Year 1 Curriculum

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137.5 total clock hours

Assess – 62.83 clock hours

This unit includes assessing one’s own levels of personal growth as well as assessment tools related identifying a client’s presenting complaint, including the physical, emotional, and spiritual issues and what was happening at the point of onset.

Topics in this unit include (but are not limited to):

  • Ethics – This series of modules will provide each student with a firm set of ethical principals and values as the foundation for making practical and ethical decisions as a bodywork professional.

  • Forgiveness – This module focuses on the healing power of forgiveness.  Options for forgiveness, psychological correlations of forgiveness and forgiveness techniques are explored.

  • Anatomy - We require that one of the following Anatomy requirements are met for successful completion of the freshman year:

     

    Exemption

    If you are a MD, PA, RN, LPN, OT, PT, MT, medical student, or have completed a college-level course in basic human anatomy, you are not required to complete an anatomy course.  If you are not in one of the above exempt professions, please provide a copy of your college transcript that shows completion of the anatomy course.

    On-Line Self-Study

    If you have never taken a course in human anatomy, or if you have not used what you learned in a college-level course, you can take the on-line self-study course The Human Body in Health and Illness http://evolve.elsevier.com).

     

    -           Integumentary System

    -           Skeletal System

    -           Muscular System

    -           Reproductive System

    -           Urinary System

    -          Digestive System and Lymphatic System

    -          Respiratory System

    -          Circulatory System

    -          Endocrine System

    -          Brain and Nervous System

    Local College Course

    Or, if you prefer classroom study, you can attend an anatomy class at a local college.  Please provide evidence of enrollment by weekend two and evidence of passing with a C or better by the last weekend.

     

  • Character Structures – This series of modules describes the basic components of each character structure as it applies to the student, developmental origin, presentation, psychological implications, and each character structure’s respective life tasks.  Also included is a demonstration and clarification of the defense structures as they appear in the students.

  • Personal Growth – This series of modules provide an opportunity for students to take a more developed in-depth look at their own personal process, examine their belief systems, and identify how they are blocking further personal and spiritual growth.  During the weekly check-in and in small groups, students explore and begin to work through issues that are blocking self-awareness and continued growth.

 

Balance – 53.67 clock hours

This unit covers how to recognize and change areas of imbalance in one’s self and using The W.I.S.E. Method™ energy balancing techniques to remove energy blocks, balance chakra excesses and deficiencies, and dissipate stagnant energy patterns within the body.  It includes:

  • Meditation Techniques – This series of modules support student spiritual growth and development through establishing a routine of prayer and/or meditation.  The student will be exposed to a variety of meditation techniques to support the development and maintenance of a consistent meditation practice

  • Chakras 1 through 7 – This series of modules provides an introduction and overview to the seven major energy centers (chakras) in the human body and their physical, emotional, and spiritual components.  

  • High Sense Perception  (HSP) Development – This module provides an introduction to, and explanation of, HSP as well as how to expand and contract one’s own field.

  • Healing Techniques –  This series of modules teach The W.I.S.E. Method™ healings.  The teaching staff will demonstrate the healing and then the students will practice the technique(s) on each other throughout the weekend.  The depth and level of expertise for each student will increase significantly with each year’s course of study.  The focus this year is to demonstrate sensitivity to energy in another’s body and the ability to balance the energy flow in the body through sensing and intention.

Healing techniques for EMC Year 1 include:

  • Synchronizing Brain Function

  • Full Body Energy Balancing

  • Hormonal Balancing - Reproductive

  • Experiencing Energetic Variance – blocks, deficiencies, excess

  • Spinal Cleanse and Strengthening and Holding All Seven Levels of the Field

  • Hara Alignment and Strengthening

  • Pendulum Readings

 

Change – 21.0 clock hours

This unit supports the student in recognizing areas of his or her own personalities and character structures that no longer serve them and provides tools and techniques to change if the student chooses to change.  We believe strongly that examining personal beliefs systems and working on personal growth and change are the first steps in supporting a client in examining and changing the belief systems that create their energetic blocks

  • Energy In Defense –  This series of modules deepens the understanding of the defense structures and how they relate to one’s own process, especially the lower self.  These modules provide experiential Energy in Defense exercises to support and enhance discussion of the etiology of defenses and the physical, emotional, and mental aspects of defenses.  Emphasis is on understanding and experiencing one’s lower self to open to the heart and access the Higher Self.