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Semester Three

This 200-hour graduate training is primarily for practicing therapists with 500 or more hours of training who want to work with clients on a deeper therapeutic level and to explore the opportunities and challenges for growth within themselves as caregivers. With appropriate prerequisites, separate Semester Three courses may be taken as workshops. Semester Three next begins in January, 2008.

Asian Bodywork (50 hours)

The Asian Bodywork Program gives students a solid basis in Oriental health concepts and traditional Oriental acupressure techniques. Students learn meridian massage, shiatsu stretches, and dramatically heighten their ability to focus and to be more meditative and inspired in their bodywork. This training also integrates shiatsu massage with Thai massage.

Core Zero Balancing I and II (50 hours)

In this course, students learn the essential theories and the fundamental techniques of Zero Balancing. This course enables therapists to work simultaneously and consciously with the client’s energy and with their physical structure. Zero Balancing works with the deepest layer of the person’s musculo-skeletal system. Zero Balancing cultivates the ability to evoke expanded states of consciousness and to facilitate new dimensions of health for clients. These 50 hours also give Semester Three graduates half the course hours required for certification in Zero Balancing.

Psychology of Bodywork (50 hours)

Psychology of Bodywork helps students become more accomplished therapists by supporting personal growth. It also gives students a much more detailed information base for understanding the co-evolution of emotion, mind and body. Subjects include emotional growth work, sensitivity training; exploration of the interrelationship of emotion, movement and structure; and developing greater therapeutic compassion.

Advanced Integrative Bodywork (50 hours)

The ability to move fluidly from one mind set to another and from one technical modality to another is crucial for any truly advanced approach to bodywork. This is the goal of advanced integrative bodywork. Students learn to explore various conceptual therapeutic models including character structure - the relationship of major developmental stages to psychophysical form and function.

Total contact hours required for Semester 3 program: 200

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