CLASSES

Acu-Yoga
Acu-Yoga brings two ancient healing traditions together, Acupressure and Yoga. Acupressure points are integrated into yoga postures, self-help, breath awareness, guided imagery, and relaxation. Acu-yoga helps to reduce stress, relieve discomfort, and promote the body’s natural ability to heal. Experience a mindful and gentle way to help bring balance to the physical, emotional, and energetic systems of the body. All levels are welcome.

CPR & First Aid
Eastern Holistic Center/Stephanie Halderman, Dipl. ABT, EMT, CMT offers CPR & First Aid classes through the American Heart Association. Courses are available for family, friends, the workplace, childcare and health care providers. For more info please call Stephanie Halderman at 823-4342

Prenatal Yoga
Enjoy yoga to stretch, strengthen, prepare for labor, connect with your baby, and relax! Learn acupressure points to help relieve the uncomfortable symptoms commonly associated with pregnancy. All stages of pregnancy and beginners welcome. Stephanie’s experience as a mother creates a nurturing and compassionate environment for yoga. Bring a pillow, blanket, and yoga mat.

WORKSHOPS

Acupressure & Aromatherapy for Stress, Fatigue, & Emotional Balancing
In this special workshop, you will learn self-help techniques using acupressure & aromatherapy for stress management, increasing vitality, and emotional balancing. We will cover how to integrate essential oils into acupressure points for enhanced potency, as well as creating your own holistic essential oil remedies for healing.

Acupressure & Aromatherapy For Supporting The Immune System
In this special workshop, you will learn self-help techniques using acupressure & aromatherapy to support the immune system. You will learn acupressure points and essential oils that can help bring relief to the uncomfortable symptoms associated with colds and flu. You will also learn how to create your own holistic remedies to build the immune system and help relieve cold and flu symptoms for use in the bath, diffusers, humidifiers, tissues, and more.

Acupressure & Aromatherapy for Weight Management
In this special workshop, you will learn acupressure points & aromatherapy for appetite control, metabolism boosting, decreasing “love handles”, stress, fatigue and emotional balancing. We will cover simple nutrition, conscious & emotional eating, and self-help techniques.

Acupressure for Labor & Prenatal Partner Yoga
Explore ways to give and receive physical and emotional support during pregnancy and labor. Learn basic acupressure points and techniques to ease the discomfort associated with the labor process. Stretch and relax together using partner yoga, acupressure and visualizations for a healthy birth. This workshop is repeated every 2 months and is co-lead with Devorah Blum who has been practicing yoga since 1975, and studied with senior Iyengar teachers around the world including BKS Iyengar in India.

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING, CERTIFICATION & CONTINUING EDUCATION

Acupressure Therapy Certification Program
Eastern Holistic Center is now offering the Acupressure Institutes 150-Hour Basic Acupressure California State certification. This certification training offers several types of acupressure & eastern bodywork modalities. Students gain proficiency in using more than 75 acupressure points, acupressure flows, extraordinary vessels, the twelve organ meridians, the five elements, eastern massage, and more. Upon completion, the student will be a California State Certified Acupressure Practitioner/Certified Massage Therapist.
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Pre & Postnatal Yoga Teacher Trainings
Teaching prenatal and postnatal yoga is a special gift to women. It provides a nurturing environment to stretch and strengthen, often relieving the common complaints associated with the childbearing year. It teaches women the important arts of relaxation and self reflection, which are especially helpful in the passage to motherhood. An added benefit for many women is that prenatal & postnatal yoga classes are a wonderful place for new friendships to blossom.

A woman goes through many physical, emotional and hormonal changes during the childbearing year. Our trainings address how to work with these changes in a safe and supportive way. You learn how to structure prenatal and postpartum yoga classes, including important poses and contraindications. In the prenatal training, we discuss how to modify poses to safely incorporate a pregnant woman into a regular yoga class. In the postpartum section, we share helpful tools on teaching yoga while babies are present, including how to integrate babies into poses. Our programs delve deeply into the path of pregnancy, the journey of birth, and the challenges that can be associated with postpartum recovery.

Along with yoga, topics include anatomy & physiology, childbearing education, self-help acupressure, aromatherapy, holistic remedies, and nutrition. Western medicine and ancient wisdom are both discussed for a balanced understanding of how to help childbearing women make informed choices.

The Art of Moxibustion and Cupping
In this class we will devote ourselves to learning the art of moxa and cupping. You will learn when and how to use these ancient and powerful tools in deeply healing and appropriate ways. Primarily these techniques are used by acupunturists and oriental doctors but, they are also extremely helpful ( and legal ) techniques for midwives, birth attendants and massage practitioners to use in their practice as well.

Moxabustion: The burning of Mugwort in various ways on specific Acu points and areas of the body. Used for turning breech babies, pre-term labor, post partum support and more.

Cupping: The attaching of suction cups to various parts of the body to relieve "wind" conditions, pain and spasm.

If these are techniques that you've been curious about and have never had the opportunity to learn or if you need more practice with these techniques, now's your chance! Supplies will be provided and available for sale if you'd like to go home with everything you need to get started . Being able to provide these services to your clients will be extremely beneficial for their health and great for your business!

Animal Massage
Learn to give a complete healing session to animals using a blend of Traditional Asian Therapies, as well as CranioSacral. This class will focus on the theory, art, and techniques of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Five Element Theory. We will focus on how to touch and use our senses to assess an animal's physical, emotional, and spiritual states. Your healing sessions will come from a base protocol called "The Blend," that includes elements from acupressure meridians and potent points, Tui Na (Chinese Massage), Zen Shiatsu, Chi Nei Tsang, Qi Gong, Jin Shin Jyutsu, plus CranioSacral and Tellington TTouch. You will learn to treat animals as whole beings with your intuitive, intelligent, and loving hands.

This two-day class is for both experienced body/energy workers and those wanting to begin an in-depth study and practice of working physically and energetically with animals. We will be working hands-on with dogs in the class. (Contact Tamara Samsa, Office Administrator about bringing your dog to class.) The traditional Asian Therapies taught provide a range of physical and subtle energy work as needed in a specific animal session. Any of these healing arts can take one on a life-long journey of study and practice. The intent of this class is to begin the process of deepening of one's understanding and perception of the work.

Beginning Healing Massage with Lea Wildflower
A basic hands on introduction to giving a full body oil massage for beginners based on Swedish, Therapeutic, and Intuitive Massage Techniques. Students will come away with a one hour massage sequence that can be applied in a professional setting. Lea will present special techniques for addressing common areas of tension that she has used in her 20 years of professional massage work. Geared towards students who wish to work in a spa or other professional setting. Perfect for Acupressure, Shiatsu, Reiki or other professionally trained bodyworker/healer wishing to expand their marketable skills by offering full body massage. Students should bring a set of sheets, face cradle cover or pillowcase, and a bottle of massage oil.

Ortho-Bionomy Spine & Pelvis Class
Ortho-Bionomy is an innovative body therapy that uses painless small body positions and movements to gently stimulate the self correcting mechanisms in the muscles. It brings the body back into balance and structural alignment. It is derived from osteopathy and can be incredibly effective for pain relief, post surgery work, accident cases, emotional trauma, deep relaxation, and peak performance. It can easily be integrated into other healing modalities. Ortho-Bionomy is fast (10-30 seconds) and easy on the practitioner and client. Ortho-Bionomy can: be used anywhere, with clothes on, brings together the body/mind easily, and great for those hard-to-release areas. It is excellent for clients who don’t want or can’t handle deep work, those with a sensitive body, older and frail clients, children, abuse or trauma clients, or those in severe pain. Your clients will be amazed by how little effort created such big results.

Ortho-Bionomy Upper Extremities Class
We will focus on the muscular skeletal patterns of the Shoulders, Scapula, Elbows, Wrist, and all the bones of the Hands. We will look at patterns of tension that begin in the hands and forearms and travel up into the shoulders. By releasing the tension in the Upper Extremities, you will notice how the neck can feel more relaxed too. We will also examine the reflexive tension pattern of overusing your thumbs in your practice that affect your own neck, shoulders and back.

“I find other body therapists coming to me for help on their hands and forearms.” You will learn the skills to be the therapist’s therapist. This is one of the three foundation classes (Spine & Pelvis, Upper Extremities, Lower Extremities) for all the other levels in Ortho-Bionomy. No prerequisite needed.

Energize Your Healing Business: An Experiential Workshop
with Jennifer Kerr
Do you feel stalled in your healing business? Is fatigue clouding your inner vision? Is your spirit sagging from the weight of others? It’s a cold, hard fact: Many healers take on others’ energy. This leads to insomnia, headaches, frustration, fatigue, irritability, poor concentration, overeating, aimlessness, stomach aches, you name it. It leads to burn out. Not only in ourselves, but in our healing businesses.

For our healing practices to thrive, we need to release the day’s sessions and interactions. We need to protect our psychic space. We need to be able to identify inner signals of stress and their root cause so we can release them. Through learning the meditative exercises in this workshop, you will:

• Claim your psychic space so that you are always protected
• Purify your energy field of icky-sticky clients
• Release old emotions & memories that do not serve you
• Learn to clear your space as a regular daily practice
• Focus your awareness into present time so that you are completely available to yourself as well as your clients

By learning the techniques in this workshop, you can energize and empower yourself with the skills necessary for every successful healer. When we heal ourselves, we effectively heal others.

Creating Prosperity Consciousness
Do you wonder why your salary only reaches a certain height? Have you felt a twinge of jealousy at your friend’s number of clients? Do you buy things you can’t afford occasionally… usually… all the time?

Creative visualization. Deep, inner listening. Energetic exercises that clear and release. In this circle, we’ll use these tools to explore the exciting topic of money. This introductory class is a deep session of energy work, opening the way for abundant living. We’ll discover how our beliefs reflect our bank accounts. We’ll learn how spiritual healing creates financial healing. We’ll reflect upon Prosperity Consciousness and what it means in our lives.

Intuitive Healing and Channeling with Sylvia Nachlinger, ABT, CMT
The focus of this class is to help you develop your intuitive skills and apply them to energy healing and reading energy blocks in the body. You will explore different ways of perceiving energy, and develop a greater rapport with your own unique way of experiencing intuitively. Most people have learned to doubt their intuition, so you will have opportunities to rebuild trust in a safe, supportive environment.

In this class you will be working with the subtle energy body as well as the physical body. Your energy body doesn’t end where your physical body does, but extends beyond into the aura and etheric layers. Working on any one of these levels affects the others. You will have an opportunity to work in the subtle layers as well as to do hands on healing in this class.

You will also learn how to avoid taking on energy or getting depleted when you do healing work by learning to channel and have clear boundaries. There will be time for your questions and opportunities to address your concerns. Open to all levels.

Colors, Crystals, and the Chakras with Sylvia Nachlinger, ABT, CMT
The chakras are the major healing centers of the body and the doorway through which everything moves from being a possibility to manifesting in your life. In this class you will get a basic understanding of the chakras and learn to balance your own and other peoples chakras using colors and crystal.

Colors and crystals carry different vibrations and therefore can be used to change someone's vibration or energy field so that healing can occur more easily. You will learn some of the qualities of different colors and crystals and how they can be used to restore balance, relieve pain, enhance the nervous system, restore joy, cleanse, cool or warm areas, reprogram the DNA. You will have an opportunity to channel the colors as well as learn to use different crystals for healing and transformation.

We will work with some powerful crystals for balancing the chakras. In addition there will be other crystals with specific qualities for healing, enhancing communication, grounding, intuition, emotional balancing, protection. A starter kit of crystals for the chakras is included in price. Open to all levels.

Counseling Skills
Learn how to combine verbal techniques with bodywork to cultivate emotional healing. Work on your own attitudes that get in the way of being an effective counselor. Students also role play difficult situations for gaining new perspectives and awareness to work with clients toward resolution.

Advanced Five Elements
Learn to use 30 command points, tonification, sedation, and ‘lo’ points with pulse reading. Examine the five elements with the control and breeding cycles

Fundamentals of Acupressure
A hands-on introduction to the main forms of acupressure: Shiatsu, Reflexology, Do-In, and Jin Shin. Learn specific point location, self-acupressure methods, and Asian breathing exercises. No prerequisite. (12 Class Hours)

Basic Acupressure: Extraordinary Channels and Points
Learn over 40 main acupressure points, how to use them, and how to apply acupressure flows. Students will also learn the eight extraordinary channels/vessels and associated symptoms. Content covers point interrelationships, combinations, and formulas No prerequisite. (15 Class Hours)

Acu-Aromatherapy
Learn how to integrate aromatherapy with acupressure points for relaxation, common ailments, and emotional balancing. You will learn how the body/mind/spirit connects to essential oils, and the uses and contraindications when working with the oils. We will discuss and practice balancing potent points, source points, u-points, yin/yang, and the 5 elements with the ancient and therapeutic properties of essential oils. Experience having fun while making and using compresses, massage lotion, spritzers, roll-on oils for acupressure points and more. You will have extra products to take home with you!

Hot Stone Massage Training
This class is for you if you wish to give your hands a break, work at a spa, increase your earnings, or discover an enjoyable way to work deeply and effectively bringing your clients to new levels of relaxation. You will find out how the gentle earthy warmth of the stones induces deep serenity in your clients. You will come away with a 90 minute sequence for laying stones on the body and massaging the entire body with the stones. Therapeutic use of cold stones and deep tissue techniques will be included. Care of stones, purchasing equipment and proper body mechanics will also be covered. Stones and Equipment provided in the class.

Lymphatic Drainage Massage 20 Hour Certification Workshop
This LDM program teaches you rhythmic massage strokes that move toxic fluids out of the body tissues and into the Lymphatic System. You will develop the skills to provide relief from edema, acne, and cellulite, and to enhance the immune system, supporting the healing of cancer. The body is released from stress allowing the central nervous system to recover. Wear comfortable, layered clothing. Bring your sheets, and your enthusiasm to learn one of the best healing massages.

Acupressure for Pregnancy & Birthing
Classes cover acupressure & bodywork techniques for all trimesters of pregnancy, labor, postpartum healing, and infant acupressure & massage. These courses delve deep into understanding the path of pregnancy, the journey of birth, and the challenges that can be associated with postpartum recovery.

CLASSES NOT SCHEDULED

Acupressure & Aromatherapy For Infants And Children
In this special workshop you will learn how to use acupressure, massage, aromatherapy, and holistic remedies to help nurture and balance your child’s physical, emotional, and energetic systems of the body. We will cover acupressure points that are helpful for building the immune system, colds & flu, tummy aches, nightmares, difficulty sleeping, stress and more. You will also learn how to customize and use your own holistic remedies according to your child’s needs. Bring a pillow and doll, or stuffed animal for practicing acupressure & massage techniques. Pre-crawling infants are welcome to attend class.