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| Santa Barbara Body Therapy Institute Newsletter |
August 2009 |
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Greetings!
As of September 1, 2009, the State of California is now certifiying Massage Practitioners and Massage Therapists. The good news for all of us practicing massage or entering the profession is we now have a voluntary certification which is recognized statewide and supercedes more onerous laws that may be in place in various parts of the state, (i.e. Thousand Oaks and Orange County require a minimum of 1000hrs to practice massage, and some municipalities require exhorbitant permitting fees). Locally, our requirements have been pretty minimal (200hrs minimum requirement and $25 Santa Barbara County permit fee, $50 Santa Barbara City permit fee). State Certification also restricts usage of the titles "Certified Massage Practitioner" and "Certified Massage Therapist" to those who have received certification. The Practitioner title requires 250 hours of training from one school and the Therapist title requires 500 hours of training. Local business license fees still apply. For more information on State certification go to: www.camtc.org.
Goleta City is now considering raising their minimum-hour requirements commensurate to or more than the State Certification standards. The city of Goleta is holding a town meeting to discuss proposed changes in the minimum-hour requirement on Wednesday, September 9, 1:00pm at City Council Chambers, Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, California 93117. The general public are invited for public comment.
This fall we are offering a variety of short courses for our technician graduates who want to meet the new State certification or local municipality requirements. Massage Technician graduates who increase their hours to 250 or 550 may trade their former certificate of completion for a Massage Practitioner or Massage Therapist. See below for upcoming classes or give us a call at 805 966-5802. |
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Free Intro Classes - What's new in the field of bodywork?
Join us for play and sample sessions. Explore what's possible with bodywork:
* Level I: September 9 (Wed) 12:00-1:30pm with Katie Mickey
* Bad Love Series/Limbic Stabilization: September 11 (Fri) 7:00-8:30pm
with John Harris, Pilar Unterthiner
* Bars: September 18 (Fri) 7:00-8:30 with Audrey Lynette
* Healing Diets: October 16 (Fri) 7:00-8:30 with Paul Harper |
"Where Lives Change"
I love that BTI's tag line is "Where Lives Change". I know this holds true for me, as well as so many other therapists and friends who have gone through BTI. The Body Therapy Institute is an amazing place. When I first attended school there I was searching for peace and tranquility. Through BTI's program, teachers, and other students, I not only found what I was looking for, but ascertained the skills to share it with others as well.
I came to BTI with classical training in dance (I was one of those girls that did ballet six days a week, several hours a day as a kid). I later added many more genres, including intensive study in Somatic Movement Therapy.
My Somatic background definitely gets integrated into my bodywork sessions. As an athlete, my knowledge of the body is not just book-learned, but experienced first hand. When I'm working with a client, I draw upon my somatic awareness with each session. Everything is connected and often times pain or relief is generated from areas we normally wouldn't associate with a specific area.
I do a lot of deep work. I focus on specific areas and am able to incorporate it into a full body massage. When I worked in Oakland for a year, the majority of my regular clients were all ex-football players - really big burly men (which may seem pretty funny, since I'm actually fairly small). But they loved my work because I was able to understand an athelete's body and really dig deeply into their muscles.
I now have a private practice in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. I also work for Spa Alliance in SB at the high end resort hotels and bed & breakfasts.
200-Hour Level I Massage Technician Course Dates
Evening Format:
September 15 - December 8 (Tue, Thu) 5:30pm-10:00pm
Retreat: November 7-8 (Sat-Sun) 8:30am-7:00pm
Clinics: Dates optional according to schedule - choose 20
Day Format:
Option A: September 21 - November 30 (Mon, Wed) and
September 25, October 2 & 9 (Fri) 9:00am-1:30pm
Clinics: Dates optional according to schedule - choose 20
Option B: September 21 - October 7 (Mon, Wed) 9:00am-4:30pm and
October 12 - November 30 (Mon, Wed) 9:00am-1:30pm
Clinics: October 12 - November 30 (Mon, Wed) 1:45-4:45pm, plus 6 additional according to schedule
Cost: $1550 (registration fee $100, tuition $1440) |
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Limbic Stabilization......The Bad Love Series
12 hours with John Harris & Pilar Unterthiner
Learn about our ancient heritage and how it  influences relationships today. Understand why people make ongoing lousy choices in love - knowing better yet still making appalling choices.Experience how brain science, bodywork and limbic stabilization can help you change your brain and find loving relationships and community. Learn and use stabilization tools that ameliorate the pain of limbic amputation - the loneliness and despair that follows separation from even bad love - and allow yourself the time and space to re-learn a healthy model of love. Learn stabilization bodywork to help your clients and friends chill the limbic brain and find blessed relief. Join John Harris and Pilar Unterthiner for a two day, 12-hour course in the exploration of "bad love" and how to change it. John is an experienced workshop leader and educator who has taught thousands of students around the globe about physical and emotional pain. Pilar is Pilar: traveler, pet lover, yoga teacher, massage therapist, daughter, friend and student and teacher of life.
"Who we are and who we become depends, in part, on whom we love"
Free Intro: September 11th (Fri) 7:00pm-8:30pm
Workshop: September 12-13 (Sat & Sun) 9:00am-4:00pm
$168 |
Ethics - Boundaries and Role Play
9 hours with John Harris
Explore issues that often arise within a massage practice. Students will have the opportunity to role play  and engage in lively discussion pertaining to defining and asserting boundaries and negotiating the client/therapist relationship. Key topics include: responding to sexual arousal, negotiating power, and understanding and managing transference.
September 15 & 22, 2009 (Tuesday)
9:30am - 2:00pm
$126.00 (plus $32 supply fee)
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Bars
22 hours with Audrey Lynette and Katie Mickey
A full Bars session comprises 32 points on the head that correspond to the electromagnetic component of thought. When held with light touch contact they increase blood circulation to the brain and vital organs and release the electromagnetic charge held around stored memories, judgements and considerations surrounding key areas of life such as money, control, sex, body or aging.
12 years ago, Bars instructor Audrey Lynette, was diagnosed with OCD, anxiety, depression, acute obesity, chronic pain syndrome and 6 years later cancer. She weighed 450 lbs, was confined to a wheel chair and living on a disability pension. Concurrent with the healing of her body, Audrey has facilitated hundreds of people in private sessions and group classes internationally. She teaches Bars, Access Consciousness and Right Body for You.
We invite you to join us in accessing greater peace and ease in your body/mind. Learn simple questions you can ask to begin shifting your own patterns and ways of being and receiving.
Free Intro Evening - September 18 (Fri) 7:00-8:30pm
Bars Workshop - September 19 (Sat) 10:00am-6:00pm
Cost: $200 |
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Deep Tissue & Palpatory Anatomy
80 hours with Erick Hudson
Learn fundamental skills in deep tissue, myofascial and polarity therapy techniques. The course offers a larger energy based framework for  the application of structural release techniques and assessment. Practitioners will learn numerous techniques to make their work more effective and easeful.
September 21-November 9 (Mon & Wed) 5:30pm-9:30pm AND
Clinic: November 11-December 16 (Wed) 5:30pm-9:30pm (choose 5)
*Palpatory Anatomy only: 9/21-30; Deep Tissue only: 10/5-11/9
Cost: $1120 plus supplies: $30 for Deep Tissue Manual by Art Riggs
*20 hour palpatory anatomy may be taken as a separate component. Tuition $280. |
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Pregnancy Massage
30 hours with Mary Sullivan and Katie Mickey
Throughout time, many traditional cultures have utilized prenatal bodywork as a means to create peaceful beginnings for parents and child. Learn bodywork  skills to support the mother to be and the prenatal/infant. The in-utero period is a time of profound growth for the developing fetus which catalyzes a host of hormonal changes and musculoskeletal adaptations for the pregnant mother. This course offers a wide range of techniques drawing from Deep Tissue Muscle Sculpting, Polarity Therapy and Reflexology.
September 29-October 8 (Tue, Thu) 9:30am-4:00pm AND
October 15 (Thu) 9:00am-1:30pm
Clinics: October 8 and 15 (Thu) 2:15pm-4:00pm
Tuition: $420 plus supply fee (TBA) |
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20 hours with Katie Mickey and guests
Learn essential skills for setting up and generating your practice. The course will cover a variety of practical skills: record keeping, filing taxes, gaining employment, developing a business plan, establishing goals, developing strategies, daily action steps, marketing new clients, generating return clientele, and shifting limiting beliefs around money and business. The course will draw on the combined experience of numerous successful graduates of the Santa Barbara Body Therapy Institute. Guest presenters during the course will include a local tax preparer, and a panel of graduates.
October 13, 20-29 (Tue, Thu) 9:30am-1:30pm
$280 | |
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Healing Diets
20 hours with Paul Harper
Learn simple, enzyme and mineral rich ways of eating and preparing food, utilizing the potency of whole foods. Learn to generate physical vitality and resolve chronic body issues such as inflammation, lowered immune response, obesity, diabetes, toxicity and many more with whole foods. Paul brings a wealth of knowledge and practical experience in healing diets from his training at Hippocrates and his counseling career with cancer patients, high performance athletes and all manner of folks in between. Paul has worked in Cancer clinics abroad and in the US, and maintains an international consultation practice in nutrition.
Free Intro October 16 (Fri) 7:00pm-8:30pm
Workshop October 17-18 (Sat-Sun)
$280 |
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November Courses
Reflexology 40 hrs with Katie Mickey
Tue, Thu 9:00am-1:30pm starting Nov 3rd
Nutrition 20 hrs with Paul Harper
Thu 9:00am-12:15pm starting Nov 5th
Barefoot 20 hrs with John Harris
Fri pm, Sat, Sun 9:00am-4:00pm starting Nov 6th | |
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