12th Annual Mid-Atlantic conference for Massage Therapy located at the Holiday Inn Ocean Front, 67th Street Ocean City, MD

Thursday, April 26th, 9-6pm (Pre-Convention Conference): Self-Healing through Massage, Movement, and Vision Improvement

Nowadays, tension can be a long-term threat to our livelihood and general welfare; our nervous systems are not built for this kind of stress and we need to find ways to alleviate it. Stress is a major cause of many illnesses, from flu to cancer, because it suppresses the immune system. Self-Healing improves the immune system through Kegel-like exercises that activate the autonomic nervous system and can help us drop the extra tension. It also involves work on the musculoskeletal system, to increase strength in all muscles, from bottom to top, because not everyone has the same flexibility and agility in their muscles as massage therapists, or even musicians or sign-language interpreters. In fact, many muscles are never used by us simply due to the nature of our work and respective lifestyles. Most of us use only 60-75 of the more than 600 muscles in our body; we need to balance this. If we learn to use more of our muscles, all the back pain we’ve ever had would go away, all the tension we have would dissipate from our lives, and we would start to move in ways we’ve never moved before. In my training courses, people learn to walk and run backwards, thus using their hamstrings in a new way. They also learn to use their body without their vision, so they can feel the body instead of just moving it in response to what they see; therefore, it is essential to understand how we see, and to keenly sense how we go. In one day alone, you can transform your life from someone not sensing their body at all to someone who senses it deeply. You can also learn how to work with your feet in order to loosen the pressure on your knees, how to work with your knees to loosen your hips, and how to work with your hips to loosen your back and neck. Of course, there are massage techniques to complement movement, so we’re going to train ourselves that massage means not only to relax but also to regenerate nerves, muscles, and bones, as well as to help circulation in a major way. Furthermore, the Self-Healing method teaches natural vision improvement: how our visual habits of so much close-up looking and not enough distance looking can strain the internal ciliary muscles around the lens of the eye; how those habits could be the cause of diseases such as cataracts, glaucoma, and macular degeneration. What’s even more exciting is how we can affect the movement of the macular, which moves very rapidly and is the central part of the retina; we will learn how to navigate it, mobilize it better, and create millions of synapses from the brain to the retina. And since modern people have lost a lot of peripheral use of the body, my massage techniques will enable you to increase your periphery. Best of all, this very valuable workshop will teach you how to transform your life and assist others to transform theirs. See this as movement that will not only help your life, but will ultimately facilitate your practice.

Friday, April 27th, 9am-1pm: Seeing Better through Natural Vision Improvement and Massage

Did you know that your vision can actually improve? Most people don’t think so and most ophthalmologists would say it’s impossible. However, this session will teach you that it’s very possible with my step-by-step method. You will learn how to:

• prevent computer eyestrain and visual disabilities like cataracts and glaucoma.
• create balance in your entire body through your vision.
• complete one’s work on his back by completing work on the eyes.
• see better from near and prevent presbyopia (farsightedness).
• see better from far, and to reduce or eliminate myopia (nearsightedness).
• relax your eyes and each others’ eyes.
• practice special techniques similar to energy work on the eyes.
• do an eye exercise called “palming” with your hands.
• rest your eyes with visualization and meditation.
• improve your eyes’ capacity to withstand strong sunlight.
• improve your eyes’ capacity to see in the dark.
• increase your peripheral vision and to relax the ciliary muscles of the lids.
• relax the facial and forehead muscles and the muscles around the eyes.
• connect between the brain and the body.
• increase the plasticity of the brain through vision exercises.

And I’ll teach you to show your clients how to do the same things and how to support them in the process of self-healing.

Friday, April 27th, 2-6pm: Improving Vision through Body Movement and Massage

Posture is usually formed around sensory tension: if someone doesn’t hear well, they will bend their neck sideways and develop a stiff neck. The same goes for vision: most people are not aware of how much it affects their neck and back. When nearsighted, there’s a tendency to move the head forward, which tenses the neck; when farsighted, the head often moves backward, which tenses the chest and could affect the heart and lungs adversely. This session will show the connection between the eyes, the neck, and the back; it will demonstrate how increasing the blood flow can prevent blindness, glaucoma, and other problems related to aging. However, it’s first necessary to understand how much we need to separate between seeing and sensing with the body—having a kinesthetic awareness. We will do so by allowing our other senses to work; for example, feel with your feet how they work and don’t just look where you walk, sense where and how you walk. Then we will learn massage techniques that create more space between the vertebrae, stretch the neck, create greater movement of the shoulders, and relax the entire back—without which you cannot relax your eyes. In fact, the strength and looseness of the neck start with the feet: once you learn to create a better base by separating the movement of your toes and using them one by one, thus strengthening your toe and ankle muscles, you will be able to support the rest of your posture. And when you find out how the rest of your joints are connected, you will learn how to relax all of them through movement and massage. This will release neck tension and, in turn, support the work of eye exercises. One of the most encouraging cases I’ve had was that of Simone, a Brazilian lady in her mid-forties, who had a terrible highway accident that left her completely blind in her right eye and 97% blind in her left eye. She took my 6-day course and saw me for individual sessions. And though no physician believed that Simone would ever see again, her treatments were such a success that even though she began with only 3% of normal vision, today she sees with 95% of it. Consequently, balanced use of the eyes helps to balance the body, and balancing the body helps to improve vision.

Saturday, April 28th, 9-12pm: Overcoming Back Problems and Arthritis through Massage, Movement, and Sensory Integration

Unfortunately, almost 25% of the U.S. population has arthritis and joint pain, mostly due to poor movement habits. We in the massage profession are not exempt: many of us tend to bend forward and have a posture flexion, which puts pressure on the joints. Come to this session and learn, step by step, how to:

• loosen up your joints, one by one.
• relax your neck by loosening your fingers and strengthening your toes.
• strengthen your legs so you can support the back
• isolate the vertebrae
• prevent pinching of the nerve with massage.
• You will also discover how:
• the senses affect the rest of the body.
• hearing and seeing create the posture of the neck.
• circulation affects every joint of our body.
• all the muscles of all the joints are connected

the parietal lobe in the brain is being affected by our massage and passive movement, and is affecting every movement your body makes.

Saturday, April 28th, 2-6pm: Preventing and Overcoming Paralysis

In this session, you will discern between primary and secondary symptoms; for example, if you lost the ability to move your ankle due to Multiple Sclerosis, your hips may tighten and the tension will put you in a wheelchair. We in the massage world can make a difference by learning how to massage paralyzed people or those about to deal with paralysis; through specialized techniques we can bring better stimulation of nerves from the spinal cord to the body. One proven method, initiated by my work with cerebral-palsied children in Slovakia, is to touch the vertebrae with your thumbs and shake the area near it on the back, which promotes more neurological stimuli to the body. Find out why we should motivate paralyzed people to have movement and how we can complement physical therapy for stroke patients or for people who suffer from muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, Parkinson’s disease, or multiple sclerosis. No case is totally hopeless, as I observed recently in Sao Paolo, Brazil, from a girl with degenerative muscular dystrophy—the third worst kind—who could not even stand. I was not only successful in preventing loss of movement, but after three and a half years, this patient has recovered through continuous treatment.

Private Sessions available. Contact 415.665.9574 for an appointment.

AMTA - Iowa Chapter Spring 2012 Convention to be held March 16-18 in Coralville, Iowa (Coralville Marriott) and provide 12-hours of continuing education for the convention attendees.  The seminar will be all day Saturday and Sunday.  The seminar will be presented as a 6-hour class each day, repeating on Sunday.

300 East 9th Street

Coralville, IA 52241

Course Details: Overcoming Paralysis with  Movement and Massage (6 CE hours)

In this short, six-hour session, you will learn how arthritis can escalate
to limited movement and eventually paralysis, and how to prevent arthritis from ever escalating or even developing. You will also learn how the joints are connected to each other, how it is sometimes wrong to work on the joint that was injured, and how it is better to start work on the entire system of joints within the body, which will affect the specific joint that was injured. Through exercises and demonstrations, you will see how to improve one’s neck by working on one’s toes, and how to release “frozen shoulder” by working on the gluteus medius andon the abductors of the hip.

During these six hours, you will come to understand an important concept that the medical profession has not yet learned: the mental state affects paralysis and most paralyses involve secondary conditions. You will also learn how to relax people’s eyes. Many people tense their neck, face, chest, and shoulders, especially while looking at computers for hours on end. Special, simple exercises for the eyes can prevent this kind of computer strain. Additionally, you will be shown how the lens muscles connect to the neck and to the neutral eye. Anticipate something different. Don’t expect just to follow a map. Instead, expect to experience, through your own body, a change that can help you, your practice, and your patients.

To view PDF of AMTA Iowa Chapter Convention, click here

Meir will be available for private sessions on March 15,19 & 20, 2012 in Davenport, IA.

Also—

Vision Improvement - Naturally (One Day Interactive Workshop)
When: March 16, 2012 9am - 4pm Central Time
Where: Midwest Writing Center in Bucktown Center for the Arts

Learn how to read and write more easily Enjoy life with greater focus See the world in a whole new light
$140
Sponsored by Dr. Jenna Hobbins 563-324-0738

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For more details on all Iowa events, call 415.665.9574

March 10, 2012

Guide for Self-Healing: Regenerating the body and to overcome illness and degenerative conditions of the body and eyes.
Workshop with Meir Scheider, Ph.D., L.M.T

• Time: 11am - 5:00pm
• Cost: FREE
• Location: Unity Church - Santa Rosa, Ca
• 4857 Old Redwood Highway
• To Register, call: Liz Lockett 707-542-7729

Discover your body’s innate power to heal itself! Join Dr. Meir Schneider to explore the principles of his ground-breaking method of Self-Healing through Bodywork and Movement, a powerful, holistic health-care program for the body and eyes. Learn how you can relax your eyes through facial massage and conscious resting and reduce the need for glasses, and prevent age-related vision deterioration. Learn how to use your muscles in balance, efficiently, to increase joint mobility, and circulation. Learn how massage, movement, and natural vision improvement can help you age with vitality.

The following show featuring the Self-Healing Method aired June 6, 2009 on the popular show “Mais Voce”with Ana Maria Brago on Rede Globo TV of Brazil:

An article in the March /April 1997 issue of MASSAGE Magazine on coping with and self-healing of arthritis by Meir Schneider and Carol Gallup. This article also includes a feature story, “Dancing with the Vacuum Cleaner” by Darlene Cohen.

An article from Kindred Spirit Magazine, issue 46, Spring 1999 by Meir Schneider and Carol Gallup. It focuses on natural vision improvement exercises and has a section on computer vision syndrome.

An article in No 62, July/August 1996 issue of MASSAGE Magazine titled “Pushing Back Aging” by Meir Schneider and Carol Gallup. This article gives tips and techniques for successful and healthy aging using the Meir Schneider Self-Healing Method.

An article in No 64, November/December 1996 issue of MASSAGE Magazine titled “That Person in the Wheelchair Needs Your Touch” by Meir Schneider and Carol Gallup. This article discusses the Meir Schneider Self-Healing Method with focus on Muscular Dystrophy. It includes discussion of techniques used at a Muscular Dystrophy camp for kids.

An article in the Jan/Feb 1997 issue of MASSAGE Magazine by Meir Schneider and Carol Gallup.  This article focuses on using the Meir Schneider method of movement for self-healing to treat and prevent back problems.

A article in the 1997 issue of Massage Magazine by Meir Schneider, PhD, LMT.