The Way of Ease® - Optimal Body Mechanics

with Rick Rosen, MA, LMBT

Sunday, October 26 | 9:30am-5:30pm | $145 | 7 continuing education contact hours


What’s the secret to making therapy better for both you and the client? Working with maximum of ease and efficiency -- and a minimum of effort and tension. This workshop on Optimal Body Mechanics can help you achieve greater therapeutic results and protect your body from discomfort, pain and injury.

Don't suffer through another week of treatments! Come and learn how to engage your somatic awareness, align your body with gravity, and effortlessly mobilize your full physical and energetic resources. You’ll have an opportunity to practice these methods and to learn how they integrate with tableside work. In addition, you’ll learn and experience:

• The Three Primary Directions of Movement
• Centering and Grounding Functions
• Use of the Breath Cycle
• The Rhythmic Element
• Working from a place of Energy vs. Strength
• Methods for self-assessment and self-correction

The Way of Ease® is designed to help every practitioner develop a greater sense of meaning, satisfaction, well-being and success through their work. This practical system focuses on the foundational elements of our profession -- the qualities, skills and principles which are essential to the masterful practice of every method of massage and bodywork therapy. This innovative approach was created by Rick Rosen and serves as the basis for every hands-on course taught at the school's Massage Therapy Diploma Program.

Rick Rosen is the founder and co-director of BTI. He developed this system through the process of training and observing thousands of touch therapists at BTI and across the country. Over his three decades in the field, he has studied disciplines such as Structural Integration, T’ai Chi, Hatha Yoga and the Feldenkrais Method -- and blended their principles into a practical approach for body-oriented practitioners.

Rick has a master’s degree in psychology from West Georgia College, a bachelor's degree from the University of Florida, and has earned certifications in Structural Integration and Hakomi Therapy. He was the founding chairman of the NC Board of Massage and Bodywork Therapy, is Nationally Certified in Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork, and is a NC Licensed Massage and Bodywork Therapist (License #1).

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