Course & Workshop Certificate of Course Completion

CEU information for all of our courses and workshops is as follows:

Compare PetMassage_™ Home Study Courses and PetMassage_™ Workshops

Workshops

Workshops at a Glance - 2007-2008 Schedule

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7-day Foundation Workshop

This is for massage therapists and pet care professionals, as well as people who are in "vocational transition" and would like to learn PetMassage_™ to create businesses. In this course, students prepare before the workshop, by learning the content of the Effective PetMassage_™ for Dogs videos/DVD's and manual, Creating and Marketing your Animal Massage Business Book, and Dog Anatomy Coloring Atlas. This gives you a foundation for the large volume of information you will receive through (discussion style) lectures and individual, hands-on instruction working with dogs.

We discuss, demonstrate, and practice and then you return-demonstrate your understanding and practice of massage, energy and body mechanics, theory and techniques, legal issues, business ethics, and marketing. The instruction is supportive, encouraging and geared to helping you to discover and develop your own personal massage form. The course includes modules on anatomy and physiology of the dog and how PetMassage_™ can affect body systems. Also included are basic canine-human communication skills and a field trip to the ASPCA to hone your skills while helping the dogs in residence there. Certificates are awarded upon completion of the workshop, a take-home test and documentations of ten canine massages.

• The certificate of Course Completion for the 7-Day Foundation Workshop is our Intermediate Level.
• 50 CEUs NCMTMB (NCBTMB continuing education provider #285813-00)

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7-Day Advanced PetMassage_™ Workshop

This course is designed to assist you further along your personal journey through your PetMassage_™ practice. This workshop is for people who have already completed the Foundation workshop. PetMassage_™ students continue physiology & anatomy studies, review, update and learn additional skills and techniques to expand their PetMassage_™ businesses. This course refreshes and rekindles the excitement and enthusiasm you felt when you completed your last Foundation workshop with us. The prerequisites for this course are completion of the Foundation workshop and a minimum of 2 months experience since taking the first workshop. Learn to define your business plans and goals. The Home Study courses may not be substituted for the hands-on workshop.

• The certificate of Course Completion for the 7-Day Advanced Workshop is Advanced level.
• 50 CEUs NCMTMB (NCBTMB continuing education provider #285813-00)
  

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5-Day WaterWork Workshop

This is a very specialized class that helps students develop skills massage dogs in water. This is now the Age of Aquarius. Learn about water's dynamics, flexibility and therapeutic value. Learn how to move in it and be moved by it to expand beyond your land-based spiritual connection. These skills and perspectives will place you in the vanguard of a new "wave" of awareness and appreciation of the power of water and its yin characteristic.

In water, a practitioner's interactions with their dogs, their body mechanics, their dogs' muscle, joint and fascia movement are all very different from dry PetMassage. Although based on the training from the Foundation and Advanced workshops, WaterWork for Dogs, has a fundamentally different orientation, skill set and method of application and reception. It is so different that we have expanded the class from two days, with a prerequisite of Advanced level PetMassage experience to five days and no prerequisites.

All workshops are held at the PetMassage Training and Research Institute, Toledo OH. The WaterWork parts of the course are held in the PetMassage Health and Fitness Center's large indoor, heated pool. The texts for this course are the class syllabus and Hidden Messages in Water, M. Emoto.

Even without having taken our other PetMassage courses, you are welcome to attend this workshop. We will teach you what we feel you need to know and assist you in developing your personal style in the practice of PetMassage WaterWork with dogs. You will learn PetMassage skills to use in backyard pools.

Check the Workshop schedule to find the dates that work best for you. Class sizes are limited, so call now to reserve your place in the pool.

• The certificate of Course Completion for the 5-Day WaterWork Workshop is Advanced level.
• 40 CEUs NCMTMB (NCBTMB continuing education provider #285813-00)
  

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