30th August 2011 (No Comments)

If you’ve been wondering of my whereabouts, I just spent two weeks training with great leaders in the field of sports massage, and honorees of the World Massage Hall of Fame.

Aaron Mattes, whom I’ve trained with in Las Vegas ’09 had a seminar in his hometown and location of his clinic in Sarasota, FL. He is the creator of Active Isolated Stretching (AIS), a method of assisted stretching used by elite athletes, trainers, and therapists.

I’ve personally used this method for the last 4 years with great results as a cool down from my strength training. Some have attributed my mobility to my life in AcroYoga, but that’s only once or twice a week. AIS I do just about every day to get my work day started. However, it wasn’t until coming to Florida and hearing from the teachers themselves the remarkable balance of my muscle mass and its elasticity.

The following week just 13 miles away, James Waslaski was also in town holding his Orthopedic Massage seminar. Orthopedic Massage combines various modalities, in particular my training in Deep Tissue Structural Bodywork & Active Isolated Stretching, and scientifically matches the techniques required to address the specific movement problem caused by repetitive use, injury, or just bad habit. This training fills in a lot of gaps, but opened up 10x more holes. Just as James said “the more I know, the more I realize I don’t know”.

As of today, I’ve started Whitney Lowe’s 120 hour Orthopedic Massage online course with a goal to certify with both James Waslaski and Whitney Lowe in 2012. Here’s to lifelong learning.