Working With The Neurology Of the Body

Working With The Neurology Of the Body

Working with The Edge keeps you, the therapist, and your Client, focused on the internal relaxation and tension release process, making deep neurological connections, increasing the effectiveness, efficiency and results of your work.

For one thing, much of  the power of touch therapy in massage & bodywork is their influence on the parasympathetic nerve system. This system is responsible for the healing, regeneration, rebuilding, and immune functions of the body. (That’s compared to  the better known Sympathetic system, the Fright, Freeze, Fight or Flight system.)

The parasympathetic system responds best to light to medium stimulation, and not so well to high intensity stimulation. In fact, very strong stimulus tends to turn the parasympathetic system down as the sympathetic — the fight or flight — system turns UP.

So if you have a practice focused primarily on working with and healing the soft tissue issues of your clients, you’ll want to avoid working too deeply, too fast. Too much intensity of sensation, especially if it’s painful, can work against your beneficial and healing intentions.

Like much of what you’ll be learning with us, there’s A LOT more to power of touch therapy in massage & bodywork than that simple description describes.

Yes, our techniques treat the “deep tissues.” Many say we go far deeper into the muscle and fascia than most. The trick is to let the skin and surface tissues “release” first, THEN go deeper into the more superficial levels of muscle fibers, allowing the No Pain, MORE Gain process to work. THEN sink into the deeper muscle fibers.

It takes a little more time, but is far more effective and efficient. You’ll learn to deliver “deeper bodywork” with no significant levels of discomfort or pain necessarily involved.

Our entry level program will give you all the therapeutic tools you need to be a VERY successful practitioner.