Looking
for therapy classes, tuition and training in UK?
Want to learn about complementary therapies and alternative
healthcare?
Do you want to become a qualified holistic therapist, using
alternative health treatment?
Welcome to Therapy Courses and
Training for Practitioners
This web site is a guide to therapy training in
UK and is based on my 12 years as a therapy teacher.
During that time, I have seen many students (of
all ages) progress through their training programme. I have watched
their excitement and awe at learning each new stage. On going support
and encouragement is provided by all the tutors between courses
through Development Days, email, snail mail and telephone. As most
students now have access to email, a query to a tutor from one
student always sees the answer emailed to everyone at that stage
apart from when the query is personal to that student. Those students
without email are welcome to contact their tutors by telephone.
I have found that the students themselves network well with other
members of their group and other HKers in their area to provide
extra support for each other and particularly when one of their
group experiences difficulties.
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One of my greatest
pleasures over the years of training therapists to professional
level has been to see how they change and grow in confidence
as they come through the courses. It has been my privilege
to teach, watch over and inspire them to become excellent
practitioners. Because the training we give is so thorough
many of our students have such successes with their 'clients',
often from HK 1, that it encourages all of them to work hard,
maximize their potential and qualify as professionals. Many
of them have stayed good friends to this day.
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Looking back over this experience of students
during their training programme, I thought it would be helpful
to put together a guide for those who want to learn and become
a qualified therapist. So that's the reason for this web site.
I hope you find it helpful.Later on in the web site is a summary of
the kind of contents of the training programme for many comprehensive
therapy courses. There is also a detailed description of the therapy
that I now teach.
I've also tried
to define holistic and complementary therapy, what the words
alternative and complementary mean and a very brief history
of medical thinking.
Finally I have covered the course in Health Kinesiology in some detail. Health
Kinesiology is one of the most profound and successful of the many therapies
practised in UK today - and as a result, it is one of the fastest growing.
But there is still scope for more H K Practitioners in many parts of the country.
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Who learns complementary therapy?
People training in complementary therapy skills
often come from one of four main backgrounds:
1. Younger students, setting out on a first career
and attracted by the idea of working for themselves or in a
small local therapy centre.
2. Others who are in mid-careeer and are now looking
for a change in direction, moving away from large companies and
office work. There are many successful therapists
who have left behind the stress and bureaucracy of the health service
in order to find a more hands-on way of helping people.
3. Some are people returning to work
after raising a family and are searching for something worthwhile,
who want to work near home and also perhaps part-time.
4. We also see many people who are already working
as therapists and who want to expand their range of therapies -
perhaps moving from one of the easier therapies to one where they
can make a more significant contribution to the health of their
clients.
Holistic therapies are often identified with
the Chinese Yin Yang symbol. It denotes the Sun and the Moon -
opposites in harmony.
The ancients believed that everything in
nature was composed of twin forces in opposition and balance, including
health (well-ness) and illness.
They also identified a flow of energy within the body,
travelling along meridians, which they could affect using acupucture.
Some 3000 years later, medical research is now focussed on the
lymphatic system, where the lymph fluid is a key role in
our immune system, including its activity in fighting cancer cells
and bacteria.
It seems that the ancients were actually
quite close to the truth, as recent discoveries now prove.
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