RELEASING THE LOWER BACK & HIPS MASSAGE WORKSHOP

Our Course Tutor

Darien Pritchard has been a bodyworker for over thirty years, including twenty five of training massage professionals and twenty of teaching CPD workshops for qualified practitioners. Following his own need to look after his back, Darien has always incorporated good bodyuse as an essential element of his massage practice and teaching. He was very influenced by Tai Chi, ‘free dance’ and training in the Feldenkrais Method® of movement awareness. Darien has been a pioneer in focusing on the practitioner’s bodyuse as an integral part of massage training in the UK. He also been a pioneer of ‘Hands Free’ Massage (the skillful, sensitive use of the forearms and elbows to save the practitioner’s hands) by adapting techniques from other traditions. He began teaching good bodyuse practice as a separate workshop for massage practitioners twenty years ago, and wrote the career-maintenance reference book Dynamic Bodyuse for Effective, Strain-free Massage (2007), which is the handbook for this course.