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Melting Muscles is the patient method of waiting to feel a muscle melt before moving on.  Presence with the muscle shape and fiber direction is also taught.  Muscle guarding is not judged as bad, so we do not fight to lengthen the muscle.  Instead, we move the muscle into a shortened position.  Then the brain feels its need to guard has been aided, and the muscle melts of its own decision.  
           
The two-day workshop includes elements of Specific Treatment massage as well as creating a new Full Body massage. Assessments are shown for hip rotation, shoulder rotation, lumbar rotation, and lumbar side bending, for those who wish to prioritize which muscles need more treatment.  You will learn to palpate, shorten, and melt many lesser-known muscle groups, including piriformis, psoas, subscapularis, wrist flexors and extensors, neck extensors and side benders. 

Many practitioners embraced the techniques simply from reading the articles and the workbooks.  The workbooks are left-brained tools, beginning with step-by-step instruction, including lots of pictures, then gaining assessments, theory, and philosophy.  The workshops, on the other hand, are right-brained, fun training.  In the workshops there is no lecture, no pens, no books, 100% hands-on work at the tables.  Your hands become your best teachers.

Course Objectives:

  • Palpate muscle fiber direction in each of the exercises.  Each person must attain this capability before the exercise is finished.  Instructor verifies by watching the palpating hand, to ensure that it makes a visible “thumping” as the muscle fibers are “strummed.”

  • Demonstrate ability to place a muscle in its shortened position with one hand while palpating the muscle belly with the other hand.  Each person must gain this skill for the muscle group
    being shown, before the group moves on to the next exercise.
     
  • Explain the benefits of treating muscles in the shortened position

  • Discern the onset and duration of a muscle melting

  • Respond to muscle melting and follow through with one or more options such as riding the melting by moving up the muscle; gradually lengthening the muscle; increasing or decreasing pressure; or verbally interacting with the person "Can you feel the muscle melting?"  Instructor watches for one or more of these responses from each participant

  • Feel (or mimic the speed and quality of) cranial motion.  Instructor watches the speed and quality of motion

  • Apply the philosophy of melting muscles.  The instructor assesses this by quizzing participants with questions like the following: “Let’s say the recipient has a shoulder that is higher (elevated) than it would naturally be.  How will you treat the shoulder, by elevating or depressing it?” and “Why do you think this is more effective?”

  • Date:6/7/2008, 6/8/08/2008, 6/29/2008
    Time: 9am-5:30pm
    Location: KCCM Campus

    Instructor: Lara Pollock is in her 16th year of practicing therapeutic massage. She has a BA in English with certification in Secondary Education from Bethel College. She has training in Reiki, Cranio Sacral Therapy, and Connecting with Essence. She has been working with Patrick Moore learning, developing, teaching the Melting Muscles technique for two years. In addition to instructing Melting Muscles Workshops, she has helped edit the workbooks, and contributed to course curriculum development for the workbooks and workshops. Lara is currently attending the KCCM Master of Oriental Medicine Program. She lives near Wichita, Kansas with her husband and three active children

    This course is presented by Elenchus Publishing & Workshops and is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a continuing education Approved Provider.

    "Both Melting Muscles and Advanced Atlas Axis workshops provide 14 and 7 Category A hours for NCBTMB, by using the certificate and provider number that Lara Pollock will provide."

    "Any workshop that is NCBTMB Category A approved also fits the criteria for ABMP, AMTA, and most State requirements for continuing education."

    Please bring your own massage table

    Letter to participants

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