BCMB FURTHER LEARNING

Advanced Workshops and Classes for Massage Practitioners

Expand your skills, experience, and creative possibilities in your massage and bodywork practice

Our advanced workshops in Bristol are tailored to enhance expertise and skills, while igniting the creative potential of qualified massage practitioners. If you are uncertain about your eligibility for these workshops, please reach out to us for clarification.

The programme brings together a highly experienced and talented team of tutors, each of whom has at least 10 years experience in their own field. These are experienced teachers and we are confident that they are fully aligned with the BCMB/MTI ethos as well as leaders in their area of expertise.

The tutor team comprises both BCMB tutors and Guest tutors. We also host workshops from highly skilled external practioners, find out more here.

1hr of any workshop accumulates 1 CPD point

Participating in one of these workshops gains a Certificate of Attendance and meets MTI (Massage Training Institute) /GCMT (The General Council for Massage Therapy) further training requirements.

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3D Side Lying Massage Course with Sarah McLellan

Two day course - working in the side lying position offers many creative opportunities and is not just for pregnancy! The human body is 3-dimensional. Yet many massage approaches work only with clients in a prone or supine position. By placing clients in this position, without predetermined response, they are more easily able to let go. This workshop offers a range of bodywork and energy techniques, including: spinal mobilisations and stretching connecting complementary mus

Mobilisation for Joint & Tissue Release Massage

Mobilisation for Joint & Tissue Release with Jeremy Dymond

This 1 day Mobilisation workshop is designed to deepen your skill and confidence in using passive movement to reach greater degrees of release for your clients. We explore: How passive mobilisation is about deep muscle release as well as easing joints. How to access and release deeply held tensions. And when not to! Whether emotions as well as muscles can be released through movement. How engaging a client can strengthen the effects. What related aftercare can support clients

Effortless Massage with Sarah Hoare

Effortless massage is all about working more effectively, more efficiently and more enjoyably. It starts with a state of mind and translates into action. And there are techniques, skills and approaches we can learn that support the process. This one day workshop will explore effortlessness through a variety of exercises and activities, including plenty of hands-on massage. We’ll consider how much more ‘less’ can be, how the quality and focus of our attention makes all the dif

Deep Tissue Massage with Sarah Hoare

This 3 day Deep Tissue Massage workshop is designed to build confidence, skill and knowledge in working on a deeper level with your clients. Over the three days we’ll explore what deep tissue massage means to us: What does it mean to facilitate a deeper experience What is deep massage good for? When is it appropriate? How can we comfortably affect deeper muscles? How can we release the key postural muscles of piriformis, psoas and diaphragm? We’ll also use muscle energy techn

Chair Massage with Peter Kramer

Seated massage is the perfect way to add versatility to your massage practice. It is usually offered through clothing, without the use of oils. Therefore making it extremely practical for those who are limited with time or who do not wish to remove clothing. It can therefore reach a more diverse customer base than a typical couch based session. Learn new techniques and become a more mobile therapist, chair massage is perfect for the workplace, festivals, events and more. BO

Acupressure Facial Therapy with Heidi Armstrong

This workshop explores the acupressure points on the face and releasing the muscular and fascial structures. The skin, muscles and fascia of the face have a unique structure to allow us to express ourselves intellectually and emotionally. We therefore hold a huge amount of tension and stress in our facial structure. You will learn a whole treatment working on the face, neck and shoulders, that will release tension, allow emotional processing, deeply relax the nervous system a

Eastern Foot Massage Day with Heidi Armstrong

A complete foot and lower leg treatment for your clients. This can be performed on its own or as part of a longer treatment. It couples perfectly with the Facial acupressure workshop for a fantastic head & toes treatment. The course details: Review of foot structure anatomy and how it affects all our body’s structures to support clients’ postural issues and with concerns like plantar fascial and other foot pain. Including some key Acupressure points and reflex zones on the fe

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Experienced external tutors also run courses from BCMB

As well as our own in house massage workshops at BCMB, we are very pleased to host a number of other experienced workshop tutors who run courses from BCMB, many of whom are leaders in their fields. These workshops are open to qualified massage or other bodywork practitioners only. Find out more...

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