Unburdened Bodywork

09/23/2025

Hello everyone --

I must say that the September class was truly outstanding as an example of the great possibilities that can occur when a class gels and the students are willing to do the work. It gave me hope when most of the other classes that I taught in 2025 did not.

I will be pulling back from teaching somewhat during 2026. Classroom rental and student issues, on top of the general zeitgeist, have been challenging. I am still considering if and how to change my classes, since the demand is not for weekend (or longer) immersions, but the short 4-, 6-, or 8- hour courses. My whole bodywork and life philosophy can be boiled down to "go slower, notice more", which does not exactly lend itself to a short-form class.

I will be taking the winter months to re-evaluate. Please contact me personally (NOT THROUGH FACEBOOK) if you want to participate in small-group/ non-CE study sessions for particular techniques, ethics round tables, or supervised work with a client.

07/23/2025

Greetings to all of you faithful readers and students --

I say faithful, because I am afraid that my faith in humanity is in somewhat short supply right now. We are witnessing the pain of the destruction of the ways of life that we once took for granted, and even though I understand that Change Necessitates Destruction, and it is a normal and natural part of social evolution, it is not the sociological cycle that I was prepared for.

Among the casualties of social change has been people's attention spans. I recently attended a meditation retreat, and the guru who led it mentioned that the average attention span today is 30 seconds. A quick google query said it is actually only 8.25 seconds. My classes convey a method of accessing the body that requires stillness, patience, and listening. Here is the quandary: I must ask you to pay attention to your own attention span.

I am not teaching individual techniques as much as a method of accessing the body that requires stillness, patience, and listening. My approach is that, once a therapist learns to slow down enough, the client's body will express exactly what it needs. This approach to the body is meditative and can even be spiritual. It is not just a grab-bag of techniques that you can whip out of your back pocket as needed. It takes time to slow down, time to absorb, time to practice, time to resonate, not to mention time to downregulate your own nervous system. It is a rebellion against a world that insists we hurry up ever more just to go nowhere. It is a resistance to the addictive cycles of attention-grabbing advertising, news-based rage, and doom-scrolling. To do this work, we must choose to be centered, grounded, and at peace.

I hope you will choose to join me in this journey towards equanimity. My next class is a small-group in August in Tesuque (text or call me for details), and then a weekend in September for introductory visceral mobilization and ethics (see the Albuquerque School of Healing Arts website for registration.)

05/25/2025

Hi everyone -- if you missed my last offering of Energetic Boundaries & Developing Your Listening Hands part 1, I will be teaching it again in a small classroom setting in Tesuque in August. Please contact me directly for details. :-)

05/22/2025

There is still time to sign up for my next CE class, which includes 4 hours of ethics and 20 hours of bodywork. I love the integration of polarity, or energy-based bodywork, into every other discipline, and this class will give you lots of techniques to carry with you in your therapist's toolbox.

Get Tickets for Integrating Polarity Therapy Into Your Bodywork Practice. Ticket sales close June 8th 2025.

04/30/2025

The next class offering will be June 13-15, 2025. **This is a date-change due to a scheduling conflict.**
Please join me for an ethics and polarity weekend experience!

Get Tickets for Integrating Polarity Therapy Into Your Bodywork Practice. Ticket sales close June 8th 2025.

03/11/2025

This is the last week to register for my upcoming classes on March 22-23. Get all your CEUs done in one weekend by taking Ethics: Healthy Boundaries in Energy Work and Developing Your Listening hands pt 1 (Energy Body and Cranial Rhythms). This is my favorite ethics class to teach, it's always so much fun!

Get Tickets for Developing Your Listening Hands pt 1. Ticket sales close March 16th 2025.

01/16/2025

Announcing 3 opportunities to get all your CEUs at once, plus the usual last-weekend ethics class date. These classes will take place at the Albuquerque School of Healing Arts. There may be more opportunities for classes offered later but so far, here we go --

March 22-23, 2025 -- Healthy Boundaries in Energy Work + Developing Your Listening Hands, pt 1: Energy Body and Cranial Rhythms (16 hrs total)

June 6-8, 2025 -- Healthy Boundaries in Energy Work + Integrating Polarity Therapy into Your Bodywork Practice (24 hrs total)

September 13-14, 2025 -- Risky Business + Exploring the Inner Landscape (Fascia and Viscera) (16 hrs total)

October 25, 2025 -- The Gender-Expansive Body on the Table (4 ethics hrs)

All classes are NCBTMB approved. Links in the comment section.

10/17/2024

An exciting possibility for equine-assisted bodywork has just opened up in conjunction with Wilderwood Equine Rescue. While the weather is still nice, or again in the spring, I am looking for a few volunteers to help me work out the logistics by being a practice body.
If you think you would like to try the experience of receiving bodywork in the open air, with horses nearby to park their nose on you if they want to, please let me know. (A donation to Wilderwood for the experience is appreciated.)

09/08/2024

Had a few cancellations for the classes on Sept 14-15 -- please text or call me if you want to get all your CEUs in one weekend!

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07/17/2024

Hi everybody -- just letting you know that I have added a course to be taught down in Las Cruces, Sept 1-2, 2024. Developing Your Listening hands pt 2, Fascia and Viscera will give you lots of opportunity to listen to the subtleties of the body. 12 CEUs, NCBTMB approved.
I'll be teaching the same class at the end of September in Albuquerque.

https://unburdenedbodywork.ticketspice.com/las-cruces-listening-hands-2

05/14/2024

Hi everybody -- just wanted to invite you all for a weekend of Polarity and Ethics -- June 12 - 14, hosted by the Albuquerque School of Healing Arts. Registration is limited to 16 for Integrating Polarity into your Massage Practice, and 20 for Energetic Boundaries. Both classes are NCBTMB approved :-)

Hope to see you there!

LINKS IN THE COMMENTS

03/25/2024

Hey everyone -- David Blecha and I will be co-teaching an amazing class from April 12-14 at the Albuquerque School of Healing Arts. If you are interested, please contact me by text or calling. Thanks!

Get Tickets for Craniosacral Therapy and Creative Facilitation. Ticket sales close April 7th 2024.