Level Up Bodywork Is Going Through A Metamorphosis

Level Up Bodywork, also known as Level Up Massage, is going through a huge change in terms of practitioner skills, what I plan to offer for both massage therapists and clients, and working on resources for my clients outside the treatment room.

While I have always strived to deliver great therapeutic work, I want to keep bettering myself to help as many people live pain free lives. This means improving my skills for clinic hours, but also helping Licensed Massage Therapist better themselves both on a skill and business level.

Mentorship I Am Currently Undergoing

Intraoral Massage

In the past year I had an opportunity to take advanced intraoral massage courses over sinuses and cranial bones. These both were rather in-depth classes with potentially amazing benefits so I am working to receive mentorship over them to make sure the treatment results in the clinic space are as efficient and thorough as possible. The goal of this work is to further help my clients suffering from headaches, migraines, jaw pain/dysfunctions and breathing issues.

Another thing I'm working towards is receiving mentorship on how to teach intraoral so I can better help students in the future and create my own classes.

Visceral Manipulation

In November 2023 I took a 4-day course over Visceral Manipulation through the Barral institute. At the time i found the information, while valuable, to be extremely overwhelming and did not utilize it following the class.

However, I have still seen the value in it and recently started mentorship over visceral manipulation. As of this moment I only meet up every 3-4 weeks to learn new techniques, but during the time in between I am utilizing everything learned to treat clients.

So far I have covered the following:

• Liver mobilization

• Stomach mobilization

• Small intestine mobilization

• Working on the fascia/tissue around the ileocecal valve (where small intestine meets large intestine).

What is Visceral Manipulation

This technique is not necessarily about massaging the organs but making sure the fascia connecting them is moving freely as intended. Restrictions in this fascia can not only affect the surrounding structures but everything they are connected to like the spine, diaphragm, ribs, hip complex and more.

Visceral Manipulation can have the following benefits

• Improve the mobility of the organs

• Improve the function of your digestive system

• Improve breathing patterns

• Help relax and engage the parasympathetic nervous system

• Improve healing and recovery of invasive surgeries

• Improve blood flow to these organs as well as blood flow and lymphatics to surrounding structures

• Improve movement patterns

• Relieves constipation

• Decrease pain

Creating Courses & Programs

Cupping Therapy & Self-Care Cupping Therapy

In the past I have taught cupping therapy courses for both the general public and massage therapist looking to grow their skills. I believe cupping therapy has been one of the most beneficial techniques I've learned to date and I'm excited to share it with everyone.

Future Intraoral Massage Course

Intraoral massage therapy, also know as TMJ massage or buccal massage, has been on the most valuable treatment skills I utilize when working on clients. It allows me to get a lot of relief for my clientele dealing with TMJD (temporomandibular joint dysfunction), jaw pain, clenching and grinding, popping/clicking TMJ, and much more.

I would really like to pass this on to the next generation and help more massage therapist deliver this crucial work. Therefore I will keep working on the ability to teach this course and working on the course outline and documents. This likely will not come till late 2026 or 2027.

Create Finance and Business for Licensed Massage Therapist.

I'm crafting a class or seminar for licensed massage therapist in the field or getting ready to graduate to go over the basics of business and finances.

This class is designed to help set up LMT's for success once they leave school or start a business. It will go over basic finances, starting a business. It plans to cover the basics of budgeting, retirement/compound interest, website/booking, reviews, SEO's and much more!

Starting Business Mentorship

While the business class is a great start, creating a good business is personal and some people need extra help or active encouragement. That's where one-on-one mentorship will come into play to help business owners realize their goals.

With this mentorship we can go over finding clients, creating websites, online booking, SEOs, reviews, financial management/tracking and much more. As i am just starting off with diving into this I have a long way to go to crafting my method so I am currently working with LMT's in my free time to grow my skills and knowledge so when I am ready to charge I am well worth my money.

Online Resources

While I am working on lots of ways to improve the client experience inside treatment sessions I am working hard to provide my resources for clients outside the treatment room.

Hopefully over the next year I will slowly add the following to my website under a new "Self-Care" tab (name TBD)

• Corrective exercise & rehab for specific muscles or pathologies

• Foam rolling and stretching for muscle relaxing and lengthening

• Self-cupping tutorials

Thanks for all the support

Thanks to all my clients, friends, and mentors helping me through this change be it with support, testing, feedback, and more.

I always strive to keep improving myself and my business to help as many individuals as I can and I am really excited for what the future holds.

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