Our core values center on supporting healing and learning through valuing diversity, inspiring confidence, and providing tools for lasting growth in each individual’s life.  To accomplish this, Advanced Holistic Healing Arts provides a wide variety of classes for the community and health professionals, as well as forum for other members of the community who wish to share their talents and gifts.

Advanced Holistic Healing Arts is available to teach classes throughout the state of Texas and nationally. Because we believe that personal growth, fulfillment and health can be achieved by anyone, we will strive to find ways to make our services accessible to any interested person.  Some payment plans are available.

• Adult Learning Facilitation and Theory
• Adult Leanring Facilitation and Theory Home Study Course
• Negative Pressure Massage: An Introduction to Massage Cupping Techniques
• Negative Pressure Massage for Facial lifting and Drainage
• The Nervous System the Missing Link in Massage
• Bootcamp for healing Practices: Tools for taking your practice from surviving to thriving

• The Journey Continues--living after cancer treatment
• Supporting Friends and Loved-ones with Cancer
• How to talk to your doctor
• Feel Better Now—10 Steps to More Energy and Better Health
• Getting Started and Getting Comfortable with Facebook and Twitter

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Classes for the Professional

Adult Learning Facilitation and Theory (30 hours)
The Adult Learning Facilitation and Theory Course is a 30 hour course in basic principles of adult learning, instructional design and classroom management.  It is intended to provide Licensed Massage Therapists and other interested professionals with a basic foundation for teaching the adult student.  This course fulfills the requirement of DSHS for Adult Learner Theory to become licensed as a Massage Therapy Instructor. This course is held over a 4 day period. (CE's approved for NCBTMB).

Adult Learning Facilitation and Theory – Home Study Course (30 hours)
The Adult Learning Facilitation and Theory Course is a 30 hour course in basic principles of adult learning, instructional design and classroom management.  It is intended to provide Licensed Massage Therapists and other interested professionals with a basic foundation for teaching the adult student.  This course fulfills the requirement of DSHS for Adult Learner Theory to become licensed as a Massage Therapy Instructor. The course includes a book and workbook. The course must be completed within 1 year. The workbook is returned to review before the certificate is issued. To purchase this course, click here to go to the education resources page.

Negative Pressure Massage: An Introduction to Massage Cupping Techniques (6 hours)
Massage cupping, based on an ancient technique, is a modified version of the common practice of cupping therapy. This technique can be used to assist a range of modalities from lymphatic drainage to deep tissue release. Discover how to use massage cupping to increase circulation to injured muscles, decrease swelling, and stimulate lymphatic flow. Learn proper techniques, as well as indications and contraindications for use. Hands-on lab included. (CE's approved for NCBTMB and Texas). This class is open to anyone interested in learning about the technique.

Negative Pressure Massage For Facial Lifting and Drainage (6 hours)
Massage cupping, based on an ancient technique, is a modified version of the common practice of cupping therapy. This technique can be used to stimulate circulation and lymph drainage while relieving muscle tension. Discover how to use massage cupping to reduce stagnation leading to dullness, dark circles and sagging, puffy skin in the face and neck and give your clients that youthful, lifted look. Learn proper techniques, as well as indications and contraindications for use. Hands-on lab included. (CE's approved for Texas). This class is open to anyone interested in learning the technique for themselves or for their friends and family.

The Nervous System – The Missing Link in Massage (12 hours)
All muscular movement results from stimulation by the nervous system.  Studying the muscles, their movements and actions is only part of the story.  Understanding how the nervous system works and relates to the muscular system greatly enhances the effectiveness of bodywork.  The focus of this class is connecting the muscular system with the nervous system as a whole, integrated understanding of the function of muscles and causes of pain, restriction and faulty movement patterns.  What we understand, we can change.

Bootcamp for Healing Practices: Tools for taking your practice from surviving to thriving (12 hours)
Do you love your clients and what you do but wish you made more money doing it? For those in the healing professions, it can be a common challenge to build a practice and make a comfortable living.
This class is designed to give you the tools that can make a difference between surviving and thriving. It is often a challenge to combine taking care of our clients and still managing the day to day of the business. Daily decisions about keeping clients, getting new clients, marketing, pricing can all seem overwhelming and challenging. These two day give you tools that make these and other decisions easier and provide productive results.
The first day covers tools to use that make day to day decisions easier and your choices more successful. Through hands on activities and group discussion, you will find your guidance tools, your decision making criteria and have opportunities to get feedback from peers on everyday decisions. Together, we will explore your vision and values, mission and goals and how to use those tools to make effective decisions about marketing, advertising and pricing. We will explore different avenues of marketing that are simple, effective and fun, and cost little money. By the end of the class, you will leave a whole now set of tools and some specific actions you can take immediately that will impact the income of your business.
The second day is designed to remove misconceptions about networking as a marketing tool. You will discover easy networking tools and opportunities, including the use of social media. Even if you are not a "social" person or not a "tekkie", this class will offer you opportunities to think creatively about your business and how to connect with others that will happily support your business.
This is a fun, interactive class that gives you real tools you can use immediately.
Combine both classes and you are on your way to an improved income and more fun in your practice.

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Community Classes

The Journey Continues--living after cancer treatment
This 2 hour workshop is provides information about what life after cancer and cancer treatment can be. It is expected that we will only focus on getting past the cancer during treatment and often our friends and family understand and are there to support us. Once therapy and treatment have ended, it can be confusing to know what to do next, how to relate to our family and friends and how they can relate to us. This class helps those transitioning back to life and their support team to understand what questions will come up and create a space for continued living.  Michelle is a cancer survivor and shares from her experience and those she works with.

Supporting Friends and Loved-ones with Cancer
This 3 hour workshop is designed to give you tools and strategies to support yourself while you support others. It helps answer the questions of "what next" and "what can I do?" that come up for so many of us. Often, when faced with cancer in a friend of loved one, we feel helpless and confused and just want to help but don't know how. This class provides opportunities to discover what you can do and what is next.

How to Talk to Your Doctor
Have you ever left your doctors office and realized you didn't really understand what they told you? Have you left feeling like you had questions but did really think to ask them until it was too late? This 90 minute class is designed to give you some basic tools to feel confident that you will get your questions answered and your needs met at your next visit to your health care provider.

Feel Better Now—10 Steps to More Energy and Better Health
This 3 hour workshop is full of information that you can immediately incorporate into your life to have more energy, joy and fun.  These suggestions are based on scientific knowledge and are simple and understandable.  Class includes a book and workbook. 

Getting Started and Getting Comfortable with Facebook and Twitter
This 3 1/2 hour workshop, co-taught with Sherry Scott, is designed to take the beginner through the necessary steps to enjoy posting to facebook and twitter. Whether you have never been to facebook or twitter, or have an account but aren't fully utilizing it, this class offers helpful information for you. The class includes information about how to use social networking, how to get started and make your first post to facebook and how to use twitter. This is a hands on class, so bring your laptop. If you don't have a laptop, come anyway. Some laptops will be available.

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