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Wednesday, March 13th, 2013 from 6:00-8:00 p.m.This is an exciting time to become a Therapeutic Massage & Body Work Specialist! Please call, text, or email:952.5612.5200admissions@CenterPointMN.comLEARN about the therapeutic bodywork professionMEET Cari Pelava and  Jackson Petersburg, co-founders of CenterPoint & nationally recognized, master-level instructors   DISCOVER the art and  science foundation of therapeutic  Massage and Shiatsu therapyHEAR about the exciting career options, educational and program choices you have at  CenterPointEXPLORE your future in a warm & welcoming environmentENJOY a FUN and  INSPIRATIONAL evening! ...

If you want to reduce muscle tightness, ease inflammation, and improve blood flow massage therapy after extensive exercise can reduce pain and help muscles recover. Plus it feels very good. Athletes, athletic coaches and trainers, and health professionals have contended for a long time that massage therapy can ease inflammation, improve blood flow, and reduce muscle tightness. Researchers have found out what happens to people’s muscles when a massage therapist works on them.The researchers found eleven young male volunteers who they required to exercise to exhaustion. Plus they had to have five incisions made in their legs so they could ...

What do pregnant women, athletes, geriatric clients; people with HIV/AIDS, cancer, and survivors of trauma and abuse have in common? All of these special populations have been found to find the benefit of well being from massage therapy. Cancer survivors and patients, HIV patients, athletes, survivors of trauma and abuse are all similar when they say that massage therapy has and does play a very important place in their lives. At whatever point they each may be in their individual journeys one thing comes out in study after study. Well-trained therapeutic bodywork professional can make a real ...

Learn and practice the basic hand techniques of Lymph Drainage Massage (LDM) in this class. Participants will learn how to use light-touch massage strokes to move excess lymphatic fluid (edema) out of the body’s tissues and spaces and into the lymph system. When edema is moved into the lymph system it can be purified and transported for recirculation or elimination. Massage therapists and therapeutic bodywork professionals can offer significant therapeutic benefits for many types of clients. You can use lymph drainage therapy for clients including those who have pre/post surgery pain, chronic pain, edema, lymph edema, inflammation, soft tissue injury, ...

When people talk about improving their circulation most people think that they are talking about the blood system in their body. However, there is another very important circulatory system in the body: the lymphatic system. While the blood system is like a water system in the body the liver is like it’s sewer system and drains.  When there is a big rain in the city the sewer system and drains are often overloaded. When people are ill, suffer an injury, or are overloaded with toxins, their lymphatic system can get overloaded. The lymphatic system branches throughout your entire body and ...

Join us for the first in three workshops! The AIS #2: Lower Body, June 2 & 3 and AIS #3: Core and Extremities, Sept 15 & 16 will be held on Saturday & Sunday 8-5! Up to 60 seconds or longer is what experts over the past twenty years have used as the gold standard for a stretch to last to be effective! Now experts have found that prolonged static stretching like that decreases blood flow to the tissues and can cause lactic acid buildup. The old way of stretching can result in irritation, or injury of muscular, tendinous, lymphatic, as ...

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2010 Continuing Education for Therapeutic Bodywork & Health Professionals Come and enjoy yourself as you meet your educational needs - make new friends and renew old friendships while you enhance your professional skills and learn from experts in your field of interest.... ...