Accredited Hot Stone Therapy
Course
In Middlesex
Description
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Type
Course
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Location
Middlesex
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Duration
2 Days
To fully prepare qualified therapists to safely prepare equipment and client for a treatment and to safely perform an effective Stone Therapy Massage.
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OVERVIEW
This course is classified as Post Graduate and the pre requisite is an Anatomy, Physiology and Massage certificate. The course runs over two days to ensure a full in depth content is covered and therapists leave the course confident to add this therapy to their treatment list. There will be an assessment of competence before the end of the course, in the form of a short theory paper and a practical assessment.
This intriguing therapy has a history dating back over 2000 years and only now is being recognized for its powerful benefits. With the use of special basalt stones, heated to a safe temperature, the treatment allows the therapist to warm, relax and release tension, simply by using specialized techniques with the stones, saving your hands!
Outcomes :
- Explain the history of Hot Stone therapy
- Identify the contra indications to treatment
- Identify the benefits of the treatment
- Provide effective Home Advice.
- Prepare heater and stones before and after treatment
- Identify any possible Health & Safety requirements.
- Prepare area and client for treatment
- Perform a treatment routine
- Identify further treatments required.
The contents of the course will be mainly practical and therefore students are required to wear appropriate attire fitting to the therapy.Stones kits along with a set of handouts for each student will be provided to use on the day. Purchase of your own kit is recommended for completion of the case study but not essential. Your tutor will give full details.
Need to bring :
- 2 large towels and
- 2 – 3 hand towels
- COUCH
- couchcover and oil.
An accredited certificate with CThA will be issued once the tutor is satisfied competence has been reached, and completed assessment of theory papers.A case study has to be submitted within the stated time of four week
SCHEDULE
Thu 2nd July 2009, 9.30-2.30pm
Accredited Hot Stone Therapy