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(Approved as relevant to and focus on massage therapy techniques - LIVE hours)
Un-learn the counterproductive habits that you have accumulated and re-learn that passion you used to have for your work.
Let instructor David Lobenstine guide you in facilitating change, rather than force change, in your clients. In this online video and text based home study course you will rediscover your most powerful therapeutic tools - your breath and your body weight. These innate tools are what make us great therapists, and yet are the same tools we so often forget.
By learning the "pouring principle" you will contact your client with ease, help your client become an engaged partner in the work and, in turn, you can put the "deep" back in deep tissue massage, but without strain or pain.
Learn more about the Pour Don't Push course.
Through online video presentations you can you can absorb the material at your own pace and explore a range of stretching techniques, from static and passive stretching to proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation and traction techniques, all designed to facilitate a full body stretch.
Learn how to effectively communicate the advantages of correct stretching to your clients, and discover how therapeutic stretching techniques can enhance flexibility, alleviate discomfort, and restore balance.
Whether you're looking to integrate these techniques into a full-body stretching routine or choose specific techniques to utilize with individual clients, this course equips you with the knowledge and skills to improve client outcome.
Learn more about the Therapeutic Stretching course.
This general, practice level course provides massage and bodywork professionals with a discussion of the major legal and ethical concepts and terms related to roles and boundaries, so that one may better understand how these concepts are applied in the health professions today.
This course provides short and concise reviews of:
Learn more about the Ethics: Roles & Boundaries course.
How do codes, laws, rules and regulations affect your practice of massage and bodywork? In this course, you are presented with a detailed view of the laws and rules of the Florida Board of Massage Therapy and how they apply to the massage therapy business. The course covers chapters 480, 456 and Rule Chapter 64B7 required per the continuing education rules as presented by the Florida Board of Massage Therapy.
Learn more about the Law and Legal Issues course.
This course benefits all practicing massage therapists as healthcare providers. It is intended to help massage therapists understand the importance of medical errors as healthcare providers to the public.
This course covers the scope of problems regarding medical errors. You will be introduced to the types of medical errors that commonly occur, including medication, surgical and diagnostic errors and system failures. Recommendations for limiting or possibly eliminating these types of errors are also included, as are the processes for Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to provide a system for error recognition and solutions.
Finally, you will find out how this attention to medical errors affects massage therapists and determine the types of errors that may take place in the massage practice.
Learn more about the Medical Errors course.
In this one-hour comprehensive online course designed for Florida massage license renewal, we explore the world of human trafficking, debunking myths, and uncovering hard-hitting facts. Through a blend of textual insights and video presentations, participants will gain a profound understanding of the complex issue of human trafficking, empowering them to recognize, prevent, and report instances of trafficking in their communities.
This course is designed to equip participants with the knowledge, skills, and resources necessary to become agents of change in the fight against human trafficking. By the end of the session, learners will be empowered to take proactive steps towards recognizing, preventing, and reporting instances of trafficking, ultimately contributing to the effort to eradicate this heinous crime.
Learn more about the Human Trafficking course.
For additional Florida package options visit our Florida Packages page.
Lili Xu, LMT
6/3/2025
Aliya Martin, LMT
6/3/2025
GLADYS NELSON, LMT
6/3/2025
Laurence Aaron, LMT, BCTMB
6/2/2025
Cara Nina Gentile, LMBT
5/31/2025
Sharon Burch holds a Masters Degree in Nursing and has been practicing as a nurse since 1974. She is currently a Registered Nurse in the state of Arkansas. Additionally, Ms. Burch studied under many of today's leaders in massage therapy and bodywork during the 1980s, became Nationally Certified through the NCBTMB in 1993 and holds a professional membership with the AMTA.
As founder of Health Positive!, Ms. Burch has created over 60 home study nursing and massage continuing education programs, performed over 65 public, live educational presentations, has written two published books, served as a member on the NCBTMB Continuing Education committee and was a founding member of the National Association of Nurse Massage Therapists.
Sharon is an instructor on many of the Institute's programs and has authored and co-authored various ethics courses and additional titles such as Touch for the Seriously Ill, Stress Reduction Through Bodywork, Staying Well – Naturally, Cardiopulmonary Health and Illness, Chronic Pain Management, Marketing Massage in Four Easy Steps, Preventing Medical Errors, HIV Update for Massage Therapists and Bodyworkers, Understanding HIV, Massage for Edema and more.
Jane Irving, LMT, BCTMB, BS, is the creator of My Learning Library specializing in massage and bodywork web-based training having published over 60 instructional massage courses. Having graduated from Northeastern University in Boston in 1983 with a Bachelor of Science Degree, Jane later attended the Institute of Massage Therapy in Boston from 1987-1988. She furthered her massage training under Ben Benjamin at the Muscular Therapy Institute in Cambridge, MA. From 1989-1990.
Ms. Irving is member of the American Massage Therapy Association, an approved provider for the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork as well as NCBTMB Board Certified.
Jane is the creator and instructor of Kinesio Taping Techniques for Massage Therapists, Manual Lymphatic Drainage Massage, Therapeutic Stretching, and Massage Cupping Techniques.
David M. Lobenstine has been a massage therapist, teacher, and writer for over a decade. He is a graduate of the Swedish Institute and Vassar College. He has worked in a variety of settings, from luxury spas to the US Open Tennis Tournament to a hospice to now, exclusively, his own private practice, Full Breath Massage. And he has developed and taught continuing education courses around the country, from the Swedish Institute to the AMTA National Convention. His aim, both with his clients and in his teaching, is to enhance self-awareness, so that we can do the things we love with efficiency and ease.
Mr. Lobenstine is the creator and instructor of Pour Don't Push, Working the Rib Cage, Using Your Thumbs Wisely, Approaching the Upper Body from All Angles, Approaching the Lower Body from All Angles, and Using the Breath to Massage Better.
Original founder of the Institute for Integrative Healthcare Studies, Ralph graduated from The Swedish Institute, New York in 1981. A New York State Licensed Massage Therapist, Ralph was also the associate producer and host of the Holistic Health and Wellness and Natural Wellness programs in White Plains, NY, the creator of the Loving Pregnancy Massage video and author of the Healing Energy & Touch course manual.
Ralph has also authored and co-authored additional courses with the Institute including Developing a Wellness Center, Prenatal Massage Fundamentals, Infectious Disease: HIV/AIDS, Infectious Disease: Hepatitis, Medical Errors, Ethics: Therapeutic Relationships, Advanced Anatomy & Physiology, Deep Vein Thrombosis and Ethics: Practice Management.
The Institute for Integrative Healthcare Studies is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a continuing education Approved Provider. Our courses are also accepted by AMTA and ABMP.
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