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Shiatsu Certification Course at Gentle Healing School

Gentle Healing School of Massage Instructor Deborah Overholt will offer a level-one shiatsu certification course that meets several times each month for a total of 150 hours between January and August, beginning January 9. The course qualifies for 150 continuing education credits. Overholt is a bodywork therapist licensed by the state of New Jersey who has been a partner at Acu-Health Center, in Mount Laurel, since 1998. She is certified as an instructor through the American Organization for Bodywork Therapies of Asia and has taught at Gentle Healing since 2003.

Students will learn how to assess patterns of disharmony within the framework of five-element theory and Traditional Chinese Medicine, how to identify and access the body’s meridians, protocols for each element. Overholt will explain the full Shiatsu sequence, as well as how to modify and design treatments for the needs of each client and how to use various treatment strategies to reestablish balance and harmony in a client.

Student that do not wish to complete the entire certification course but instead want only to earn continuing education credits may register for individual segments if they register for the first month (required introduction) in full at $350, plus $64 for books. Additional months cost $350 each.

For information and enrollment, visit GentleHealingSchool.com/continuing-education.

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