8am - 5pm

Structural Balancing 1 teaches massage therapists how to assess and treat global front-to-back imbalances that cross the coronal plane. The course blends fascia science, neuromuscular principles, and practical hands-on technique to give therapists a functional framework for understanding how structural restrictions influence posture and pain.

Students learn to evaluate fascial restrictions, identify protagonist–antagonist imbalance, and understand how compensatory patterns develop in gravity. Training includes live body-reading, the Three-Minute Manual Assessment, and four major hands-on modules covering the posterior axial skeleton, posterior leg and adductors, anterior leg and psoas sequence, and thorax/sternum/cervical integration.

Throughout the course, therapists practice integrating myofascial release, neuromuscular therapy, PNF, active and passive release, movement-assisted techniques, and instrument-assisted work. The structured Search Pattern teaches clear clinical reasoning, helping therapists identify and address the root contributors to flexion bias, extension bias, anterior pelvic tilt, lumbar lordosis, and other coronal-plane dysfunctions.

This course provides the essential foundation for Structural Balancing 2.