What is a Body Linguist?
Every human body we encounter speaks a unique language.
We are not just chiseling away at a mound of flesh before us, reshaping it into our own mind's image of healing and wholeness. It’s not a one-way application of our own perceived expertise and skill. Our clients are whole people with a whole experience. That experience has value and should be centered as a tenet of our practice.
We believe that every human being is born with the innate ability to perceive touch messages, to touch others with compassion and nurturing and achieve this every day with no professional training whatsoever. Everyone is a Body Linguist.
The most powerful tool you possess as a professional is the ability to interpret the language of sensory experience from the human being on your table, under your hands. Each person is perfectly fluent in the perception of both their pain and their relief from it.
It is our new responsibility to strive for fluency with the human in our care, not fluency in our own perceptions of what we do….
What we were taught.
Where we feel most comfortable.
Whether or not our work is worthy.
Its just not about us.
Our workshops, retreats, bespoke coaching and massage therapy services embody this contemporary approach. Explore our personal and professional experiences to find the next level of therapy for your self-care or practice.
Who is this training for? Why is it different?
In the last 50 years not one single method or modality has emerged as a provable, evidence-based gold standard approach that could hold up in a universal, professional massage framework. Despite endless claims to the contrary.
Not a single one of hundreds. Let that sink in.
Body Linguist courses do not make magical promises of silver bullet techniques. Our courses don’t proclaim to be the “only” way to practice for the “best” outcomes. In fact, once you’ve taken a Body Linguist course, any one of them…you will be confidently equipped to attend any course from any provider in the future that interests you and get the highest benefit for the way YOU practice!
We don’t engage in gatekeeping of any type of specialty, and you shouldn’t have to either.
Our courses honor the framework of historical modalities while radically infusing them with all the most current research and evidence. We make them accessible in a way that frees the therapist from rigid dogma which only serves to narrow their client reach.
Our courses are client-centered and teach you to heavily draw on a communication and collaboration model of treatment where the person you are working with has agency to assist in their own outcome.
Our courses will teach you to harness these classic techniques and then innovate with them in the moment for each individual client, rather than keeping narrow homage to any creator, guru, theory or principle. Your client’s voice is your teacher. Your entire skill-set past and present is your tool of translation.
Our courses will provide you with a contemporary, evidence-based physiological narrative of current pain science and the role of the nervous system that is flexible, easy to understand and easy to share with your clients so that they can benefit and feel empowered in their own healing experience. The way you already work with people on the table has immense value.
Our courses improve and complement your skills, style and execution to not only add new tools but refurbish old ones and make them work smarter. This is something completely different. If you are ready to stop chasing the empty promises of the “next big thing” and discover YOUR unique fluency that will elevate all aspects of your client outcomes, then you’ve come to the right place. Choose what interests you and join us for a whole new magic show!