Alchemy of Bodywork
The Pathway Through the Body
Each training is centred on a key structural muscle and its deeper influence on posture, movement, and emotional holding patterns, including:
✔ Psoas – The Bridge to Trust: Unlocking trauma and restoring core integrity.
✔ Adductors – Grounding Boundaries: Exploring the connection between stability, sexuality, and self-protection.
✔ Scalenes – The Breath of Clarity: Freeing the neck to release stress and improve breath mechanics.
✔ Piriformis – Releasing the Gateway of Flow: Addressing stored tension in the pelvis and sacrum.
✔ Diaphragm – The Core of Vitality: Understanding breath’s role in nervous system regulation.
✔ Hamstrings – Threads of Patience and Forward Motion: Strengthening resilience, determination, and the ability to move through life’s challenges.
✔ Pec Minor – Opening the Shield of Vulnerability: Freeing the chest to open the heart and dissolve protective patterns.
✔ Sartorius – The Line of Adaptability: Working with the body’s longest muscle to explore gait, transition, and fluidity in movement.
✔ Glutes – The Power Centre: Exploring stability, propulsion, and the emotional landscape of strength and drive.
✔ Erector Spinae – The Pillars of Strength: Restoring spinal integrity to support emotional resilience and uprightness.
✔ Serratus Anterior – The Anchor of Breath and Strength: Understanding how breath mechanics and scapular stability impact posture and expression.
✔ Rhomboids – Wings of Stability: Addressing patterns of holding, burden, and emotional support through the back body.
✔ Rectus Femoris – The Bridge Between Power and Fluidity: Understanding the connection between hip flexion, knee extension, and movement efficiency.
This pathway blends science, intuition, and somatic awareness, allowing practitioners to develop an advanced skill set that integrates structural bodywork, energy release, and functional movement.
Each 5-day bodywork training offers a deep dive into one structural muscle — exploring its anatomy, its relationships across the kinetic chain, and its role in both physical and emotional well-being.
We begin with origin and insertion, antagonists and synergists, and how these structures interact with yoga postures, walking mechanics, and everyday movement patterns.
From there, we move into the subtle body — studying acupressure points, emotional imprints, and the muscle’s influence on the nervous system through trigger points, neurovascular and neurolymphatic reflexes, and cranial holds that help unwind deep-seated patterns.
Participants will leave each training with practical movement sequences inspired by yoga and biomechanics, designed to rewire somatic patterns, restore functional strength, and nurture emotional resilience.
These trainings are crafted for those fascinated by the meeting point where the physical body and the unseen realms of healing intertwine — where gross anatomy becomes a bridge to subtle transformation.
The Pathway Through the Body
Each training is centred on a key structural muscle and its deeper influence on posture, movement,
and emotional holding patterns, including:
✔ Psoas – The Bridge to Trust: Unlocking trauma and restoring core integrity.
✔ Adductors – Grounding Boundaries: Exploring the connection between stability, sexuality, and
self-protection.
✔ Scalenes – The Breath of Clarity: Freeing the neck to release stress and improve breath
mechanics.
✔ Piriformis – Releasing the Gateway of Flow: Addressing stored tension in the pelvis and
sacrum.
✔ Diaphragm – The Core of Vitality: Understanding breath’s role in nervous system regulation.
✔ Hamstrings – Threads of Flexibility and Forward Motion: Releasing stored tension that prevents
emotional and physical ease.
✔ Pec Minor – Opening the Shield of Vulnerability: Freeing the chest to open the heart and
dissolve protective patterns.
✔ Sartorius – The Line of Adaptability: Working with the body’s longest muscle to explore gait,
transition, and fluidity in movement.
✔ Glutes – The Power Centre: Exploring stability, propulsion, and the emotional landscape of
strength and drive.
✔ Erector Spinae – The Pillars of Strength: Restoring spinal integrity to support emotional
resilience and uprightness.
✔ Serratus Anterior – The Anchor of Breath and Strength: Understanding how breath mechanics
and scapular stability impact posture and expression.
✔ Rhomboids – Wings of Stability: Addressing patterns of holding, burden, and emotional support
through the back body.
✔ Rectus Femoris – The Bridge Between Power and Fluidity: Understanding the connection
between hip flexion, knee extension, and movement efficiency.
Each 5-day bodywork training is focused on one key muscle group, allowing for a deep dive into its
structure, function, and therapeutic applications.
Bliss Bodywork Online Mentorship: Deepening Your Practice
In addition to in-person bodywork trainings, Alchemy of Bodywork includes the Bliss Bodywork
Online Mentorship, an ongoing mentorship programme designed to help practitioners refine their
skills in muscle testing, assessment, and activation techniques.
What You Will Learn in the Mentorship
✔ Muscle Testing Techniques, including:
• Muscle Activation Technique (MAT) – Enhancing neuromuscular efficiency and
restoring functional movement.
• Applied Kinesiology – Assessing and correcting structural and energetic
imbalances.
• Orthopaedic Tests – Improving posture and gait analysis, identifying movement
dysfunctions.
✔ Practical Application of Bodywork Techniques, including:
• Understanding compensation patterns and how to release them.
• Fine-tuning palpation skills to assess restrictions in fascia, muscle, and joints.
• Integrating muscle testing with subtle energy work for a holistic approach.
✔ Self-Paced & Live Training Access, ensuring you:
• Can join anytime and attend live sessions or watch pre-recorded lessons at your
own pace.
• Have access to a structured library of bodywork sequences and technique
breakdowns.
• Receive guidance and mentorship for deeper understanding and application.
✔ Beyond Training: A Global Bodywork Community
• Connect with a worldwide network of bodyworkers, movement professionals, and
healers.
• Join the Jambo Dragon Directory of Bliss Bodywork Practitioners, allowing clients
and other professionals to search for and connect with you.
• Gain ongoing access to new material, case studies, and Q&A sessions for
continued learning.
Alchemy of Bodywork Certification
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The Alchemy of Bodywork training is designed for practitioners seeking deep anatomical,
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biomechanical, and energetic understanding. The certification pathway allows students to progress
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at their own pace, with the option to achieve a Master Certification through full completion of the programme. ( see more details on this next page)