Beyond Horse Massage Weekend Seminar

Beyond Horse Massage Weekend Seminar-Workshop

A Masterson Method® Weekend Seminar is the next practical step after reading/viewing the Beyond Horse Massage Book/DVD.

In these hands-on workshops, you’ll learn how to recognize and use the visual responses of the horse to your touch to find and release accumulated stress in key junctions of the body that most affect performance. Jim Masterson has successfully taught these techniques to hundreds of owners, therapists, and trainers worldwide, enabling them to open new levels of communication and relationship with their horses.

We do require you to purchase and review the Beyond Horse Massage book and/or DVD before attending the seminar-workshop.

The Masterson Method is accredited by various national and international organizations including the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork Organization (NCBTMB) for Continuing Education Credits.

Weekend Seminar-Workshop Dates

See our COVID-19 procedures. See our COVID-19 Waiver (for Canada, the United States and Poland).

**If you find a course that works for you and has openings, we do recommend registering as soon as possible. Our courses have been filling much faster than usual.**

USA

May 28-29, 2022 Kalispell, MT with Laura Faber-Morris

June 4-5, 2022 Cleveland, NC

June 4-5, 2022 Augusta, ME with Samantha Walker

June 4-5, 2022 Olympia, WA with Beckie Haynes

June 11-12, 2022 Pequot Lakes, MN with Lise Lunde

June 18-19, 2022 Coatesville, IN with Coralie Hughes

June 25-26, 2022 Klamath Falls, OR

June 25-26, 2022 Pleasant View, UT

June 25-26, 2022 Lahaina, HI with Amy Alford

June 25-26, 2022 Chattanooga, TN with Kathy Tow

July 9-10, 2022 Boscawen, NH with Samantha Walker

July 16-17, 2022 Joliet, MT

July 23-24, 2022 Monterey, CA with Sandy Vreeburg

July 23-24, 2022 West Bend, WI with Becky Tenges

August 20-21, 2022 Portola Valley, CA with Sandy Vreeburg

August 27-28, 2022 Coatesville, IN with Coralie Hughes

August 27-28, 2022 Fort Collins, CO with Anne Bailey

August 27-28, 2022 Custer, SD

September 3-4, 2022 Brush Prairie, WA with Beckie Haynes

September 10-11, 2022 Leeds, AL with Kathy Tow

September 24-25, 2022 Montpelier, VA

September 24-25, 2022 San Juan Bautista, CA with Amy Alford

October 1-2, 2022 West Bend, WI with Becky Tenges

October 1-2, 2022 Santa Rosa Valley, CA with Loni Langdon

October 1-2, 2022 Ringoes, NJ with Leslie Brooks

October 1-2, 2022 Dexter, MI with Fran Cilella

October 8-9, 2022 Griffin, GA with Kathy Tow

October 15-16, 2022 Coatesville, IN with Coralie Hughes

October 22-23, 2022 Bristol, TN

October 22-23, 2022 Freeville, NY

October 22-23, 2022 Salado, TX with Kelly Jefferson

October 29-30, 2022 Sharon, VT with Samantha Walker

October 29-30, 2022 Village Ridge, MO with Coralie Hughes

November 12-13, 2022 Concord, NC with Khrystynna Hunsinger

December 3-4, 2022 Las Vegas, NV with Sandy Vreeburg

Canada

May 28-29, 2022 Calgary, AB with Lori Hoppe

June 4-5, 2022 Saint-Nicolas, QC taught in French with Sylvie Vallières

August 12-13, 2022 Campbell River, BC with Lori Hoppe

August 27-28, 2022 Mono, ON with Leslie Kennedy

September 26-27, 2022 Mono, ON with Leslie Kennedy *Note this is a Mon-Tue course

October 6-7, 2022 Calgary, AB with Lori Hoppe *Note this is a Thu-Fri course

October 15-16, 2022 Langley, BC with Lori Hoppe

May 27-28, 2023 Mono, ON with Leslie Kennedy

Europe & UK

June 18-19, 2022 South Lanarkshire, Scotland with Vicky Devlin

July 16-17, 2022 Hertfordshire, UK with Vicky Devlin

August 13-14, 2022 South Lanarkshire, Scotland with Vicky Devlin

August 20-21, 2022 Bedum, NL taught in Dutch with Masja Fick

September 10-11, 2022 Tübingen-Pfrondorf, DE taught in German with Silvia Hamm

September 24-25, 2022 Nouans-les-Fontaines, France taught in French with Diane Howard

October 2-3, 2022 Hanum, DE taught in German with Walter Saxe *Note this is a Sun-Mon course

October 15-16, 2022 Egestorf, DE taught in German with Walter Saxe

October 15-16, 2022 Ouwerkerk, NL taught in Dutch with Masja Fick

November 19-20, 2022 Graz, AT with Vicky Devlin

Australia & New Zealand

June 11-12, 2022 Victoria, AU with Pam Martin

September 10-11, 2022 Waikato, NZ with Nadine Vollmerg

October 15-16, 2022 Queensland, AU with Vicky Devlin

October 22-23, 2022 Victoria, AU with Vicky Devlin

South Africa

(Nothing scheduled at this time. Please check back periodically or join our monthly email newsletter for updates.)

Day 1 — Workshop begins at 9am

Workshop begins at 9am with a discussion of the principles of The Masterson Method®.

The horse’s survival-bracing response.
How to use different levels of touch, and the horse’s responses to by-pass the bracing response.
Use of movement and positioning to allow a muscle or junction to release tension.
Key junctions of the body that most affect performance.
How the subtle and sometimes not-so-subtle process of release works.

Techniques:

The first technique, the Bladder Meridian Technique, is demonstrated and explained.
Students practice on horses, with individual hands-on help from the Instructor(s).
Students and Instructor(s) re-group to ask and answer questions, and review and discuss the results of the technique.
Techniques to release tension in the poll, neck, and neck/shoulders/withers junction are demonstrated, practiced, and discussed/reviewed during the first day, with a break for lunch and short morning and afternoon breaks.

Day 2 — Workshop continues at 9am

We follow the same learning format as on Day 1;

Hands-on instruction.
Review and discussion to learn basic techniques to release tension in the back, sacro-iliac and sacro-lumbar junction.

After lunch, a fresh group of horses are brought in. Students have the opportunity to practice all the techniques that were learned over the weekend, on fresh horses, with hands-on help from the Instructor(s). This way, the student will review and practice a full bodywork session on a horse prior to going home.

Weekend Seminar-Workshop Prerequisites

1st Prerequisite – Reading and viewing the Beyond Horse Massage Book and DVD (can be added when purchasing your registration)

2nd Prerequisite – This is a hands-on workshop. Students must be prepared to pick up all four of the horse’s feet and be comfortable in a stall with an unknown horse. For safety reasons students must have a good grasp of basic horsemanship.

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We are Accredited and Approved Through the Following Organizations

National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork Organization (NCBTMB) for Continuing Education Credits (CEC): Weekend Seminar-Workshop: 14 CEC. Home Study Course: 12 CEC, Advanced 5-Day: 32 CEC, Field Work Course: 50 CEC, Certification Completion Course: 32 CEC

National Board of Certification For Animal Acupressure and Massage Approved for 14 hours CE credit, hands-on for the Weekend Seminar-Workshop

International Institute for Complementary Therapists Approved Training Provider

Equine Therapies Association of Australia Approved Training Provider