Janet Rapala
Conference Topic
Hypno Massage: A Fusion of Mind Body Modalities
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Hypno Massage is a fusion modality that can help your client to relax and/or lessen pain, muscle tension or anxiety.
Learn how to combine hypnosis techniques, massage, breathing and somatic exercises to effect relaxation in a seated client. Participants will learn a process that combines hypnotic language with a simple massage technique with observation and entrainment of the client's breathing for the purpose of relieving stress/anxiety and/or inducing relaxation or hypnotic trance. It is experiential so that tissue memory may be established.
A technique will be presented for participants to experience massage through a scripted experience of massage using the mind and imagination. Also included will be somatic exercise techniques to help relax the nervous system and achieve neuroregulation.
Bio
Despite her young age and youthful demeanor, our speaker has had several professional careers. As a master's degree prepared Registered Nurse, she has worked in a multitude of settings including Intensive Care, a Level 1 Trauma ER, home infusion therapy, and as an event nurse, so she cared for thousands of people, including Rock Stars and Circus performers, professional and Olympic Athletes. As a Licensed Massage Therapist, her passion for Sports Massage helped her care for Olympic Athletes as well as world-class runners and triathletes, and people with pain problems.
As a professional Certified Hypnotherapist, and now also a Certified Hypnosis Instructor, she has helped save the lives of many people to quit smoking or helped change mindsets and lifestyles by using the power of the mind to delete or overwrite old programming that no longer served them and upload new ways of thinking and feeling. She has studied and performed in comedy, such as Improv and Stand Up. She has performed at many open mics at comedy venues. A recent paid comedy gig now qualifies her as a Professional Stand-Up Comic.