Category Archives: Abdomen
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How do you work Psoas Major?
Posted on November 21, 2019 by Dawn in Abdomen, Anatomy, bodywork, Human Body, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, NCBTMB approved continuing education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueHow do you work psoas? Do you work psoas? Maybe better questions are why should we work psoas and what does psoas work do for the client? Psoas major is a muscle that massage therapists are overly focused on. Most learned to work psoas for any lower back pain or hip pain. Some are […]
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Bladder Issues
Posted on March 19, 2019 by Dawn in Abdomen, Anatomy, bodywork, Hips & Sacrum, massage therapy, NCBTMB approved continuing education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueBladder Issues I am teaching SMRT hips, lower back, & abdomen right now. Getting to Fort Worth for this class was an adventure. We had an enormous blizzard in Aurora, they cancelled my flight, closed all major (and most minor) highways in and out of the city, I decided to drive around the highway closure, […]
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Abdomen Work
Posted on February 8, 2019 by Dawn in Abdomen, Anatomy, bodywork, Lower Back, massage therapy, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueAbdomen Work One of my long standing lymphedema clients came in the other day and asked me to spend half of the session working on her lower back. She booked an hour and a half, so plenty of time. I have addressed her back pain in the past, but not for several months. She has […]
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Psoas Major
Posted on January 11, 2019 by Dawn in Abdomen, Anatomy, bodywork, Hips & Sacrum, massage therapy, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueAbdominal Wall Let’s talk about psoas major. In all of our SMRT hip classes, I tell the therapists attending that psoas is a victim of many things and a perpetrator of very little. Yet, massage therapists, when we think of abdominal work are focused mainly on psoas. In part this is because we do not […]
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Hip Girdle
Posted on October 12, 2018 by Dawn in Abdomen, Anatomy, Articles, Hips & Sacrum, Lower Back, massage therapy, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueHip Girdle I was in an airport (what else is new) after teaching a fantastic SMRT hip girdle in NY. Typically in any hip girdle class, we have a few people in class who end up with immobilizing lower back pain from having their posterior hips, sacrum, abdomen, and lower back worked. Plantar Flexion This […]
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Relief without Pain
Posted on August 24, 2018 by Dawn in Abdomen, Anatomy, bodywork, massage therapy, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueRelief Without Pain Imagine a world in which you, as a massage therapist, could change the tone of piriformis or psoas without using pressure or causing pain to the client, in a way that creates tonal balance from right to left and lasts. That is world of SMRT. A couple of years ago I met […]
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SMRT Testimonial
Posted on January 26, 2018 by Dawn in Abdomen, Anatomy, bodywork, CE's on DVD, Hips & Sacrum, Massage CE's on DVD, massage therapy, NCBTMB approved continuing education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique, Testimonials and ReviewsSMRT Home Courses I just had a very nice conversation with a therapist who purchased a full body set of SMRT video courses from Full Circle. I asked her to call me because when she took the test for the CE credit for our SMRT: shoulder, axilla, ribcage, & upper back course, I realized that […]
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Working on the Abdominal Muscles
Posted on July 7, 2017 by Dawn in Abdomen, Human Body, massage therapy, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, NCBTMB approved continuing education, Physiology, Ribs, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueHow often do you work on the abdominal muscles? What do you do? When using SMRT, we teach therapists to balance left and right abdominal muscle tone by working directly with each of the abdominal muscles. The Respiratory Diaphragm We begin with releases for the respiratory diaphragm. The respiratory diaphragm is of major importance to […]
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In the SMRT system the first question we ask is “Why?”
Posted on October 7, 2015 by Dawn in Abdomen, Feet, Lower Extremities, Lower Leg, NCBTMB approved continuing education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueI just returned from an SMRT class that I taught in Trinidad, CO. The class was small, but I always take a teaching assistant in case we end up uneven. The class we were teaching was SMRT: Hips, Lower Back, & Abdomen. I decided that my TA and I would get into the trades. This […]
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SMRT Massage-a-thon
Posted on March 14, 2015 by Dawn in Abdomen, Anatomy, Back & Spine, bodywork, Head & Neck, Hips & Sacrum, Human Body, SMRTPatti, Rhonda, and I just got back from our yearly SMRT massage-a-thon, which is a once a year trip for only the 3 of us to work on each other. We do hour and a half tandems on each other each day for 4 days straight. It was fabulous!! Here are some of the wonderful […]
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New Courses: Hips, Lower Back & Abdomen
Posted on November 5, 2013 by Dawn in Abdomen, Hips & Sacrum, Lower Back, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, NCBTMB approved continuing education, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueAurora, CO – Full Circle School, Inc. has new continuing education DVD’s available! Full Circle is owned by Dawn Lewis. Dawn teaches Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique (SMRT). Our newest DVD is SMRT: Hips, Lower Back, & Abdomen, which is approved for 20 CE’s. This DVD has also been broken into 3 sections – SMRT: Hips […]
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