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SFSM now
offers an intermediate massage program. Our 103 hour Massage Therapist
course is dedicated to developing professional massage therapists. This
course threads muscle function with palpation, visual assessment,
communication skills, and marketing.
Students will develop:
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Kinesthetic Awareness
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Body Reading skills
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Expanded massage techniques
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Self-Care techniques to avoid repetitive strain
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Ways to maintain intention and focus throughout a full session
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Confidence to achieve their professional goals
This program
is ideal for the graduate of our basic Swedish massage program as well as
the practicing therapist who is seeking deeper understanding of the body
and their role as a health care provide. We are certain that each student
will leave with the confidence and knowledge that will lead them to a
successful practice in massage therapy.
Class Overview:
Kinesthetic Awareness:
Students will examine the relationship between muscle function in regards
to daily tasks and common complaints from clients. Palpating familiar
muscles determines their direction and action. With practice, you will be
able to identify variations of muscle patterns.
Massage Technique:
Working within the familiar format of Swedish massage, students will
utilize new knowledge of posture and muscle function to inform their
massage work, applying strokes and new techniques with a specifically
therapeutic intent and approach.
Deepening Mindfulness:
Throughout the course various awareness and meditative practices will be
introduced and woven throughout the course in classroom and at home
practices that will enhance, support, and expand students’ abilities to
practice being present with clients and themselves.
Clinical and Professional Skills:
Students will explore the possibilities of several professional situations
as well as marketing and practice building techniques, cultivating
essential skills from networking with other health professionals to basic
record keeping, including exposure to working in a clinical setting
through a visit to a chiropractic office.
SCHEDULE
Our next Massage Therapist program
begins: March 11, 2008
PREREQUISITE: Completion
of a 100+ hour Swedish massage certificate program.
Tuition for the Massage Therapist Program
is as follows:
| Program |
Books |
S.T.R.F. |
Total |
Down Payment |
Monthly Payments |
| Massage
Therapist |
not included |
$2.50 |
$1450.00 |
$700.00 |
3 X $250.00 |
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