2007 SPEAKERS & INSTRUCTORS
Brita Ostrom
Esalen® Institute
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Brita Ostrom began her massage practice at Esalen® Institute, 1969. Together with the Esalen® Massage Crew, she helped refine and continually update Esalen® Massage, an individualized, wholistic bodywork approach. Her studies with Trager, zero-balancing, Patrick Douce and Feldenkrais and countless movement, meditation and awareness practice, and psychological disciplines continue to grow and inspire her work. She is also a licensed psychotherapist and is convinced the body and mind are inseparable, always playing together. “We don’t have a healing field without connection,” she affirms. For her, the healing experience also comes through contact with nature, something bigger than ourselves. She teaches in the US, Canada, and Japan.
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Brita will be the Keynote Speaker at the Induction Ceremony, Sunday, October 21, 2007 at 6:00 PM.
She will also be teaching 2 classes on Saturday, "Intro to Esalen® Massage" and "Whole Body Holistic Massage".
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Bruce Baltz, founder of SpiriPhysical® Inc., is an internationally recognized educator with over twenty years experience in the fitness and bodywork industry. Bruce is a licensed massage therapist in New York and Florida and a member of the FSMTA and AMTA. Bruce works with a diverse range of clients including medical doctors, spas, and resorts.
Bruce's first undertaking in the massage education field is a technique called Deep Tissue Healing "The Art of Stone Massage". Bruce's stone workshops are approved by both, NCBTMB, Florida State and C.M.T of British Columbia. This unique program and bodywork philosophy is changing the way therapists and the industry looks at massage with hot and cold stones. In addition Bruce has launched a class called AIS: The Spa Method approved by Aaron Mattes founder of Active Isolated Stretching. | 
Bruce Baltz
SpiriPhysical® Inc
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Bruce will be teaching "Active Isolated Stretching - The Spa Method" on Saturday and "Foundation of Deep Tissue Healing - The Art of Stone Massage" on Sunday.
Laurie Azzarella
EarthWalk USA
| Laurie Azzarella has been practicing the healing arts of Reflexology and Massage since 1990. She is an authorized Seminar Director for the world-renown International Institute of Reflexology and teaches the original Ingham method. She is a Charter Member and past Director of the National Reflexology Association of America. Laurie holds a MS in Education and National and State licenses in Massage Therapy. |
Laurie will be teaching "Why Massage Therapists Need the Ingham Method of Reflexology" on Saturday.
| Michael Buck holds a prominent profile in the massage arts and is a recognized inspiration among his colleagues and students. He has been licensed and in full time practice since 1984. In 1985, Michael graduated from the Swedish Institute in New York City while at the same time attending the Ohashi Institute where he graduated from the advance program in 1986. In June of 1997, Michael was awarded a level three instructor status from the International Thai Therapist Association (ITTA). He has been teaching Ayurvedic-Thai Bodywork courses internationally since 1996.
Michael's classes are routinely infused with the teachings of the illustrious and auspicious Vedic culture. Traditional ayur-vedic ceremonial rituals such as puja (sacred invocations for family/social progress), tratak (centering meditation opening the "third eye" for physical/emotional stability), pranayama (conscious breathing disciplines producing inspired insight), and mantra (vocalizing sound resonances for mental clarity and self-empowerment) are typically experienced in his courses as satisfying and elucidating supplemental instructions. | 
Michael Buck
The Vedic Conservatory
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Michael will be teaching "Thai Yoga Mat & Thai Yoga Table" on Sunday.
Nathalie Cecilia
Bamboo Fusion
| Born in Nimes, a Roman city located in Provence (South France), Nathalie Cecilia is your Bamboo Massage Therapy instructor. With a master's degree in Philosophy and Languages from the Universitee Des Lettres De Montpellier, she began her career as a teacher and a translator.
Traveling from the age of 16 around Europe--and later around the world--she pursued her passion for discovering new horizons, and crossed the Atlantic in order to explore the United States and experience life here. It was here that she decided to change her career.
Keeping her goal to help people in mind, she attended the Sarasota School of Massage Therapy. Three months following her graduation in 2004, she opened Two Touch Company--a Thai studio and massage therapy office in Sarasota, Florida.
Many of Nathalie's clients were asking for deep tissue treatment. She soon began to experience pain and fatigue in her hands and wrists. When she started using bamboo to assist her with deep tissue work, she noticed that her pain subsided and her clients loved it.
She developed an innovative way to give bamboo massage on the table (Bamboo-Fusion) and in the chair (Bamboo-2-Go), meanwhile creating her own bamboo set to give the massage. Her goal today is to help therapists provide deep massage without hurting themselves. This technique aids in avoiding repetitive injuries, such as carpal tunnel, and reduces the stress on thumbs, wrists and hands.
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Nathalie will be teaching "Bamboo Fusion Therapy" on Saturday.
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