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Annual National Conference

2009 Annual National Conference

The 2009 Annual National Conference will take place in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on October 22-25, 2009 at the Sheraton Hotel and Conference Centre.

Click the image below to download the PDF registration brochure.

The registration form will also be available in the Summer 2009 issue of Connections.

Hotel reservations are available through the Sheraton NHPC Registration page.

Workshops

Pre-Conference Workshops

Self Care for Massage Therpaists
Introduction to Ortho-Bionomy
Engage-Connect-Amaze!
Demystifying Ethics and Professionalism

Main Conference Workshops

La Stone: Original Body
Soft Tissue Injury Assessment & Theraputic Techniques for The Lower Back & Pelvis
Orthopedic Massage for Pelvic Stabilization and Upper Body Conditions
Mind/Body Connection
Introduction to Ortho-Bionomy
Intrduction to Healing Touch
Myo-Fascial Cupping
First Aid and Adult CPR
Thai Reflexology
Self Care for Massage Therapists
Fibromyalgia: Clinical Approaches for the Manual Therapist
Introduction Polarity Therapy

Pre-Conference Workshops

Michelle Yaffe
Self Care for Massage Therpaists

Ever wanted to learn ways to protect yourself and maintain your practice for the long haul? Self Care for Massage Therapists is an examination of many different areas related to therapists’ health and longevity. These include massage-specific exercises, nutrition, dynamic and static stretching, body mechanics, client-practitioner interpersonal dynamics, and safely managing your workplace and client schedule. This workshop is designed to stop you becoming one of the statistics of the massage industry. You will learn how to best take care of yourself so that you can be successful in your practice, increase the longevity of your career and best of all enjoy the work that you do. Learn to be your greatest asset, and keep it that way.

Elizabeth Beeson
Introduction to Ortho-Bionomy

This practical, hands-on class provides an orientation, touching on the history, philosophy and principles of Ortho-Bionomy® as developed by Canadian Osteopath Arthur Lincoln Pauls. Ortho-Bionomy creates an atmosphere for clients to connect with their inner wisdom by awakening self-corrective reflexes that open the door to healing, awareness and structural balance. Techniques include gentle, conscious contact with the hands, comfortable positioning of the body for release and integrative exercises for neuro-muscular re-education.

Robyn Beazley
Engage-Conect-Amaze!

A creative approach to business – from branding yourself and your company, to exploring how attitude and communication are the foundations of your business. This dynamic presentation will include engaging breakout sessions and enable you to create action steps to apply these amazing ideas and concepts to your business immediately. You will explore new ways to connect with your clients and receive an abundance of referrals. Most importantly, increase your profits by effectively following up with current customers and capitalizing on prospective clients. We will explore and focus on how to reignite your success and grow your business, using fun and innovative techniques while harnessing the positive energy and passion you have for your business.

Cathy Sveen
Demystifying Ethics and Professionalism: A Journey of Professional Intergrity

This workshop is designed to give therapists and practitioners a refresher on ethics in the business world. After completion, this course will qualify as the ethics portion to the NHPC Continued Competency Program. Instructor Cathy Sveen completed a Masters in Conflict Resolution and Analysis and has had her own business in conflict resolution since that time as a trainer, mediator and consultant in conflict management. Workshop covers why do we need to study ethics, what does it mean to be a health care professional, the NHPCA Code of Ethics, and how to use them in everyday practice, working through challenging ethical situations, gaining confidence in managing ethical situations

Main Conference Workshops

Cindy Baker
La Stone: Original Body

In this Original Body class you will learn how to use heated stones and chilled stones coupled with Swedish massage strokes and Energy balancing techniques to support the full experience of LaStone Therapy. Students learn how to heat and chill the stones and how to control the various temperatures of the stones for use on the client within a therapy session. We focus on Contraindications and why Geo-thermo-therapy is the answer to aiding your clients in physical and emotional self healing. We explain the philosophy encompassing the power of breath, stone placement balanced with ceremony and the effects that authentic LaStone® Therapy treatment has on the "Body-Mind-Soul". Finally, you will learn how to properly care for your stones and equipment and how to honor the "Harvest" of gathering your own stones so that you can continue to add stones to your original set of hot and cold stones.

Ben Benjamin
Soft Tissue Injury Assessment & Theraputic Techniques for The Lower Back & Pelvis

This comprehensive workshop will teach you how to effectively assess and treat the most commonly injured structures in the low back. You’ll learn how to differentiate muscle, ligament, and disc injuries, and you’ll fine-tune your palpation skills and hands-on treatment techniques. The three-day format provides ample time to develop all the skills you need to address a wide range of complaints.There are six major components to the training. Anatomy-View, draw, and palpate the relevant musculoskeletal structures. Assessment- Practice musculoskeletal assessment tests and palpation of injured structures. Theory- Learn how to use the history, positive assessment test findings, and results of palpation to determine which structures are injured. We’ll discuss the possible causes of injury as well as effective treatments. Integration After you’ve learned the theoretical background and assessment procedures, we integrate this knowledge through hands-on learning games and supervised mock clinics. Technique Discuss, practice, and review detailed treatment techniques to eliminate adhesive scar tissue. Clinic: On the third day of the training, you practice your skills by taking part in an injury assessment clinic, free and open to the public, under Dr. Benjamin’s supervision.

James Waslaski
Orthopedic Massage for Pelvic Stabilization and Upper Body Conditions

Based on revolutionary clinical research, participants will learn new techniques that will forever change the way they approach myofascial, trigger point, and tendon pain. These innovative structurally oriented routines, offer pain-free multi-modality methods for achieving immediate results from the following clinical conditions: Low back pain, SI joint dysfunction, disc compression, bulging discs, sciatica, rotator cuff injuries, shoulder impingement, bursitis, pectoralis minor strains, bicipital tendinosis, rhomboid pain, thoracic outlet, cervical sprains and strains, whiplash, atlas / axis & C1/C2 mobilization, migraine headaches, medial and lateral epicondyle pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, trigger finger, and joint arthritis. Ground-breaking Frozen Shoulder and Hip Capsule Adhesion techniques will highlight this dynamic interactive workshop. This incredible multimedia presentation, consisting of assessments, treatments, and client self care for chronic pain and sports injuries, will facilitate permanent results; even in the most complicated clinical conditions.

Richard Hill
Mind/Body Connection - How the state of one alters the other

We can heal with our state of mind and we can also harm. This is also true for our state of body which can affect our mind. We will examine how this is possible and describe some of the damaging states of mind and body that interfere with health and wellbeing referring directly to the ‘Winner/loser World’ mindset. Understanding how social control of our sense of value and self worth causes damage to our wellbeing can be utilized to increase the effect of many of our current healing practices. Several new techniques will be introduced and practiced including my own Arbitrary Mind Maps and Ernest Rossi’s, Mirror Hands Healing Protocol. These are highly creative and interactive processes that stimulate both private inner healing and conscious interpersonal realizations - often at the same time

Elizabeth Beeson
Introduction to Ortho-Bionomy

This practical, hands-on class provides an orientation, touching on the history, philosophy and principles of Ortho-Bionomy® as developed by Canadian Osteopath Arthur Lincoln Pauls. Ortho-Bionomy creates an atmosphere for clients to connect with their inner wisdom by awakening self-corrective reflexes that open the door to healing, awareness and structural balance. Techniques include gentle, conscious contact with the hands, comfortable positioning of the body for release and integrative exercises for neuro-muscular re-education.

Cindy Palajac
Intrduction to Healing Touch

Healing Touch is a holistic approach to influencing the energy system in the body which supports physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. It restores wholeness through harmony and balance which is created by sending energy to the receiver from a centered heart. You will learn how to sense and feel energy, decrease anxiety, increase the relaxation response of the body and learn the Healing Touch Sequence. Healing Touch is a non-invasive energy technique that uses light touch with the hands to create relaxation and self healing in the body. Come learn this sacred healing art.

David Sheehan
Myo-Fascial Cupping

Myofascial Cupping is a fabulous addition to the toolbox for Massage Therapists. It is a modified version of the ancient Eastern-style cupping which major differences include targetting the musculo-skeletal system rather than meridian systems used by traditional Chinese practitioners and using the cups in a moving sequence, rather than stationery. Myofascial Cupping also saves the hands of the MT and suction can be varied using a vacuum gun which dictates the level of negative pressure from deep to very subtle, allowing the MT to cup in areas not normally associated with traditional flame cups. This workshop is a must-do event for the professional therapist seeking a change from the ‘thumb busting’ day in day out approach to your day in the clinic.

St. John Ambulance
First Aid and Adult CPR

Designed to meet industry, business and government requirements, St. John Ambulance first aid courses are your assurance of quality, flexibility and expertise. Emergency level first aid is a state-of-the-art, modular, course of basic first aid skills and other select subjects needed to sustain life and manage the scene of an injury. Also includes Level A CPR for Adults.

Karen Ball
Thai Reflexology

Thai foot reflexology is a marriage between the ancient healing arts of reflexology, Chinese tuina, Japanese shiatsu and Indian ayurvedic yoga. Working with the feet, lower legs and knees, this 2000 year old, highly-reputed session frees stagnant energy within the body’s 72,000 sen (Thai- based energy lines) to produce a unique feeling of revitalization, relaxation and balance. In this class the presenter will share the history and benefits of Thai foot reflexology, as well as the difference between Thai and conventional western reflexology. She will demonstrate the entire session on one foot/leg and then answer questions from the audience. Those interested will have the opportunity to observe a demonstration of the leg/knee portion again and then to practise this segment under the supervision of the presenter.

Michelle Yaffe
Self Care for Massage Therapists

Ever wanted to learn ways to protect yourself and maintain your practice for the long haul? Self Care for Massage Therapists is an examination of many different areas related to therapists’ health and longevity. These include massage-specificexercises, nutrition, dynamic and static stretching, body mechanics, client-practitioner interpersonal dynamics, and safely managing your workplace and client schedule. This workshop is designed to stop you becoming one of the statistics of the massage industry. You will learn how to best take care of yourself so that you can be successful in your practice, increase the longevity of your career and best of all enjoy the work that you do. Learn to be your greatest asset, and keep it that way.

Steven Goldstein
Fibromyalgia: Clinical Approaches for the Manual Therapist

Fibromyalgia is a chronic syndrome, characterized by widespread body pain and pain at speciific tender points.Clients can exhibit a range of symptoms including fatique, sleep disturbance, muscle soreness and headaches. Join Steven Goldstein BHSc MST Musculoskeletal Therapy who will review current evidence based research that links the benefit of massage with people suffering from fibromyalgia. This will be followed by the hands-on component where Steven will demonstrate and instruct on possible treatment protocols that can be integrated into your practice.

Marie-Claire Bourgeois
Introduction Polarity Therapy

In this workshop, Registered Polarity Practitioner Marie-Claire Bourgeois will discuss the basic concepts of Polarity Therapy and how they can be used to restore and enhance the vital energies of the mind, body and spirit. The focus will be on the 5 elements and the energetic pillars of Polarity: bodywork, nutrition, yoga-based exercises, self-awareness/thought patterns, and meditation/stillness.

The participants will learn simple, useful and effective techniques to enhance a client’s flow of energy to reach a higher state of balance and wellness.The afternoon will be reserved for hands-on practice sessions.