Massage Maintenance:
Trigger Point Self-Massage Techniques
1.5 Hour Workshop
Expand your capacity to take care of yourself and improve your overall well-being.
Spend the same amount of time you’d spend watching a movie to change the way you feel in your body. Unlock the healing held in your own hands and learn how to release chronic tension, muscle pain, and relieve stress. This workshop will enable you to manage persistent discomfort and enhance the overall ease you feel in your body with practical techniques.
Our bodies pay the price of living in this world. Come learn how to settle your debt.
Prior to giving birth, I worked as a massage therapist focusing on trigger point therapy. I don't work with clients anymore, but love teaching the skill of self-massage, sharing how to release soft tissue, and tend to the chronic pains that make daily life more difficult.
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What is Trigger Point Therapy?
Trigger Point Therapy is a neuromuscular massage technique pioneered by Dr. Janet G. Travell. Trigger points are hyperirritable spots located in a taut band of skeletal muscle. These are single spots that when touched are hypersensitive, sometimes radiating pain to other parts of the body, known as referred pain (pain felt in a different part of the body than its origin.)
What is the difference between a trigger point and a muscular knot?
First, let’s look at how they’re similar: Both a muscular knot and a trigger point are misaligned muscle fibers in the thickest part of your muscle. The most basic explanation of how this happens is, when a muscle contracts, it gets shorter, and sometimes when that muscle relaxes, not all of the fibers release. This creates an adhesion; a tight bundle of muscular fibers, also referred to colloquially as a ‘knot.’
When an adhesion becomes a trigger point, some of the muscle fibers stay bunched together, but they also get stuck with fascia (connective tissue.) Fascia connects muscle to muscle; amongst many other things in the body. This is part of what causes a trigger point to radiate sensation beyond its origin point.
How do trigger points impact daily life?
Trigger points are frequently linked with pain and stiffness that limit range of motion and cause headaches, joint pain, eye issues, and a ringing sensation in the ears. This can impact sleep, which of course ripples into every part of your day, and also make the repetitive motions your life requires more difficult to complete.
Consider the work you do and the positions your body is regularly in. Are there parts of your body that hurt consistently either while you’re in that position, or as a result of being in it? Now imagine how it would feel to know how to tend to that chronic muscular issue. How would your day be different?
Workshop Overview
This program will meet live and a recording will be available once complete.
The live session is designed for you to be well. There is no wrong way to participate and I expect that you’ll take care of yourself. Stretch, eat, cook, be on camera, be off camera—you decide.
Come with what you have and go after what you want.
In This Workshop You’ll:
Gain a basic understanding of trigger points
Learn how to find and release trigger points
Discuss tools to help your self-massage
Ask questions during the Q&A
Fall Date Options:
Monday 7 October 5 - 6:30 pm PT
Monday 21 October 5 - 6:30 pm PT
Thursday 7 November 2 - 3:30 pm PT
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Change How You Feel Everyday
Name Your Price Price: $33+
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Pay What You Can Pricing Model
Community care is at the center of my work in this world—which means we all win together. My workshops and programs are financially designed to focus on us as a community rather than as siloed individuals. The ‘pay what you can model’ is an invitation to consider how you exist within the whole, and how you can use what you have to seed acts of social equity.
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