Workshop Descriptions

See the workshop schedule for dates and locations. To register for a workshop, contact Topping International Institute, Inc. at 360-647-2703 or 888-783-2711 (USA only) or email info@wellnesskinesiology.com.

Classes Scheduled for this Year

Medical Intuitive Training: Developing the Eyes of a Medical Intuitive
Time:
24 hours/3 days (October 26 to October 28)
Call 800--575-6185 to reserve your space.

Medical Intuition is not just the domain of a few gifted people. Everyone has the ability to see the body with "new eyes" and to "feel" instictively--what may be out of balance on physical, emotional, and spiritual levels. Medical Intuition is a teachable skill. This training is valuable for both lay people & professionals. No prior complementary health experience is necessary.

Featuring Caroline Sutherland, one of today's most sought after medical intuitives, Dr. Wayne Topping, world renowned Kinesiology master, and Gary Leikas, Oncology Nurse, healer, and teacher.

Class Objectives

At the conclusion of this presentation, the participants will be able to:

  • Discuss the nature of intuition from a physical, emotional & spiritual perspective.
  • Define the importance of intuition in a clinical setting.
  • Describe 3 elements of the intuitive process.
  • List 4 ways that intuition can be used in a client/patient evaluation.
  • Express the benefits of integrating medical intuition in CAM (Complementary & Alternative Medicine).

17 CEU credits available for LMTs, CEU Credits pending for RNs.

Touch for Health® I
Time: 15 hours/2 days
Cost: $300 or $250 with 15-day prepaid registration or $850 for all 4 TFH levels with 15-day prepaid.

Touch for Health® is a proven, easily learned system of muscle testing and energy balancing incorporating principles of Chinese medicine, massage, and energy work. Participants receive training in accurate muscle testing as a biofeedback technique and learn to test and balance 14 pairs of major postural muscles that correlate with the 14 major Chinese meridians. Simple, effective techniques such as massage points, holding points, meridian massage and muscle massage can then be applied to reduce or eliminate pain, effectively release emotional stress, show immediately which foods improve a person’s well-being, accelerate recovery from illness and injury, and balance the body’s energies thus improving health and vitality. Workshop includes course manual and certificate. CEUs available for nurses and massage therapists.

Touch for Health® II
Prerequisites: Touch for Health 1
Time
: 15 hours/2 days
Cost: $300 or $250 with 15-day prepaid registration or $850 for all 4 TFH levels with 15-day prepaid.

Alarm points to identify over energy, using the meridian wheel and Law of Five Elements theory to find the one point to correct under and over energies. Circuit locating, cross crawl or integration, time of day balance, golgi tendon and spindle cell correction procedures, cerebrospinal technique, identifying biocidic foods, emotional stress release for future events, acupressure holding points, meridian walking to eliminate pain, and 14 additional muscle tests. Prerequisites: Touch for Health® I CEUs available for nurses and massage therapists.

Touch for Health® III
Prerequisites: Touch for Health 1 & 2
Time
: 15 hours/2 days
Cost: $300 or $250 with 15-day prepaid registration or $850 for all 4 TFH levels with 15-day prepaid.

Reactive muscles, circuit retaining mode, Five Element color balance, Five Element balancing with goal and emotion, pulses, pain tapping for chronic pain, past balancing for trauma, facilitation and inhibition, sedation techniques, gait testing, balancing using food as correction, and 14 additional muscle tests.

Touch for Health® IV
Prerequisites: Touch for Health 1, 2 & 3
Time
: 15 hours/2 days
Cost: $300 or $250 with 15-day prepaid registration or $850 for all 4 TFH levels with 15-day prepaid.

Five Element emotions, Five Element sound balance, acupressure holding point theory, luo points, time of day balance, Tibetan figure eight energy, neurolymphatic release, postural stress release, postural analysis, 42 muscles head to toe standing tests, 42 muscles head to toe prone and supine, review of TFH I-III.

Touch for Health® instructor training
Prerequisites: Touch for Health I-4, Pre-ITW Exam
Time
: 60+ hours/8 days
Cost: $995 first time or $497.50 for repeaters. $100 deposit due 15 days prior to class.

An 8-day certification program for those wanting to teach Touch for Health® I, II, III & IV and additional courses. Curriculum reviews all Touch for Health® procedures; covers marketing, logistics, management, and communication skills. Here is your opportunity to develop a successful seminar business teaching Touch for Health® or to receive more thorough grounding in procedures you can use with clients.

Stress Release I - Success Over Distress
Prerequisites: None
Time
: 7 hours/1 day
Cost: $100 or $265 for all 3 SR levels with 15-day prepaid.

In this workshop we will explore in detail the physical and psychological effects of stress, and how to use muscle testing to identify what is creating distress for you. You will learn techniques which will enable you to effectively release the physical, emotional and mental effects of stress; remove performance anxiety before a speech, presentation, or exam; access and defuse the stressful memories associated with a distressful event; test for and correct conflict between right and left brain hemispheres; incorporate additional modalities to release even deeper levels of stress; plus identify and release blocks to successful weight loss, habit changes, recovery from illness, improved self-image and financial well-being.

Stress Release II - Success Over Distress
Prerequisites: Stress Release 1
Time
: 7 hours/1 day
Cost: $100 or $265 for all 3 SR levels with 15-day prepaid.

Learn additional methods for defusing stress and eliminating negative habits, including techniques which will enable you to tap into and reprogram the subconscious; quickly defuse negative emotional states; make sure that desired change is appropriate; find and eliminate blocks to achieving your goals; help yourself and others end procrastination; manage time skillfully and effectively; and release tension in the neck, shoulders and back through simple exercises.

Stress Release III - Defusing Stuck Emotions
Prerequisites: Stress Release 1 & 2
Time
: 7 hours/1 day
Cost: $100 or $265 for all 3 SR levels with 15-day prepaid.

While emotions such as fear, grief, and anger are appropriate, sometimes they become stuck giving rise to conditions such as phobias, anxiety, depression & hostility. We begin by looking at the Callahan model and how it addresses phobias, anxiety and addictions. We show how it relates to the Law of Five Elements, then expand the model to cover other stuck emotional states such as temper, rage, hostility, embarrassment, grief, loneliness and depression.

Energy Centers
Prerequisites: Stress Release 1 & 2
Time
: 7 hours/1 day
Cost: $100 or $500 for all 4 SR levels + Energy Centers with 15-day prepaid.

What are energy centers? Their symptomology. Learn how to identify and balance energy centers with emotions, foot reflexes, acupressure points, head massage, and auricular reflexes.

Stress Release IV - Working With Emotions
Prerequisites: Stress Release 1-3, Touch for Health 1 (& preferably 2)
Time
: 14 hours/2 days
Cost: $200 or $500 for all 4 SR levels + Energy Centers with 15-day prepaid.

Learn organ reflex points related to 20 major energy meridians and work with the positive and negative emotions from biokinesiology relating to organs and body systems to bring them back into balance. Also included are working with emotions to eliminate pain, and the use of gamma-1 and gamma-2 muscle monitoring and the priority mode.

Defusing Negative Personality Traits
Prerequisites: Stress Release 1-4, Touch for Health 1-2
Time
: 21 hours/3 days
Cost: $225 or $300 with 15-day prepaid registration.

Find out 7 major ways people acquire limiting beliefs (or "personality traits"). Learn how certain of these beliefs can make you more susceptible to migraines, learning difficulties, cancer, alcoholism & rheumatoid arthritis. How to determine what your limiting beliefs are and how to dismantle them.

Stress Release Instructor Training
Prerequisites: Be an active Touch for Health® Instructor, Brain Gym® Instructor, or Three-In-One Facilitator who has taken Touch for Health® I - IV and passed the Touch for Health® examination (a Prerequisites for the Touch for Health® Instructor Training Workshop). Have taken Stress Release I, II, III & IV and Defusing Negative Personality Traits classes.
Time
: 35-42 hours/5-6 days depending on class size.
Cost: $675 with $100 deposit due 15 days prior to class or $625 with 15-day prepaid registration.

We cover the Stress Release I, II, III & IV curricula extensively from the perspective of how best to teach the material. Wellness Kinesiology also has Instructor Training and certification for suitably qualified Stress Release Instructors wishing to teach the following classes: Energy Centers, Biokinetic Exercises, Eight Extra Meridians, and Defusing Negative Personality Traits.

Defusing Negative Personality Traits Instructor Training Workshop
Prerequisites: Be an active Touch for Health® Instructor, Brain Gym® Instructor, or Three-In-One Facilitator who has taken Touch for Health® I - IV and passed the Touch for Health® examination (a Prerequisites for the Touch for Health® Instructor Training Workshop). Have taken Stress Release I, II, III & IV and Defusing Negative Personality Traits classes.
Time
: 7 hours/1 day
Cost: $100

Learn how to instruct others on how belief systems cause frustrating limitations and predispose us to certain predictable disease patterns; how we can change our underlying patterns including the creation of personality traits (limiting beliefs) and their relationship to illness.

Overcoming Adversity
Prerequisites: Stress Release 1 & 2
Time
: 14 hours/2 days
Cost: $200

The single most important factor determining whether you get sick or stay healthy is your personality. We'll look at traits of stress hardiness, resiliency, the immune-competent personality, etc., to find ways to strengthen your ability to handle stress and improve your health. Lots of opportunity for personal growth!

Understanding Personality™
Prerequisites: Stress Release 1 & 2
Time
: 7 hours/1 day
Cost: $100

Learn to recognize the basic personality traits that underlie normal behavior, how to predict peoples' future behaviors, why certain situations are stressful - others less so, how to be more successful in life and business by learning to communicate more effectively. To understand how birth order can affect one's personality, determine your money personality and more. Workshop manual included.

Weight Loss
Prerequisites: Stress Release 1-3
Time
: 7 hours/1 day
Cost: $100

Learn the hidden factors that keep people from losing weight. Understand why almost everyone in our culture who wants to lose weight does three things every day that actually promote weight gain. Why do people eat when they are not hungry? Learn kinesiologically-based techniques to help you lose weight and to identify appropriate dietary changes. Workshop manual included.

Overcoming Addictions
Prerequisites: Stress Release 1-3
Time
: 14 hours/2 days
Cost: $200

Identifying hidden causes for addiction, food cravings, and overeating. Learn specific techniques for quitting smoking, and ending addictions to sugar, caffeine, chocolate, alcohol & tranquilizers. Emotions related to addiction. How to address the anxiety that underlies many addictions. Preventing withdrawal symptoms and psychological relapse. How to prevent weight gain in individuals who stop smoking. Workshop manual included.

Nutritional Testing
Prerequisites: Stress Release 1-4, Touch for Health 1 (preferably 2)
Time: 14 hours/2 days
Cost: $200 or $375 for both Nutritional Testing & Allergies

Learn how to determine which nutrients your body needs generally and specifically, and whether your body can handle those nutrients. How to prioritize your nutritional needs. Testing for air quality, toxicity, and more. Workshop manual included.

Allergies
Prerequisites: Stress Release 1-4, Touch for Health 1 (preferably 2)
Time: 14 hours/2 days
Cost: $200 or $375 for both Nutritional Testing & Allergies

Six different ways to identify foods, nutrients and environmental factors to which you are sensitive. Fifteen causes for numerous allergies and how you can address them. Eight methods to balance for isolated allergens. Workshop manual included.

Advanced Biokinesiology
Prerequisites: Stress Release 1-4, Nutritional Testing, Touch for Health 1 (preferably 2)
Time: 14 hours/2 days
Cost: $200

Working with LAN points, the Quick Ready Reference, Quicker Ready Reference, correlating allergies to specific tissues, testing procedures for lymphatic imbalance, teeth, discs, bones, mucus lining, and periosteums.

Digestive System
Prerequisites: Stress Release 1-4, Nutritional Testing, Touch for Health 1 (preferably 2), Allergies
Time: 14 hours/2 days
Cost: $200

We'll explore the gastrointestinal tract from top to bottom looking at how it should work, and some common ways it malfunctions: pH, anemia, parasites... there's lots of interest here!

Biokinetic Exercises
Prerequisites: Touch for Health 1
Time: 7 hours/1 day
Cost: $100

Discover the power of easily-learned biokinetic exercises to balance hypotonic or hypertonic muscles, address low back pain, and neck and shoulder tension. Biokinetic exercises for 16 indicator muscles used in Touch for Health®. Using muscle testing to identity optimal positions and optimum time to use each exercise. Workshop manual included.

Biokinetic Exercises Instructor Training Workshop
Prerequisites: Biokinetic Exercises 2 times + all that is required for Stress Release Instructor.
Time: 3 hours
Cost: $50

After taking the Biokinetic Exercises class twice, this 3 hour training covers background require to teach the material with competence.

Eight Extra Meridians
Prerequisites: Stress Release 1-4, Touch for Health 1-3, Biokenetic Exercises
Time: 21 hours/3 days
Cost: $325 or $300 with 15-day prepaid registration.

Discover how to balance all 20 major meridians using indicator muscles for the eight extra meridians. Balancing those muscles with emotions, nutrients, biokinetic exercises, neurolymphatic points, neurovascular holding points, meridians, key points and coupled points. Learn muscle tests related to hypothalamus, anterior and posterior pituitary, thymus, pineal, parathyroid, etc. Workshop manual included.

Eight Extra Meridians Instructor Training Workshop
Prerequisites: 8 Extra Meridians 2 2 times, Biokenetic Exercises + all that is required for Stress Release Instructor.
Time: 7 hours/1 day
Cost: $100

Discover how to balance all 20 major meridians using indicator muscles for the eight extra meridians. Balancing those muscles with emotions, nutrients, biokinetic exercises, neurolymphatic points, neurovascular holding points, meridians, key points and coupled points. Learn muscle tests related to hypothalamus, anterior and posterior pituitary, thymus, pineal, parathyroid, etc..

Other Classes

Adrenal Exhaustion
2 1/2 hours

If you have fatigue, exhaustion, depression, inability to concentrate, poor memory, numerous allergies, low blood pressure, hypoglycemia, or light-headedness on standing up, your adrenals may be exhausted! Learn muscle tests that relate to adrenal function. Why adrenal fatigue results in knee and/or foot problems. The relationship between adrenal fatigue and autoimmune conditions. Improving adrenal function with nutrients and emotions.

Brain Gym®
Prerequisites: None.
Time:
3 Days

A revolutionary new approach for overcoming learning difficulties and to help people achieve their goals. This is the foundational course in the relatively new field of Educational Kinesiology. In 1991, the National Learning Foundation chose Educational Kinesiology as one of the 12 programs representing successful learning innovation. Learn to integrate left and right brain hemispheres for enhanced seeing, hearing, writing, and motor coordination; and top/bottom and front/back dimensions to improve communication, organization, and comprehension in reading, writing, spelling, memory and movement.

Come & Practice!
Time: 2 1/2 hours

Taken a Touch for Health® or kinesiology class? This is a series of fun, relaxed evenings to practice your skills, ask questions, get support, and keep you inspired! Join us for an evening of learning and practice.

Eliminating Migraines
Time: 2 1/2 hours

Learn why women get more migraines and common foods that can trigger migraines. Personality characteristics that predispose you to migraines. How to defuse the suppressed anger that can trigger migraines. How to change the belief that results in migraines for many people pleasers.

Goal Setting With a Difference
Time: 2 1/2 hours

Learn how to apply the five factors necessary for effective formulation of goals. Learn to use muscle testing procedures to identify and eliminate what is blocking you from achieving your goals. Let’s have fun and help you be more successful this year!

How Can Kinesiology Help Me?
Time: 2 hours
FREE LECTURE

See demonstrations of how muscle testing can be used to identify how the body is out of balance and the various ways in which the body can be balanced.

How to do Accurate Muscle Testing
Time: 2 1/2 hours

Muscle testing is a wonderful biofeedback tool when used correctly! In this workshop you will learn simple tests to ensure that muscle testing is giving you accurate information.

Hypothyroidism
Time: 2 1/2 hours or 1 full day

If you have difficulty losing weight, excessive fatigue, cold hands and feet, adult acne, frequent lengthy colds, premenstrual symptoms, water retention, difficulty conceiving; your thyroid could be underactive. Learn about the link between hypothyroidism and heart disease, weak immune system, poor circulation and dry skin. 3 major causes for hypothyroidism. Simple tests for thyroid function. How to determine which foods support and which adversely affect thyroid function. How to work with emotions related to thyroid function.

Kinesiology for Kids
Time: 3 hours

A workshop for parents and kids introducing basic kinesiology ideas and exercises in a fun, child-friendly way. Children will be introduced to a variety of simple exercises which they can use to promote clear thinking, improve coordination and athletic performance, increase confidence, and maximize reading, writing and comprehension skills. Adults will also learn basic muscle testing procedures that will enable you to identify food and environmental sensitivities in your child.

Overcoming Procrastination
Time: 2 1/2 hours

There have been benefits from your procrastination. Now is the time to get brave and explore, confront, and deal with the reasons underlying the procrastination. Wellness Kinesiology has some fast, effective tools to teach you how to identify those reasons and to eliminate them for good.

Perceptive Vision
Time: 3 hours

A seminar on enhancing and maintaining healthy vision. Learn to use muscle testing to uncover and correct belief systems and negative attitudes related to vision imbalance, then identify specific exercises which can be helpful to you in promoting clear vision and eye health. Nutritional and environmental support will also be addressed.

Personality Traits Instructor Training
Prerequisites: Defusing Negative Personality Traits (2X) and successful track record as a Stress Release Instructor.
Time:
1 day

Learn how to instruct others on how belief systems cause frustrating limitations and predispose us to certain predictable disease patterns; how we can change our underlying patterns including the creation of personality traits (limiting beliefs) and their relationship to illness; how to determine what beliefs pertain to ourselves and others; typical beliefs associated with common ailments (including migraine, hypertension, heart disease, rheumatoid arthritis, irritable bowel and even cancer); organ and tissue reflexes and their connection with emotions and limiting beliefs; reprogramming belief systems to support health and wellness; and learn of the worldwide research on the links between personality and disease.

Preventing Back Pain and Sciatica
Time: 3 hours

Structural, nutritional and emotional causes for back pain and sciatica and how you can correct them.

Preventing Tension Headaches
Time: 3 hours

Identify and correct the major causes for tension headaches. Become knowledgeable about the nutrient deficiencies that commonly result in headaches.

Switching on the Brain - Free Lectures
Time: 1.5 hours

Free lectures for the general public to introduce innovative techniques for improving efficiency of brain function.

Switching on the Brain
Time: 3 hours
Cost: $35

Is fear disabling you? Experiencing learning difficulties? Having difficulty achieving your goals? Learn simple techniques to strengthen the integration between front and back and left and right sides of the brain and improve visual and auditory functioning.

Tibetan Energy and Vitality
Time: 3 - 5 hours

Tibetan medicine recognizes figure 8 and spiral energy flows in the body which appear to have profound effects on energy, wellness, and well-being. We will explore Tibetan energy concepts and methods for increasing health and vitality including how to test for and harmonize disturbances in these energy flows; using sound to clear the charkas; and the five daily Tibetan exercises for increasing health, strength and vitality.

Top Ten Pain Releasers
Time: 1 day

A practical, hands-on workshop integrating kinesiology, Touch for Health, acupressure, polarity, music, and massage. For the lay person, this workshop provides simple, effective self-help techniques that reduce body/mind stress and enhance immune system function. For the health professional, particularly massage therapists, this class offers a variety of beneficial techniques that can be easily blended into your practice to bring added benefits to your clients. Learn meridian massage, neurolymphatic, neurovascular and neuromuscular balancing techniques, Brazilian toe massage, and more. CEUs available for nurses and massage therapists.

What to do About Your Aching Body
Time: 2 hours
FREE LECTURE

Find out: which six food items cause 30% of all pain people suffer, how the Chinese acupuncturists view pain, and the origin of most tension headaches. Bring your aching body! (Volunteers are needed.).