Upcoming Events

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CS1: CranioSacral Therapy 1

Saskatoon, SK

CS1: CranioSacral Therapy 1: Assessment of Central Nervous System and Fascia for Full Body Treatment Protocol
April 11-14, 2025 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Teacher: Marilyn Siebold, MT, CST-T

Tuition Discount available to Full-Time Healthcare Students who qualify – call 561.622.4334 for details.

Tuition Price: $882.45 (USD)
Early Registration Price: $660.45 (USD)
For registering 60 days in advance, you save $222.00 (USD)!
This special rate will only be valid until 2/10/2025, 12:00:00 AM Pacific time

https://shop.iahe.com/Workshops/CranioSacral-Therapy-1-CS1/CS1-04.11-14.25-SAS

24 primary credits - MTAS

Dr. Vodder's Manual Lymph Drainage Level 1

Saskatoon, SK

Dr Vodder School’s Manual Lymph Drainage Level 1 (in-person)
Saskatoon, Sask     24-27 April, 2025

Instructor: Denise Drisdelle, RMT.
Duration: 32 hours Instruction, 4 days at 8 hours each with 1 hour lunch break.
Location: Quality Inn - 1715 Idylwyld Drive N Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Registration: Registration Link Form for Level 1, 2 & 3 and Level 1 Online Theory Form.
Dates: April 24-27th, 2025 , 8am-5:30pm each day.

32 primary credits from MTAS.

Cost: $1312.50 Includes GST.  (Discount if bundled with Level 2 and 3 classes).
Level 1 Online Theory purchased separately but required for the in-person class. $150 + GST if purchased before December 31, 2024. Will go up to $160 + GST on January 1, 2025.

Course Description:
An intensive course involving extensive hands-on work. The basic strokes and their application to each body part are taught. The theory covers anatomy and physiology of the lymph vessel system, connective tissue, effects of MLD and contraindications. Lymphedemas are described with an emphasis on how MLD can affect them.

Textbook: Dr. Vodder’s Manual Lymph Drainage, A Practical Guide H, D, A and M Wittlinger.
Online Videos and Handouts.

Email: info@vodderschool.com
Website: vodderschool.com
Text : 800-522-9862

*This is an IN-PERSON event*

 

CMMOTA Craniosacral Techniques Retreat

Lake Louise, AB

Click here for more details and to register

WHEN: April 25-27, 2025 from 8:00 am – 2:00 pm at the Lake Louise Inn – 210 Village Road, Lake Louise, AB

Early Bird pricing of $925 for CMMOTA Members and $1125 for non-CMMOTA Members is in effect until January 31, 2025.
Price does not include hotels. Breakfast and lunch are included in your ticket price for registered attendees only.
See website for payment plans options. 

This course is In Person.
CMMOTA Members will earn 16 CEC’s for this course.
MTAS credits pending review.

The CMMOTA is excited to welcome you to its first ever retreat style course. Come join the CMMOTA, Sheryl Hamilton and your fellow colleagues for an incredible weekend in Lake Louise. We have designed this retreat to allow you to complete a 2 day course over 3 days and still allow you free time to take in the beauty of the mountains. Enjoy a weekend away for peace and quiet or bring the family and enjoy hiking in the mountains, skiing and tubing. Or visit and tour around Lake Louise! 

COURSE OPTION:

This class will bring you beyond cranial rhythm and into mid-tide and long-tide which are the deeper expressions of fluid potency in the cranial system. You will learn to work with meninges, bones, ventricles and the central nervous system to re-connect your patients with the deeper tides thereby restoring overall health by directly improving vitality. You will learn to:

  • Palpate and assess all tissues in the cranium;
  • Recognize and work with cranial rhythm, and mid-tide and long-tide;
  • Safely restore normal or improved function to the central nervous system by improving cellular nutrition and fluid flow;
  • Extend your career by learning a gentle, non-invasive approach.

Come and improve the function of your own CNS and learn how to support your patients in enjoying a healthy brain in a healthy body.

 

CS2: CranioSacral Therapy 2

Edmonton, AB

CS2: CranioSacral Therapy 2: Moving Beyond the Dura for Assessing Acute and Chronic Conditions
May 1-4, 2025 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Teacher: Nina Chernick BA/KIN, RMT, CST-D

Tuition Price: $1,044.75 (USD)

24 primary credits

Craniosacral Therapy Level 1

Calgary, AB

Craniosacral Therapy Level 1

https://www.seminarsforhealthcourses.com/courses/craniosacral-therapy-level-1-calgary-25-05

Calgary May 5-6, 2025

Influenced by John Barnes and Upledger Institute and instructed by Steve Heinrich, PT.

Learn to evaluate the normal and abnormal Craniosacral rhythm to support healing. Treat common conditions like headaches, migraine, TMJ, sinus problems, and stress. Assess movement patterns of cranial bones and their significance in addressing specific symptoms.

This course will sell out quickly! Reserve your seat now!

Myofascial Release Level 1

Calgary, AB

Myofascial Release Level 1

https://www.seminarsforhealthcourses.com/courses/myofascial-release-level-1-calgary-25-05

Calgary May 7-8, 2025

Influenced by John Barnes and Upledger Institute and instructed by Steve Heinrich, PT.

Analyze and correct postural imbalances, mitigate headaches, and learn to evaluate postural symmetry, spatial positioning, and tissue holding patterns. Reserve your seat now!

MYOFASCIAL CUPPING TECHNIQUE - FOUNDATION COURSE

Edmonton, AB

REGISTER TODAY FOR THE MYOFASCIAL CUPPING TECHNIQUE™ - FOUNDATION COURSE
PRESENTED BY PAUL BUFFEL, IN ASSOCIATION WITH DAVID SHEEHAN (AUSTRALIA)

Register: www.comphs.com.au

Locations: Saskatoon, Edmonton and Winnipeg
Instructor: Paul Buffel
Spring 2025

INTRODUCTION

The Myofascial Cupping Technique™ can provide profound benefits for your clients, particularly with assisting the body in maintaining Range Of Motion, eliminating Myofascial Trigger Points and reducing restrictive and sometimes-painful fascial adhesions commonly found from repetitive movement originating from sports and the workplace. By reducing fascial adhesions, while encouraging optimal hydration levels of soft tissue, Myofascial Cupping can assist in reducing the incidence of injury and maintaining functional soft tissue.

The Myofascial Cupping Technique™ is a fabulous addition to the toolbox for Massage Therapists. It is a modified version of the ancient Eastern-style cupping with major differences that include targeting the musculoskeletal system rather than meridian systems used by traditional Chinese practitioners and using the cups in a moving sequence, rather than stationery.

Dave’s special interest with burns patients has lead to the beginnings of a future Clinical Trial in Hobart Hospital Burns Clinic. We have a short documentary demonstrating Dave’s techniques showing positive effect on burns scar tissue reducing ‘contracture’ and associated neurogenic pain along with discussion regarding how these techniques translate perfectly into the clinic for other types of scar tissue work.

This Level 1 foundation course is similar to the course David has taught to Physiotherapists and Soft Tissue Therapists at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra, which is the peak body for elite athletes in Australia.

LEAD INSTRUCTOR - PAUL BUFFEL

Paul works within a dynamic clinical practice on the leadership team of the multi-disciplinary Broadway Health Collective in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. With over

25 years in practice, Paul utilizes the Myofascial Cupping Technique™ within his treatments on the mat or on the table, exploring the rhythms and stillness that support our capacity for adaptation, systemic resilience and healing.

Paul is also engaged in matters of regulation of the massage therapy profession in Saskatchewan through membership with the Council of Licensure, Enforcement and Regulation (CLEAR), having completed the Executive Leadership course for Regulators, and sits on the Saskatchewan College of Massage Therapy Working Group. Paul brings his experience as past Board Member and President of the Natural Health Practitioners of Canada (NHPC) and the fun of being a Board Member of Canada’s first Fat Bike Club, Fatlanders Fat Tire Brigade, to enrich his work within the profession, his teaching, and with clients.

How does it work?

By creating a negative pressure (tensional) above the surface of the tissues, we decrease the atmospheric pressure allowing the tissue to be lifted and thus causing changes in pressure beneath the skin including the muscle and surrounding fascia. Importantly, our gliding technique creates a traditional MFR technique (push/compression effect) using the leading rim of the cup, which is then followed by a ‘lifting’ negative pressure over the same area (pull effect). As the cup leaves the area we once again create a push/compression effect.

Who uses the Myofascial Cupping Technique™?

:: Massage and remedial therapists

:: Myotherapists

:: Podiatrists

:: Physiotherapists

:: Chiropractors

:: Osteopaths

:: Occupational therapists

:: Sport medicine professionals


Why you should attend this workshop?

:: Learn to lift and separate soft tissue, rather than compression techniques which can be painful and ineffective.

:: Change from the "thumb busting" day in day out approach to your day in the clinic.

:: Treat conditions all more effectively incorporating Negative Pressure which you cannot achieve using traditional Myofascial Release techniques.

:: Create change both on a musculoskeletal and on a subtle level (dampens sympathetic division of autonomic nervous system).

:: Produce painless results similar to deep tissue work.

:: Offer your clients an alternative to standard massage treatments.


What’s covered?

:: Current evidence-based research supporting the benefits associated with the Myofascial Cupping Technique™.

:: Use of equipment, infection control and contra-indications.

:: Anatomy of the fascia and its inter-relationship with the musculo-skeletal system.

:: After thorough demonstrations and discussion, students will practice exact area specific sequences including correct direction and amount of negative pressure to be applied.

:: Specific clinical applications including the treatment for Myofascial Trigger Points, Plantar Fasciitis and various shoulder conditions will be explored.


WHEN, WHERE & TIMES

SASKATOON
Date: Saturday 22 March & Sunday 23 March 2025
Venue: Axiom Career College
Times: 9:30am – 5:00pm each day

EDMONTON
Date: Thursday 8 May & Friday 9 May 2025
Venue: Hotel Varscona
Times: 9:30am – 5:00pm each day

WINNIPEG
Date: Saturday 31 May & Sunday 1 June 2025
Venue: TBA
Times: 9:30am – 5:00pm each day


CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS

14 Primary Credits apply to members of MTAS
12 Primary Credits apply to members of CMMOTA
8 Primary Credits apply to members of MTAA
14 Primary Credits apply to members of NHPC
20 Primary Credits apply to members of CRMTA


WORKSHOP MOVIE TRAILER, REGISTRATION AND COST

Head to https://www.comphs.com.au/ for further info including an introductory video explaining the technique and hear James Waslaski (USA) talk about how beneficial the technique is.