CE Class | Oncology Massage Essentials

Are you a massage therapist looking for CE classes? Join us at NHI Emeryville on September 26 & 27, 2026 from 9am to 6pm each day for Somatic Foundations of Therapeutic Touch and Movement.

Class Description:

An introduction to clinical somatic techniques that will transform your practice and enhance your self-care.

Stop “Leaning In” and Start Getting Results. Do you ever find yourself physically exhausted, waiting—and hoping—for a client’s muscle to finally release? You know that massage can be incredibly valuable, but it’s hard to predict when it will work and when it won’t because so much of your results rely on something shifting within your client. This course will help you understand why it is that sometimes your clients can’t let go and how to more consistently and reliebly get them to melt on your table; without force, strain, over unnecessary effort.

In this 2-day intensive, you’ll move beyond “chasing pain” and learn a repeatable, neuro-based framework to unlock chronic tension from the inside out.

• Predictable Results: Stop guessing. Use clinical somatics to address the root cause of tension.
• Save Your Career: Reduce the physical toll on your hands and back by letting the client’s nervous system do the heavy lifting.
• Deepen Your Practice: Bridge the gap between traditional massage and neurophysiology.

What’s covered in the course?

20% is lecture and information on Somatic Philosophy and the neurophysiology of touch and movement. We will discuss how to flip your perspective from working on bodies to working with somas. We will explore the duality of structures and functions rather than mind and body to understand how somatic practices create physiological, emotional, and cognitive transformations.

10% is somatic practices for your self-care. You will learn simple practices to resotre your own myofascial integrity that you can also teach to your clients.

70% is learning and practicing somatic techiques, both how to modify your current massage techniques and how clinical somatic techniques out of the Hanna Somatic Education Lineage

This continuing education course is approved for 16 CEs by the NCBTMB.

Your instructor, Gabriel Posner, Ph.D., is a Certified Hanna Somatic Educator and Licensed Massage Therapist (NHI-grad) with 2 decades of experience working with people suffering from musculoskeletal pain and movement dysfunction. By bringing somatic concepts and techniques into massage therapy sessions, he have discovered that clients can unwind much more quickly, deeply, and lastingly. Instead of leaning in and waiting for someone’s muscle to relax, these techniques will help you activate your clients’ own powers of self-regulation to unwind from the inside out.

Imagine how easy your jobs would be if your clients released their own muscles.

Students Will Learn:

• Work smarter, not harder
• Invite clients to actively participate in their healing process
• Engage clients’ motor and sensory centers to unwind from the inside out
• Apply clinical somatic techniques within massage session
• Use traditional massage therapy techniques to help clients develop greater awareness of and control over their bodies.
• Use simple, somatic self-care practices to help maintain and improve their own musculoskeletal health.

WORKSHOP COST | $499

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