BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Florida School of Massage - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://floridaschoolofmassage.com
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Florida School of Massage
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:UTC
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:UTC
DTSTART:20180101T000000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/New_York
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20170312T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20171105T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20180311T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20181104T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20190310T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20191103T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20200308T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20201101T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220409T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220411T180000
DTSTAMP:20260604T225816
CREATED:20180401T234213Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T032541Z
UID:4691-1649494800-1649700000@floridaschoolofmassage.com
SUMMARY:Resistance/Release Work with Deane Juhan
DESCRIPTION:Instructor: Deane Juhan \nLocation:  Florida School of Massage\, Gainesville\, FL \nCost: $550 ($500 early registration discount price if registered by March\, 13 2024). \nCredits: 24 Florida and National CEU credits \nTo register for the class or to get more information: Contact Frank Merillat directly at fmerillat@mac.com or call 352 371-0743 or 352 213-4603. \nCome join the group and experience time with a talented bodyworker\, teacher of the Trager Approach and author of Job’s Body: A Bodyworkers Handbook. This is a great opportunity to explore contact with the body-mind and a deeper understanding of the workings of the movement body. \nCourse Description: Relaxation and stress relief are certainly two main goals of bodywork. But there is an important addition to your clients’ somatic well-being that more directly addresses the patterns of muscular habituation\, posture\, compensations due to injury and the restoring of freedom of movement and freedom from pain: the re-education of the overall sensory motor patterns that have accumulated over time. \nThe work that will be presented in this workshop is an innovative approach developed by Deane Juhan\, based in large measure upon the rehabilitative techniques of Dr. Milton Trager. \nFunctionally\, we are really one muscle that is divided up by the connective tissue structures into different compartments in order to provide specific vectors of motion and coordinated groups of motor units. We are not robots with hinges\, cables and pulleys\, but shape-changers\, and any gesture involves the participation of widespread muscular supports and motivators. \nResistance/Release work is designed to re-coordinate our musculature as a whole and to train more efficient and effective recruitments of muscular contraction and lengthening involved in any position or movement\, from feet to head and from sleeve to core. The result is dramatically improved muscular coordination\, adding both ease and strength to all of our activities. This approach fits well with most modalities practiced by massage therapists. \nDeane would like to focus on the role of presence as a key aspect necessary for effective results and client contact.  He will also be discussing the neurological underpinnings of habit formation\, and the effects of R&R work on breaking up these old patterns and  the cultivation of new more functional habits to facilitate letting go of holding and moving in new\, ever more exploratory ways of self-development. Slides\, lecture and discussion will be utilized to present a clear understanding of the ways in which habitual pathways—together with sensory and contractile systems—forms the basis of all muscular patterning. This understanding dramatically enhances the intentions and effectiveness of virtually any practice that has to do with muscular habits and movement patterns. It is directly applicable to all bodywork modalities that deal with trauma\, pain management\, rehabilitation\, improved range of motion\, enhanced performance\, and the development of more effective habits of both muscles and mind. Practitioners of yoga\, massage\, Trager\, Cranio-Sacral\, Feldenkrais\, Rolfing\, Alexander Technique\, Pilates\, Gyrotonics and Physical Therapy will find this useful and applicable to their practice. \nAbout the instructor: Deane Juhan is the author of Job’s Body: A Handbook for Bodywork and Touched by the Goddess: The Physical\, Psychological and Spiritual Power of Bodywork. He has been a professional bodyworker\, teacher and lecturer for over 40 years\, including 18 years on the Esalen Massage Staff and 30 years as a practitioner and instructor of The Trager Approach. He spent years in direct contact with Dr. Milton Trager and this is reflected in his approach to bodywork. He has taught his seminars in anatomy and physiology for bodyworkers in the US\, Canada\, Europe and Japan.
URL:https://floridaschoolofmassage.com/event/introduction-resistance-release-work/
LOCATION:Florida School of Massage\, 6421 SW 13th St\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32608\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://floridaschoolofmassage.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/MASSAGE-THERAPIST-Deane-Juhan-Portrait-5.jpeg
ORGANIZER;CN="Frank Merillat":MAILTO:fmerillat@mac.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190818T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190818T180000
DTSTAMP:20260604T225816
CREATED:20190101T184139Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190613T133938Z
UID:5692-1566118800-1566151200@floridaschoolofmassage.com
SUMMARY:Playing with Feeling
DESCRIPTION:Instructor: Frank Merillat \n\n Time: \n Workshop Price: $125 early discount if received by 7/27\, $150 after 7/27\n Location: Florida School of Massage\n CE Hours:  \nTo Register: Email Frank at fmerillat@mac.com or call 352 371-0743 \n  \nWorkshop description:\nWhen we touch another person we are communicating. The therapist receives sensory feeling information from the client and offers sensory feeling information to the client. This opens the door to possibilities of awareness and change. This class will focus on deepening the ability to both perceive and offer feeling to those we touch. Through the use of touch\, inquiry and exploration we will deepen our skill to touch. This will be an experiential class\, hands on and with movement\, focusing on the interaction and engagement of the nervous system. The focus will be on how touch affects us both as therapist and client. The skills gained will be useful and applicable no matter what type of bodywork is practiced.
URL:https://floridaschoolofmassage.com/event/playing-with-feeling/
LOCATION:Florida School of Massage\, 6421 SW 13th St\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32608\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://floridaschoolofmassage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/frank-staff-photo-e1529378403229.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Frank Merillat":MAILTO:fmerillat@mac.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190817T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190817T180000
DTSTAMP:20260604T225816
CREATED:20160621T193150Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190110T181304Z
UID:2908-1566032400-1566064800@floridaschoolofmassage.com
SUMMARY:Getting Specific: The Low-Back and Hip
DESCRIPTION:Instructor: Frank Merillat \nDate: August 17\, 2019\n Time: 9AM-6PM\n Workshop Price: $150 ($125 if paid at least three weeks prior)\n Location: Florida School of Massage\n CE Hours: 9 FL CEU  \nTo Register: Contact Frank Merillat at (352) 371-0743 or by e-mail at fmerillat@mac.com. Please leave a message and he will return your call promptly. \n  \nThe ability to offer good specific treatment to areas of the body can distinguish a therapist. When a client has the need to have a condition addressed\, a thorough knowledge of the anatomical structure and contractile tissue associated can be instrumental in offering effective treatment. \n Getting Specific is a series of one or two day workshop experiences that focus on specific areas of the body. Anatomical structures\, synergistic muscle groups\, and effective techniques associated with the particular area of the body will be covered. Use of audio-visual aids\, lecture and hands-on palpation will help the participant get clearer on what they are touching. Demonstrations will address techniques that are useful for the area presented. Lots of hands on time will be available with the opportunity to interact with the instructor. This will be a great way to review and build your skills. \n This class will focus on the low back and hip.  The pelvis is a transition point in the body. Proper curvature of the lumbar spine is necessary for weight from above to be transitioned to the lower extremity. The hip has to be able to stabilize and mobilize to get functional movement and postural support. This class will focus on the structure and musculature involved in these actions. Psoas\, iliacus\, quadratus lumborum and the abdominals will be addressed\, as well as the musculature attaching to the greater trochanter of the femur and structure of the pelvis. Techniques that address these muscles\, plus ways to help your clients keep a functional pelvis will be covered.  Come join and play with this important region of the body. \nPlease bring linens\, shea or cocoa butter lubricant\, 3 or 4 pillows for support and sideline work\, note taking materials if you like to take notes. \nTo Register for this course please contact Frank Merillat at (352) 371-0743 or by e-mail at fmerillat@mac.com. Please leave a message and he will return your call promptly.
URL:https://floridaschoolofmassage.com/event/getting-specific-low-back-hip/
LOCATION:Florida School of Massage\, 6421 SW 13th St\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32608\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://floridaschoolofmassage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/frank-staff-photo-e1529378403229.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Frank Merillat":MAILTO:fmerillat@mac.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190511T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190512T180000
DTSTAMP:20260604T225816
CREATED:20160321T205307Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240424T043939Z
UID:2912-1557565200-1557684000@floridaschoolofmassage.com
SUMMARY:Playing with the Breath - cancelled
DESCRIPTION:Instructor: Frank Merillat \nTime: Saturday-Sunday\, 9AM-6PM\nWorkshop Price: $350 or ($295 if payment is received by March 10)\nLocation: Florida School of Massage\nCE Hours: 18 FL CEUs \nTo Register: This event has been cancelled \n  \nWorkshop description:\n\nThe breath is necessary for the optimum functioning of our body. It is often seen as our connection to spirit or God. The act of breathing is called respiration\, refilling us with spirit. Without free and easy breath our quality of life is lessened. Much of our breathing is done unconsciously; we do it without being aware\, yet it can be used as a great tool of awareness. Part of the focus of the class will be bringing awareness throughout the bodywork process. The act of breathing is a place in our bodies where our body and our conscious and unconscious mind meets.\n\nBreathing is something most people take for granted. It involves structure and musculature over a much wider area of the body than most of us realize. Many complaints that clients bring such as posture or that involve areas of the body such as the low back\, shoulders and neck do have an affect on the ability to breathe well.\n\nThe course will focus on the structure\, fascial and muscular connections involved in this complex act. We will explore the relationship to posture\, as well as the relationship of mental and emotional states to the act of breathing. Specific treatment techniques will focus on the neck\, chest\, ribs\, abdomen\, and the upper and lower back. The ability to do this work well can greatly improve and enhance your practice.\n\nIn this workshop we will focus on the dynamics of breath. \n\nWe will look closely at the relationship between breath and posture.\nWe will examine the musculature that contributes to the mechanics of breathing.\nWe will explore the relationship of body and mind to the act of breathing.\nWe will learn effective\, gentle bodywork strategies to enhance the function of breath.\nWe will learn specific techniques for the neck\, chest\, abdomen and back including scalene and SCM\, rib mobilization\, diaphragm and abdominals.\nWe will do this together in an experiential\, fun and enlightening manner.\n\n 
URL:https://floridaschoolofmassage.com/event/playing-with-the-breath/2019-05-11/
LOCATION:Florida School of Massage\, 6421 SW 13th St\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32608\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://floridaschoolofmassage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/frank-staff-photo-e1529378403229.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Frank Merillat":MAILTO:fmerillat@mac.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190426T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190428T180000
DTSTAMP:20260604T225816
CREATED:20180726T172720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250219T171413Z
UID:5315-1556269200-1556474400@floridaschoolofmassage.com
SUMMARY:Resistance/Release Work with Deane Juhan
DESCRIPTION:Instructor: Deane Juhan\nDates: Friday-Sunday\, April 25-27\, 2025\nLocation: Florida School of Massage\, Gainesville\, FL\nCost: $550 ($500 early registration discount price if registered by March 25\, 2025).\nCEUs: 24 Florida and National CEU credits\nTime: Class will meet from 9-6 each day \nTo register for the class or to get more information contact Frank Merillat directly at fmerillat@mac.com or call 352 371-0743 or 352 213-4603. \nCome join the group and experience time with a talented bodyworker\, teacher of the Trager Approach and author of Job’s Body: A Bodyworkers Handbook. This is a great opportunity to explore contact with the body-mind and a deeper understanding of the workings of the movement body. There will be lots of demonstration\, hands-on practice and the opportunity to share and discuss insights. \nCourse Description:\nRelaxation and stress relief are certainly two main goals of bodywork. But there is an important addition to your clients’ somatic well-being that more directly addresses the patterns of muscular habituation\, posture\, compensations due to injury and the restoring of freedom of movement and freedom from pain: the re-education of the overall sensory motor patterns that have accumulated over time. \nThe work that will be presented in this workshop is an innovative approach developed by Deane Juhan\, based in large measure upon the rehabilitative techniques of Dr. Milton Trager. \nFunctionally\, we are really one muscle that is divided up by the connective tissue structures into different compartments in order to provide specific vectors of motion and coordinated groups of motor units. We are not robots with hinges\, cables and pulleys\, but shape-changers\, and any gesture involves the participation of widespread muscular supports and motivators. \nResistance/Release work is designed to re-coordinate our musculature as a whole and to train more efficient and effective recruitments of muscular contraction and lengthening involved in any position or movement\, from feet to head and from sleeve to core. The result is dramatically improved muscular coordination\, adding both ease and strength to all of our activities. This approach fits well with most modalities practiced by massage therapists. \nDeane would like to focus on the role of presence as a key aspect necessary for effective results and client contact. He will also be discussing the neurological underpinnings of habit formation\, and the effects of R&R work on breaking up these old patterns and the cultivation of new more functional habits to facilitate letting go of holding and moving in new\, ever more exploratory ways of self-development. Slides\, lecture and discussion will be utilized to present a clear understanding of the ways in which habitual pathways—together with sensory and contractile systems—forms the basis of all muscular patterning. This understanding dramatically enhances the intentions and effectiveness of virtually any practice that has to do with muscular habits and movement patterns. It is directly applicable to all bodywork modalities that deal with trauma\, pain management\, rehabilitation\, improved range of motion\, enhanced performance\, and the development of more effective habits of both muscles and mind. Practitioners of yoga\, massage\, Trager\, Cranio-Sacral\, Feldenkrais\, Rolfing\, Alexander Technique\, Pilates\, Gyrotonics and Physical Therapy will find this useful and applicable to their practice. \nAbout the instructor: Deane Juhan is the author of Job’s Body: A Handbook for Bodywork and Touched by the Goddess: The Physical\, Psychological and Spiritual Power of Bodywork. He has been a professional bodyworker\, teacher and lecturer for over 40 years\, including 18 years on the Esalen Massage Staff and 30 years as a practitioner and instructor of The Trager Approach. He spent years in direct contact with Dr. Milton Trager and this is reflected in his approach to bodywork. He has taught his seminars in anatomy and physiology for bodyworkers in the US\, Canada\, Europe and Japan.
URL:https://floridaschoolofmassage.com/event/resistance-release-work-a-dynamic-addition-to-your-massage-skills/2019-04-26/
LOCATION:Florida School of Massage\, 6421 SW 13th St\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32608\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://floridaschoolofmassage.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/deane.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Frank Merillat":MAILTO:fmerillat@mac.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190224T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190224T180000
DTSTAMP:20260604T225816
CREATED:20180202T020901Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190813T164704Z
UID:4627-1550998800-1551031200@floridaschoolofmassage.com
SUMMARY:The Art of Presence: Accessing the Parasympathetic
DESCRIPTION:Dates: Multiple dates available\n Time: 9AM-6PM\n Workshop Price: $150 ($125 if registered at least three weeks in advance $250 if registered for both Saturday and Sunday classes)\n Location: Florida School of Massage \nCE Credits: ★ Florida: 9 \nTo Register: Contact Frank Merillat at 352-371-0743 or e-mail at fmerillat@mac.com \nThe 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. \n  \n  \nAct Now! \nQuestions: fmerillat@mac.com \n  \nAbout the Instructors \nFrank 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. \n  \nAmanda 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. \n 
URL:https://floridaschoolofmassage.com/event/essential-anatomy-and-techniques-for-chair-massage/
LOCATION:Florida School of Massage\, 6421 SW 13th St\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32608\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://floridaschoolofmassage.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Frank-and-Amanda_headshot.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Frank Merillat":MAILTO:fmerillat@mac.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190223T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190223T180000
DTSTAMP:20260604T225816
CREATED:20180202T020336Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190813T164830Z
UID:4626-1550912400-1550944800@floridaschoolofmassage.com
SUMMARY:Essential Anatomy and Techniques for chair massage
DESCRIPTION:Dates: Multiple dates available\n Time: 9AM-6PM\n Workshop Price: $150 ($125 if registered at least three weeks prior. $250 if registered for both Saturday and Sunday classes)\n Location: Florida School of Massage \nCE Credits: ★ Florida: 9 \nTo Register: Contact Frank Merillat at 352-371-0743 or e-mail at fmerillat@mac.com \nChair massage is an ever-increasing tool used by massage therapists to expand their clientele\, reach a new customer base and offer healing touch to those in need. It is excellent for marketing as well as for a profession on its own. Increasingly more businesses are requesting chair massage as a gift or a service for their employees. Wedding planners\, grocery stores\, hotels and hospitals are some of the varied businesses that appreciatively pay for chair massage services. \nThis course will examine the basic anatomy of the neck\, shoulders\, arms and lower back that a massage practitioner can access while doing chair massage. It will integrate multimedia teaching tools along with activities that illustrate upon the human form the basic muscle structures including their origins and insertions. Students will learn where the muscles are located\, how they function\, and specific techniques to address them during a chair massage to relieve pain and tension. Students will walk away with a routine of their own that integrates the techniques from the class\, which allows them to offer a 15-minute chair massage session confidently. Time will also be spent exploring how to market and promote a chair-based practice. \n  \n  \nAct Now! \nQuestions: fmerillat@mac.com \n About the Instructors \nFrank 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. \n  \nAmanda 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. \n 
URL:https://floridaschoolofmassage.com/event/anatomy-essentials-chair-massage/
LOCATION:Florida School of Massage\, 6421 SW 13th St\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32608\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://floridaschoolofmassage.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Frank-and-Amanda_headshot.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Frank Merillat":MAILTO:fmerillat@mac.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181021T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181021T180000
DTSTAMP:20260604T225816
CREATED:20180726T174044Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T190004Z
UID:5324-1540112400-1540144800@floridaschoolofmassage.com
SUMMARY:The Art of Presence: Accessing the Parasympathetic
DESCRIPTION:Dates: Sunday Oct 21\, 2018\n Time: 9AM-6PM\n Workshop Price: $150 ($125 if registered by October 1st. $250 if registered for both Saturday and Sunday classes)\n Location: Florida School of Massage \nCE Credits: ★ Florida: 9 \nTo Register: Contact Frank Merillat at 352-371-0743 or e-mail at fmerillat@mac.com \nThe 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. \n  \n  \nAct Now! \nQuestions: fmerillat@mac.com \n  \nAbout the Instructors \nFrank 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. \n  \nAmanda 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. \n 
URL:https://floridaschoolofmassage.com/event/the-art-of-presence-accessing-the-parasympathetic/
LOCATION:Florida School of Massage\, 6421 SW 13th St\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32608\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://floridaschoolofmassage.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Frank-and-Amanda_headshot.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Frank Merillat":MAILTO:fmerillat@mac.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181020T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181020T180000
DTSTAMP:20260604T225816
CREATED:20180726T173818Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200124T155922Z
UID:5322-1540026000-1540058400@floridaschoolofmassage.com
SUMMARY:Essential Anatomy and Techniques for chair massage
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \n  \n\n Time: 9AM-6PM\n Workshop Price: $150 ($125 if registered 30 days in advance)\n Location: Florida School of Massage \nCE Credits: ★ Florida: 9 \nTo Register: Contact Frank Merillat at 352-371-0743 or e-mail at fmerillat@mac.com \nChair massage is an ever-increasing tool used by massage therapists to expand their clientele\, reach a new customer base and offer healing touch to those in need. It is excellent for marketing as well as for a profession on its own. Increasingly more businesses are requesting chair massage as a gift or a service for their employees. Wedding planners\, grocery stores\, hotels and hospitals are some of the varied businesses that appreciatively pay for chair massage services. \nThis course will examine the basic anatomy of the neck\, shoulders\, arms and lower back that a massage practitioner can access while doing chair massage. It will integrate multimedia teaching tools along with activities that illustrate upon the human form the basic muscle structures including their origins and insertions. Students will learn where the muscles are located\, how they function\, and specific techniques to address them during a chair massage to relieve pain and tension. Students will walk away with a routine of their own that integrates the techniques from the class\, which allows them to offer a 15-minute chair massage session confidently. Time will also be spent exploring how to market and promote a chair-based practice. \n  \n  \nAct Now! \nQuestions: fmerillat@mac.com \n About the Instructors \nFrank 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. \n  \nAmanda 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. \n 
URL:https://floridaschoolofmassage.com/event/essential-anatomy-and-techniques-for-chair-massage-2/
LOCATION:Florida School of Massage\, 6421 SW 13th St\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32608\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://floridaschoolofmassage.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Frank-and-Amanda_headshot.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Frank Merillat":MAILTO:fmerillat@mac.com
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR