World Massage Festival &
Massage Therapy Hall of Fame

July 17-21, 2022
Harrah's Cherokee Casino Resort
Cherokee, NC

Our Mission Statement: To honor those who built the bridges for our profession,
to educate the general public about massage, to educate therapists
about different types of massage and to have fun.



Ann & Lynn Teachworth


Ann & Lynn Teachworth integrate 40+ years of expertise in advanced massage and bodywork, structural integration, and functional biomechanics to help make good therapists great. Lynn Teachworth, BS, LMT, Adv. CBP, FAFS, ATSI, CAFS
Lynn has been in the bodywork, human performance, and energy medicine fields for over thirty years. He is certified in over thirty complementary medicine modalities. His clients include CEO’s and Presidents of many Fortune 500 companies as well as over a 1000 professional athletes in the areas of sports injuries and physical/mental performance. He is a 2018 inductee into the World Massage Hall of Fame and has been an instructor in Massage Therapy and Structural Integration theory for over 17 years, teaching in eight different countries.

Ann Teachworth, BA, LMT, RYT, CBP, Franklin Method Educator
Ann has been working in integrative health, human performance, and movement for 15 years. She is an educator for massage therapists and yoga teachers, among other integrative and movement therapists, with an emphasis on embodied functional anatomy, kinesiology, and mindbody training. Her work with clients and students is fueled by a passion to help people understand and experience their design and function more fully so that they can think, move, and be more fully expressed and alive in their bodies and lives.

Website: Trunamics





Visceral Dynamics: The Effects of Organ Restriction on Posture, Pain, and Sports Performance
8 CE Hours

Class description:

A unique approach to visceral work that explores the effects of organ mobility on functional biomotion throughout the body. Understand how restrictions in the viscera and surrounding structures contribute to chronic pain and poor sports performance. Learn to optimize organ mobility to restore functional patterns and relieve restriction and tension.

It has been demonstrated that fascial restrictions within and around the organs can lead to referred pain, restricted joint and muscle motion, and other structural compensations that lead to pain syndromes. While therapists are required to know basic organ position, they learn very little (if any) of organ mobility relative to other organs, the breath, and body motion, or visceral effects on overall structural integrity. This session provides an introduction to understanding and working with these dynamics which are very important for effectively addressing pain and function. We combine structural and functional therapeutic approaches and utilize the Franklin Method approach of experiential anatomical study to experience the organs and how they move through all three planes of motion as well as specific hands on releases to address restrictions and restore mobility.

PLEASE DO NOT WEAR PERFUME, COLOGNE OR ESSENTIAL OILS TO CLASS.