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ITS TIME TO MOVE ON
Become a More Skilled, Modern Hands On Therapist
Practical, evidence informed education for therapists who want to think clearly, work skilfully, and move beyond outdated explanations.
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Refine Your Skills, Rethink Your Practice
Therapists need more than techniques alone. They need practical skill, sound reasoning, and a modern way to understand and explain hands on therapy. Integrated Hands On Therapy has been created for therapists who want to keep the value of traditional hands on work while building a broader, more evidence informed approach to practice.
Rather than focusing narrowly on fascia as the main explanation, the training reframes fascia from an anatomical and functional perspective and places it within a much wider understanding of touch. This includes current thinking on how hands on therapy may influence comfort, movement, body awareness, confidence, perception, and the therapeutic experience, as well as the roles of context, communication, expectation, and therapeutic alliance.
The programme supports professional growth by helping you think more clearly about what you are doing, adapt more effectively to the individual in front of you, and explain your work in ways that are grounded, credible, and clinically useful. On completion, you will receive your course certificate and can choose to be listed in our practitioner directory on the website.
Build Your Skills, Strengthen Your Reasoning, Expand Your Practice
Created for therapists who want more than technique alone, the programme helps you develop practical skill alongside stronger clinical reasoning, better communication, and a broader understanding of what hands on therapy may offer. Rather than placing fascia at the centre of the explanation, the training reframes it within anatomy and function, then widens the perspective to include touch, body perception, comfort, movement, context, expectation, and therapeutic alliance.
This programme recognises that many therapists are already thinking more critically. They are questioning traditional narratives, engaging more confidently with research, and looking for ways to practise that are both clinically useful and professionally credible. Integrated Hands On Therapy is designed to build on that foundation, helping you critique information more competently, move beyond rigid protocols, and develop a more collaborative, person centred approach to care.
The flexible structure means you can study in the way that works best for you. Therapists can attend the in-person workshops or purchase the online theory content separately. They can also choose the full blended programme for the most complete learning experience.
With supported self study, live practical workshops, ongoing guidance, and the option to choose the venue that suits you best, the learning experience is designed to be flexible, thorough, and directly relevant to practice. On completion, you will receive your course certificate for insurance and CPD purposes.
If you're ready to move beyond technique alone and strengthen your practical skills, reasoning, and confidence as a hands on therapist, then this training is for you.
We Have Created this Amazing Course for YOU!
With more than 25 years' experience in delivering high quality training courses worldwide
The programme covers subjects including chronic and persistent pain, touch in therapeutic care, clinical communication, and modern evidence informed hands on practice. Throughout the course, students will have access to ongoing support, both online and in person, to help deepen understanding, strengthen practical application, and support progress through the training.
25 Years Experience
Author of 'A Massage Therapists Guide To Pain, Touch and Perception.'
Professional Education
Here's how the program breaks down...
UNIT ONE
Course Introduction
This unit introduces the course, explains the learning materials, and outlines how the training supports you as a therapist.
In UNIT ONE, you’re going to learn:
- An introduction to the course
- The training philosophy and approach
- How to use your workbooks and learning materials
- How you progress through the training
UNIT TWO
The Science of Touch
This unit explores why touch matters, how it is detected, and how touch information is carried and interpreted.
In UNIT 2, you’re going to learn:
- Tactile discrimination and sensory mapping
- C tactile afferents and affective touch
- How touch reaches the brain
- Touch, meaning, and response
UNIT THREE
Perception and Meaning
This unit examines how perception, expectation, experience, and belief shape symptoms, responses, and the wider therapeutic experience.
tIn UNIT 3, you’re going to learn:
- Perception is active, not passive
- Expectation, prediction, and belief
- A biopsychosocial view of care
- Symptoms are shaped by context
UNIT FOUR
Alliance and Context
This unit focuses on therapeutic alliance, shared decision making, and contextual factors that influence trust, engagement, and outcomes.
In UNIT 4, you’re going to learn:
- Building therapeutic alliance
- Shared decision making in practice
- Context shapes therapeutic experience
- Touch is not the only factor
UNIT FIVE
Pain and Emotion
This unit explores pain and emotion as lived experiences, and considers how touch may influence comfort, safety, and response.
In UNIT 5, you’re going to learn:
- Pain as a protective experience
- Emotion, meaning, and body response
- Touch, safety, and reassurance
- Supporting comfort without overclaiming
UNIT SIX
Integrated Touch Hypothesis
This unit explores pain and emotion as lived experiences, and considers how touch may influence comfort, safety, and response.
In UNIT 6, you’re going to learn:
- Descending modulation and analgesia
- Reward systems and prediction
- Placebo related mechanisms
- Why therapy is more than touch alone
UNIT SEVEN
Clinical Integration
This unit helps you apply the full model in practice through reasoning, communication, adaptation, and person centred care.
UNIT 7, you’re going to learn:
- Applying the model clinically
- Adapting touch to the individual
- Communicating clearly and credibly
- Making decisions with clients
UNIT EIGHT
Course Conclusion
This unit draws the learning together, supports reflection, and helps you integrate the course into everyday clinical practice.
UNIT 8, you’re going to learn:
- Reviewing key course themes
- Reflecting on clinical development
- Planning next steps in practice
- Bringing learning into work
We’ve already done the hard work of developing and shaping the model, bringing it together into a clear, step by step course that is easy to follow.
Workbooks
The workbooks keep the course content clear, organised, and easy to return to. Alongside online presentations, video tutorials, and in person workshops, you will have access to downloadable workbooks, giving you flexible ways to learn both online and offline.
Presentations
Unit presentations guide you through the content. Each presentation expands on the workbook material, helping you understand key ideas more clearly and apply them with greater confidence and ease in clinical practice.
Hands-On Workshops
In person practical workshops is where learning comes to life. These hands on sessions help you refine contact, adapt techniques, build confidence, and translate the course material into safe, clear, and clinically useful everyday practice.
Integrated Hands On Therapy workshops - your training options...
You can book the workshops on their own, or choose the full blended programme and deepen your learning through the online units. The in person workshops do not repeat the presentations. They build on them, giving you more depth, guided practice, and clinically useful soft tissue skills you can apply with confidence.
Check the dates and venues for workshops below, then book workshops only, or choose the blended option for depth.
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- 200-hour qualification course
- 2 x 2-day in-person workshops
- Access to MFR UK learning hub in any device*
- Learning hub App to learn on-the-go
- Online attendance to Pelvic Balancing Pro Master session
- Over 45 technique videos
- Soft tissue, direct, myofascial techniques
- The modern and sustained approach to myofascial release
- Scar tissue techniques
- Cranial and intraoral techniques
- Current evidence on leg-length discrepancies and pelvic asymmetry
- Lecture presentations and research articles
- Downloadable theory document
- Private member FB group
- 1-year free directory listing post-qualification
- 1-year free use of CiMFT logo post-qualification
- *18 months access to course material
- Insurance to practice
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I would recommend Myofascial Release UK for so many reasons. The tutors, Linda and Ruth are seriously professional. They are seriously knowledgeable. They have international experience, their hands on expertise is second to none. They're incredibly intuitive. They can put their hands on somebody and just know what's going on and how to get the best out of somebody and where blockages are. Their theoretical knowledge is phenomenal. They just know so much about fascia, about the different handling techniques, about the different instruments that we can help use tools like foam rollers and peanuts, and balls just to help amplify the treatment that you give.
Ruth and Linda and all the other support tutors that help them make you feel they're approachable. They make you feel safe. They make you bring everything to your level of understanding and if you don't understand that they will go over it again and again. The amount of time that they give you to practice the actual techniques is phenomenal. So that when you have finished doing a course or you feel confident in being able to go away and put your hands on clients and make a difference.
So that's why you should use MFR UK, they combine theory with the practice so that you can then apply your own knowledge and expertise into what you're doing. So, go for it guys, use MFR, UK.
Very, very professional, very, very knowledgeable. Make it very safe for you and allow you to learn the most powerful set of therapeutic techniques that I've ever used. It's completely changed the way I do my practice.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Isobel Ashford. Physiotherapist.
HAVE WE MET?
Hi, I'm Ruth,
From Myofascial Release UK. There's no doubt that we've all been faced with challenges due to the pandemic and we've all had to navigate through uncertain times. For us, as therapists and clinicians not being allowed to physically touch and help her clients was incredibly hard when helping is at the very core of what and who we are, and what we love doing.
Every one of us has had to learn to adapt and create a new way of working. We became therapists because we enjoy helping others to thrive and to regain our health and wellness and we are needed now, more than ever.
Myofascial Release UK has also been challenged with new ways of course delivery. Like you, we had to take a step back, regroup and adapt. After all, I also love helping people. I'm still a massage therapist at heart, and I love helping my clients to help their clients.
I spent months preparing courses to get ready to get back to work, so that I could give you amazing skills and effective techniques to do what you love doing with even more skills that will undoubtably grow your practice.
I want to show you how easy it is to learn online with us because we've got 20 years of experience, and we know that you will love learning with Myofascial Release UK. When you love learning something, it's so much easier to learn. You'll also find it's much easier to integrate what you've learned into your current clinical practice, so that you can help even more people.
This is the POWER of being EMPOWERED!
On completion of this training, you will have...
- Industry Recognised Certificate In Myofascial Release Therapy.
- 1-Year Free MFR Directory Listing Post-Qualification
- 1-Year Free Use of CiMFT Logo Post-Qualification
- Insurance To Practice
- New Amazing Skills & Effective Techniques Practices To Provide even higher levels of care and relief to your clients.
Hi, I'm Sue from Aberdeenshire. I think the most interesting thing that I've learned from MFR UK training was how we all trauma and stress in our fascia.
I like the results of the abdominal techniques and the anterior neck releases. My clients love them too. I recommend training with MFR UK because of the quality of the coursework and the tutors at hand to help in any way they can and to gain the best outcome for you professionally and personally.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Sue Stewart. Massage Therapist.
These courses are so hugely interesting and fascinating. I loved it! Learned a lot and will
definitely use this in my practice.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - M van der Galen - Soft Tissue Therapist
Incredibly profound 2-day workshop. Can’t wait to put all this learning into practice. I have
definitely become a ‘less is more practitioner’.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - A Mabbott - Level 5 Soft Tissue Therapist
If you're ready to build upon what you already have in your therapy practice
NOW IS THE TIME TO GET STARTED!
There is no better time than right now, so don't wait!
The boom in technology has given us access to more resources and information then we could ever imagine. The best part? It's all at our fingertips with just one click or tap away on a phone screen - not that there was anything stopping you before but now its easier then ever !!! With this new found power of convenience comes great responsibility as well; knowing when enough ISN'T actually ENOUGH...
If you're still reading, there's something holding you back.
You may be asking yourself...
What if I don't understand a particular technique
How do I get the fastest response if I have a specific question?
What if I don't have the time right now?
Will I have access to Ruth herself?
What's in the 2 x 2-day in-person workshops
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Hello, I'm Wendy Corner from Perth, Western Australia.
I trained with Ruth and MFR UK about 10 years ago now for the first time, and why would I recommend them? As a training team, Ruth manages to get across the fascination and the real strength of what we do in our work. In a way that was powerful and lead you through the process.
I remember my first six days of training when laying hands on someone's thighs and I'm going, "I can't feel anything". And she is going, "just feel into it, just wait, relax into it." And that was fabulous. That was the start of a wonderful journey. It goes at your pace, takes you along at the speed that you can manage. It really encourages you to dig in deep to start to feel your journey. Feel your way through the bodies that you're working with. I've had some experience of training with other people as well. Ruth was just the bee's knees. Thank you, Ruth. I really appreciate it and one day I will get back to Glasgow, I will get to do some training with you again hands on. Thank you!
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Wendy Corner. MFR Therapist.
Very beneficial 2-days of discussion and practical work. Very worthwhile and enjoyable.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ D Shirley - MFRRemedial and Sports Therapist
Great course, invaluable knowledge and techniques to add to my toolbox. A must for any
body-worker.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ L Sutherland - Massage Therapist
A fantastic course which has challenged my current skills to embrace new concept of
working.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ T Elliott - Massage Therapist
Great course, well explained and lots of knowledge passed on.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ N Grant - Sports and Remedial Massage Therapist
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There is so much that we can teach you and we know that you will not only gain amazing techniques but you'll gain confidence and skill. Working with more complex, persistent and chronic pain issues.
Come and start learning with us today. We'll support you on this journey every step of the way, so that you can apply myofascial release with ease, proficiency and skill the feeling that you get when you see the changes you've made for someone and they tell you how much better they feel. It's just amazing.
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