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Whole-Person Care: Supporting People Living with
 
Cancer through Massage and Bodywork
 

Basic Training for Massage Practitioners and Students, Bodyworkers
and Other Professional Touch Therapists
 


INTRO Class with 8 CE Hours ~ AND/OR ~ 24 CE Hour Class

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INTRODUCTION TO Massage for Individuals with Cancer

Develop the sensitive awareness required to address special needs and learn bodywork techniques modified specifically for these clients.


8 CE Hours

September 25 and October 5, 2010; 6-10p

$180 ($160 if paid by 9/7/10)

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24 Hour Class

With staggering statistics that cancer affects 1 out of 3 people in our society, developing the awareness, knowledge and skills to work with those living with cancer is vital for massage practitioners and students, bodyworkers and other touch therapists. This course is designed to provide an opportunity to explore emotional aspects of this work, build a solid basic understanding of cancer and its treatments and how they might affect our clients, and learn how to modify a general relaxation massage to the particular meeds of each client to assure that it is safe and effective.

Curriculum includes:

  • Exploration of the therapist's own relationship to cancer, and the importance of awareness, presence, connection and quality of touch.
  • Discussion of the role and benefits of massage for people living with cancer.
  • Developing an understanding of the disease, its treatments - surgery, chemotherapy, radiation - and their potential effects on the client's physical, emotional and mental state.
  • Learning about lymphedema and the particular considerations that it creates for touch therapies.
  • Performing intake: learning specific questions to ask and signs to look for during the intake session.
  • Session design: making decisions about modification to the session based on information collected.
  • Hands-on work: specific modifications of technique, quality of touch and practitioner's body mechanics.
  • Practice opportunities: working with other workshop participants.
  • Supervised work: intake and hands-on sessions with clients living with cancer.
  • Personal work: tools for holding illness and death with an open heart while maintaining one's emotional balance and well-being.

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    24 CE Hours

    October 22, 23, and 24, 2010; 9a-6p
    $400 ($360 if paid by 10/8/10) plus $10 materials fee


    Instructor Bio: Efrat Livny
    Efrat Livny is a Nationally Certified Massage Therapist and a Certified Zero Balancer. She received her training as a practitioner and instructor of Oncology Massage at the Scherer Institute of Natural Medicine in Santa Fe, NM in 2002, shortly after completing her treatments for ovarian cancer. She also trained extensively with the Center for Mind Body Medicine in Washington D.C. in mind/body/spirit skills for health and wellbeing and as a Cancer Guide - a companion and coach who supports individuals living with cancer on their cancer journey. In addition to her private practice, Efrat has been working in medical environments and is currently the coordinator of the Cancer Wellness Program at GHC HMO in Madison, WI.
     

    "Peace is every Step."
    - Thich Nhat Hanh