TOP (Take Out Pain) Education
Taught by Tamara Felix, PhD, CMHt 1152, LMT 5352, NCBTMB instructor 450220-06.
Headache & TMJ Massage Class
A headache (cephalgia in medical terminology) is a condition of head pain, which may also include neck and upper back pain, and ranks among the most common local pain complaints. Common causes are tension, migraine, eye strain, dehydration, low blood sugar, and sinusitis. A large percentage of headaches among females are caused by ever-fluctuating estrogen during menstrual years, which can occur prior to, during, and even midcycle menstruation. Learn more about common to rare pathologies that cause headaches, as well as temporal-mandibular (TMJ) syndrome.
With hands-on learning and practice, you will master effective self-treatment and client treatment techniques that relieve painful to debilitating symptoms of tension headaches, migraines and TMJ syndrome; from Gentle Energy to Deep Structural Massage, Chinese Acupressure Massage (TuiNa) for the face, head, neck and shoulders, to self-care stretches and exercises.
Includes student textbooklet, Headache & TMJ Massage, by Tamara Felix, PhD LMT. Thoroughly researched and beautifully illustrated step-by-step instructions for effective Headache & TMJ Massage in treating yourself and your clients, as well as self-care.
Cost $150
7.5 CE hours
Pre-registration required. Visit www.TheRighTouch.com TOP Classes for more details.
Sciatica Massage Class
Learn the anatomy, physiology and kinesiology of the low back and pelvic girdle; pathology of Sciatica and other common hip and leg dysfunctions, as well as contraindications and precautions to treatment. With hands-on learnign and practice, you will experience effective treatment application, modalities and manual therapies to prevent and relieve painful to debilitating hip and leg pain from hydrotherapy, infrared therapy, gentle energy to deep structural integrative techniques, neuromuscular reeducatio, TuiNa (Chinese Massage) techniques, acupressure, therapeutic stretches and exercises, and helpful self-care products.
Include student textbook, Sciatica Massage, by Tamara Felix, PhD LMT, a throughly researched and beautifully illustrated companion to class which includes the pathology of sciatica and more, as well as easy-to-follow step-by-step treatment and self-care instructions, also available for purchase at the RoseSprings Center store for $20.
Cost $150
7.5 CE hours
Whiplash Massage Class
Whiplash is most typically caused by the impact of a motor vehicle crash, but can also be the result of a fall or blunt forct object impacting the head or face, causing the cervical spine to "whip" back and forth, resulting in tension to excrutiating pain and immobility of the neck, shoulders, upper-back to sacrum (the end of the "whip"). Whiplash may also include injury to the arms, wrists and hands when a steering wheel is tightly gripped, braced for impact. Learn more about whiplash, and what happens to the soft tissues, joints and bones - even in low-impact collisions; contraindications and precautions to treatment.
With hands-on learning, experience effective treatment techniques, applications, modalities and manual therapies that relieve painful to debilitating symptoms of whiplash, from aromatherapy, hydrotherapy, infrared light therapy, gentle energy to deep structural integrative, neuromuscular, Chinese acupressure and TuiNa techniques to patient self-care.
Includes student text book, Whiplash Massage, by Tamara Felix, PhD LMT, a thoroughly researched and beautifully illustrated easy-to-follow step-by-step companion to class.
Cost $150
7.5 CE hours
Pre-registration required. Visit www.TheRighTouch.com TOP Classes for more details.
Mayan Touch Class
Revealing secrets of Traditional Mayan Medicine using a specific Mayan approach to treatment called "Tok," similar to acupressure and trigger point therapy, with a powerful Mayan herbal twist to quickly and easily relieve pain and illness. Bring a list of symptoms you would like to treat naturally, and be amazed! Experience deep, restful, revitalizing sleep the first night, guaranteed! A most unique and wonderful hands-on experience.
You will learn the Mayan energy flow of Winds and Rains, and what happens when energetic inclinations lead to imbalance. Learn to assess the Vital Life Force by "reading" the pulse, and how to treat imbalances with Mayan Tok (Touch). Learn the Mayan "Power Herbs" (Tok Xiu), and experience a Shamanic Spiritual Journey to find and connect with your Power Herb(s), that will provide powerful healing to your clients in treatments.
Includes Tok Xiu seed shooter ($15 value) and textbook, Mayan Touch ($59.95 value), by Tamara Felix, PhD LMT, a thoroughly researched and beautifully illustrated companion to class which includes easy-to-follow step-by-step illustrated treatment and client self-care instructions for common conditions and illnesses.
Mayan Massage Class
Revealing secrets of Traditional Mayan Medicine, including herbal applications and a variety of massage techniques practiced in the Yucatan to treat medical conditions, or simply pamper and relax. A most unique and wonderful hands-on learning experience.
Learn the Mayan evergy flow of Winds and Rains, and what happens when energetic inclinations lead to imbalance. Learn to assess the Vital Life Force by "reading" the pulse, and how to treat imbalances with herbs and Mayan massage techniques called "talladas," "tok" and "jet"." Learn magical incantations and other spiritual and manual therapy techniques to remove "evil winds." Learn Mayan Abdominal Massage to balance the "tipte" (central life force), to tune its rhythm and pulse. Create your own customized treatment kit, or find what you need in the RoseSprings Center store, including herbal formulas, oils, poultices, and other products to relax, calm, vitalize and detox.
Includes a Starter Kit ($150 value) with basic herbs, oils, treatment bowl and faja, and textbook, Mayan Massage ($69.96 value), by Tamara Felix, PhD LMT, a thorough anthropological study of traditional Mayan medicine simply presented and beautifully illustrated with easy-to-follow step-by-step treatment instructions.
Plantar Fasciitis Massage Class
Plantar Fasciitis, also called "policeman's heel" is a painful inflammatory condition caused by excessive wear to the plantar fascia or biomechanical faults that cause abnormal pronation of the foot. Pain is usually felt on the underside of the heel, and is often most intense with the first steps of the day. Commonly associated with jobs that require a lot of walking on hard surfaces, shoes with little or no arch support, or as a result of a heel spur on the calcaneus (heel bone), in which the plantar fasciitis is the underlying condition, and not the spur itself.
Plantar Fasciitis Massage helps you recover much more quickly from plantar fasciitis. In this hands-on class, you will learn gentle to deep structural integrative massage and Chinese acupressure techniques, as well as contrast compresses and baths, isolated stretching and exercises of the foot, focused on the Achilles tendon and plantar fascia, taping, comfortable arch support and/or heel lifts, and patient self-care recommendations, stretches, exercises and supportive products.
Includes orthotics and textbook, Plantar Fasciitis Massage, by Tamra Felix, PhD LMT, a beautifully illustrated companion to class to anatomy of the foot, pathology of plantar fasciitis, and step-by-step treatment and self-care instructions.
Runner's Leg Massage Class
Whether you are a novice to experienced Sports Massage Therapist, you will enjoy this hands-on workshop. Always in time for the annual Hood-to-Coast Relay in August, the biggest runner's event held in Oregon with folks running and walking from all over the world and in need of your services. Learn the anatomy, physiology and kinesiology of the leg and its movement, and what happens with athletic performance and overuse; contraindications and precautions.
This hands-on workshop includes effective applications, modalities and manual therapies to prepare the athlete for top running form, more comfortable endurance and greater distance, and then correct overuse imbalances after running. Treatment options include hydrotherapy, infrared light therapy, gentle energy to deep structural integration, neuromuscular education, isolated passive and active stretches, Chinese acupuressure and TuiNa techniques to client self-care products, stretches and exercises.
Includes student text book, Runner's Leg Massage, by Tamara Felix, PhD LMT, a thoroughly researched and beautifully illustrated step-by-step companion to class.
Face Lift Massage Class
Face Lift Massage is the most incredible relaxing alternative to surgery for people who want to look and feel their best, but don't want to undergo the expensive, painful (and risky!) knife to do so.
Using Chinese acupressure, lymphatic drainage, tapotement, countouring massage techniques and a few trade secrets, Face Lift Massage softens, and sometimes eliminates the appearance of wrinkles, slows the formation of new ones, improves muscle tone, and keeps facial muscles from succumbing to gravity and time. Sessions are pampering, relaxing and rejuvenating, and you and your clients will be amazed at the changes in your appearance with each visit.
Class includes textbook, Face Lift Massage, by Tamara Felix, PhD LMT, a thoroughly researched and beautifully illustrated step-by-step companion to class. Textbook also available at the RoseSprings Center Store for $20.
Body Lift Massage Class
Body Lift Massage is the most incredible relaxing alternative to surgery for people who want to look and feel their best, but don't want to undergo the expensive, painful (and risky) knife to do so. Using lymphatic drainage, Chinese cupping, acupressure, tapotement, contouring massage tecniques, hydrotherapy and a few other trade secrets, Body Lift Massage detoxes the body, extracts and melts fat deposits and cellulite, lifts and tones the soft tissues, improves muscle tone, softens the skin, and prevents soft tissues from succumbing to gravity and time. Sessions are pampering, relaxing and rejuvenating, and you and your clients will be amazed at the changes with each visit. Expect to lose 1-2 pounds per visit, and lots of inches!
Class includes textbook, Body Lift Massage, by Tamara Felix, PhD LMT, a thoroughly researched, beautifully illustrated step-by-step instructions to providing Body Lift Massage treatments, as well as home self-care recommendations between treatments. Textbook also available in the RoseSprings Center Store for $20.
Medical Claims Massage Class
Earn your registration fee back with your first claim, guaranteed. Has the economy affected your bottom line? Would you like to earn professional pay for your professional services? Are you afraid to bill insurance? Have you billed insurance and not gotten paid? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, your solution is to practice Medical Claims Massage. Let Tammy show you how.
Billing insurance is easy. Getting paid is the hard, most edtious and time-consuming process in the health care sector. With this workshop, you will learn to simplify and streamline your practice and billing process, reduce denials, and get paid for your services, guaranteed!
A 2-year Coding Associate Degree program has been condensed into 50 hours specifically for Licensed Massage Therapists. Learn from a 20-year paralegal what corporate lawyers and marketing coaches charge thousands for to legalize and market your Medical Massage practice; learn orthopedic evaluation and treatment skills for greater service value, document findings insurance adjusters want to see (not the SOAP notes you learned in massage school), write evaluation and progress reports for maximum reimbursement, and successfully bill insurance. This is the only Medical Massage program in the United States (yes, Tammy has checked) that teaches all the coding idiosyncrasies for the services you provide, and Medicare's confusing mathematical equation so that you can calculate Usual Customary Reasonable fees for your services, HIPAA compliance, and so much more than you thought you need to know to successfully bill insurance for your services. There's much more to getting paid than submitting claims.
Take the whole 50-hour program in one intense week, or study at your own pace. You will learn and master:
- Pre-Treatment Procedures and Marketing
- Evaluation Procedures and Reports
- Treatment Procedures and Progress Reports
- Billing Procedures, and Getting Paid
Includes student supplies and textbooks, Medical Massage Therapy Billing Textbook, Medical Massage Therapy Evaluation Procedures, Medical Massage Therapy Treatment Procedures, LMT UCR Annual Updates, and current materials on topics covered — thoroughly researched companions to class which include everything you need to know to successfully bill insurance and get paid for your services.
50 CEU hours
Cost: $999
Home-Study Course (anytime, at your leisure), only $499
Textbooks only: Medical Claims Massage $59.95, LMT UCR Update $39.95
Pregnancy Massage Class
In this hands-on class, learn to competently support, position and drape for the unique body changes of each trimester of pregnancy. Experiance effective treatment options to relieve nausea in the first trimester to gestational sciatica and other discomforts in the third trimester, as well as techniques to strengthen the pelvic floor for more comfortrable delivery - from gentle to deep structural integrative neuromuscular, acupressure and TuiNa techniques, to easy patient self-care stretches and exercises, and supportive supplies to aid in comfort throughout pregnancy.
Includes textbook, Pregnancy Massage, by Tamara Felix, PhD LMT, a beautifully illustrated companion to class with the pathology of pregnancy, contraindications and step-by-step treatment and self-care instructions.
Foot Reflexology Class
Reflexology is a science that deals with the theory that there are neurological pathways from every part of the body, organ, glans, and other internal systems that end on the feet, hands and ears; and that manipulating these neurological "end point" reflect back and affect the area where the nerve path originated. Reflexology is a unique massage techinque using the thumb, fingers and hands to manipulate the soft tissues of these reflex areas. Foot Reflexology is simple and safe yet dynamic and powerful, as treating the specific areas of the foot reflect specific areas of the body, relieving symptoms and causes of pain and illness from virtually every part of the body, bringing renewed bigor, vitality and glowing health.
In this 1-day class, you will learn the history, theories, contraindications, precautions, and basic Foot Reflexology techniques. Includes textbooklet, Foot Reflexology, a thoroughly researched and beautifully illustrates companion to class which includes the current anthropological history of Foot Reflexology, foot diagrams, and easy-to-follow step-by-step illustrated descriptions of a Foot Reflexology treatment.
Hand Reflexology Class
Reflexology is a science that deals with the theory that there are neurological pathways from every part of the body, organ, gland, and other internal systems that end on the feet, hands and ears; and that manipulating these neurological "end points" reflect back and affect the area where the nerve path originated. Reflexology is a unique massage technique using the thumb, fingers and hands to manipulate the soft tissues of these reflex areas. Hand Reflexology is simple and safe, yet dynamic and powerful, as treating the specific areas of the hand reflect specific areas of the body, relieving symptoms and causes of pain and illness from virtually every part of the body, bringing renewed vigor, vitality and glowing health.
In the 4-hour class, you will learn the history, theories, contraindications, precautions, and basic Hand Reflexology techniques. Includes textbook, Hand Reflexology, a thoroughly researched and beautifully illustrated companion to class which includes the current history of Reflexology, hand diagrams, and easy-to-follow step-by-step illustrated descriptions of a Hand Reflexology treatment.
Ear Reflexology Class
Reflexology is a science that deals with the theory that there are neurological pathways from every part of the body, organ, gland, and other internal systems that end on the feet, hands and ears; and that manipulating these neurological "end points" reflect back and affect the area where the nerve path originated. Reflexology is a unique massage technique using the thumb, fingers, hands and tools to manipulate the soft tissues of these reflex areas. Ear Reflexology is simple and safe, yet dynamic and powerful, as treating the specific areas of the ear reflect specific areas of the body, relieving symptoms and causes of pain and illness from virtually every part of the body, bringing renewed vigor, vitality and glowing health.
In the 4-hour class, you will learn the history, theories, contraindication, precautions, and basic Ear Reflexology techniques. Includes textbook, Ear Reflexology, a thoroughly researched and beautifully illustrated companion to class which includes the history of Reflexology, ear diagrams, and easy-to-follow step-by-step illustrated descriptions of an Ear Reflexology treatment.
Cupping Massage Class
Cupping is an age-old method of bodywork - the earliest written records of cupping are from 1500 BCE in Egypt, and techniques have developed all over the world, from China to North Americans to the Maya in Central America to the Inca in South America. Cups are placed on the body using negative pressure, and can affect tissues four inches deep into the body. Cupping is becomeing more and more popular in the United States due to its effectiveness and because it feels great.
The gentle lifting of soft tissue can release adhesions, decrease stagnation in body fluids and energetic flow, stimulate vasodilation beinging healing to the treatment area and skin, as well as gently improving neuropathies and other neurological dysfunctions. Cupping also engages the parasympathetic nervous system, quickly facilitating deep relaxation. As a treatment method, cupping is very safe, inexpensive, and easy to learn. This class will look at the basics of massage cupping: safe use of equipment, effects of cupping treatments, pain point techniques, flash cupping, moving/gliding cupping, and contraindications.
Includes textbooklet, Chinese Cupping Massage, a thoroughly researched and beautifully illustrated companion to class which includes the history of cupping massage, techniques, contraindications and more, as well as easy-to-follow step-by-step illustrated treatment instructions.
Frozen Shoulder Massage Class
Learn the anatomy, physiology and kinesiology of the shoulder girdle, pathology of Adhesive Capsulitis (aka "Frozen Shoulder"), and other common shoulder dysfunctions, as well as contraindications and precautions to treatment. With hands-on learning and pratice, you will experience effective treatment applications, modalities and manual therapies to prevent and relieve painful to debilitating shoulder problems to Adhesive Capsulitis — from cryotherapy, infrared therapy, gentle energy to deep structural integrative techniques, neuromuscular reeducation, TuiNa (Chinese Massage), acupressure, therapeutic stretches and exercises, and helpful self-care products.
Frozen Shoulder Massage, by Tamara Felix, PhD LMT, a thoroughly researched and beautifully illustrated companion to class is highly recommended (not required or included with class), and available for purchase at the RoseSprings Center store for $20.
Carpal Tunnel Massage Class
Learn the anatomy, physiology and kinesiology of the hand and wrist, pathology of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and other commom hand, wrist and arm dysfunctions, as well as contraindications and precautions to treatment. With hands-on learning and practice, you will experience effective treatment applications, modalities and manual therapies to prevent and relieve painful to debilitating hand and wrist problems to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome — from cryotherapy, infrared therapy, hydrotherapy and paraffin baths, gentle energy to deep structural integrative techniques, neuromuscular education, TUiNa (Chinese Massage), acupressure, therapeutic stretches and exercises, and helpful self-care products.
Carpal Tunnel Massage, by Tamara Felix, PhD LMT, a thoroughly researched and beaurifully illustrated companion to class is highly recommended (not required or included with class), and available for purchase at the RoseSprings Center store for $20.
Insurance Billing Luncheon
Do you bill insurance? If you could have lunch with an official State claims reviewer to "pick their brain" on the insurance claims process, what would you ask?
Now is your chance! Come join us for lunch to get the latest insurance news, information and updates, and ask your questions for better billing success. Planned topics of discussion:
- Documentation. What do they need to see from us when we file claims?
- Prevention. What can we do, or avoid, to prevent delays, denials and Red Flags?
- Coding. What are the current coding allowances and restrictions, and when should we use (or not use) modifiers?
- Fee allowances. What are the current fee allowances for the services you provide?
- HIPAA. Are you HIPAA compliant or exempt?
- Disputes. What can you do when insurance companies delay payment, deny claims, accept claims but deny your services, or deny services they think are outside your scope of practice?
- Scope of Practice. Can insurance companies define our scope of practice, overriding our licensing board definitions? What recourse options do we have when they do?
Reiki Retreat
No Prerequisite. Anyone can learn.
Immerse yourself with a full week of Reiki Healing and get your Masters Degree in Reiki Usui System of Natural Healing - you get is ALL.
Reiki 1 - Usui Shiki Royoho - Journey into Limitless Healing
Learn the history of Reiki, and its practical applications. Open your chakra system with attunement to the physical healing energies of Reiki, and learn the basic Reiki treatment positions for self-healing and healing others.
Reiki 2 - Oku Den - Powerful and Distant Healing
Open your chakra system with attunement to the mental and emotional healing energies of Reiki. Learn the Reiki Power Symbols and how to use them, as well as how to perform distant healings, clear past traumas from yourself and others, and unlock your healing intuition.
Reiki 3 - Reiki Master - Journey into Mastery
Open your chakra system with attunement to the spiritual healing energies of Reiki. Learn the Reiki Master Symbol and how to use it, as well as how to perform spiritual clearings on yourself and others, trust your healing intuition, perform intuitive healings, and learn how to teach Reiki.
