Would you like to –

• Relieve aches and pains, for yourself, your family, or your clients?
• Reduce stress?
• Increase mental acuity?
• Enhance your innate healing capacities?
• Identify and possibly alleviate sensitivities to foods and environmental substances?
• Add to your home-health or professional wellness skills?
• Learn to use accurate muscle-energy testing?
• Understand the energy model of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the acupuncture meridian system?
• Use simple, targeted acupressure and related techniques to tune up your energy system?
• Learn the skills to prepare for advanced energy kinesiology studies, such as Applied Physiology? 

 Consider Touch for Health!

The Touch for Health curriculum was designed by John Thie, D.C., to give every individual effective, hands-on techniques to balance energy and improve well being.

Dr. Thie  was a close colleague of George Goodheart, D.C., the originator of Applied Kinesiology. With Goodheart’s blessing, Dr. Thie developed this safe, practical, powerful distillation of Applied Kinesiology techniques. His vision was to make these energy tools available to anyone, no prerequisites. The first Touch for Health manual was published in 1972. 

Dr. Thie believed that you don’t have to go to the dentist to brush your teeth, and you shouldn’t have to go to the chiropractor to use simple, safe energy balancing techniques.

Touch for Health combines ancient principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine with western knowledge of brain/body function. Touch for Health is a system for improving posture, attitudes, and life energy, for relieving stress and aches and pains, and to help you feel and function better, clarify and achieve your goals, and enjoy your life! 

A Touch for Health session can be as brief as quick trouble-shooting to alleviate a stiff neck, or it can be an hour-long, in-depth evaluation and improvement of bioenergy. In TFH, muscles reveal imbalances relating to stress, nutrition, learning problems, illness or injuries. In addition, muscle monitoring also shows the practitioner the optimal touch-therapy techniques for that individual at that time.

Touch for Health is overseen worldwide by the International Kinesiology College. In Canada, Touch for Health instructors are certified under the auspices of the Canadian Association of Specialized Kinesiology, www.canask.org. Touch for Health is taught in four levels of 15-20 hours each.  TFH instructors are also certified to teach the following approved courses: Tibetan Energy, Stress Release Made Easy, Maximum Athletic Performance System, The Top Ten Series, Food & Supplement Testing, Kinesiology for Kids, Perceptive Vision.

Interested?? Click here for dates, locations, and registration for upcoming Touch for Health training.

CMTO massage therapists can earn CEU’s by attending Touch for Health workshops.

Touch for Health Workshop Curricula

Touch for Health Level 1:

Touch for Health 1 introduces you to the world of muscle-energy testing and balancing. You will experience being energy-tested and balanced yourself, and learn to energy-balance friends, family and clients. You will learn:

• Quick Energy Balancing
• Energy Balancing to Alleviate Pain
• Emotional Stress Release
• Basic Vision and Auditory Balancing
• Energy Balancing for a Goal
• Identifying foods that stress your system
• About the traditional Chinese principles of yin and yang, and the 14 major meridians
• To energy-test the 14 meridians via 14 specific muscle energy-tests
• Five hands-on acupressure techniques (no needles!) for energy-balancing each muscle / meridian

Touch for Health Level 2:

Touch for Health 2 expands and deepens your understanding of polarity balance within the energy systems of the body. You will learn:

• Energy testing and balancing for 14 additional muscles
• Several additional techniques for energy-balancing the muscles / meridians, including resetting golgi and neuromuscular spindle cells proprioceptors
• The traditional Chinese Law of Five Elements
• The concepts of meridian over-energy and under-energy
• Identifying meridian over-energy
• The efficient Five Element energy balance
• Time-of-Day energy balancing
• Energy-testing for compatible foods
• Emotional Stress Release for Future Performance
• Meridian Massage for a quick lift of mood and energy

 Touch for Health Level 3:

In Touch for Health 3 you now have the skills to energy-test and balance 42 muscles. This gives you the necessary skills to learn Reactive Muscle work – the crown jewel of Touch for Health. You will learn:

• Energy testing and balancing for 14 additional muscles, bringing the total to 42 muscles
• In-depth Five Element energy balances including emotions, foods, and colors
• Theory and practice of relieving reactive muscle pain. Reactive muscle work is the crown jewel of Touch for Health. It often allows for rapid relief of muscle pain or disfunction where other therapies have failed.
• Emotional Stress Release for past trauma
• Using meridian pulses and tapping to relieve pain
• Evaluating and relieving pain in specific body regions: neck, upper back, lower back and hip, knee

 Touch for Health Level 4:

In Touch for Health 4 you learn new skills and review and integrate all your Touch for Health skills. Touch for Health 4 will prepare you for the Touch for Health assessment which gives you status as a Touch for Health practitioner, and is prerequisite to attending the ITW, the Instructor Trainer Workshop. Both the assessment and the ITW are overseen by the IKC, the International Kinesiology College. In Touch for Health 4 you will learn:

• In depth acupressure holding point theory (the command points)
• Posture analysis and balancing
• Time of day energy balancing
• Energy balancing with sound
• Head-to-toe 42 muscle balancing
• Figure Eight energy balancing
• Comprehensive energy balancing from a menu of all Touch for Health skills

Interested?? Click here for dates, locations, and registration for upcoming Touch for Health training.