Massage CEUs

I meant to post this notice earlier, but I ended up taking a friend to the ER Friday morning and staying with her through an emergency appendectomy. She is recovering well, I am still so tired I can barely put one foot in front of the other. Why are hospitals so draining?

Regardless, I wanted to put out the notification for the August meeting of the AMTA Alabama Chapter.

When: Saturday, August 4th
Where: Hampton Inn Midtown, 2281 Florence Blvd., Florence, AL 35630

The CEU will be a 2 hour Professional Ethics for the Massage Therapist taught by AMTA-AL President LaDonna Ward. For only $20, you can’t beat the price. It starts at 10am.

The meeting and luncheon start at noon and will run until 2pm. There is no charge for attending the luncheon and meeting.

If you would like to attend either the class or the luncheon or both, please contact LaDonna Ward at 256-962-0149 or ldward12@yahoo.com.

Hope to see you there!

Several years ago I took an Integrative Reflexology course from Claire Marie Miller Seminars and to this day I remember how professional and high-quality that seminar was. Thus, I have added several dates for her Nurturing the Mother and Integrative Reflexology to the Massage CEU Central Calendar.

Check out dates for Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee in February, June, July and October here. Other dates and locations can be found on the Claire Marie Miller Seminars schedule by clicking here.

My friend Mary will be giving a talk on Reiki for Healing and Stress Reduction this Friday, Sept. 23rd. Come out and support her if you’re in the area. She’s really interesting to listen to and watch. And if you’re lucky, she’ll demonstrate a bit on you!

September 23, 2010 @ Radisson Inn, Madison, AL
6:30 pm
Fee is $10 per person
Website: Click Here

Following several requests from folks I met at the AMTA Alabama Chapter convention earlier this year, I have finally figured out how to put the Massage CEU Central calendar on my website. Now you don’t have to be a member of the Massage CEU Central Group on Facebook to see what CEUs are upcoming in our region.

I’m hanging this calendar on a permanent tab up at the top of the page so you can find it quickly.

If you’re a CEU provider and you want to list on my calendar, leave a message or contact me directly and we’ll get you fixed up. If you are a therapist and know about something being offered, please let me know so I can add it. As always, my contact information is in the sidebar and thanks for stopping by!

It was fun! Mostly… except for the Ethics. I know it’s necessary to keep the NCBTMB certification up to date and happy, but it was painful. The instructor was not happy or excited about her job. It made the opening session difficult and made me doubt whether I had made the right decision to spend an entire weekend in a conference room.

That being said, I loved the videos she showed. They were from a series called “Doing The Right Thing” published by The Chuck Colson Center. I hope in the future I have the opportunity to view the remaining three interviews that we did not cover in this class.

I did very much enjoy Jim Klopman and his class on Energy Systems in Massage. I have to be honest and say that I almost didn’t sign up for this class. Having taken a Reiki initiate class in the past and not getting much out of it, I figured it would be the same. This was definitely not the case. He gave us some very usable exercises and tests to do and demonstrated the “energy” components very clearly. I was shocked when I actually felt what he described and was even more surprised when I got sick and dizzy from one of the exercises. The longer the day went on the more astonished I became at the effects that we each got to feel and perform on a partner. I will definitely be using some of the techniques he taught during this class and will be revisiting my Reiki manuals. I still don’t know what it is, but there’s something to it.

Jay Jones also came in to teach us a thing or two about Fascial Unwinding. This was my first experience with Fascial Unwinding and I’m glad I took this class because I’m already using it with clients. We focused on the shoulder and with this technique added to the Rotator Cuff class I took a couple of years ago I’m finally starting to feel more confident when working deep in the shoulder.

So that was the educational part of the two-day meeting. We also had lunch on Saturday and the formal business meeting. I ended up volunteering to help manage the new AMTA-Alabama Chapter Facebook Group. If you haven’t already, you should head on over there and join! I’m also writing up an article for the Alabama Kneads newsletter. It’s about a first time World Massage Festival goer’s experience. I hope they can use it. If so, I will link it up here somehow, but I won’t know for sure until September.

Anyway, I met a lot of massage therapists from around the state. I think networking is important. Knowing who you’re “in business” with and being able to speak intelligently about what we all do is important. I hope this new Facebook group and finally having the opportunity to participate in the state chapter fills that place that I’ve been looking for since I left massage school and lost all my colleagues to “the real world”.

I guess that’s about all I want to say about AMTA-Alabama Chapter meeting in August. I’m looking forward to the next meeting. I hope it’s close enough and at a time that I can actually go. I’ll post the information here when I get it as to the next meeting. I know it’s probably already in the newsletter, but I didn’t read it closely enough…

I’m headed out shortly to the AMTA-Alabama State Convention. Until day before yesterday they were still telling folks who hadn’t signed up that they had spots left and to come on out.

Hope to see you there!

For everyone who has been waiting for the schedule for the rescheduled AMTA Alabama Convention, here it is!

Where: Holiday Inn, Decatur, AL
When: August 6th & 7th, 2011

What:
Saturday, August 6th, 8-12 – Professional Ethics for the Massage Therapist (4 CEUs)
Saturday, August 6th, 2-6 – Energy Systems in Massage (4 CEUs)
Sunday, August 7th, 8-12 and 2-4 – Fascial Unwinding for the Shoulder (4 CEUs)

As before, if you are an AMTA member you pay only $30. If you’re not an AMTA member you pay $30 plus $15 per CEU hour for a maximum of $200.

Register now if you want to go. Class sizes are limited. Contact Greg Howie at g36@aol.com or 205 746-7454 for more information.

THe AMTA – Alabama Chapter State Convention has been rescheduled to August 6th and 7th, 2011. Location is the same as before, the Holiday Inn in Decatur, AL.

I’ll list the CEUs to be offered as soon as I get my newsletter. I am assuming they will be different.

Also as before $30 for admission and as many CEUs as you can get in those two days for AMTA-AL members.