Our Courses

Activated Isolated Stretching

The Active Isolated Stretching method of muscle lengthening and fascia release provides effective, dynamic and facilitated stretching of major muscles groups. More importantly, AIS provides functional and physiological restoration of superficial and deep fascia planes. AIS has proven to be particularly effective for postural realignment.

In this 2-day Active Isolated Stretching intensive, you will:

1. Learn to interpret clients posture patterns and correct the imbalance
2. Identify the specific muscles to be stretched
3. Isolate the muscles to be stretched by using precise localized movement
4. Establish the correct breathing rhythm when stretching
5. Increase flexibility, mobility and healthy muscles, tendons and ligaments, reducing the risk of strain, sprains and tears
6. Learn Active Isolated Stretching for lengthening and releasing tightness surrounding muscles and fascia of a joint
7. Through AIS lengthen the target muscle without triggering the stretch reflex

Tutor:
Michael is a Sports Massage Practitioner trained by the London School of Sports Massage (LSSM), a tutor at the North London School of Sports Massage (NLSSM). He practices Active Isolated Stretching (AIS), The Aaron Mattes method. After many years in sport at a very competitive level he turned his attention to Triathlon and has competed in major races to National standard including Ironman distances. Currently a Member of East London Triathletes and Orion Harriers, he has also worked with a wide range of athletes.

Course Dates:


13th & 14th Septmber 2008

Location: North London School of Sports Massage (NLSSM)
Cost: £150.00 including VAT
Times: 9am - 5pm Saturday & Sunday

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Deposit (£60.00)

Final Payment (£90.00)

This course is aimed at massage therapists, osteopaths, personal trainers, sports therapists and physiotherapists.

Included in the day: refreshments and morning snack, course notes & exercise descriptions, a certificate of attendance.

Anatomy & Dissection Days

For those who want a more realistic anatomy day, can experience the ultimate by working on cadavers at a South West London teaching hospital. You will have an opportunity to look at specimens, view bones and muscles, their origins and insertions, nerve and blood supply and other anatomical features. You can even have a feel (gloves provided)!

A certificate of attendance will be provided and will count towards CPD points (one day for Bowen practitioners, half day for Pilates teachers).

Cost: These courses can be paid by cheque or bank transfer. (Full payment is required to confirm your place). Please indicate on your payment which one you are applying for. A limited number of spaces are available, so please register early.

Location: Central London Teaching Hospital

Course Dates & Subjects:



Friday 20th June Hip/trunk flexion by psoas, gluteals, abdominals and deep muscles (£90.00)
1.30- 4.30pm of the lower spine


Friday 20th June Interactive one day Myofascial Workshop for Evidence through Dissection (195.00)
10 - 5.30pm

Wednesday 9th July Joint function and dysfunction of the hip, leg, knee and ankle (£90.00)
1.30 - 4.30pm

9th & 10th July Lumbo pelvic slings and lower back fascia (£345.00)
10am - 5.30pm

25th - 29th August (5 days) Gill Hedley workshop

Wednesday 27th August Neck, shoulder and upper limb (£90.00)
1.30 - 4.30pm

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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?
Would you like to create more balance in your clients?

In this 2-day Anatomy Trains intensive you will:

• Understand the nature of the fascial web
• Learn how the fascial web is organized into 11 simple Anatomy Trains
• Learn how these Anatomy Trains cause pain far from the problem
• Build skills in 'body-reading'these global patterns in posture and movement
• Learn to interpret client posture patterns to find the source of their problem
• Develop strategies for resolving these patterns once detected

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:

1st & 2nd November 2008
7th & 8th March 2009
23rd & 24th May 2009
10th & 11th October 2009

Venue: North London School of Sports Massage (NLSSM)
Cost: £185 including VAT
Times: 9am - 5pm Saturday & Sunday
Contact: Cassandra on 44 (0) 208 375 3518

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For more information visit: www.AnatomyTrains.net

Gim Postural Assessment

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. Janson 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:

21st September 2008
10th January 2009

Time: 09:00 to 16:00
Location: Conel College, Tottenham, London N15 4RU
Cost: £85.00 including VAT

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Included in the day: refreshments and morning snack, course notes & a certificate of attendance.

Top Ten Hot Spots

Would you find it useful to work through a list of the most effective places to touch bodies that will consistently coax maximum change and release, time after time?  If such a list were developed by a successful Rolfer over a twenty-two year deep tissue bodywork career, could learning and practicing this list be useful to you and your practice?

Students will leave this class with new tools: tried and true deep release work on spots that consistently elicit fascial, physiological and psychological change in clients.  This is a practice-changing day!

In this one day intensive class you will:

* Learn anatomy and release techniques at each of the ten spots.
* Watch a demonstration of release of each spot, then practice with a partner.
* See on handouts and feel in the bodies, how to effect the change.
* Begin to understand these ten spots in terms of fascial restrictions that surface in and connect through the entire body.
* Develop a new style of seeing, communicating and working with clients to enhance deeper release work back in your own studio, based on the Rolf model.

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Course Dates:

16th November2008

Time: 09:00 - 16:00
Location: Conel College, Tottenham, London N15 4RU
Cost: £99.00 including VAT

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Included in the day: refreshments and morning snack and a certificate of attendance will be provided.

Tutor: Noah certified as a Rolfer in 1986 after a career as a professional musician and teacher of music. 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 maintains a clinic.  In East Central London he affiliates with the Wren Clinic.  He is nationally certified as a continuing education provider in the US
(NCBTMB) and teaches CORE* Bodywork extensively in the Mid-western area of the country.

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
This practically orientated one day workshop provides an opportunity to :-
Improve your health as a therapist.
Become energised at the end of a days work
Develop light touch palpatory skills in new and exciting way
Enhance the skills you already have
Understand that you are the difference that makes the difference.

Testamonial
‘So good, worth doing twice - rather like New York!
Having partcipated in "The Therapeutic Zone" led by Stuart I can vouch from personal experience that it delivers a huge practical benefit. Subsequent treatments have been more focussed and effective whilst being less draining of my energy. I recommend that all manual therapists sign up as a priority.’

Course Dates:

27th September 2008

Time: 09:00 - 16:00
Location: Conel College, Tottenham, London N15 4RU
Cost: £85.00 including VAT

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Full Payment £85.00 Paypal

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

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.

Unit 1 – Sport First Aid Emergency Action (7hrs) Content:

• Safe best practice
• A systematic approach to incident management
• Unconsciousness, causes and treatment
• External bleeding, internal bleeding and shock
• Resuscitation procedures including choking
• Awareness of current regulations
• Optional topics tailored to group

Unit 2 – Sport First Aid Incident Management (7hrs)

• Roles and responsibilities
• Sports first aid kit
• Limb injury
• Head injury, stroke, eye
• Neck injury spinal management
• Torso abdomen
• Heat & cold illness, burns, blisters, stings, anaphylaxis
  
• Common illness, asthma, epilepsy, diabetes
  
• Sports specific scenarios - event, training, athlete team rescues
  
• Post traumatic stress

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.

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 providing specialised and health and safety first aid training

Unit 1 Course Dates:


13th September 2008
8th November 2008

Unit 2 Course Date:

TBC

Time: 09:00 to 17:00
Location: Conel College, Tottenham, London N15 4RU
Cost: Unit 1 £99.00 including VAT
Unit 2 £188.00 including VAT if booked at the time of Unit 1.

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Full Payment (£188.00) Paypal Unit 1 & 2

 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.

Deep Tissue Massage for the Lower Body

Deep Tissue Massage is much more than just a “hard massage.” In contrast to only relaxing muscles, the specific lengthening of fascia, muscles and tendons offers many benefits such as freer joint movement, quicker injury recovery, and better posture, as well as feelings of well-being.

In this 2-day workshop we will incorporate BodyReading, based on the Anatomy Trains SM theory and the work of Tom Myers, as a basis to better understand possible causes of common lower body dysfunctions.

Key anatomical landmarks will be reviewed in combination with precise Fascial Release Techniques (FRTs) that will allow you to be specific with your work; focusing on the layers that are creating difficulties for your clients and cultivating your palpation skills when working with these deeper layers.

Protocols for treatment of common conditions of the lower body will be addressed to include:
* Patellar and Achilles’ tendonitis
* Plantar fasciitis
* Compartment syndromes, and
* Shin splints

The aim of this workshop is to incorporate Deep Tissue Massage and Remedial Style techniques with Postural Analysis and Myofascial Exploration in order to find the "structural keys" to create longer lasting effective work. The more you can see, the more efficient your work will become.

This workshop will help you to:
* ‘see’ the global picture when analyzing your client’s posture
* develop coherent single or multi session strategies for resolving strain patterns, with particular reference to common dysfunctions of the lower body
* create a better balance for the lower body

Course Dates:

27th & 28th September 2008

Time: 09:00 - 16:00
Location: Conel College, Tottenham, London N15 4RU
Cost: £185.00 including VAT

Please send in your application to the office or contact us directly to apply for the course.

Included in the day: course notes, refreshments and morning snack, certificate of attendance.

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.
He is the author of the book, Deep Tissue Massage; A Visual Guide To Techniques and Deep Tissue Massage and Myofascial Release: A Video Guide to Techniques - a highly acclaimed and popular 11 hour DVD series, as well as frequent articles in U.S. bodywork magazines

Lower Limb Biomechanics

This one day workshop has been developed for sports massage practitioners, sports therapists, remedial instructors and personal trainers.

The workshop aims to introduce different foot postures and identify the need for orthotic therapy. The practitioner will learn how to identify different foot types, how to prescribe a basic orthotic, and when to refer to an appropriately trained healthcare professional.

Delegates will learn subtalar joint function/dysfunction and how to evaluate the gait cycle. Common conditions associated with biomechanical dysfunction will be discussed, including plantar fasciitis, heel spurs, low back pain, knee pain and leg length discrepancy.

Practical elements to the workshop include how to determine subtalar neutral, measuring navicular drop, low dye taping and fitting an off-the-shelf orthotic device. There will also be a chance for the delegate to have their own feet scanned using the very lastest computerised gait analysis equipment.

Tutor:
Paul Turner is a director and principal tutor of Pulse Training Solutions. He is an experienced sports massage and sports therapy lecturer and has full membership of both the Sports Massage Association and the Institute of Sport & Remedial Massage. He worked exclusively in professional football between 1994 and 2001, after which he lectured in sports massage and sports therapy as a Programme Manager for Premier Training International.

Paul is also a registered Podiatrist and holds a Diploma in Podiatric Medicine and is a member of the Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists. In addition to lecturing, Paul runs a podiatry and sports massage clinic based in Buckingham, specialising in gait and posture.

Course Dates:

TBC

Time: 09:00 - 16:00
Location: Conel College, Tottenham, London N15 4RU
Cost: £99.00 including VAT

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Full Payment £99.00 Paypal

Included in the day: refreshments and morning snack, course notes and a certificate of attendance will be provided.

CORE Bodywork presents: The CORE 1 Intensive - A Receipe for Deep Tissue Work

The goal of CORE* Bodywork is to coax structural balance by eliminating fascial restrictions in the body.  CORE* I Intensive is designed to give massage therapists who want to enhance their deep tissue skills and effectiveness, a specific all-purpose formula for a session and a new philosophy of deep work.  CORE* intends to release client holding patterns and fascial tension as well as to enhance client physical and emotional well-being, regardless of the client’s condition.

Are you ready to take your clients, especially the problematic ones, to new layers of change?  Are you ready for new tools to make your work easier and more effective?

In this three day intensive class you will:
* Learn the CORE* philosophy of touch and the nature of fascia.
* Learn a ten-step protocol for working with deep tissue and a one-hour recipe for a deep bodywork session, as well as how to modify the recipe to suit specific client needs.
* Watch tutor assessment and demonstration of a session.
* Sharpen intuitive assessment skills, using all the senses.
* Examine the PSOAS muscle as the key to resiliency in the body.
* View muscle roadmaps through the body that connect seemingly unconnected problem spots.
* Give and receive CORE* sessions with fellow students.
* Discuss contraindications and applications for specific problems.
* Assess and work with outside clients in a CORE* session.
* Learn and experience stretches appropriate to client and practitioner.

Tutor: Noah certified as a Rolfer in 1986 after a career as a professional musician and teacher of music. 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 maintains a clinic.  In East Central London he affiliates with the Wren Clinic.  He is nationally certified as a continuing education provider in the US
(NCBTMB) and teaches CORE* Bodywork extensively in the Mid-western area of the country.

Course Dates:

22nd, 29th, & 30th November 2008

Time: 09:00 - 16:00
Location: Conel College, Tottenham London N15 4RU
Cost: £275.00 including VAT

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Deposit (£60.00) Paypal

Final Payment (£215.00) Paypal

Included in the day: refreshments and morning snack, course notes, and a certificate of attendance.

Sports Thai Massage Workshop

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:

• The philosophy and history of energy lines
• To read and interpret body movement patterns
• To apply Thai Yoga stretches
• To work on and off the couch
• Develop a full body treatment

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:

4th & 5th October 2008

Time: 09:00 to 17:00
Location: Conel College, Tottenham, London N15 4RU
Cost: £175.00 including VAT

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Included in the day: refreshments and morning snack, course notes & exercise descriptions, a certificate of attendance.

Strapping and Taping

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.

Course Date:

29th June 2008

Time: 09:00 - 16:00
Location: Conel College, Tottenham, London N15 4RU
Cost: £116.00 including VAT

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Deposit (£25.00) Paypal

Final Payment (£91.00) Paypal

Full Payment (£116.00) Paypal

Included in the day: refreshments and morning snack, course notes, strapping & taping supplies and a certificate of attendance.

Critical Thinking for Bodyworkers

Many therapists met Noah Karrasch last fall when he presented several classes at NLSSM.  This year he returns with his next phase of training. During three class days, students will learn to assess, plan and give a series of three sessions with a partner and a model based on a framework that allows students to break down work to be done into its most effective sequence.  In addition to giving six sessions, each student will also receive
three sessions in the three day class.

Note: To be eligible for this class, students must have completed either the CORE I Intensive (either last December or in November of 2008) or at least one six hour class Noah has offered at NLSSM.

In this three day intensive class you will:

* Review the CORE I six point star model of the body
   and the one session recipe of CORE work.
* Plan a three-series of bodywork for a partner and a client,
   based on the concept of ‘lines’ and ‘girdles’ in the body.
   We will determine how to give the most effective bodywork
   possible in a three-series.
* Receive the same three-series of bodywork from a partner,
   something we all need more often!
* Review muscle roadmaps from CORE I.
* Examine emotional anatomy and how sexual trauma is
   stored in the tissue.
* Practice specific seated backwork, psoas balance work, and
   deep neck work from the front of the neck.
* Develop movement cues for each client,

Course Dates:

13th, 20th & 21st December 2008

Time: 09:00 - 16:00
Location: Conel College, Tottenham, London N15 4RU
Cost: £275.00 including VAT

Whether paying by paypal or cheque, please fill in an application form located within forms in the above tabs.

Full Payment £275.00 Paypal

Included in the day: refreshments and morning snack, course notes and a certificate of attendance will be provided.

Tutor: Noah certified as a Rolfer in 1986 after a career as a professional musician and teacher of music. 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 maintains a clinic.  In East Central London he affiliates with the Wren Clinic.  He is nationally certified as a continuing education provider in the US
(NCBTMB) and teaches CORE* Bodywork extensively in the Mid-western area of the country.