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EDUCATION EVENTS Director
of Education Mark your Calendars for the Summer Chapter Meeting! Click here for the registration form, which includes directions. Location This summer our Chapter Meeting will be held on Saturday, August 2 in the beautiful town of Glenwood Springs. For education we are pleased to present Richard Rossiter, innovator of The Rossiter System, a unique approach where the client and therapist work together to relieve pain. Richard H. Rossiter is a former pain sufferer, a certified Advanced Rolfer and innovator of The Rossiter System, a series of more than 100 powerful two-person stretching techniques that quickly and effectively prevent and relieve chronic, structural pain. For more than a decade, he was a workplace consultant who specialized in helping the U.S. workplace reduce worker pain and disability and help employees reduce medical costs. Today, he teaches body workers, health-care professionals and the public how to incorporate The Rossiter System into their practices and their lives. He is author of three books on stretching to overcome pain, including his latest, Step out of Pain the Rossiter Way: Powerful Two-Person Stretching Techniques for Head-to-Toe Pain Relief, which is available at http://www.stepoutofpain.com. Course
Description: "Step out of Pain the Rossiter Way: An Introduction" |
Participants will learn specific techniques to address pain in the upper body (wrists, arms, elbows, neck, shoulders), as well as pain and tightness in the knees, feet and hands.
Several components distinguish The Rossiter System's approach to stretching, pain relief and the client-therapist relationship. Clients are expected to remain fully alert and involved during each session, and they also are asked to move in order to stretch their own connective tissue. In this relationship, the therapist becomes the "Coach" and the client is called the PIC, or Person in Charge of his/her own body. Clients also remain fully clothed during a Rossiter "workout," which is what a session is called because the emphasis is on hard, powerful stretching in which clients take responsibility for their own healing and recovery, assisted by a trained therapist.
Rossiter workshop
participants learn the techniques as both Coach and PIC, such that they
learn how to apply the techniques and they also discover what the techniques
feel like on their own bodies. And they learn new body mechanics that
help preserve the integrity of their own bodies to continue pursuing the
work they love.
Additional
Requirements:
This class will provide some hands on training and the instructor has
requested each member bring a mat for the floor work. A yoga mat or
something comparable will do. Wearing comfortable clothing.
Class Cost
Pre-paid registration by July 19: $120
Pre-paid registration after July 19: $160
Lodging
Clarion Collection Glenwood Suites has extended a great rate for Colorado
AMTA members. Non-smoking standard king or 2 queens; Regular rate $179.99;
Colorado AMTA rate: $129.99; Large Suite (1 or 2 bedrooms) Regular
rate $299.99; Colorado AMTA rate: $189.99.
Glenwood Suites is non-smoking and no pets, but if anyone needs smoking rooms or would like to bring a pet they their sister property is the Quality Inn & Suites across the street and will offer the same rate. Please inquire with Glenwood Suites for more information when booking.
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Agenda |
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8:00-8:45
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Registration
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9:00-12:00
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Class
- Part I
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12:15-1:45
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Lunch
and Chapter Meetingn
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Lunch
is included and will be a selection of salads and beverages for
those attending class or just the chapter meeting.
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2:00-5:00
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Class
- Part II
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**We expect this
will be a full class so please be in line to register no later than
8:30 so we may have everyone ready to go when class begins**
Additional
Activities
Rafting
If anyone would like to stay through August 3rd and do some rafting
on Sunday please call Amy Weeks 970-871-9892 directly to schedule.
Hot
Springs Pool hours 7:30 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Friday rate $16.75 during the day; $13.00 after 6:00 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday: $18.25 during the day, $15.00 after 6:00 p.m. For
more information, go to www.hotspringspool.com.