction and Welcome
• Sharing about ways impacted by being a bodyworker
• Ranking self on skill level of meeting one’s own needs
• Maybe therapists sharing the areas they are strongest in and how they meet that need.
• Energy work exchange --- holding area most in need of attention
• Exchange full body work

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.

If you have any trouble the morning of your class, please contact Mindy Oldham, instructor, on her cell: 615-957-7129.