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Imagine being in a room full of massage therapists and every therapist is dishing out their best moves – their boss moves!

Calling all LMTs to share their best "boss" moves at NYSSMMT's first
Money Making Massage Moves - Throwdown

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

1:00pm - 5:00pm

TRS Professional Suites

44 East 33rd St 11th Floor (between Madison and Park Avenues)
11th Floor

New York, NY 10016

Earn 4 NYS

Course Description:

This workshop is the massage therapist’s version of Iron Chef™ meets Show and Tell. All licensed massage therapists are invited to demonstrate their money making massage moves. There will be snacks and prizes at this friendly competition. Over $200 in prizes and raffles will be awarded. Best of all, everybody wins by sharing our money making moves with each other. Let’s all start polishing up our crowd pleasing techniques now so that by June we can share our absolute best "Boss Moves" with each other.

*Bring Shorts, Sport bra for women, Sheet, towel, Oil/Lotion. There will be a very limited amount of tables, early registration is strongly advised.

Early Registration: Payment received by May 23rd

NYSSMMT Members and Students: $60

Non-Members: $100

After May 23rd

NYSSMMT Members and Students: $75

Non-Members: $120

The New York State Society of Medical Massage Therapists i

s excited to bring to New York for the FIRST TIME…

Art Riggs

“Cultivating a Powerful and Soft Touch: Strategies for Treatment with Deep Tissue Massage and Myofascial Release”

Saturday & Sunday, September 8 & 9, 2012

Hudson Valley Hotel & Conference Center

90 Route 17K, Newburgh, NY 12550

Book hotel separately - (845) 564-9020 / Before 8/8/2012 - $65.00 per night rate

Early Bird: $300 Members / $350 Non-Members until August 8, 2012

Full Price: $350 Members / $400 Non-Members

Earn 16 NYS CE Hours!

Course Description:

This workshop covers much more than techniques or strategies and is designed to have massage therapists return home with dramatically different approaches to working with tissue, no matter what kind of work they specialize in.

The workshop focuses upon proper use of mechanics to allow therapists to remain healthy and conserve energy, and refine skills for deep tissue massage and myofascial release. In reality, most students feel that the benefits are much broader, as they learn to work with a powerful but soft touch, and proper use of knuckles, fists, elbows and forearms. Emphasis is upon the layers of the body and myofascial skills to stretch and release tissue restrictions rather than just sliding over superficial layers. These skills are practiced in a large variety of techniques and strategies so that clients immediately notice a higher quality of work.

About the Presenter:

Author of Deep Tissue: A Visual Guide to Techniques, Art Riggs has a B. A. in psychology and graduate study in exercise physiology at U.C. Berkeley. He was certified in massage at the McKinnon Institute in 1986 and became an Advanced Rolfer® in 1991, maintaining his Rolfing practice in Oakland, CA. Art specializes in athletic injuries and has worked with Bay Area professional and Olympic athletes and dancers including the Golden State Warriors and The Dance Theater of Harlem. He has been teaching deep tissue massage therapy for 20 years and has led workshops for health spas and for physical therapists and assisted in various Rolf trainings, primarily with Michael Salveson, Jan Sultan, and Jeff Maitland.

He established the Deep Tissue Massage program at the McKinnon Institute in 1989 and currently leads an 80 hour Deep Tissue certification program at the San Francisco School of Massage. Book and DVDs available on his website: http://www.deeptissuemassagemanual.com

Online Registration coming soon!