Classes


Current Offerings

Clinical Massage School of Missouri, LLC

We will strive to train compassionate and competent massage therapists capable of positively enhancing the lives of their clients, thus powerfully impacting the bodywork industry.  There will be a unique emphasis on corrective exercise and posture and how to positively combine that with bodywork to bring about the most effective change for your client!

Our clinical massage therapy program is an 1140 hour program with a majority of our classes meeting in person, but many of our classes will also be online.  Our MWF classes will be in person from 8am-2pm with an hour lunch break.  Our T/Th classes will be online, also from 8am-2pm with an hour for lunch.  We will meet one Saturday each month, in person, 8am-2pm, with an hour for lunch.  Visit the school website: https://clinicalmassageschoolmissouri.amtamembers.com/   and then  call or email me (573-999-0451 or janene@sunsportsmassage.com) for more details or to request the course catalog.

Previous Classes

March 26, 2016

Side lying – from hip to shoulder – what connects where

Beyond Post Event Massage – comparing different techniques on relieving muscle cramps (how those techniques are different, how they are similar, and is one better than the other?)

-Self-care series

a 12 hour series of classes; Using positional release, muscle energy techniques, and active isolated stretches; We’ll be reviewing skeletal and muscular anatomy and looking at different ways the body is connected. We will spend the remaining time of each class treating ourselves with various techniques.

-last offered on Feb 7, 2015
Self Care Series—Foot and Ankles; (Bring your table. Plan to have your legs exposed from the knees down.)

-last offered on May 2, 2015
Self Care Series— Pelvis and Low Back
(Bring your table. Wear loose fitting, comfortable pants.)

-last offered on Oct 3, 2015
Self Care Series—Upper Extremity
(Bring your table. Plan to have your arms exposed from the shoulders down.)

-last offered on Dec 5, 2015
Self Care Series — Head and Neck— Levators, Palatinis and Glossals, oh my!
For those comfortable with working inside their own mouths, this will include muscles of the soft palate, tongue and jaw, in addition to other muscles of the head and neck.
(Bring your table. Plan to have your entire neck exposed (i.e. no turtlenecks!).)

Sports Massage Specialist Series

a 96 hour series of classes
that culminated in the Sports Massage Specialist certificate

Class #1 – Event Massage
24 hrs
last offered March 10-12, 2012; not scheduled to be offered again

Class #2 – Therapeutic Stretching
24 hrs
last offered Sep 29-Oct 2, 2012; not scheduled to be offered again

Class #3 – Muscle Energy Technique (and positional release)
24 hrs
last offered April 6-8, 2013; not scheduled to be offered again

Class #4 – Postural Analysis
24 hrs
last offered June 14-16, 2014; not scheduled to be offered again