Year 1 Curriculum

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 Overview – This series of modules will provide a broad overview of human anatomy and the functions of the nine body systems: Musculoskeletal, Integumentary, Reproductive, Urinary, Digestive, Circulatory, Respiratory, Endocrine, and Nervous.
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 EMP 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

Core Energetics – Core Energetics is a form of body-centered psychotherapy that release blocks and patterns that have existed within the physical body based on the five major character structures. Each weekend includes a Core Energetics module that focuses on, and further supports, the study of a specific character structure. This series of modules include experiential Core Energetic exercises to increase self-awareness and to deepen the understanding of the process of spiritual growth, one’s own mask, and the weekend’s defense structure. The goal of this course is to assist each student in his or her own personal growth. Emphasis is on self-discovery and personal growth through discovering self-love.