The Ki-Atsu Institute
Certifications & Courses
The Ki-Atsu Institute for the Healing Arts offers Courses and Certifications in the following fields of study:
Asian Bodywork Curriculum
The Ki-Atsu Asian Bodyworker Program is designed to provide graduates from massage programs or current massage therapists with advanced training in bodywork modalities from the Far East. The program covers both eastern bodywork modalities such as Thai massage, shiatsu, and ashiatsu, and eastern energy modalities such as Reiki. The program is designed in such a way as to be suitable to provide initial training to a Bodyworker who is unfamiliar with Asian modalities, or to further the education of a Bodyworker who may have had some previous experience with Asian modalities. Upon successful completion f the program, the student will be able to offer his or her clients the following massage modalities: Thai Massage 1& 2, Hot Stone Massage, Reiki 1 & 2, Shiatsu, and Ashiatsu, Ethics.
The Ki-Atsu Asian Bodyworker program is a 150-hour, 15 credit course. There are eight classes within the Asian Bodyworker program. The course will consist of 16 class days, comprising 130 hours of lecture, demonstration and practice, and 20 internship hours. The Ki-Atsu Institute for Healing Arts is approved as an organization by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodyworkers to provide continuing education to therapists. The successful completion of the courses that make up the Asian Bodyworker program will count towards the therapist’s continuing education requirements for NCBTMB.
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Neurotransformations Curriculum
The Ki-Atsu Neurotransformations program is a 160 hour, 16 credit course taught over a 20 day period that is designed to provide students who are graduates of an accredited massage therapy program or licensed massage therapists with training in bodywork, somatic emotional releases, and movement. Upon completion of the program the student will be able to offer to clients a ten-session package designed to improve the client’s posture and movement, as well as physical, emotional, and spiritual well being. The Neurotransformations program will teach the student techniques from many different modalities such as the 5 element theory and Chinese Meridians, NLP techniques, Pilates and Yoga Asanas, and therefore teach the student to view a client through the perspective of many different paradigms. Students will learn about viewing the body utilizing the paradigms of the Tensegrity Model of Richard Buckminister Fuller, and Myofascial Planes. Students will learn to assess client’s movement in relationship to gravity, how to identify where compensation may be occurring, the reason compensation is occurring, and the best technique to release the reason for the compensation. Students will learn about the Mind/Emotion/Body connection and learn several techniques to address issues that have developed in a client that is disrupting that connection. The Ki-Atsu Institute of Healing Arts is an accredited organization of the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodyworkers for providing continuing education to massage therapists. The Neurotransformations course has been submitted to NCBTMB to allow the hours to be used by participants who are nationally certified to be eligible to be used to meet continuing education requirements.
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Master Hypnotist Program
The Master Hypnotist Program is a two hundred hour, twenty-credit course. The course includes a total of one hundred fifty lecture hours, with the remaining fifty hours being obtained by the student through the completion of homework assignments and practical internship experience. The course is comprised of two classes: Basic Hypnosis and Master Hypnosis. Each class is a ten credit, one hundred hour course. The Basic Hypnosis course is designed to be taught over ten days, and the Master Hypnosis course is designed to be taught over ten days. Thus the student will complete the total program in nineteen days, or approximately one calendar month, as the class meets on Mondays through Fridays. Upon completion of the Master Hypnotist program, the student will have all of the knowledge and skills necessary to begin a career as a Master Hypnotist.
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Pilates Instructor Curriculum
The Ki-Atsu Pilates Instructor Program is a 510-hour, 51 credit program designed to provide all of the necessary knowledge and skills to pass the new National Instructors Certification test from the Pilates Method Alliance and begin a career as a Pilates Instructor. The program consists of two classes, Pilates I and Pilates II. Pilates I is a 110-hour, 11-credit course that will instruct the student in the theory and fundamentals of Pilates based exercises. The course will also teach the student all of the thirty-four exercises that comprise Pilates floor based exercise, commonly known as Pilates Mat. The student, upon completing Pilates I will be able to perform all thirty-four exercises and teach others to safely and effectively perform these exercises both in one-on-one or class setting. The class consists of lecture, performance of the exercises, practical teaching exercises, participating in Pilates classes, and teaching clients.
Pilates II deepens the student’s knowledge of the anatomy of the body, the Chinese Meridian system and Myofascial Planes, and how Pilates affects each. The course also instructs the student to perform and teach Pilates exercises using Pilates exercise equipment including: the Reformer, Trapeze Table, Two Pedal Chair, Spine Corrector, Bosu Ball, Exercise Balls and Resistance bands. The class will also instruct the student on how to observe the client’s posture, and movement, and how to design programs to address that client’s specific needs.
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Yoga Instructor Teacher Training
Hatha Yoga is the core of Western Yoga culture. Ha means sun and Tha means moon which is the art of balancing these subtle life energies. The Training curriculum ensures the participant will understand Yoga’s “roots” and precisely how the asanas work to produce remarkable results in maintaining health, youth, and longevity. Your will learn about performing asanas correctly and how to instruct and adjust others. You will learn pranayama, the power of breath, how to instruct and the mistakes to avoid. We assist you with developing your own personal practice and in developing you teaching presentation. There are practice teaching and small group feedback-practice sessions. Participants learn several Yoga forms as well as Ki Yoga Flow Series, and empowering vinyasa Yoga sequence, which combines asana, qigong, pranayama and meditations. Once completed, the student will meet the requirements and guidelines to become eligible for membership through the Yoga Alliance.
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Ki–Atsu Therapeutic Massage Program
The Ki-Atsu Therapeutic Massage Program is a six hundred hour course designed to train a student to become a massage therapist. The course consists of three sections: The Essential Science of Therapeutic Massage, The Theory and Practice of Therapeutic Massage, and Clinical Internship. The Science section and the Theory and Practice Section are classroom based. Students will attend one section of both each class day, thus classroom days are eight hour days. The Clinical Internship will allow students to gain practical experience in seeing clients and performing massage. The student will perform twenty, five-hour clinical internship sessions while enrolled in the course.
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