Dates: Multiple dates available
Time: 9AM-6PM
Workshop Price: $150 ($125 if registered at least three weeks in advance $250 if registered for both Saturday and Sunday classes)
Location: Florida School of Massage

CE Credits: ★ Florida: 9

To Register: Contact Frank Merillat at 352-371-0743 or e-mail at fmerillat@mac.com

The ability to be present with another human being is key to healing. In this one-day class, students will explore the sensations of touch long before skin to skin contact. Then, once tactile, the somatic communication among fascia, the nervous system, the endocrine system and the use of presence will be explored through experience. Through massage techniques, we will enrich and enliven our sensory capacity to perceive and communicate presence and encourage the body to enter the parasympathetic state, which allows for relaxation, rejuvenation and a sense of meditative calm. This class will focus on applying the art of presence to all types of bodywork modalities to increase the effectiveness and the depth of transformational healing.

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Questions: fmerillat@mac.com

About the Instructors

Frank Merillat has been an instructor at the Florida School of Massage since 1995. He teaches Kinesiology, Neuromuscular Therapy, and Boundary and Ethics in the basic program. He also offers several different CEU courses as both and instructor and provider. He offers an eclectic approach to bodywork combining elements from several styles of work to customize the work to meet the individual client. He has studied with Deane Juhan, Tom Myers, Ben Benjamin, as well as Giorgia and Hugh Milne, all noted instructors in the bodywork field. His time with these noted instructors is incorporated into his teaching style and approach to the body. He enjoys time with his family, dogs and on the salt water, as well as working with people.

Amanda Concha-Holmes merges her training as a cultural anthropologist with her practice as a massage therapist and her love of ensemble contact improvisation dance. In her massage practice (licensed in 2010) and in the classes she teaches, she integrates her training in Reiki and in Thai massage with her years of teaching Transformational movement, ecosenses and partner yoga. For the last few years, she has been dedicated to crafting her practice around chair massage to be able to offer healing touch to people in their daily lives. She looks forward to sharing the conceptual and experiential aspects of reaching the parasympathetic state along with anatomy essentials and techniques in a chair massage practice that will become a source of clients for a career in table and Thai massage at the office.