-an innocent and familiar phrase striking dread and fury into the hearts of capable massage therapists across the nation.

Enter Free Your Flow: a symposium-style workshop offering a fresh approach to tired routines. Discover a newfound awe for the art of the “relaxation massage” and reconnect to your craft in creative ways. You’ll begin to establish a defined and non-boring intention, retain more clients, and develop a creative signature style that honours client-centred care in every treatment.

So quiet that voice of dread.
Lock up the bio-freeze, burn your Zamfir tapes, and let’s put a sparkle on your retention metrics!

• Bring beauty, presence, and quality of contact into every treatment

• Unlock fresh ideas and skills in an ambient space

• Get honest & constructive feedback

• Enjoy creative, evidence-based content!

Geared to all manual therapists, Free Your Flow participants explore quality of contact, intention, and intelligent movement in the great art of engaging the parasympathetic nervous system - and have fun doing it!

The content includes the technical skills therapists use every day: trigger point therapy, neuro techniques, positioning, body mechanics, et cetera, and examines how they integrate with artful fluidity, transitions, and confident timing.

• Logic meets flow

• Anatomy meets art

• Practice meets presence

Already an advocate of relaxation massage and all of the benefits it brings to your patients/clients? Come share your passion, experience, and tips with a gathering of your peers. Get feedback on skills you’re developing. Try new angles on old techniques. Express your opinions in a supportive and informative symposium-style discussion (or rap session as they called it in the 90s)!

3 Areas of Focus:

Discussion & Review

• What is physiologically awesome about the body in “relaxation”

• Principles of massage: the essentials

• Grounding and intention

• Reading the room: on grief, caregiving, and body awareness

• Silence and stillness

• Music and rhythm

• The “fixing” mindset and its place in bodywork

  
  
  Hands-on Skills

• A river: The incomparable power of the effleurage

• A rock: Pressure spectrum approaches

• A path: Transitions as landscape design

• Fire: The Lomilomi secret

• Air: Timing, speed, repetition, templates

• Earth: Body mechanics, energy-saving, and strength

• Water: Maintaining flow when incorporating deeper pressures, specific therapies, lymphatic techniques, stretching, side-lying position

• Other techniques and approaches:

• Elegant and effective techniques for the upper trapezius, levator scapulae, and nuchal ridge

• Navigating body varieties and surface anatomies

• Drawing on art, developing a signature style

• Participants’ offerings: optional sharing your techniques, innovations, helpful tips, experiences, etc. that you’ve learned, modified, or created and would like to pass on to fellow therapists

• A final 30-minute routine performed with music and ambient elements, and assessed by facilitators, peers, and your massage recipient

  
  
  Feedback:

• One-on-one feedback from facilitators

• Honest, constructive feedback is essential from participants and their partners
  

Get clear and intentional: Feeling bored, losing focus, or wondering what is missing while doing a relaxation massage? Do you question whether you’re having any positive effect…maybe even resent “having to do just relaxation” (aka fluffy stuff)? In massage therapy college, were you prepared to offer quality of contact for your clients’ regeneration and self-healing - arguably the most commonly sought therapy in our profession? Are you confused about what relaxation massage is even supposed to be?
Get on the list: Contact Corinne at corinne@mettaphysica.ca to express your interest in 2026 offerings. Learn to establish a defined and non-boring intention, retain more clients, and develop a creative signature style that honours client-centred care in every treatment. Next workshops will be posted here soon!

——————->>>><<<<——————

Free Your Flow: A heart-centred approach to engaged therapeutic relaxation massage.

——————>>>><<<<——————

Corinne Bright, Manual Therapist
Creator & Facilitator