Quite a diverse crowd of over 70 enthusiastic participants. Aaron and Judy learned to do the Salza and took the rain forest boat trip.

Did you do the white water rafting expedition?

Looking forward to teaching the 7th Annual “Pain Management in Paradise” next year with my buddy James Waslaski. This will be his third time co-teaching in Costa Rica with me. I keep asking him back because we always have something new and fun to present and the participants have such a great time.

Check out my new Don’t Get Married, part II in the September issue. Read Part I on my site www.erikdalton.com before delving into this new throry on locomotion and pain.

Best to you….ERIK

Thanks guys……

Hi Jody:
Nothing like learning. I agree that Clair did a fine job with the Trigger Point book.

Nice transition from Travell and Simons and some of the earlier NMT stuff. Hope to see you next year in one of the Florida workshops. Check out www.takemyregistration.com for all the newest additions.

Best to you>>>>ERIK

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Erik,That was meant to be an exclamation mark at the end of my entry.Happy to hear there are lots of therapists learning your work from other therapists who are learning as well. There are many different paths to the same place. I am returning to trigger points, but w/ a new understanding. I highly recommend a book by Clair Davies,”The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook.” It is written as a self-help manual. He is very specific about what to do and what not to do. I have been getting great results w/ his technique, working on myself, too. I know you are BUSY but it’s worth a look. -Jody

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Hello Jody…long time no see.

I’m flattered by your comments. It sounds like you’ve studied with some of my personal favorite educators.

Am currently wrapping up my Don’t Get Married, Part II article…..what a pain in the butt it’s been trying to make sense of this new Myoskeletal Engine concept.

Kim and I will soon begin editing the new 6-DVD “Engine” series we shot a couple months ago.

Geoffrey has a new feature article in a major massage magazine publication on High Altitude Sports Massage using Myoskeletal Alignment. He just taught his first Myoskeletal workshop in Sedona and it was a great success.

Paul teaches his first Myoskeletal workshop in Houston in January so things are buzzing around here.

Michael, my workshop promoter, called today and said he had booked me in West Palm Beach in May. Don’t know the details yet but check out my workshop page @ http://erikdalton.com/workshopsmassage.htm. for all the new updates.

Hope to see you and all my Florida pals soon…ERIK

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Oh, and wanted to let you know I am taking Myoskeletal to the Olympic Trials for Track and Field, Eugene ‘08. This event is held June 26-July 6 in Eugene, Oregon. Look into http://www.eugene08.com/ to get involved, again spots are going quick, quite a long process to get involved! I am going to have some fun this summer!

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By the way…

check out the NAMTI web site for enrollment at www.namti.com, or call (928) 282-7737. Class is booking fast, we have a few spots open still.

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Hey Erik-
Thought I’d post over here too, keep you on your toes! I want to update you and the readers on the progress of the Myoskeletal Techniques? courses at NAMTI. I am in the home stretch of teaching two 40-hour sections of Myoskeletal Alignment Techniques as part of the schools core cirriculum. The students love the work, just two months before they hit the pavement as LMT’s, I get to work with them and introduce your concepts. I often see lights going on in their head, and witness many ah-ha moments. What a great feeling to help these students solidify the concepts they have been learning all along. We try to get them away from the idea that a good massage is 45 minutes on the upper back, 5 minutes on the neck, and a fly-by everywhere else. And it is working, students are coming out with some very solid concepts in pain management.

I really don’t mind if they use their favorite Thai massage technique, or if they want to call it Tui-Na, or myofascial, Swedish, etc., We are teaching more to the concepts, theory, direction of applications and learning to see, and feel deep. They get it and it works. Yesterday in class we had a discussion about what not to do. That was pretty handy, looking at dorsal dishing, flat spines, collapsed arches, high arches, hypermobility, hyperkyphosis, lordosis, and on and on. So learning a few “not to do’s” really opens up the possibilities to allow the student to expand their applications in a “therapeutic” way.

After the Costa Rica trip I am hosting a 25-hour CE workshop in Sedona, Arizona. Myoskeletal Alignment? for Neck, Low Back, Shoulder, Arm and Hand Pain. The class is being held at NAMTI, folks are welcome to come visit Sedona, it’s a great time of year to be in the red rocks, at the creek, or visit the mountains a half hour away. Some folks get really dialed in to all the Vortex activity, I would ask them to wait till after class to explore that! Dates are May 30th thru June 1, 2008. Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

See you this weekend…….
Geoffrey

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