Instructor: Cat Matlock, FreeBody Massage
Date: February 28, 2027
Time: 10 am – 6 pm (with an hour break for lunch)
Workshop Price: $180.00 (Purchase together with Psoas and QL (the day before) and save $30)
Location: Florida School of Massage
CE Hours: 7 CEs (NCBTMB approved, Florida pending and expected), 14 CEs for both trainings
NCBTMB CE Provider #: 452039-12
CE Broker #: 50-35060
Course #: 20-975382
To Register:
Click here to register for Releasing the Glutes only
Click here to register for BOTH Psoas and QL and the Glutes training

Course Description
This is a Trauma Informed Trigger Point Therapy Training

Many of our clients come to us with hip pain that is really a glute problem. There are very specific places in the glutes that you need to soothe and release if you want to be effective, and I’ll teach you right where to go with your work.

As with any area of the body, we have to think outside the box. We can’t look only at the muscles that are calling out with pain. It’s important to see which muscles are pulling on the glutes and why, and then release those a little first, before even asking the glutes to let go.

Chronic stress is a big part of that picture, because so many of us clench our buttocks without realizing it, day after day, and those muscles can’t recover. As a trauma-informed practitioner, I’ll also share stress regulation practices that help your clients settle, so the tissue can let go and the work holds. This LIVE training covers all of it, with demos of hip work that can create immediate change, and plenty of supervised hands-on practice. Master this, and your clients will be telling everyone how you helped them get rid of that nagging pain in their butt!

Releasing the Glutes pairs beautifully with Releasing the Psoas and Quadratus Lumborum, taught the previous day. These two workshops together will give you skills you can immediately implement to help your clients with both hip and lower back issues. Register for both at the same time and save $30.

Included:

• Expert training
• Student handout with anatomy and trigger point pain referral pictures
• Access to a dedicated Google Drive with a copy of my PPT and videos of each step of the treatment that you can watch after the training, including the guided breathing practices

Instructor Bio

Cat Matlock, LMBT NC#1080, is a 1993 graduate of the Florida School of Massage and has been in practice ever since. She focused on trigger point work early in her career, and it remains the foundation of her practice, FreeBody Massage, in Asheville, NC. She has worked with tens of thousands of clients since 1993. Her experience includes spa and chiropractic settings, leading a clinic team, over 30 years in private practice, and teaching anatomy, kinesiology, and integrative massage.

Cat has taught continuing education to massage therapists since 2006 in live, live-stream, and online formats. A specialist in trauma-informed bodywork, Cat is a Trauma Informed Yoga Therapist and an IFS Informed Somatic Anxiety Coach. All of the trainings she leads are trauma informed. Cat teaches therapists how to meet the hypervigilance, pain, and emotional release that surface when we touch the body. She is the author of FreeBody: The Body, Pain, and a Path to Freedom (Manuscripts Press, 2023) and runs two YouTube channels. One channel is for self care, Youtube.com/@CatMatlock and one is specifically for bodywork and massage practitioners, Youtube.com/@freebodymassage. She is an NCBTMB approved continuing education provider. Her Florida provider status is pending.