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CONTINUING EDUCATION

DSM offers continuing education in order to present a holistic approach to learning. Shiatsu, Sports Massage, Polarity, and Centering Techniques for Body/Mind are available to take in combination with a program choice or separately from the core at a later date. Courses are individually priced according to length, design, and purpose. Special guest workshops, certification programs, and other continuing education options are also open to graduates and professional massage therapists. Invitations and notices are mailed three to four times a year; anyone can call the school to be placed on the continuing education or newsletter (In Touch) mailing list. Guest speakers from all over the world have presented on a wide variety of subjects at DSM. Curriculum, special electives, continuing education, programs, and dates are subject to change, In the event that school is closed due to weather conditions, students and workshop participants will be informed. The Downeast School of Massage is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a continuing education Approved Provider.

2010 Continuing Education at a Glance

January 7–July 15 Shiatsu I & II (Goulet)
Jan. 9-10 Static & Motion: Movement Analysis (Peter West)
Feb 27-28 Business Design (Cheryl Tardy)
March 6, 7 & 20, 21 Event Sports Massage I & II (Michael Aitken & Kate Anagnostis)
March 20 Introduction to Cranial Sacral (Patricia Corscaden)
March 22 Ethics (N Dail)
March 27-28 Sports Massage for Injury & Prevention (Michael Aitken & Kate Anagnostis)
April 12 Ethics (N Dail)
April 17 Quantum Touch (Jeanne Gaudette)
April 24, 25 Aromatherapy for Everybody! (Kate Leigh)
April 30, May 1, 2 Ayurveda Structural Bodywork Therapy Certification III (KP Khalsa)
May 1-2 Spa Stone (Patrick Regan)
May 15, 16 Polarity (Jeanne Gaudette)
May 15, 16, 17 Equine Sports Massage Certification - Wilson Meagher Method (Jo-Ann Wilson)
June 12-13 Orthopedic Massage Assessment & Treatment of Cervical Pain (Ben Benjamin)
July 9,10, 11 Unlocking the Thorasic Cage, Techniques to Increase and Restore Myofascial Breath (Bob King)
Sept 10 Ethics (R. Pfeiffer)
Sept. 18, 19 Integrating Chiropractic and Massage Therapy - Knee, Ankle, and Foot (Peter West and Nancy Dail)
September 24 Efficiency of Movement: How to improve your quality of life! (Tim Agnew)
September 25, 26 Kinesiology for Manual Therapies (Tim Agnew)
October 8, 9, 10 Title to be announced (David Lauterstein)
October 15, 16 Anatomy Trains (Tom Myers)
October 17, 18 Soft Tissue Master Class: Neck, Shoulder & Thorax (Tom Myers)
October 21-23 Caring for Clients with Cancer (Tracy Walton)
October 23-25 Wilson Meagher Equine Sports Massage: Clinic Applications and Assessment of Muscular Kinetics (Jo-Ann Wilson)

2009 Continuing Education at a Glance

January 8–July 16 Shiatsu I & II (Goulet)
January 10-11 Static and Motion Analysis (West)
March 7-8 & March 21-22 Event Sports Massage Certification (Aitken & Anagnostis)
April 2-4 Bodywork for Real Change: Blending Eastern & Western Modalities for Neck & Shoulder Conditions (Goulet)
April 4-5 Sports Massage for Injury & Prevention (Aitken & Anagnostis)
April 25-26 Integrating Chiropractic & Massage: Low Back, Hip & Pelvic Girdle (West & Dail)
May 2 Building Your Business in the 21st Century (Hanseth)
May 16-17 Spa Stone Massage: Basic & Advanced Training
June 5-7 Pregnancy Massage (Stager)
June 13 Bodywork for the New Mother (Stager)
June 14 Bodywork for the Labor & Birth (Stager)
June 18-20 Bodywork for Real Change: Blending Eastern & Western Modalities for Back, Hip & Knee Conditions (Goulet)
June 27-28 Introduction to Polarity (Gaudette)
July 10–12 Myofascial Massage (King)
September 11 Ethics (Pfeiffer )
September 11-13 Ayurveda Certification: Ayurvedic Massage (Khalsa)
September 19-20 Integrating Chiropractic and Massage Therapy
A Dimensional Approach to Exploring the Pathologies of the Region of the Forearm, Hand and Wrist (West & Dail)
September 19-21 Equine Sports Massage Certification (Wilson)
September 25 Overcoming Painful Movement (seminar for the general public) (Agnew)
September 26–27 Clinical Flexibility & Therapeutic Exercise (Agnew)
October 9–11 Deep Massage: The Lauterstein Method: The Illiopsoas and its Neighbors (Lauterstein)
October 16-17 BodyReading™ 101 (Myers)
October 18-19 Intrinsic Muscles of the Pelvis (Myers)
October 22-24 Advanced Shiatsu: Muscle Meridian Tonification (Goulet)
October 24, 25 Aromatherapy for Everybody! (Leigh)
November 13-15 Ayurveda Certification: Ayurvedic Herbalism (Khalsa)

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