Deep Tissue Massage & Myofascial Release: A Video Guide to Techniques (Online Course)
(Art Riggs I)

Deep Tissue Massage & Myofascial Release: A Video Guide to Techniques
(Art Riggs) 
Author: Art Riggs

Description

I highly recommend Art Riggs' videos as a great complement to the work taught in our Advanced Myofascial Techniques trainings, and another view into the common legacy of our approach. --Til Luchau

This extensive training series not only shows countless strokes and techniques, but will, more importantly, demonstrate the qualitative art of working with deep tissues to effect profound change.

SECTION I: THE FUNDAMENTALS
(Videos 1 & 2)
- Refining Touch, Working Through Superficial Muscles to Deep Layers
- Biomechanics of Working Tissue Deeply
- Proper Use of Fingers, Knuckles, Fist, Forearm, Elbow and Thumbs
- Massage Strokes and Techniques to Lengthen Tissue, Free Adhesions, and Release Holding Patterns
- Positioning of Clients to Increase Effectiveness of Your Work
- The Side-Lying Position to Dramatically Improve Your Effectiveness

SECTION II: STRATEGIES
(Videos 3, 4 & 5)
- Hundreds of techniques and strategies to integrate into your practice.
Video #3: The Legs and Pelvis
Video #4: Continuation of the Pelvis, Rotators, Abdomen, and Back
Video #5: Working with the Shoulder Girdle, Chest, Arms, and Neck

SECTION III: ADVANCED TECHNIQUES 
(Videos 6 & 7)
- Foot and Ankle Injuries
- Knee Pain and Dysfunction
- Sciatica
- Minor Back Pain
- Rotator Cuff
- Tennis Elbow and Wrist Complaints
- Thoracic Outlet Problems

Many additional strategies are also covered, such as working off the massage table in seated and standing postures and suggestions for rehabilitative home programs of strengthening and stretching for your clients.

About Art Riggs

Art Riggs is a Certified Advanced Rolfer® and massage therapist who has been teaching bodywork since 1988 and now sells Myofascial release videos and manuals worldwide. A lifetime of hard physical activity and high level athletic pursuits including ultra-marathons led him to bodywork, first as a grateful recipient, and later as a student. The fulfillment he experienced in both receiving and performing bodywork led him away from his graduate studies in Exercise Physiology at the University of California, Berkeley to a full time career as a Rolfer and teacher of Deep Tissue Massage. He has conducted numerous workshops worldwide for health spas, physical therapists, and other medical professionals.

For the first ten years of his practice, he specialized in myofascial release at a physical therapy clinic where an interest in the treatment of injuries was cultivated. He has worked with several Olympic athletes, professional football and basketball players, and professional dancers and musicians to treat injuries and to improve performance. However, his teaching and the practice of working with the general population to provide a better awareness of their bodies and allow more ease and comfort in their everyday lives remains the most gratifying aspect of his work.

*Rolfing® is a brand of Structural Integration and is a registered service mark of the Rolf Institute® of Structural Integration. Rolfing® Structural Integration is not taught in advanced-trainings.com courses.