How to Use Your Body to Teach Your Brain Safety
Body based stress reduction. Some of my favourite tools!
Pain that doesn’t make sense. Symptoms that don’t show up on scans. Clients stuck in cycles of stress, inflammation, or chronic pain.
We can help.
We teach manual therapists how to work with the nervous system for profound, more sustainable results—without needing a new modality.
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Your clients' chronic pain and stress are deeply rooted in the nervous system. Every response to touch is filtered through this network. Understanding the nervous system gives you a powerful lens to work more directly with it, instead of struggling to see change in the tissues. Learn to calm the stress response, and leverage the vagus nerve for profound relaxation. By integrating these trauma-informed principles, you'll achieve sustainable, lasting change that goes beyond temporary relief.
Engaging, hands-on online courses that make the nervous system understandable, applicable, and powerful in your hands.
You’ll get:
★ Clear frameworks to confidently work with complex clients
★ Tools that integrate seamlessly, in session, on the table
★ Profound techniques for nervous system regulation
Learn at a pace that works for you. Revisit whenever you need a refresh.
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Treating complex clients can be challenging, you might have questions!
Visuals, assessments, scripts, and simple homecare you’ll actually use.
I’m Alanna—a registered massage therapist, educator, and nervous-system geek with over a decade of teaching experience! I specialize in the wonderfully weird side of stress, pain, and chronic symptoms. My approach is trauma-informed, curiosity-driven, and grounded in the belief that our job isn’t to “fix” people, but to guide their nervous systems back toward safety and relief.
With a background in Kinesiology, massage therapy, and wilderness first aid, I bring both science and heart to my teaching. Expect clear, practical tools, plenty of nerdy enthusiasm, and a dash of humor—because learning should be engaging, not dry! I built Salience Education so you can feel confident (and maybe even excited!) about working with complexity. If you’re ready to embrace the weird stuff, let’s dive in!
Don’t memorize—understand. Stop chasing the next new thing. Learn how your existing hands-on skills influence the nervous system, and how to get better results by working with it, not around it. Don’t avoid complexity, learn the tools to address it confidently.
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Flexible learning, profound results
Introductory course for massage therapists on nervous system fundamentals. Learn to use specific techniques for complex clients to shift the system toward safety.
Buy nowEasy-to-digest deep dives into practical techniques and concepts. Gain profound clinical skills to help clients create lasting change and regulation.
Buy nowPersonalized, one-on-one sessions for manual therapists to apply complex nervous system principles. Refine your clinical skills to achieve deeper, more reliable results.
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Learning from Alanna has been an incredible experience—she’s kind, engaging, and makes learning feel effortless. Her depth of knowledge shines through in every lesson, and she explains concepts in a way that truly sticks. After every session I left feeling informed, empowered, and excited to keep learning.
As an RMT, it’s important to me that any continuing education courses I take are rooted in robust research and evidence-based best practices. Alanna’s teaching really delivers on this, and I appreciate the time and attention she puts into researching and organizing her content. Plus, she’s an enthusiastic and engaging presenter who makes everything she teaches fun and interesting!
Alanna is a phenomenal teacher. Engaging, funny and clearly passionate about what she does. A great teacher doesn’t just share information, they inspire curiosity and deeper thinking. That’s exactly what Alanna does.
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