# 09302004-1
# Upledger Institute
Therapeutic Massage
Michael has also been trained as a Focus Touch Shiatsu practitioner; an American form of an Eastern healing technique. This method uses firm stretching & holding techniques, along with focused pressure at key acupuncture points to energize the body.
Michael is a graduate of 4 year advanced certification program in Energy Work, from Inner Focus School. This training in holistic wellness and energy work helps him find problem areas more quickly, with a greater ability to resolve them on all levels, body, mind and spirit. Training included deep understanding of working with the chakras, the subtle body and human energy field, use of guided imagery, energetic dialogue, sound and breath, how to work with emotional release, physical pain, stress, good boundaries, scope of practice, ethics of energy work, one on one mentorship with faculty, hundreds of documented practice sessions, and personal healing work designed to make each student "walk the talk," so he or she could be more effective.