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Lomi-Lomi Hawaiian Therapeutic Massage - Temple Style(C711)
with Wolfgang Luckmann
CE Credits: 17 Hours
NCBTMB Approved Provider #279778-00
Cost: $440 ($485 if registering within 7 days of class)
Lomi-Lomi means “The Dance of Massage and to break up into small pieces”
Purpose of the Workshop:
- To Revive the body
- To Move the blood and Lymph
- To Open spasms
- To Remove waste material from muscle
- To Facilitate myofascial release
- To Revitalize the face and head
- To Save your hands
- To Remove emotional toxicity with oils and compassionate care
This is a 1500 year old technique that aims at releasing all physical and emotional congestion in the body, with a full body massage. It is known in Hawaii as the “Dance of Massage” because of its long flowing style and continuous rhythm and beat accompanied by selected tribal music. The therapist and client will become entranced in a spiritual state. You will learn how to transform a loving touch into techniques for healing. The basis for Lomi-Lomi is an integration of Mind-Body-Soul in a ritual of transformation and inspiration. The inspiration is from the Huna or “Pathway of Life”.
You will learn:
- Some 12 strokes for a full body massage addressing long, hardened, bulky muscles and cellulite
- Breathing techniques and meditation to conserve your energy and build stamina
- Circular, spiraling and forearm techniques as well as kneading thumb techniques
- How to address the diaphragm, the seat of emotions
- Stretch techniques for upper and lower limbs
- The use of Aromatherapy essential oils on ear points and the body to enhance the massage
- Stretch and strengthening exercises for the massage therapist
- Self-care for the massage therapist and client
Wolfgang asks every student to bring a hand towel, 2 Sets of Sheets, your own lubrication, suggested oils (Rosemary, Sandalwood, Lavender, Peppermint, Frankincense, Patchouli and blends you use) and an open mind. It is NOT absolutely necessary to bring the oils because the instructor will bring his.
Wear comfortable clothes and bring materials to take notes, if you wish. 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.
Instructor: Wolfgang Luckmann LMT, LAP, has been an instructor of Massage Therapy & Bodywork in Florida since 1997 and Georgia since 2019. From 1998-2019, he has also practiced in Jacksonville, Florida as an Acupuncture Physician, a homeopath and a holistic health consultant. His work integrates Eastern and Western techniques from Acupuncture and meridian theory, Lomi Lomi, Ayurveda Medicine, Tui Na, Homeopathy, Neuromuscular Therapy, Craniosacral Therapy and Neuromuscular Therapy, among others to address the health and vitality of the whole body through touch therapies.
Scrape and Tape(C935)
with Jenson Gillette
CE Credits: 12 Hours - No Prerequisites
Cost: $490 ($535 if registering within 7 days of class)
This live 12-hour course covers the basic skills necessary and to safely begin Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization (IASTM) techniques AND Kinesiotaping. In this introductory skills acquisition course, participants will receive hands-on instruction in the proper use of IASTM and kinesiotaping techniques through a lab-focused teaching format. The course will address proper instrument selection and taping applications to address body contours and reach target issues.
COURSE OUTLINE
Day 1:
• Introduction: theoretical basis of IASTM, review of current literature
• Basic handling, tool selection, and basic treatment strokes lab
• Lecture/discussion – treatment integration and dosing
• Myofascia and cutaneous strokes lab
• Deep muscle strokes lab
• Ligament/ tendon treatment strokes lab
• Hard tissue/soft tissue interface lab
• Instruction in use of the Multi-tool and skills integration lab
Day 2:
> Introduction to Kinesiotaping
> General taping information
> Home care instructions for patients/clients
> Pain Taping
> Edema Taping
> Posture Taping
> Diaphragm Taping
Please dress to allow skin access to your entire upper and lower quarters to enhance the learning process. Bring your favorite lubrication and two sets of sheets for the massage tables + blanket if desired. Massage tables are provided. Tool usage provided in the class. Students must show proof of professional liability to register.
Call Teresa Greene at 615-370-9794 if you have any questions.
Instructor: Dr. Jenson Gillette, a Georgia native, graduated from the University of North Georgia with a Bachelor’s degree in exercise science. Soon after, he began his chiropractic journey at Palmer College of Chiropractic’s Florida campus. “Dr. G.” also has a Master’s degree in Sports Science and Rehabilitation from Logan University. His main interests involve biomechanical patterns and extremity dysfunctions. Certifications include: Certified Chiropractic Extremity Practitioner, Fasical Movement Taping and Performance Movement Techniques from RockTape®, Advanced Principles of IASTM via HawkGrips and KinetaCore Functional Dry Needling Level 1.
Robin Green, LMT and Kinesiology Instructor, may assist.
The Eight Limbs of Yoga(C420)
with Lynn Smith
CE Credits: 8 Hours
Cost: $260 ($305 if registering within 7 days of class)
This course is a combination of lecture and yoga movements to encourage self-care for massage therapists. Eight steps of basic yoga will be discussed:
- Yama – Universal morality
- Niyama – Personal observances
- Asanas – Body postures
- Pranayama – Breathing exercises and control of prana
- Pratyahara – Control of the senses
- Dharana – Concentration and cultivating inner perceptual awareness
- Dhyana – Devotion, Meditation on the Divine
- Samadhi – Union with the Divine
What To Bring: Yoga Mat, a blanket, yoga blocks and strap,Hand or Bath Towel, Bottled Water. Please wear yoga style clothes that you are comfortable moving freely in.
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.
Massage Adaptations for Chronic Pain (C844)
with Kimberly Coleman
CE Credits: 8 Hours
Cost: $260 ($305 if registering within 7 days of class)
Course Description: Chronic pain conditions require a specialized approach to massage therapy, ensuring that clients receive safe, effective, and compassionate care. This CEU course is designed to equip massage therapists with the knowledge and skills necessary to work confidently with clients who suffer from conditions such as Fibromyalgia, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders, Migraines, Scoliosis, and more.
Throughout this course, we will explore the symptoms and challenges associated with these conditions, discuss key modifications to standard massage techniques, and identify the most effective methods to address common issues such as muscle tension, joint instability, and nervous system sensitivity. Participants will gain practical insights on how to tailor their sessions to accommodate each client’s unique needs while promoting relaxation, pain relief, and overall well-being.
By the end of this course, therapists will feel empowered to support clients with chronic pain through informed, ethical, and adaptive massage techniques, ultimately enhancing the quality of care they provide.
Course Outline:
1. Understanding Chronic Pain: Definitions and Impact on Clients
2. The Role of Massage Therapy in Pain Management
3. Ethical Considerations & Scope of Practice
4. Common Chronic Pain Disorders
5. Client Intake & Assessment
6. Massage Modifications & Techniques
7. Addressing the Nervous System
8. Collaborative Care and Integrative treatment
What to Bring to Class: A set of sheets, blanket, face cradle cover, hand towel and lubrication. All massage tables are provided. A lunch break is taken mid-day.
Instructor: Kimberly Vaughn Coleman, LMT & Doula
Kimberly Coleman, LMT has been in practice for several years with her clientele focus on prenatal clients and those living with chronic pain. Kimberly's background in exercise science and kinesiology allows her to formulate a unique approach to addressing each client's specific needs. She has been heavily exposed to the medical approach to treating chronic pain with her work at Vanderbilt Osher Center for Integrative Medicine where they specialize in working with finding holistic treatments to chronic pain.
Call Teresa Greene at 615-370-9794 if you have any questions.
ACE Medicupping - Level 2(C430)
with Martha Graham
CE Credits: 22 Hours Prerequisites - Any in-person Level 1 ACE workshop from the list below:
- ACE Massage Cupping Level 1
- ACE Massage Cupping Two-Day & Medicupping Two-Day
- MediCupping Level 1
- Lymphatic Balancing & ACE Massage Cupping Intensive
NCBTMB Approved Provider # 312464
Cost: $570 (must register by prior to August 4, 2025)
Students must provide their own cups and the M600 Machine.
This three-day workshop will build on the foundation forged by the Level 1 workshops that we have been offering nationally since 2001. While Level 1 ACE Massage Cupping and MediCupping workshops focus on learning the techniques, movements, applications, and safety, Level 2 will take this knowledge and build upon it to truly position the practitioner “within the treatment cup” along with integrating a more intense scrutiny of hydration issues in the “body of water”.
ACE VacuTherapies Level 2 serves as a higher-level course for both ACE Massage Cupping and MediCupping.
The Level 2 workshop is a honing of assessment skills using specific evaluation criteria, along with ACE VacuTherapies techniques and concepts to create individual protocols for clients with acute and chronic conditions. Special attention is dedicated to the review of bio-magnetic theory and applications, along with a review of the lymphatic system to address the intensive tissue dredging that characterizes vacuum therapy.
Participants may choose to present a case synopsis or client study devoted to a particular health imbalance or condition.
Case Synopsis Suggestions:
- SOAP Notes
- Treatment Diagrams
- Client Comments and Testimonials
- Photographic Documentation
- Practitioner Observation
- Client Feedback Notes
This workshop takes vacuum therapy to the next level and is fundamental for creating the “thinking therapist” that has the observational skills to effectively address almost any condition or application.
Easily help clients of all ages with the power of ACE VacuTherapies. Build your practice quickly with medical referrals based on dramatic results!
This course is taught by Martha Graham PTA, LMT she can be reached at: upliftbodyworks@gmail.com or 423-310-4894
This three-day workshop begins at 8:00 am and concludes 4:30 pm each day. Please arrive 15 minutes prior to class each day. Successful completion earns 22 NCBTMB CE credits. Graduates of this program become Certified ACE Massage Cupping™ or MediCupping™ Practitioners (CAMCPs) and are listed on the national website with contact information. A wall certificate is issued upon completion of the workshop.
Please be prompt and dress comfortably. We suggest bringing a sweater or light jacket for warmth and water for hydration. Lunch will be determined each day by the presenter and will be one hour long.
What to Expect from Class
Expect the unexpected! Each student responds to this modality based on their condition at the time. There is a high level of hands-on work, much more ACE Massage Cupping™ or MediCupping™ bodywork than would normally be done for a client. Keeping warm and adequate hydration assists any processes that may develop. Participants who have not received regular bodywork may experience remarkable changes. These experiences are necessary for the practitioner to fully understand the complex effects of this technique.
Supplies Needed for Class Participation --Students are requested to bring:
~ Massage Cupping Set
~MC600 Machine with heavy duty 3-Prong extension cord
~One set of sheets + face cradle cover for each day
~One small towel
~Two bath towels
~Massage oil and/or lotion (unscented)
~Queen size blanket
Box of tissue
Seventh generation disinfecting wipes
Robe (optional)
****IF YOU NEED TO PURCHASE ANY EQUIPMENT FOR THIS CLASS – THE INSTRUCTOR CAN ASSIST YOU WITH PURCHASING – CONTACT MARTHA AT: Upliftbodyworks@gmail.com or 423-310-4894
Chinese Hand, Foot & Ear Reflexology(C712)
with Wolfgang Luckmann
CE Credits: 17 Hours
NCBTMB Approved Provider #279778-00
Cost: $430 ($475 if registering within 7 days of class)
Reflexology and Acupressure are 5000 year-old techniques which were introduced to the United States in the early 1900’s. They are based in the connection of the reflex zones and acupressure points in the hands and feet which are linked to every organ, tissue, gland, and part of the body through energy or qi, which travels through zones and channels. This course will also employ aromatherapy essential oils to enhance the effects of the work.
Objective:
- Learn the location and function of reflex zones and acupressure points in the hand and feet
- Relate each zone and meridian to the physiological systems of the body and how energy medicine enhances their function
- You will learn the function and value of essential oils
- You will learn how to recognize important pathologies in the feet through special palpation
- Perform a comprehensive treatment using essential oils, reflexology and acupressure
Reflexology and Aromatherapy can be used in all chronic or difficult myofascial and viral conditions. Both zone and acupressure points are manipulated with the oils in techniques which come from Tibetan medicine. The combination of Eastern and Western techniques is deeper and more revitalizing than conventional Western reflexology.
What to Bring: Wear shorts/loose comfortable clothes. Bring materials to take notes, 1 set of sheets per day/face cradle cover/blanket, 2 hand towels, 2 standard size pillows and your favorite lubrication. If you use essential oils and wish to bring them with you, please feel free. Massage tables will be provided.
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.
Instructor: Wolfgang Luckmann LMT, LAP, has been an instructor of Massage Therapy & Bodywork in Florida since 1997 and Georgia since 2019. From 1998-2019, he has also practiced in Jacksonville, Florida as an Acupuncture Physician, a homeopath and a holistic health consultant. His work integrates Eastern and Western techniques from Acupuncture and meridian theory, Lomi Lomi, Ayurveda Medicine, Tui Na, Homeopathy, Neuromuscular Therapy, Craniosacral Therapy and Neuromuscular Therapy, among others to address the health and vitality of the whole body through touch therapies.
Muscle Melting: Non-Force Deep Tissue Massage(C875)
with Theresa Wilkes
CE Credits: 8 Hours -- NCBTMB# 450891-08
Cost: $250 ($295 if registering within 7 days of class)
MUST HAVE 10 STUDENTS REGISTERED FOR THE CLASS TO BE HELD.
To many people, Deep Tissue Massage means hard, aggressive, painful techniques meant to force the muscle to release tension. This type of work can leave the client with increased pain and the therapist burned out with stressed hands and joints. The latest anatomy research and development of advanced techniques show us the way to work in cooperation with the nervous system, the muscle proprioceptors, and the lymphatic system, engaging the body’s own healing mechanisms in order to release muscle tension and pain more thoroughly, deeply, and gently.
This class will teach the therapist to identify and flush inflammation out of the muscles in preparation for deep work. Slow, sinking strokes performed with soft hands and optimal body alignment will calm the nervous system and lower proprioceptive activity. Effective, specific routines of non-force, deep tissue massage for the low back & hips, upper back & rotator cuff, and neck will be demonstrated and practiced.
What to Bring: Bring a set of sheets/blanket, face cradle cover, lubrication, hand towel, blanket, wear comfortable clothes and bring 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.
About the Instructor:Theresa Wilkes, SC LMBT #6534 - Theresa has been training massage therapists since 1995. She was the Owner/Director of the NC School of Natural Healing and the Education Director at the Finger Lakes School of Massage. She has had a private practice for 34 years focused in clinical massage for the treatment of chronic pain, injury recovery and pre/post-surgical clients. Presently, she is the Owner and Head Therapist of Light Hand Clinical Massage in Greenville, SC. She is passionate and adept at teaching professional therapists to master advanced techniques with presence, skill and sensitivity. She specializes in teaching therapists to refine and strengthen their subtle palpation and assessment skills. Her classes are fun and packed practical information for beginning and advanced practitioners.
Call Teresa Greene at 615-370-9794 if you have any questions.
Neck & Shoulder Treatment Using Non-Force Deep Tissue Massage(C876)
with Theresa Wilkes
CE Credits: 8 Hours -- NCBTMB# 450891-08
Cost: $250 ($295 if registering within 7 days of class)
MUST HAVE 10 STUDENTS REGISTERED FOR THE CLASS TO BE HELD.
Every professional bodyworker should have the expertise, sensitivity and skills to safely and efficiently address chronic neck pain as well as neck strain syndromes. Equally as important is technical ability to treat tension and injuries in the rotator cuff muscles. This course will train the therapist in non-force deep tissue techniques and trigger point release for the anterior, medial and posterior neck muscles as well as all four SITS muscles and the associated muscles of the upper back, arm, and chest. Lymphatic flushing techniques will be demonstrated to relieve inflammation in the tissues. Stretching and breathing exercises will be given for client self-care.
What to Bring: Bring a set of sheets/blanket, face cradle cover, lubrication, hand towel, blanket, wear comfortable clothes and bring 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.
About the Instructor:Theresa Wilkes, SC LMBT #6534 - Theresa has been training massage therapists since 1995. She was the Owner/Director of the NC School of Natural Healing and the Education Director at the Finger Lakes School of Massage. She has had a private practice for 34 years focused in clinical massage for the treatment of chronic pain, injury recovery and pre/post-surgical clients. Presently, she is the Owner and Head Therapist of Light Hand Clinical Massage in Greenville, SC. She is passionate and adept at teaching professional therapists to master advanced techniques with presence, skill and sensitivity. She specializes in teaching therapists to refine and strengthen their subtle palpation and assessment skills. Her classes are fun and packed practical information for beginning and advanced practitioners.
Call Teresa Greene at 615-370-9794 if you have any questions.