BTI Continuing Education Workshops
Creativity and Integrative Strategies
in your Massage & Bodywork Practice
with Toby Matthews, LMBT
April 12-13, 2012 | Thursday-Friday, 9:30am-5:30pm | 14 continuing ed contact hours | $295
Are you burnt out? Do you feel like you work too hard? Are your clients plateau-ing? Do you need something fresh and exciting in your practice?
What you are feeling is a form of wisdom that can be harnessed. In this workshop, you will learn integrative strategies from structural integration, somatic psychology, and various movement therapy lineages that will allow you to become more creative and innovative both within and beyond your technique tradition. This two-day class is an opportunity to invigorate your practice and life.
This is a learning opportunity centered around the inherent wisdom of your (and your clients’) embodied experiences. No matter what technique tradition you practice, your clinical and personal insights are valuable to the therapeutic encounter.
Through lecture, demonstrations, and practice exchanges we will explore the possibilities of including integrative strategies in your work. How can they stimulate your perceptual abilities? How can they enrich every session you give? How can they free you to listen to the wisdom your own somatic experience in the service of others?
Topics to be covered include:
- Kinesthetic Empathy
- Body Reading
- Resourcing yourself and others
- Depth of work versus pressure
- Listening and Languaging
- An introduction to including Indirect Work
- Contacting tissue types
- Working with emotions
- Movement Interventions
Toby Matthews is a Certified Rolfer™ and Certified GYROTONIC® & GYROKINESIS® Instructor. He is a North Carolina Licensed Massage and Bodywork Therapist (#3687), with a private practice in Durham, NC at Matthews Somatics.
Prior to becoming a Rolfer and Gyrotonic Teacher, Toby studied drama, biology, and dance at Duke University as an A.B. Duke Scholar. Since then, he has done graduate work at The University of Akron in Theatre Arts, Naropa University in Somatic Psychology and Dance/Movement Therapy, and was a member of the New World Performance Laboratory. His abiding interest is in the moving somatic relationships between the mind, the body, and the natural world. His life and practice have been especially influenced by his work with teachers Hubert Godard, Deborah Matthews, and Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche.
Toby is a member of The Rolf Institute® and has taught embodied anatomy for yoga and psychophysical training for actors nationally and internationally. For more information, visit his website at www.matthewssomatics.com.