Touch Therapy Workshops for the Exceptional Therapist
Oncology Massage Education & Training
Classes 2025
Presence, Vulnerability, Boundaries: The Art of Cultivating Compassion
4 CE hours $125.00 ~ Supplies Included
Saturday May 3, 2025
9:30 - 1:30
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
5:00 - 9:00 pm
Cultivating Compassion through the power of intention, sharing vulnerability and creating boundaries. Activities and practices to allow genuine grace, a bit of laughter to be truly present even when things are a bit chaotic.
Come to discover how specially designed activities and exercises can bring alignment with your ethics and values, your style of communication and how pulling it all together allows for natural yet strong boundaries wrapped in conscious kindness.
OBMT 4 CE Hours Ethics Boundaries and Communications requirement
Saturday, May 3 & Tuesday, September 9, 2025
BodyMindWise
1509 SW Sunset Blvd, Suit 1K
Portland OR 97239
Oncology Massage:
The Foundation Class
32 CE Hours $795.00
Registration Opens April 16, 2025
This is the introductory class designed to take you from learning the basics of what cancer is, how it manifests itself and moves through the body through the gold standard treatments: Chemotherapy, Surgery, Radiation, Immunotherapy and newer targeted therapies to actually working with clients under treatment confidently, safely and effectively. All of these treatments have profound effects upon the body, many positive and many not so. This immersive training will give you a strong sense of how best to approach and serve this very special population. You will finish this class knowing you will not only be able to keep your clients safe, but you will be able to address the major symptoms, to bring about relief from the severity of those symptoms while oftentimes increasing a sense of well-being. The Art of Boundaries, Intake, and Self-Care topics will be covered as well. Prerequisites: LMT with 1 year experience or at the permission of the Instructor. Current Massage Students must be in their 4th full-time term for consideration.
East West College Portland Oregon
August 15-17, 2025 (Fri-Sun)
Seaside Oregon
October 13-15, 2025 (Mon-Wed)
8:30 - 5:30
(plus 8 pre workshop prep CE hours)
For the Seaside OR Class, Contact Geri Randles directly
gerirandleslmt@gmail.com
(503) 781 - 9635 talk/text
The Hospital Class: Inpatient Training in Oncology Massage
45 CE $1495.00
Contact Geri Randles, LMT for Application
An introduction to Hospital-based Oncology Massage. Practitioners will have the opportunity to work the inpatient Oncology Floors, Chemo-infusion units and to visit the Radiation Oncology Center. This is an intensive, 5 full days and 1 half day of learning and hands-on massage sessions in the hospital and infusion clinics. You will apply your foundational practices to the hospital setting and learn when and how to use the pressure scale and the energy work introduced in the previous trainings. You will work closely with the current Oncology Massage Therapists at the Knight Cancer Institute. Prerequisites: LMT, minimum 1 year practice as an LMT, and the Oncology Massage 24 or 30 hour in-person Foundational class (Providers accepted include: Gayle MacDonald and any OMEA instructor form the past 5 years, Healwell, Beaumont Hospitals, Greet The Day, Tracy Walton & Associates or any S4OM approved Foundational Course with in-person requirements). There will be no exceptions to the prerequisites.
45 CE Hour Hospital Intensive
OHSU Knight Cancer Institute Portland OR 97239
This format is designed to incorporate massage sessions with patients on three hospital units: Outpatient Chemo Infusion, Inpatient Medical/Surgical Oncology, and Inpatient Hematology Oncology/Bone Marrow transplant. It is an intensive format designed to encapsulate a hospital-based hands on experience.
NEXT CLASS
Summer Weekly Intensive
Tuesdays
July 8 through August 26, 2025
Registration Open (closes May 30, 2025)
Contact Geri directly (503) 781-9635 for registration. An Application Process is required for Hospital Access.
Strengthening the Body
8 CE Hours $195.00
Saturday, June 7, 2025 ~ 8:30 - 5:30
In this day long class you will learn best practices to incorporate the use of energy work in oncology bodywork practices. We use principles of Acupressure, Reflexology, Reiki and limited use of Essential Oils. This is a vibrant, hands on class with 3 trades. These practices will highlight specific protocols for lessening pain, nausea, anxiety, and insomnia with the additional benefit of increasing a greater sense of well-being.
BodyMindWise
1509 SW Sunset Blvd, Suite 1K
Portland OR 97239
NOTE: Please contact Geri directly at 503.781.9635 or send an email to gerirandleslmt@gmail.com or randlesg@ohsu.edu for more information or sign up for classes
Registration for classes at East West College will be through their website https://www.eastwestcollege.com Call if you are unable to do so.