Bristol College of Massage & Bodywork

🤲Movement & Massage for Self Care with Chez Dunford
📅Wednesday 15th July
🕙6.30pm-8.30pm
📍BCMB

A tool sharing session for deepening sensation, leaning into our different parts, releasing and grounding.

In this 2.5 hour session Chez will guide you through a movement, meditation and massage practice that is tailored to your own needs whilst practicing in group so we can support and inspire each other. This will be a sharing of techniques, exercises and movement games focused on restoring the body, drawing in energy and releasing tension. Focused on creating a space for all to access and take what you need. Great for aftercare ideas for your clients too.

Please wear clothes you can move in.
Bring a journal for writing

Chez is MTI Level 5 Sports and Remedial Qualified with 10 years MTI Level 4 Holistic practice. She is Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Trained and tours as physical theatre, circus and music performer. She has a vast array of body knowledge and embodied experience in injury, sustainable training and authentic movement.

She has trained in the art of fooling for 10 years- a solo improvisation form tuning into body sensation as a performance tool, also as a therapeutic workshop tool.
Chez works in an inclusive and adaptive way -any access need please get in touch

💆Facial Acupressure with Heidi Armstrong 💆
📅Tuesday 12th May
🕙10am-5.30pm
📍BCMB

This course focuses on incorporating acupressure points on the face and releasing the muscular and fascial structures.

Learn a whole treatment working on the face neck and shoulders. This will release tension, allow emotional processing, deeply relax the nervous system and promote rejuvenation of the facial structure.

This treatment works at two ends of the spectrum from deeply supporting stress and relaxing the nervous system to also having the feel of an indulgent rejuvenating treat.�
🌀Add a whole new ritual rejuvenation treatment to your practice
🌀Help your clients with sleep problems stress, anxiety or emotional issues
The day will include:
🌀Review of facial anatomy and skin types.
🌀Preparing the face for treatment with warm towels
🌀Identifying the right massage medium for your individual clients face.
🌀Muscular structure, fascia and acupressure point techniques for the face, neck and shoulders.

Book now via the website!

💆Chair Massage with Peter Kramer
📅Saturday 9th May
🕙10am-5.30pm
📍BCMB

Seated massage is the perfect way to add versatility to your massage practice. It is usually offered through clothing, without the use of oils. Therefore making it extremely practical for those who are limited with time or who do not wish to remove clothing. It can reach a more diverse customer base than a typical couch based session and is perfect for festivals and events.

🤲Mindful Touch with Peter Kramer 🤲
📅Saturday 28th March
🕙10am-5.30pm
📍BCMB
Join us for a one-day beginners workshop designed for anyone curious about the transformative power of touch. Experience the joy and playfulness of connection through touch and massage as we explore accessible techniques you can easily practice at home. All massages are floor and chair-based. We’ll ensure we adapt our practices to suit your comfort levels and preferences, making this experience relaxed and enjoyable for everyone.

We’ll focus on essential elements like consent, authentic relating, and the dynamics of giving and receiving, helping you build confidence in both offering and receiving touch. This workshop goes beyond the basics, emphasizing the importance of mindful, consensual interactions.

You’ll learn to tune into the subtleties of touch, making each massage a meaningful and shared experience, ensuring that every interaction feels intentional and nurturing.

By the end, you’ll leave with a renewed sense of connection, an enhanced understanding of how to communicate needs and boundaries, and the skills to deepen relationships through the simple yet profound power of touch.
Book now via the website!

🤲BCMB Hub Session: Inclusive and Accessible Massage with Kay Morris
📅Wednesday 15th April
🕙7.30pm-9pm
📍BCMB

In this BCMB Hub session you will learn how to make your practice inclusive and accessible to all people, and how to adjust your practice to include all kinds of disabilities that people live with. You will explore how to become a co-creator of massage that meets your clients exactly where they are, and discover how to make adjustments and modifications in a practical and respectful way. You will gain confidence in bringing your nourishing and loving touch to diverse communities, take home the hands-on skills to bring much needed massage to every body, and learn communication techniques while deepening your understanding of consent. Bring with you your heartfelt curiosity and your love in touch.

Kay will also be running a two day, in depth workshop on 6th-7th June for those who wish to take this work further.

🌀Tai Chi for Massage Therapists with Sarah H***e and Sophie Fagan
📅Friday 27th March
🕙10am-5.30pm
📍BCMB

This one day workshop explores Tai Chi principles that are directly relevant to massage therapists, helping you to move with greater mindfulness, body awareness, and energy efficiency. You will learn how to reduce strain on your own body while deepening your connection with clients.

In this workshop, you will

🌀Learn to move from your centre (tantien) for ease and efficiency
🌀Protect your body by working without strain or overexertion
🌀Maintain healthy energy levels and avoid burnout
🌀Increase sensitivity and responsiveness in your touch
🌀Use Chi Gong as a powerful self-care tool and aftercare practice for clients

What the day includes:

🌀Chi Gong exercises (moving meditation) to cultivate and balance energy
🌀Partner exercises to explore Tai Chi principles in action
🌀Massage practice integrating Tai Chi embodiment into your work

This workshop is a joyful, practical way to reconnect with your own body, explore movement at the massage couch, and discover how mindful, effortless intention can
transform your practice. You’ll leave feeling nourished, informed, and inspired — ready to look after your own energy while empowering your clients to do the same.

What some of the attendees are sayin about the Radical Wholeness taster session with Sarah Stewart Brown.

"Helped me connect with myself; brought personal revelations; helped me see some blocks I hadn't seen before”

“Facilitated so well – warm, open, non judgemental”

“Great mix of theory and practical; enjoyed the experiential nature”

Join Sarah again on Saturday 28th & 29th March. Book now via the website!

March Newsletter 📣 - https://mailchi.mp/bristolmassage/newsletter-xj39jmdxz7-10160824

💪Mobilisation for Joint and Tissue Release with Jeremy Dymond
📅Monday 8th June
🕙10am-5.30pm
📍BCMB

This 1 day Mobilisation workshop is designed to deepen your skill and confidence in using passive movement to reach greater degrees of release for your clients.

We explore:
* How passive mobilisation is about deep muscle release as well as easing joints.
* How to access and release deeply held tensions. And when not to!
* Whether emotions as well as muscles can be released through movement.
* How engaging a client can strengthen the effects.
* What related aftercare can support clients
Drawing on principles of pulsing, Tai Chi movement and remedial massage, you will learn to:
* Generate movement from your ankles, hips, shoulders and hands;
* Use vibration, joint mobilisation and focused trigger point work to release and energise your clients
* Do all these with ease, economy and flow.

We will work prone and supine and focus on the shoulders and pelvis. This will include specific muscle releases such as piriformis, pectoralis minor, subscapularis.

🤲 Mindful Touch with Peter Kramer 🤲
📅Saturday 28th March
🕙10am-5.30pm
📍BCMB

Join us for a one-day beginners workshop designed for anyone curious about the transformative power of touch. Experience the joy and playfulness of connection through touch and massage as we explore accessible techniques you can easily practice at home. All massages are floor and chair-based. We’ll ensure we adapt our practices to suit your comfort levels and preferences, making this experience relaxed and enjoyable for everyone.

We’ll focus on essential elements like consent, authentic relating, and the dynamics of giving and receiving, helping you build confidence in both offering and receiving touch. This workshop goes beyond the basics, emphasizing the importance of mindful, consensual interactions.

You’ll learn to tune into the subtleties of touch, making each massage a meaningful and shared experience, ensuring that every interaction feels intentional and nurturing.

By the end, you’ll leave with a renewed sense of connection, an enhanced understanding of how to communicate needs and boundaries, and the skills to deepen relationships through the simple yet profound power of touch.

Book now via the website!

Alongside our in-house CPD at BCMB, we’re also really pleased to host a range of well-known bodywork practitioners who travel from across the UK and beyond to share their expertise with us.

Take a look at our upcoming external CPD below – booking is done directly with the tutor:

🌀MFR with Ruth Duncan
�📅26th February – 1st March�
👉www.in-toucheducation.co.uk

🌀Neurosensory Voice Work with Cordelia Zafipulo
�📅3rd, 10th & 17th March
👉www.youandyourvoice.com

🌀Massage for Persons with Dementia with Nicolle Mitchell�
📅12th March�
👉www.massagefordementia.co.uk

🌀Aromatherapy for Persons with Dementia with Nicolle Mitchell
�📅13th March�
👉www.massagefordementia.co.uk

🌀Oncology Massage with Susan Findlay�
📅20th – 22nd March
�👉www.susanfindlay.co.uk

🌀Muscular Reflexology Level 1 with Christian Slot and Carol Samuel�
📅10th – 11th September & 7th – 9th October
�👉www.reflexmaster.co.uk

🌀Developing a Polyvagal Informed Practice:
Massage and Bodywork through the lens of Polyvagal Theory with Sarah McClellan
📅25th - 25th May
🕙10am - 5.30pm
📍BCMB

This three day course is suitable for any bodywork and touch therapists of any modality both freshly qualified, deep into your practice and everything in between. If you are a bodywork therapist working primarily with movement without touch, contact the college to see if the course would also meet your needs around this subject.

Touch is our cornerstone. To be present with ‘self’ and ‘other’ is at the heart of the power and potential of touch therapy. Polyvagal Theory explores the way the body speaks of the experience of what it is to be human and feel safe and connected or not. As bodywork therapists, this science based theory exploring the intricate pathways and functions of the vagus nerve is a gift to our practice.

The intention is to:

🌀Deepen our appreciation of the profound impact and potential of body work therapy.
🌀 Create the bedrock to develop a ’trauma informed’ practice, working towards greater safety and connection for our clients and ourselves as practitioners. Please note this is different from a training which supports you to actively invite and work with people who are experiencing 'trauma'.
🌀 Begin to befriend our own autonomic nervous systems in order to explore ways of working with clients which embrace and embed the implications of Polyvagal Theory in our practice.