Our Courses 2009 & 2010
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Courses - What's on at NLSSM...
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Booking Procedure:
- Please fill in the CPD form, then either email it or send in the hard copy.
- Payment methods, choice of Pay Pal, cheque or bank transfer (please note that if you are paying by paypal you will still need to fill in the relevant application form).
Anatomy Trains Myofascial Meridians for Therapists l Postural Assessment l First Aid for Sport Massage Therapists l The Therapeutic Zone l Strapping & Taping l
Fascial Release Work around
the Throax with special emphasis on dealing with Idiopathic Scolosis l Reclaiming
the Knees l Sports
Thai Massage l
PSOAS: Storer
of all Stress l Fascinating Fascia l MET
- Muscle Energy Technique lThe River of Life: Respiratpry Enhancement l
Soft Tissue & Movement Strategies for Resolving Trauma to the Lower Limb l STR - Soft Tissue Release l Body3 Series: Intrinsic Muscles of the Pelvis Intensive
l Medical Massage for Lumbar-Pelvis & Cervical Spine l Meet Your Body l On-Site Seated Chair Massage l
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The course aims to introduce the principles of taping and strapping for use in sports injury management. By the end of the course students will be able to tape and strap body parts using elasticated and non elasticated taping products. They will also be able to immobilise a body part using taping and strapping products, thus preventing injury during sport. Tutor: Liz Soames has over ten years experience working within the Therapy field, starting out alongside Physiotherapists at her local sports club and now working with the English Institute of Sport and High Performance Athletes. Since gaining her initial qualifications in Exercise and Sports Massage, Liz worked freelance throughout London and her home town providing Sports Specific Exercise and Soft Tissue Therapy, Liz moved into lecturing in Sports Massage therapy for Premier Training International in 2002. Liz combines working with the English Institute of Sport, teaching on the Diploma in Sports and Remedial Massage for PTS and running her own Sports Injury and Rehabilitation clinic. |
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Dates: Location: North London School of Sports Massage (NLSSM) Whether paying by paypal or cheque, please fill in an application form located within forms in the above tabs. Included in the day: a strapping and taping kit worth £25, you will be able to take home what you do not use, refreshments and morning snack, course notes and a certificate of attendance. |
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Anatomy Trains - Myofascial Meridians for Therapists Anatomy Trains is a revolutionary new way of looking at the body developed by author and Rolfer, Tom Myers. Anatomy Trains allows for easy analysis of whole body soft-tissue patterns and the development of strategies for unwinding them. The Anatomy Trains method is most effective for chronic, long lasting problems that persist despite standard, muscular based bodywork. Want to learn how to get to the source of a problem? In this 2-day Anatomy Trains intensive you will:
Tutor: James Earls has been practicing bodywork for 15 years and has trained in a variety of approaches. He is founder and director of Ultimate Massage Solutions and has trained with Tom Myers, originator of the Anatomy Trains theory, and is a registered teacher of his approach. James has travelled widely to learn from some of the top educators in the field and he now teaches a range of courses for schools in Ireland, the UK and Europe. He has worked at the World Triathlon Championships in Hawaii and been invited to work with Premiership football teams, teaching their sports medicine teams and working on "problem" players. He now specializes in myofascial release and structural integration to rid the body of restrictions and restore the body's natural postural balance. |
Course Dates: Venue: North London School of Sports Massage (NLSSM) Whether paying by paypal or cheque, please fill in an application form located within forms in the above tabs. Full Payment £185.00 For more information visit: www.AnatomyTrains.net |
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In this workshop we discuss the theories and physiology behind postural deterioration. From this understanding we can relate the changes in movement purity to the muscle chains that provide stability whilst producing force. Using our key movement pattern assessments we can identify and understand how the body compensates for the weakness that inevitably leads to dysfunction and postural changes. These key assessments can then form the foundation of a corrective strategy and effective postural exercise prescription. This workshop is a must for all industry professionals that are interested in treating postural deterioration. Providing a structured, simplistic and effective approach to postural correction. Tutor: Jason Anderson presents his concepts and principles at the top fitness conventions in the UK (Fitpro, Loughborough and Multitrax UK) and also of numerous club chains around the world. He is also the Fitness expert, exercise model and regular contributor for Men's fitness & other industry publications. Jason specialises in postural correction, movement dysfunction, joint and back pain, injury rehabilitation and performance conditioning. He currently operates from the Amido club in Hampton, Twickenham www.amidoclubs.com where he runs his successful Personal Training business and acts as a PT Manager for One to One Personal Training. |
POSTURAL ASSESSMENT Course Dates: Time: 09:00 to 16:00 Whether paying by paypal or cheque, please fill in an application form located within forms in the above tabs. Full Payment £85.00 Included in the day: refreshments and morning snack, course notes & a certificate of attendance. |
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Who Treats the Therapist? The ‘Therapeutic’ Zone. How best to avoid burnout, and to work with greater energy, purpose and vitality. This course is relevant to every therapist, no matter what discipline they are involved in. It is relevant on two counts, the first that being drained by your patients is by no means inevitable. You can be energised at the end of a days work if you follow the simple principles of this course. Secondly, how you interact with your client influences the results you get with that person. This course will improve your treatment outcomes. What the course develops is the therapeutic zone which equates very well to the sporting zone. As therapists we perform a physical skill like any sportsman or woman. In order for them to attain their optimum performance they have to be focused mentally. The therapeutic zone will optimise your performance as a therapist. Goals Testamonial
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Dates: Time: 09:00 - 16:00 Whether paying by paypal or cheque, please fill in an application form located within forms in the above tabs. Full Payment £85.00 Included in the day: refreshments and morning snack and a certificate of attendance will be provided.
Tutor: Stuart Robertson teaches both national and internationally on the fascial system, as well as having a clinical practice in Somerset. He has broad clinical experience having worked with both international sportsmen and people with chronic pain. For further information see www.dmbem.com |
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Sports Appointed Persons 1st Aid A course specifically designed for health care workers as well as those in sport. It not only includes the topics required for the appointed person's certificate but is delivered in a sports context. Day one is sufficient for those needing the appointed persons certificate. HSE Approved. Unit 1 – Sport First Aid Emergency Action (7hrs) Content:
Unit 2 – Sport First Aid Incident Management (7hrs)
This award supports all Coaches and Instructors in Sport, Exercise, Recreation and Fitness. The activity of leisure centres, travel and tourism guides, teachers and youth leaders, schools and youth organisations are also enhanced. Within the field of first aid training this award could be a building block towards advanced first aid or an essential first step to becoming a self-employed ITC Provider or freelance First Aid Trainer.
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Unit 1
Course Dates: Time: 09:00 to 17:00 Full Payment £99.00 Unit 1 Included in the day: refreshments and morning snack, interactive hands on practical training, easy to follow individual course booklet and a recognised certificate valid for 3 years. Unit 2 Course Date: 21st June 2009 Time: 09:00 to 17:00 Full Payment £180.00 Unit 1 & 2 Whether paying by paypal or cheque, please fill in an application form located within forms in the above tabs. Tutors: Charles Holmes, a qualified ITEC massage therapist (since 1990), completed a course in myofascial release at LSSM, HSE First Aid instructor, trained as a paramedic at Hertfordshire University. Jenny Pugh is an adventure sports woman, Professional Kinesiology Practitioner and member of the British Register of Complementary Practitioners. She has been delivering first aid courses specific to sports and the outdoors since 2006 and together herself and Charles run React First - First Aid Training providing specialised and health and safety first aid training |
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Fascial Release work around the Thorax with special emphasis on dealing with Idiopathic Scolosis How can we change a hard and rigid rib cage into a softer
and more flexible thoracic basket? How to deal with ankylosing
spondylitis, with chronic head forward posture, or with
a sunken and curved in chest? Any new insights on how to
open the common flatness below the dowagers hump between
the shoulder blades? We will explore these questions with
lots of practical tools and clinical information. These
will be based on fascial anatomy, creative body positioning
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Course Dates: Time: 09:00
- 17:00 To book, contact name Nicola, 028 9048 1267 or go to www.anatomytrains.co.uk or email workshops@anatomytrains.co.uk Included in the day: course notes, refreshments and morning snack, certificate of attendance. Tutor: Robert Schleip PhD directs the Fascia Research Project at Ulm University, Germany and is also Research Director of the European Rolfing Association. He has an MA degree in psychology and a PhD in human biology. Robert has been a professional bodyworker since 1978 and is a certified Rolfing instructor as well as Feldenkrais teacher, plus author of several books and numerous other publications. His recent discovery of active contractile properities in fascial tissues was awarded with the prestigious Vladimir Janda Award for Muscuoskeletal Medicine. He was co-initiator and organizer of the first Fascia Research Congress at the conference center of Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA in 2007, and is preparing the next fascia research congress to happen at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in October 2009. www.somatics.de www.fasciaresearch.de |
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Have you ever felt at a loss when trying to help clients
rehabilitate tricky knee injuries? Have you wished for
more specific knowledge as to how to relieve knee pain
and trauma? Would you like to be able to teach clients
how to better preserve and protect their knees? Students
will take away a new model of knee trauma that sees ligamentous
damage or strain in context of fascial lines and troubles
above and below the knee as well as right in the joint.
By relieving these fascial pulls and learning to enhance
range of motion through the joint, we’ll give clients
the ability to reclaim their knees. |
Course Dates: Time: 09:00 - 16:00 Whether paying by paypal or cheque, please fill in an application form located within forms in the above tabs. Full Payment £100.00 Included in the day: refreshments and morning snack, course notes and a certificate of attendance will be provided. Who is it suitable for: experienced therapists. The day will include practical elements, hence a familiarity and ability using manual soft tissue skills is essential. Tutor: Noah Karrasch is a certified Rolfer since 1986. Over the past 22 years he has developed his own style of work, CORE Bodywork. This work focuses on client participation, communication, and the overriding concept that to elicit change on the outer person one must touch the CORE. Noah lives in Springfield, Missouri where he mantains a clinic. In East Central London he affiliates with the Wren Clinic. He is nationally certified as continuing education providor in the US (NCBTMB) and teaches CORE Bodywork extensively in the Mid-western area of the counry and for several schools in the UK. |
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SPORTS THAI MASSAGE is the blend of Sports and Remedial massage with Traditional Thai Yoga Massage. This course is designed to integrate the ancient philosophy and modern skills. It will enhance your palpation and assessment skills by using these two types of massage. The system is useful for therapist treating complex problems and event work or those who want to vary the way they work to save their body! In the 2 days you will learn:
Tutor: Paula Edwards is an experienced massage therapist trained since 1991 in South Africa. She qualified at the LSSM in 1997 and has been working in her mobile and clinic based business using all her varied skills in Sports & Remedial Massage, Traditional Thai Yoga Massage, Swedish Massage, and Aromatherapy. She is also a senior tutor at the NLSSM. |
Course Dates: Time: 09:00
to 17:00 Whether paying by paypal or cheque, please fill in an application form located within forms in the above tabs.
Included in the day: refreshments and morning snack, course notes & exercise descriptions, a certificate of attendance. |
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Has your training in psoas palpation and release thus
far consisted of directions such as “Be careful”, “We
don’t go there,” or “We massage the colon
only?” If so, you may be ready to take the next step
to see the psoas as the superhighway of a deep line that
runs from the ears and throat all the way to the toes;
and to learn simple, yet sophisticated techniques to release
and balance psoas, iliacus, and quadratus lumborum muscles
to enhance health throughout the body. |
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Date: Time: 09:00 - 16:00 Whether paying by paypal or cheque, please fill in an application form located within forms in the above tabs. Full Payment £100.00 Tutor: Noah Karrasch is a certified Rolfer since 1986. Over the past 22 years he has developed his own style of work, CORE Bodywork. This work focuses on client participation, communication, and the overriding concept that to elicit change on the outer person one must touch the CORE. Noah lives in Springfield, Missouri where he mantains a clinic. In East Central London he affiliates with the Wren Clinic. He is nationally certified as continuing education providor in the US (NCBTMB) and teaches CORE Bodywork extensively in the Mid-western area of the counry and for several schools in the UK. |
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This course is designed for therapists already qualified in Sport, Remedial, Holistic and Swedish Massage. It will improve, extend or add on a new skill to your growing repetoire of techniques. MET is used to stretch tight muscles and fascia, strengthen weak muscles, release hypertonicity, improve muscluloskeletal function & mobilise restricted joints. 4 Day Course includes: Theory behind the technique 2 1/2 Day Course includes: Theory behind the technique The shorter version is suitable for those who have an advanced background in functional anatomy and are experienced therapists. NLSSM Tutors: Our teachers are not only highly qualified in their fields of expertise but are also trained in the application of accelerated learning techniques, to ensure students learn more. Classes are kept small (14-16) to ensure students receive the necessary attention and support.
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4 Day Course Dates: Day 1: 25th July 2 1/2 day Course Dates: Assessment Dates: Assessment dates are booked separately by sending in an application along with your cheque for £50 once the course has been completed. Assessments are only necessary for those wanting to upgrade their level of education to meet the requirements of their awarding body. Time: 09:00 to 16:00 Full Payment paypal 4
Day Course £340.00
including VAT Full Payment paypal 2 1/2 Day Course £215.00 including VAT |
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This course is designed for therapists already qualified
in Sport, Remedial, Holistic and/or Swedish Massage. It will
improve, extend or add on a new skill to your growing repetoire
of techniques. STR is a combination of movement and manipulation
by locking into the relevant tissues, while simultaneously
stretching fascial and/or muscle fibres. It is used to
relieve chronic tissue congestion, breaking down adhesions
and scar tissue. It's intention is to improve the elasticity
and increase the length of the muscle. It has all the traditional
benefits of massage and can be use in a multitude of settings. 1 1/2 Day Course includes: NLSSM Tutors: Our teachers are not only highly qualified in their fields of expertise but are also trained in the application of accelerated learning techniques, to ensure students learn more. Classes are kept small (14-16) to ensure students receive the necessary attention and support. |
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Dates Day 1 (1/2 day) - 19th July 2009 Day 1 (1/2 day) - 3rd October 2009 Day 1 (1/2 day) - 5th December 2009 Day 1 (1/2 day) - 14th February 2010 Assessment Dates 2009/2010: Time: Day one: 13:00 to 16:00 Full Payment £140.00 |
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As well as an opportunity for promoting yourself and increasing
your earning power, on-site chairs can be an effective tool
for remedial massage treatment. At NLSSM we will teach you
how to maximize the use of your chair, deliver a dynamic
treatment, and suggest ideas about how to market yourself. Small workshop tailored to your needs. Beginners and advanced welcome. This is suitable for those with previous massage experience. Tutor: Susan Findlay has worked as a massage therapist for over 15 years - runs her own clinic and has a vast amount of experience working as an on-site-massage therapist. She has developed this short course for experienced or newly graduated therapists who would like to use this method of massage in order to accommodate a variety of situations. The intention of this workshop is to tailor it to your needs, so even if you have never used a chair before or you have an extensive background but want fresh ideas, simply indicate what you would like to get out of the session on the application form. |
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Dates: Time: 19:00 to 21:00 Whether paying by paypal or cheque, please fill in an application form located within forms in the above tabs. Full Payment £51.75 |
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Noah Karrasch’s recently released book, Meet Your
Body: CORE Bodywork and Rolfing Tools To Release Bodymindcore
Trauma, (Singing Dragon Press, London and Philadelphia, 2009)
is the result of a quarter century’s practice and study
of bodies. He has created a model of bodywork and self care
based on a simple concept of both oiling the various hinges
of the body, and learning to create space between them. If
you’ve felt you’d like to have a new way to see
and unwind body traumas in clients, or if you’d like
to improve your ability to create specific rehabilitative
protocols for clients, this class will help. This course is limited to practicing manual therapists Included in the day: refreshments and morning snack, course notes and a certificate of attendance. |
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Dates: Time: 09:00 to 16:00 Whether paying by paypal or cheque, please fill in an application form located within forms in the above tabs. Full Payment £100.00 Tutor: Noah Karrasch is a certified Rolfer since 1986. Over the past 22 years he has developed his own style of work, CORE Bodywork. This work focuses on client participation, communication, and the overriding concept that to elicit change on the outer person one must touch the CORE. Noah lives in Springfield, Missouri where he mantains a clinic. In East Central London he affiliates with the Wren Clinic. He is nationally certified as continuing education providor in the US (NCBTMB) and teaches CORE Bodywork extensively in the Mid-western area of the counry and for several schools in the UK. |
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Soft Tissue and Movement Strategies for Resolving Trauma to the Limb - An Intergrated Approach for Rehabilitation We have all dealt with the complex chain of events that
occur in the foot, knee, hip, pelvis and resultant strain
up the body when our clients injure just one link in the
chain. This workshop will examine the kinesiological, myofascial
and joint adaptations that impede healing, and will give
numerous treatment options to help return the whole chain
to normal function.
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Dates: Time: 09:00 - 17:00 To book, contact name Nicola, 028 9048 1267 or go to www.anatomytrains.co.uk or email workshops@anatomytrains.co.uk Tutor: Art
Riggs is an Advanced Rolfer living in the San Francisco area
who has been teaching bodywork since 1987. His classes are
a masterful blend of technical information and insightful
practical theory that will greatly expand your view of massage
therapy. |
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River of Life: Respiratory Enhancement Breath is the centrepiece of physiology, anatomy, psychology, and somatics. Nothing reveals so much about the client’s state of being as the pattern of the breath. Nothing can change the energy of the client so much as a change in the breath. In this course, we will learn to read these patterns, see where the breath is not happening in either inhale or exhale, and learn touch-cueing and myofascial releases for enhancing the breath. The course includes a comprehensive tour of the anatomy of respiration in the rib cage, diaphragm, pelvis, and neck, and various approaches to what constitutes the ‘proper’ breath - there are many ideas about this from yoga, Alexander Technique, Pilates and others. We will also explore insights into the musical voice, speech, and breath in sport. |
Course Dates: Time: 09:00 to 17:00 To book, contact name Nicola, 028 9048 1267 or go to www.anatomytrains.co.uk or email workshops@anatomytrains.co.uk Tutor: Thomas
Myers directs Kinesis Inc which offers cutting-edge anatomically
based continuing education and professional certification
in KMI Structural Integration worldwide. Thomas studied with
Ida Rolf, Moshe Feldenkrais, and Buckminster Fuller, and
has practiced integrative bodywork for over 30 years in a
variety of clinical and cultural settings. |
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Fascinating Fascia with Robert Schleip This workshop will focus on fascia as a most fascinating tissue seen through recent scientific discoveries. We will start with the biomechanical properties of fascial tissues. This will address the tensegrity networking nature of fascia, as well its ability to respond to mechanical loading with dynamic changes in water content. We will also explore recent biomechanical insights about the contribution of elastic recoil oscillatory properties of fascia in walking, running and other cyclic movement activities; including practical applications for movement education.A highlight is, of course, the latest findings from the fascia laboratory at Ulm University, addressing the ability of fascia to actively contract and relax in a smooth muscle like manner, based on the presence of contractile connective tissue cells (myofibroblasts) in fascia. We explore new hypotheses on the relationship between myofibroblast density in fascia and systemic joint hyper-/hypo-mobility, as well as indications on the enhancing/inhibitory effects of various chemical, nutritional and mechanical stimulations on fascial stiffness. Again with practical applications: looking at how can we have long-term effects on tissue stiffness. Finally this workshop will explore fascia as our richest sensory organ. The four types of fascial mechanoreceptors will be addressed in detail, including guidelines on how to stimulate each of them via therapeutic manual mechanostimulation. The mutually antagonistic relationship between fascial proprioception and myofascial pain will be emphasized. The most recent findings on differences in the sensory innervation of fascia between different persons as well as between different topographical tissues will be included. Specific suggestions will be made about therapeutic avenues to alter brain mapping (body image/ body schema) via proprioceptive fascial stimulation. |
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Dates: Time: 09:00 to 17:00 To book, contact Nicola 028 9048 1267
or go to www.anatomytrains.co.uk or
email workshops@anatomytrains.co.uk |
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