47th TFHKA Annual Conference

Post Conference Workshops

Make the most of your 2022 TFHKA Conference experience! Deepen your knowledge and expertise. Plan to come early or stay late with pre and post-conference workshops. We guarantee that you’ll go home energized and excited with tons of hands-on, usable skills, resources, and education.

Sunday, August 7th | 2 pm - 4 pm

Plantars and Dorsals: Muscles for the Feet

By Earl Cook

Whether you are walking, running, jumping, dancing, or simply standing, you are using the muscles of your feet. When the muscles of your feet are inhibited, weakened or not functioning properly, your body attempts to compensate.

Foot pain, ankle pain, knee pain, leg pain and hip pain can all be part of the body’s compensation system. Balancing these muscles is very beneficial for relieving pain and better posture.

In this powerful two-hour live online workshop, you will learn powerful techniques for testing and correcting non-functioning muscles of the feet that are not part of the normal TFH curriculum. Many times, foot pain disappears almost immediately when using these corrections.

A PDF workbook of the technique and illustrations of the feet and related muscles/systems is included. These illustrations were created by Earl Cook, innovator of these techniques and instructor for the class.

Monday, August 8th & Tuesday, August 9th | 9 am - 6 pm

Brain Gym® 26 Movements

By Cindy Goldade

Dive deep into the 26 Brain Gym® activities. Experience them in your body. Gain a better understanding of each movement, the philosophy behind the Brain Gym program, and how this knowledge can support your daily life routine. Open to all. 

During this 2-day course, you will:

• Notice changes in your own body before and after each of “the 26” Brain Gym movements
• Identify life events as part of a learning loop or as a stress response
• Learn the language of Educational Kinesiology as it relates to the dimensions of learning (sidedness, stability, locomotion)
• Discover how these movements can support one’s and others’ development of physical skills

This course is filled with simple take-home strategies to support your Touch for Health work, OT and PT therapy, MNRI therapy and more. Early childhood through college educators enjoys supporting their students with these simple movements to reduce anxiety, increase focus and coordinate eyes, ears, hands and whole body for increased academic performance. Requiring no special equipment, people of all ages can benefit from these movements.

"The twenty-six activities, along with a program for “learning through movement” were developed by educator and reading specialist Dr. Paul E. Dennison and his wife and colleague, Gail E. Dennison who say that the interdependence of movement, cognition, and applied learning is the basis of their work.

Clients, teachers, and students have been reporting for over 30 years on the effectiveness of these simple activities. With all the new research into the correlation between brain function and movement, it is clear to see why these movements have worked so well. They often bring about dramatic improvements in areas such as: concentration, focus, memory, academics (reading, writing, math, test taking), physical coordination, relationships, self-responsibility, organization skills and attitude.” Excerpted from www.braingym.com/the-activities/

Your instructor, Cindy Goldade is a pioneer of Brain Gym® 26 Movements course. She helped develop the Movement Facilitator track to allow others to teach the 26 movements. She was also instrumental in creating the policies for bringing it online

Monday, August 8th & Tuesday, August 9th | 10 am - 6 pm

Tools of Kinesiology

By Steven Hanson

Tools of Kinesiology is a thorough introduction to Energy Kinesiology techniques. It teaches basic muscle response testing, pause lock, jaw stacking, meridian points and basic meridian balancing, emotional release, nutritional healing, and how to assure that your muscle testing is accurate.

You will learn:

• Muscle Response testing
• Diagnostic to ensure coherence of Muscle Response testing
• Using Pause Lock to accelerate and focus healing methods
• Nutritional testing and healing
• Meridian testing and healing
• Emotional healing