08/21/2025
Dr. Winder and the work he has created releasing fascia is amazing! I highly recommend this class!
Coming to Sarasota on September 20-21, 2025
Taught by Eric Winder, DC and Rowan Winder, LMT
12 CE hours through NCBTMB
Laurie, join us for a fascinating journey in manual therapy:
Learn RST (Residual Strain Therapy), the gentle way to work with fascia
Satisfy your drive to help people heal — learn to assess and treat restrictions in fascia. RST is a uniquely effective and gentle method for tracing and treating fascial sources of pain and structural imbalance. In Residual Strain Therapy seminars, students learn a thorough understanding of how the fascia system works throughout the body and gain the ability to restore health through release of restricted fascia.
Students have plenty of hands-on supervised practice during the seminars, with methods that are easily incorporated into their normal massage therapy techniques. Often students are astonished to experience relief from their own chronic aches and pains during the seminars, and are excited to take the experience back to their clients.
RST is Different
Most fascial treatment methods use intense, direct pressure. There are limits to this kind of pressure — it can be very uncomfortable for clients, sometimes temporary in its effects, and is limited to the superficial structures that direct pressure can reach. It also can take a painful toll on a practitioner’s hands and wrists. RST takes advantage of the nerve-rich structure in the web of fascia that makes up the human body. It uses sensory input from indirect gentle pressure to free up the painful binding caused by restricted fascia. RST can effectively reach even deep structures, such as organ and spinal fascia, without using strong force that would be painful for both clients and practitioners.
Clients are relieved from pain, and move with increased comfort and stability. Practitioners’ bodies thank them for learning a gentler and easier way to do effective and deep bodywork.
RST seminars use a variety of learning tools to build students’ skills and confidence in using the technique. Seventy percent of each seminar is supervised hands-on practice. By the end of the first seminar, students are already able to trace and treat the more obvious fascial restrictions in bones and joints, which can cause pain and limit movement. Each seminar in the progressive series looks at treatment for specific areas, and the RST series culminates with an ability to treat clients in a whole-body way that can restore health and eliminate dysfunction.
RST methods were developed by Dr. Eric Winder, and he has been teaching RST seminars for the past 16 years. He has used these fascia release techniques to help over six thousand of his personal patients to recover from pain and dysfunction, and his methods have helped many more through the skills of the students who have completed his certification program.
Who Benefits from RST?
RST helps a wide range of client types, including:
Athletes are excited to finally pin down the specific muscles and joints that are really causing their problems. They are also thrilled with the immediate changes in strength and stability that they can see for themselves after getting even just one RST treatment.
Chronic pain clients love how RST can get them relief when nothing else has helped. They often say, “Why aren’t more people doing this?” and “If only I had found this sooner.”
Wellness clients are thrilled with how RST keeps them in top form, ironing out little bits of stiffness and tension before they can have a chance to build up. A common side effect of RST is a greater sense of well-being, and even clients who don’t have a specific complaint will often comment on how wonderful they feel after a session.
Sign up now for the first seminar, Introduction to RST, and find out what you could be doing for your clients.
Mark your calendar for the five seminars that follow and join other passionate therapists in building a skillset that will elevate both your career and your personal health.
