Beyond Horse Massage Weekend Seminar-Workshop

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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. These techniques have been successfully taught to thousands 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

(courses are added to all of our lists all throughout the year, check back periodically or ask to be added to a waitlist)

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. If a course is FULL, email to be added to any course waitlist**

USA

March 31-April 1, 2023 Las Vegas, NV with Anita Chang-Vigo *Note: this is a Fri-Sat course

April 1-2, 2023 Perryville, AR with Lori Thompson

April 1-2, 2023 South Hamilton, MA

April 15-16, 2023 Newton, NC with Khrystynna Hunsinger

April 15-16, 2023 Watsonville, CA with Sandy Vreeburg

April 15-16, 2023 Kanab, UT

April 22-23, 2023 Coatesville, IN with Coralie Hughes

April 22-23, 2023 Tucson, AZ with Vanessa Helvey.

April 22-23, 2023 Kiowa, CO with Anne Bailey

May 6-7, 2023 Visalia CA with Loni Langdon

May 6-7, 2023 West Bend, WI with Becky Tenges

May 6-7, 2023 Las Vegas, NV with Anita Chang-Vigo

May 20-21, 2023 Fort Collins, CO with Anne Bailey

May 20-21, 2023 Redmond, WA with Beckie Haynes

May 20-21, 2023 Chattanooga, TN with Kathy Tow

May 27-28, 2023 Cottonwood, CA

June 3-4, 2023 Pequot Lakes, MN with Lise Lunde

June 3-4, 2023 Milo, IA with Martha Becker

June 3-4, 2023 Youngsville, NC with Khrystynna Hunsinger

June 3-4, 2023 Pipersville, PA with Leslie Brooks

June 10-11, 2023 Ceres, CA with Amy Alford

June 17-18, 2023 Larsen, WI

June 17-18, 2023 Dexter, MI with Fran Cilella

June 17-18, 2023 Los Angeles, CA with Will Friday

June 24-25, 2023 Natural Bridge, VA with Coralie Hughes

July 22-23, 2023 Litchfield, ME

August 5-6, 2023 Buxton, ME

August 19-20, 2023 Portola Valley, CA with Sandy Vreeburg

August 19-20, 2023 Callaway, MD with Alice Long

August 26-27, 2023 Fort Collins, CO with Anne Bailey

September 2-3, 2023 Las Vegas, NV with Anita Chang-Vigo

September 16-17, 2023 Mooresville, NC with Khrystynna Hunsinger

September 23-24, 2023 Houston, TX with Becky Tenges

October 7-8, 2023 West Bend, WI with Becky Tenges

**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.**

Canada

April 29-30, 2023 Granby, QC with Sylvie Vallières (in French)

May 6-7, 2023 Arnprior, ON with Sylvie Vallières

May 20-21, 2023 Kelowna, BC with Lori Hoppe

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

June 10-11, 2023 Ascot Corner, QC with Sylvie Vallières (in French)

August 26-27, 2023 Château-Richer, QC with Sylvie Vallières (in French)

September 23-24, 2023 Paquetville, NB with Sylvie Vallières (in French)

Sep 30-Oct 1, 2023 Calgary, AB with Lori Hoppe

Sep 30-Oct 1, 2023 Millgrove, ON with Leslie Kennedy

October 8-9, 2023 Richmond, QC with Sylvie Vallières (in French) *Note: this is a Sunday-Monday course

October 21-22, 2023 Langley, BC with Lori Hoppe

 

**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.**

Asia

(nothing scheduled at this time, please check back here periodically or sign up for our monthly e-newsletter to be updated on current course offerings)

Australia & New Zealand

April 22-23, 2023 Rotorua, NZ with Nadine Vollmerg

May 6-7, 2023 Glenreagh, AU with Emma Young

July 8-9, 2023 Queensland, AU with Emma Young

August 5-6, 2023 Fish Creek, VIC, AU with Gypsy Merritt

Europe & UK

April 1-2, 2023 Parly, France with Caroline Hébert Bernard (in French)

April 1-2, 2023 Cheshire, UK with Vicky Devlin

April 15-16, 2023 Horley, UK with Vicky Devlin

April 22-23, 2023 Konstanz, Germany with Silvia Hamm (in German)

April 29-30, 2023 Frickingen, Germany with Silvia Hamm (in German)

May 6-7, 2023 Graz, Austria with Mitra Trop (in German)

May 20-21, 2023 Warwickshire, UK with Vicky Devlin

May 27-28, 2023 Orcemont, France with Caroline Hébert Bernard (in French)

June 3-4, 2023 Broby, Denmark with Lucie Klaassen (in English)

June 17-18, 2023 Rzeszyce, Poland with Beata Filonowicz (in Polish)

June 24-25, 2023 South Lanarkshire, Scotland with Vicky Devlin

July 1-2, 2023 Meerbusch, Germany with Walter Saxe (in German)

July 1-2, 2023  Hartwerd, NL with Masja Fick (in Dutch)

July 15-16, 2023 Hertfordshire, UK with Vicky Devlin

August 12-13, 2023 Klosterneuburg-Weidling, Austria with Vicky Devlin (in English with German translation if needed)

August 12-13, 2023 Lanškroun, Czech Republic with Ivana Zajíčková (in Czech)

September 2-3, 2023 Egestorf, Germany with Walter Saxe (in German)

September 9-10, 2023 Tübingen-Pfrondorf, Germany with Silvia Hamm (in German)

September 16-17, 2023 Ouwerkerk, NL with Masja Fick (in Dutch)

September 16-17, 2023 Brockenhurst, UK with Vicky Devlin

October 7-8, 2023 Braňany, Czech Republic with Ivana Zajíčková (in Czech)

October 21-22, 2023 Vorden, NL with Lucie Klaassen (in Dutch)

Middle East

May 10-11, 2023 Meshek, Israel with Nikki Kagan (in Hebrew & English)

South Africa

(nothing scheduled at this time, please check back here periodically or sign up for our monthly e-newsletter to be updated on current course offerings)

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. Note that students will not be working on their own horse during this seminar, even if their horse lives at the host barn. However, you’ll be able to apply all that you’ve learned to your own horse afterwards!

Are you interested in earning a free spot in the weekend seminar?

Host a Beyond Horse Massage Weekend Seminar

Accreditation

We are accredited and approved through the following organizations: