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Love Your Guts Seminars is a bodywork education company dedicated to bringing the world of the abdomen and viscera into a whole new light. We utilize high impact learning strategies to integrate whole body systems physiology and visceral anatomy information into a thoughtful and effective approach to belly massage. All seminars are presented with joy, laughter, gratitude, studiousness, clarity, and most of all FUN! We invite everyone to truly Love Your Guts!
Chris Hughes, LMT, the Berea conference presenter, began studying bodywork related to the abdomen and viscera in 1999 with Marty Ryan, LMP, CVMT and later with Rosita Arvigo, DN and the Mayan Abdominal Massage group, where he is also certified. Chris is an instructor with Love Your Guts Seminars, teaches at the Louisville School of Massage and co-owns Balance in Motion Integrated Bodywork. He has been practicing and teaching massage and bodywork for over 13 years.
Marty Ryan, LMP, CVMT is a passionate belly massage educator, and the director of Love Your Guts Seminars. He has taught belly massage and palpatory anatomy seminars internationally since 1998. Marty continues to assist Gil Hedley, PHD in his cadaver anatomy dissection seminars and Leon Chaitow, DO ND's various neuromuscular techniques seminars.
Chris Hughes, LMT, the Berea conference presenter, began studying bodywork related to the abdomen and viscera in 1999 with Marty Ryan, LMP, CVMT and later with Rosita Arvigo, DN and the Mayan Abdominal Massage group, where he is also certified. Chris is an instructor with Love Your Guts Seminars, teaches at the Louisville School of Massage and co-owns Balance in Motion Integrated Bodywork. He has been practicing and teaching massage and bodywork for over 13 years.
Marty Ryan, LMP, CVMT is a passionate belly massage educator, and the director of Love Your Guts Seminars. He has taught belly massage and palpatory anatomy seminars internationally since 1998. Marty continues to assist Gil Hedley, PHD in his cadaver anatomy dissection seminars and Leon Chaitow, DO ND's various neuromuscular techniques seminars.
What Lies Beneath the Navel? Exploring the Layers of the Abdomen
2 CE Contact Hours
This lecture will include a layer by layer discussion of the abdomen from skin to spine; including the bony framework and the connective tissue support structures that hold, wrap, and support organs, blood vessels, lymphatics and nerves. This lecture will also include the belly wall / intraperitoneal / retro-peritoneal / sub-peritoneal structures.
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