Unburdened Bodywork

04/10/2026

Last year, I noticed that a lot of students were having trouble maintaining attention and bandwidth for what is, clearly, bodywork that demands patience and deliberation. I decided to try the experiment of breaking up the longer 2 and three day classes into smaller and hopefully more digestible modules. I'll be teaching these class offerings for 2026:

PAYMENT LINKS IN THE COMMENTS

Ethics: Healthy Boundaries in Energy Work
Friday, May 8, 2026, 9:30 am - 1:30 pm
Albuquerque School for Healing Arts, 4600 Copper NE, Albuquerque
$110

Healthy Boundaries in Energy Work is a highly experiential ethics class, designed for you to actually learn to palpate the energy fields of the body -- not only for your client but also for yourself. In this way, you will learn to have greater clarity about yourself and your client, avoid enmeshment and entanglement, conserve your own energies, and maintain boundaries in a healthy, respectful, and non judgmental way. This class is designed to be an introduction to developing sensitivity and full therapeutic presence in the performance of all types of bodywork, but most particularly the energy work modalities, such as polarity, craniosacral, visceral, and fascial.

4 hrs - NCBTMB approved

Listening to the Fascia
Friday, May 15, 2026, 10 am - 5 pm
Albuquerque School for Healing Arts, 4600 Copper NE, Albuquerque
$175

Subtle listening through the hands is a learnable skill. This class aims to help people recognize what they are feeling through their hands as manifestations of the subtle movements in the body, thereby developing their abilities of nonverbal communication and to bring greater depth and subtlety to their massage or bodywork practice. By growing a listening relationship with the fascia, students will be “primed“ to develop deeper and more sensitive abilities to detect the body's various motilities, tensions, and laxities, and be able to address them in their practice. As a result, students will be prepared for further studies in myofascial release, dermal neuromodulation, and scar release work, as well as learning the “feel” for craniosacral and visceral work.

This class is the first in a series of four, designed for both beginning and experienced therapists to slow down, get really present, get comfortable with stillness, and do some deep listening.

6 CEUs NCBTMB approved

Listening to the Abdominal Organs
Friday, June 26 , 2026, 9 am - 6 pm
Albuquerque School for Healing Arts, 4600 Copper NE, Albuquerque
$225

All internal organs, nerves, membranes, and blood vessels contain an inherent movement, or “motility,” which is the expression of vitality in the organ or system. Each system reenacts its own growth patterns, expanding and retracting in the pattern from embryonic development to full adult expression. We can tune into each part of any system to listen for restrictions which lead to musculoskeletal dysfunction. The act of careful listening to the fascia and organs can, in and of itself, create an environment for self-correction and improve interoception. Students will gain an appreciation for some of the complex relatiosnhips between the organs and the body-mind.

This class is the second in a series of classes designed to grow the ability to deeply listen to the body's systems and how they interact.

8 CEUs NCBTMB approved

Listening to the Thoracic Organs
Friday, July 17 , 2026, 10 am - 5 pm
Albuquerque School for Healing Arts, 4600 Copper NE, Albuquerque
$175

All the internal organs, nerves, membranes, and blood vessels contain an inherent movement, or “motility.” Motility is the expression of vitality in the organ or system. All systems recreate their own growth patterns, expanding and retracting. We can tune into each part of any system to listen for restrictions. Restrictions in any part of any system can lead to musculoskeletal dysfunction. The thoracic organs contribute to musculoskeletal function and dysfunction due to their close proximity to the rib cage and shoulder girdle. The act of careful listening to the organs can, in and of itself, create an environment for self-correction and improve interoception. In this class we will be exploring clinically significant indications for working with the ribs, lungs, and heart, as well as the tissues surrounding them, and practice release of the tissues for greater ease in the upper body.

This class is the third in a series of classes designed to grow the ability to deeply listen to the body's systems and how they interact.

6 CEUs NCBTMB approved

Seated Techniques for the Upper Body
Friday, October 9, 2026, 10 am - 5 pm
Albuquerque School for Healing Arts, 4600 Copper NE, Albuquerque
$175

There are situations that most therapists encounter, in which a client is unable or unwilling to lie down on a table. This inability may be due to a physical limitation, an emotional issue, or even due to the nature of the bodywork situation, such as chair massage settings or time constraints. In this six hour CE class, students will be combining polarity and visceral mobilization techniques to address upper body complaints. A curious and open attitude during the initial assessment can give the client confidence that their needs will be addressed respectfully and appropriately, as well as give them satisfying results without the need to lie down or remove clothing.

This class is the fourth in a series designed to grow the ability to deeply listen to the body's systems and how they interact.

6 CEUs NCBTMB approved

Ethics: Risky Business
Friday, September 25, 9:30 am - 1:30 pm
Albuquerque School for Healing Arts, 4600 Copper NE, Albuquerque
$110

Massage therapists work in one of the most intimate professional settings that we can imagine. There are considerations about touch, clothing, draping, emotional releases, client confidentiality, fiduciary relationships, attraction, attention, egotism, self esteem, gossip, dual relationships, energetic entanglement, and more. There are many ways we can cross boundaries, whether inadvertently or on purpose, and all of them hinge on a lack of self-awareness. This class is designed to explore potential ramifications of different types of boundary crossings and offer a safe place for discussion of real life situations that therapists have found themselves in as well as potential solutions for thorny problems.

4 Hrs -- NCBTMB approved

12/27/2025

Changes to take effect January 1, 2026.

If you are a new client booking a session, I will now be asking for a deposit. I will still be running a sliding scale, so a refund could be coming back to you once you complete the first session. You can also write a check for the deposit that would be returned to you after you actually show up.

For students, the refund policy is 80% if you cancel more than 2 weeks prior to the class, and 50% if less than 2 weeks prior. If you bail out midstream in a class, you do not get a refund. I will do my best to help you get your CEUs, but there may be additional fees if your absence is not due to physical illness or emergency.

Late arrivals will be accommodated up to 20 minutes past the appointed time, and after that you are considered a no-show. If you no-show/no-notice twice, I will not rebook you.

There is no fee if you cancel prior to 6 pm the night before your session.

I am sorry to have had to make these policy updates, but I feel I have been forced to due to an excessive number of no-shows.

12/23/2025

At last, there is some scientific validation for the ability to remote-sense by touch. This goes a long way towards explaining why we as therapists can "touch the inside from the outside"

Humans can detect buried objects without touching them, sensing faint pressure ripples in sand. Scientists are calling this "remote touch."

09/23/2025

Hello everyone --

I must say that the September class was truly outstanding as an example of the great possibilities that can occur when a class gels and the students are willing to do the work. It gave me hope when most of the other classes that I taught in 2025 did not.

I will be pulling back from teaching somewhat during 2026. Classroom rental and student issues, on top of the general zeitgeist, have been challenging. I am still considering if and how to change my classes, since the demand is not for weekend (or longer) immersions, but the short 4-, 6-, or 8- hour courses. My whole bodywork and life philosophy can be boiled down to "go slower, notice more", which does not exactly lend itself to a short-form class.

I will be taking the winter months to re-evaluate. Please contact me personally (NOT THROUGH FACEBOOK) if you want to participate in small-group/ non-CE study sessions for particular techniques, ethics round tables, or supervised work with a client.

07/23/2025

Greetings to all of you faithful readers and students --

I say faithful, because I am afraid that my faith in humanity is in somewhat short supply right now. We are witnessing the pain of the destruction of the ways of life that we once took for granted, and even though I understand that Change Necessitates Destruction, and it is a normal and natural part of social evolution, it is not the sociological cycle that I was prepared for.

Among the casualties of social change has been people's attention spans. I recently attended a meditation retreat, and the guru who led it mentioned that the average attention span today is 30 seconds. A quick google query said it is actually only 8.25 seconds. My classes convey a method of accessing the body that requires stillness, patience, and listening. Here is the quandary: I must ask you to pay attention to your own attention span.

I am not teaching individual techniques as much as a method of accessing the body that requires stillness, patience, and listening. My approach is that, once a therapist learns to slow down enough, the client's body will express exactly what it needs. This approach to the body is meditative and can even be spiritual. It is not just a grab-bag of techniques that you can whip out of your back pocket as needed. It takes time to slow down, time to absorb, time to practice, time to resonate, not to mention time to downregulate your own nervous system. It is a rebellion against a world that insists we hurry up ever more just to go nowhere. It is a resistance to the addictive cycles of attention-grabbing advertising, news-based rage, and doom-scrolling. To do this work, we must choose to be centered, grounded, and at peace.

I hope you will choose to join me in this journey towards equanimity. My next class is a small-group in August in Tesuque (text or call me for details), and then a weekend in September for introductory visceral mobilization and ethics (see the Albuquerque School of Healing Arts website for registration.)

05/25/2025

Hi everyone -- if you missed my last offering of Energetic Boundaries & Developing Your Listening Hands part 1, I will be teaching it again in a small classroom setting in Tesuque in August. Please contact me directly for details. :-)

05/22/2025

There is still time to sign up for my next CE class, which includes 4 hours of ethics and 20 hours of bodywork. I love the integration of polarity, or energy-based bodywork, into every other discipline, and this class will give you lots of techniques to carry with you in your therapist's toolbox.

Get Tickets for Integrating Polarity Therapy Into Your Bodywork Practice. Ticket sales close June 8th 2025.

04/30/2025

The next class offering will be June 13-15, 2025. **This is a date-change due to a scheduling conflict.**
Please join me for an ethics and polarity weekend experience!

Get Tickets for Integrating Polarity Therapy Into Your Bodywork Practice. Ticket sales close June 8th 2025.

03/11/2025

This is the last week to register for my upcoming classes on March 22-23. Get all your CEUs done in one weekend by taking Ethics: Healthy Boundaries in Energy Work and Developing Your Listening hands pt 1 (Energy Body and Cranial Rhythms). This is my favorite ethics class to teach, it's always so much fun!

Get Tickets for Developing Your Listening Hands pt 1. Ticket sales close March 16th 2025.

01/16/2025

Announcing 3 opportunities to get all your CEUs at once, plus the usual last-weekend ethics class date. These classes will take place at the Albuquerque School of Healing Arts. There may be more opportunities for classes offered later but so far, here we go --

March 22-23, 2025 -- Healthy Boundaries in Energy Work + Developing Your Listening Hands, pt 1: Energy Body and Cranial Rhythms (16 hrs total)

June 6-8, 2025 -- Healthy Boundaries in Energy Work + Integrating Polarity Therapy into Your Bodywork Practice (24 hrs total)

September 13-14, 2025 -- Risky Business + Exploring the Inner Landscape (Fascia and Viscera) (16 hrs total)

October 25, 2025 -- The Gender-Expansive Body on the Table (4 ethics hrs)

All classes are NCBTMB approved. Links in the comment section.

10/17/2024

An exciting possibility for equine-assisted bodywork has just opened up in conjunction with Wilderwood Equine Rescue. While the weather is still nice, or again in the spring, I am looking for a few volunteers to help me work out the logistics by being a practice body.
If you think you would like to try the experience of receiving bodywork in the open air, with horses nearby to park their nose on you if they want to, please let me know. (A donation to Wilderwood for the experience is appreciated.)

09/08/2024

Had a few cancellations for the classes on Sept 14-15 -- please text or call me if you want to get all your CEUs in one weekend!

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