TESTIMONIALS
AWESOME NECK
TECHNIQUES
LIVE IN-Person CE Class
Are you looking for neck techniques that are simple to use, your clients will love, and are easy on your body? Of course!
Join FreeBody's guide to AWESOME techniques for the neck muscles. You will learn how to release the neck with the client prone, supine, and side lying. You'll leave confident in where to begin when you really want to release the neck, and simple techniques that feel AMAZING to your clients. We will also cover key trigger points that unlock movement and get your clients out of neck pain.
Saturday, October 25, 2025
10:00am-6:00pm EST
7 CEs for Massage Therapists
Convenient West Asheville location
Helping you BE THE BEST
you can be
Why choose FreeBody trainings?
My teaching methods go beyond showing you anatomy and demonstrating techniques. Learn how to work smarter, with the client's body and nervous system, so that both you and your client have an optimal experience every single time. This year is my 32 year as a massage therapist, and my 20th year teaching CEs. I love it. And you'll feel that in every one of my classes.
Be inspired!
Awesome Neck Techniques includes:
- Live in-person class in Asheville NC
- Clear demonstrations of techniques
- Informative technique video
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7 CEs through NCBTMB
Who doesn't love their neck massaged? Pretty much every client wants you to spend time there. Because it can feel SO GOOD!
The thing is, working in this area can be tiring if you don't use your own body well.
I want to show you simple and highly effective techniques that are easy on your own body while you're helping your clients. Students will learn how to position the client well and how to sink slowly deeper into the tissues without straining your hands, arms, and shoulders. You will leave this training with confidence in your ability to help your clients have an awesome massage experience while also taking care of your own self.
What you'll get in an "Awesome Massage" class...
- Super smooth strokes to hydrate the tissues, which means the muscles let go more easily and you work smarter, not harder.
- Deep compression/long steady hold techniques, which means the nervous system calms down and the client feels greater relaxation.
- Positioning and propping the client well, which means you can use your body weight more effectively.
- How to use your body weight effectively over the table, which means you will hurt less and be able to do massage work as long as you want, not just until your body gives out.
- How to use your knuckles, elbows, forearms, and in some instances even your knees, shins, and feet (!) which means you save our hands and wrists for the long haul.
- Attention to key trigger points in the area that are important to know how to treat.
- Draping techniques so the client feels safe, which means that they can relax more deeply and your work is more effective.
- Long glides that run the full length of the muscles and muscle groups, which means all the tissues in the area are ready for more specific work should you choose.
- Encouragement to play, explore, FEEL what’s going on for your client and follow their tensional lines, which means your work will be more engaged and effective.
- Palpation skills which feel incredible to your clients, which means you keep track of where you are and they just feel, well, awesome!
About the "Awesome" Series
Each class = 7 CEs NCBTMB
In each of the Awesome Massage Techniques workshops, you will learn time-tested skills from a well-loved veteran massage therapist. Cat has been a bodyworker for over 30 years and has worked with tens of thousands of humans over her career. Considered a master massage therapist, Cat is known as an effective trigger point therapist who helps people get out of pain. And what SHE knows about THAT is that you have to have a whole lot of good-feeling, soothing, awesome techniques to blend with the trigger point work or your client will leave feeling sore and unhappy. She is now offering you the opportunity to learn valuable strokes that will go along with any type of massage work that you are currently doing. Consider it an upgrade to your toolbox. These are super skills any massage therapist can put into practice, and your clients will love. One of Cat’s most popular offerings is called “Ridiculously Awesome Massage” for a reason.
Each class = 7 CEs through NCBTMB
Provider #452039-12
MEET CAT MATLOCK
NC LMBT #1080, NCBTMB Provider #452039-12
Cat Matlock is the founder, lead therapist, and instructor at Free Body Trigger Point Massage Clinic and Training Center in Asheville, NC. She has worked with tens of thousands of clients and students. Since 1993, Cat has continuously studied the body and mind (and heart), developing her methods of addressing dysfunction, injury, and chronic pain. Her work in rooted in Trigger Point Therapy and a strong belief in the essential practice of working with the nervous system to gain access to the muscles and connective tissues.
Cat is a Trauma Informed Yoga Therapist™, an instructor of Overcoming Anxiety™, and a longtime practitioner of yoga and meditation. She began instructing yoga in 2001 and instructing massage therapy in 2005. She expertly weaves in her knowledge of the nervous system and vagal tone (essentially, being able to handle difficult things more easily) with her anatomical and precise trigger point location skills.
This course is amazing! I'm excited to try out my new skills & awareness on my clients.
Cat Matlock is a genius!
John
Guidance and instruction was fantastic. BEST CLASS I've taken in a long time!
Carrie
You're amazing! I love taking your classes and learning from such an experienced, excellent, &
brilliant instructor. Thank you for all the wisdom you've shared and for your undying enthusiasm to help others out of pain and into freedom!
Madison
Cat is a wonderful source of knowledge and she knows how to present the material in a way that is easy to understand
Nicole
Awesome Neck Techniques -
Live In-person Class
Saturday, October 25, 2025
10:00am-6:00pm EST
Excellent Training. Small class size.
Individual attention.
Only $180 7 CEs
About NCBTMB CEs...
For your convenience, here is a list of states that accept NCBTMB continuing education hours.
*AL, AK, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, and FL, HI, ID, IA, KS, KE, ME, MD and MT, MA, MI, MN, NE, NV, NH, and NJ, NM, NC, ND, OH, OK, and PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, DC, WV, WI, and WY.
* Some of the states above do not require continuing education hours. However, your insurance company may. The laws of each state change continually, so check to make sure no changes have taken place in your home state.