Credentials - Massage & Bodywork
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Licensed Massage Therapist – LMP (WA state) |
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Nationally Certified by the Board of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork – NCBTMB |
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Certified in Pre & Perinatal
Massage Therapy |
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Acutonics®
Practitioner |
Credentials - Animal Massage
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Large Animal Massage Practitioner (WA state) – LAMP |
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Small Animal Massage Practitioner (WA state) – SAMP |
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Equine Sports Massage Therapist
(Equissage) – ESMT |
With
extensive education in the
healing arts, Sara's
bodywork education includes specialties in
Swedish, Deep Tissue, Myofascial Release, and Prenatal Massage, Acutonics and other sound healing techniques, Acupressure,
Energy Work, herbs, flower essences, and homeopathics.
She is also one of only a handful of Washington State licensed Small and Large Animal Massage Practitioners.
She teaches Riding Solutions clinics and lessons to professional and amateur horseback riders. Through the use of innovative, therapeutic under-saddle exercises, Sara teaches riders how to release old, limiting habits and begin riding in a more free and balanced way. For more information about Riding Solutions you can click here.
Besides Riding Solutions, Sara teaches a wide variety of animal massage and wellness classes locally and nationally. For a look at her current teaching schedule click here.
Bodyworker Education
2008 - YiRen Qigong 1A course given by Guan-Cheng Sun, Institute of Qigong & Internal Alternative Medicine, Seattle, WA.
2006 - Pre- & Perinatal Massage certification course given by Carole Osborne-Sheets, Body Therapy Associates, San Diego, CA. Course hosted by Cortiva / Brian Utting School of Massage, Seattle, WA.
2004 - Structural Decompression, course given by Dawn Schmidt, Brenneke School of Massage, Seattle, WA.
2002 - Large and Small Animal Massage Practioner Endorsement (LAMP & SAMP), Olympia, Washington.
2002 - "Acutonics - III: Harmonic Attunement," course given by Donna Carey, MS, LAc. and Marjorie de Muynck, LMP, of the Kairos Institute of Sound Healing, Llano de San Juan, NM.
2001 - LMP (Licensed Massage Therapist), degree from Brenneke School of Massage, Seattle, WA. NCTMB (Nationally Certified Massage Therapist) by the National Board of Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork.
2001 - Completed teacher certification training for the Acutonics - Integrated Healing System given by Donna Carey, MS, LAc. and Marjorie de Muynck, LMP, of the Kairos Institute of Sound Healing, Llano de San Juan, NM.
2001 - "Acutonics II: Higher Harmonics and the Inner Nature of Tone," course given by Donna Carey, MS, LAc. and Marjorie de Muynck, LMP, of the Kairos Institute of Sound Healing, Seattle, WA.
2000 - "Acutonics I: Acutonics for Bodyworkers," course given by Donna Carey, MS, LAc. and Marjorie de Muynck, LMP, of the Kairos Institute of Sound Healing, Seattle, WA.
2000 - "Sound Healing Rooted in the Past and Leading the Future of Medicine," Introduction to Acutonics, workshop given by Donna Carey, MS, LAc., of the Kairos Institute of Sound Healing, Seattle, WA.
1999 - Certified by Equissage as a Sports Massage Therapist. Certification course given by Mary Schreiber, Equissage®, Round Hill, VA.
1998 - "Equine Acupressure and Motion Analysis," workshop given by Susan Tenney, CMT, Keene, NH
1997 - "Basic Equine Shiatsu," workshop given by Susan Tenney, CMT, Keene, NH
1990 - Master’s Degree in Comparative Zoological Analysis / Zooarchaeology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
1989 - 3-day TTEAM clinic with Linda Tellington-Jones exploring the benefits of TTOUCH and Feldenkrias exercises for horses, Tucson, AZ.
1986 - Bachelor’s Degree in Anthropology,
Bryn Mawr College,
Bryn Mawr, PA.
1982 - 3-day TTEAM clinic with Linda Tellington-Jones exploring the benefits of TTOUCH and Feldenkrias exercises for horses, Ijamsville, MD.
- Extensive training in Dressage, Eventing, Hunter/Jumper and Racing preparation. Familiarity with most western riding disciplines.
- Experience riding with and assisting veterinarians
in their rounds
Professional Affiliations
- Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals (ABMP)
- International Association of Equine Sports Massage
Therapists
- The Flower Essence Society
* For more information about any of the terms used on this page please go to my definitions page.