The NISA Advanced Certification Course (150 hours)

 75 CEUs (the NISA Basic course is a pre-requisite)

Upon completion of this advanced training you will be able to perform the structural alignment, twelve-step series on your clients.

These twelve weekly sessions work systematically through the body to re-align the posture and are a great help to someone who is making a big change in their life.  As we know, the mind and body are intimately connected; postural holding patterns are linked to emotional holding patterns.  When a person wants to change their direction in life and/or discard their negative attitudes and baggage, changing the way they carry their body can ameliorate that process.

For the series, the client sets out goals in the beginning.  They may be physical and/or internal (emotional, behavioural), and don’t necessarily need to be shared.  The therapist and client then work together to reach these goals within the framework of the twelve sessions.  The therapist works on the physical component (with the client doing stretches/exercises at home) and the client works on processing the emotional component.  

 

Course structure: 

 

Four 4-day weekends, once per month (e.g. Sept, Oct, Nov, Dec):

• Friday 9:30am-5:30pm

• Sat, Sun, Mon 9:30am-9:30pm

There will be 7 hours of classroom education each day:

• lecture

• demonstration

• practical exchange with partner

• group discussion

On Saturday, Sunday, and Monday there will be a supervised clinic in the evening (3 hours) where the participants will treat two of their own paying clients (the instructor will be available to advise, answer questions, and help in any way).

WEEKEND #1

• Introductions, philosophy of the series, emotional body zones.
• Sessions 1 - 3 →theory, student exchange, supervised clinic (2 clients).

WEEKEND #2

• Understanding the core and its relationship to the rest of the body.
• Sessions 4 - 6 →theory, student exchange, supervised clinic (2 clients).

WEEKEND #3

• Principles and practices of cranial work in NISA.
• Sessions 7 - 9 →theory, student exchange, supervised clinic (2 clients).

WEEKEND #4

• Re-integration of the body, presentation of student papers.
• Sessions 10 - 12 →theory, student exchange, supervised clinic (2 clients).

Limited to eight participants.  

Contact me for more details.