Science-Based Massage & Manual Therapy Training
Custom Trainings, Classes, Educational Consulting, Curriculum Development & Instructional Design
Nice to meet you! I’m Tania, a massage therapist & hands-on educator.
Founder of Pinpoint Education & Developer of OPEN Bodywork
I help massage professionals and manual therapists expand their skills through practical science-based training models.
If you’re looking for evidence-informed education that’s engaging, accessible, and directly useful in your work, you’re in the right place.
I offer massage therapist training, manual therapy classes, and custom continuing education to support your professional goals—whether you’re learning, teaching, employing, or practicing bodywork.
Based in Brooklyn, NYC | Offering in-person and online training across the U.S. and planet Earth.
How may I help you?
The best way to connect is via email here.
Text message/SMS is second best.
But whatever you do please don’t leave a voice message because it will get lost forever and I’d truly love to connect with you! Voicemail is simply a ball I cannot juggle. Thank you for understanding 🙏🏽
Se habla español.
📳 Text me: +1-917-408-3370
Integrated Subject Matter Expertise
I apply a multidisciplinary approach that integrates manual therapy with engaging, modern learning design to meet the evolving needs of massage and manual therapy professionals.
Modality and Technique Specializations (addition to relaxation and popular therapeutic approaches like MFR)
- OPEN Bodywork
- DermoNeuroModulation (DNM)
- Positional Release/Strain-Counterstrain
- Tui Na (Chinese Medical Massage)
- Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMJD) Treatment
- Neuromuscular Therapy (NMT)
- Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF) and Muscle Energy Techniques (MET)
- Yoga-informed Movement Based Therapies
- Active & Passive Joint Mobilization
Foundations, Emergent Theories, and Clinical Frameworks
- Orthopedic Pathology & Assessment
- Kinesiology & Biomechanics
- Pain Neuroscience Education (PNE)
- Touch Physiology & Neuroanatomy
- Chronic Pain Care & Rehabilitation Support
- Trauma-Informed Care & Communication
- Massage & Manual Therapy History
- Self-Care for Career Longevity
- Up-to-Date Cautions, Contraindications, and Public Safety Guidelines
- Biopsychosocial Practice & Therapeutic Alliance Models
Learning Experience (LX) and Educational Design Consultation
- Curriculum development
- Instructional design
- Online training (synchronous and asynchronous)
- In-person, hands-on training
- Hybrid course delivery
- Learning Management System (LMS) integration
- Digital Transformation as a Service (DTaaS) for massage professionals, educators and organizations.
Check out all the ways I can help you do, too 👇🏽
Below are just a few of the learning systems I’ve built over the years.
Besides being good with my hands, I figured out the hidden angles, tech, and ins-and-outs of how to bring massage and manual therapy education to life.
If you want to learn this, or how to create something like this for yourself or your team, there are very few people who can help you bring each aspect to fruition.
I know because I’ve done it multiple times (since I couldn’t find anyone in this niche who did exactly what I needed, so I had to learn how to do these things myself).
Let’s chat and I’ll show you how!
A proven track record with 30 years of tangible, real-world experience.
I’ve been at this since 1994 and first and foremost give thanks to my teachers. Here’s my CV/resume for details about my background.. it should be recent-ish enough 😉
If 2020 showed us anything, it’s the unique, intrinsic value of human contact, particularly therapeutic touch, for our mental health and physical well-being.
Learning from and studying with Tania has shaped the way I approach massage therapy. Her years of experience are matched only by her investment in evidence-informed, ever-evolving research as it applies to manual therapy.
Tania’s insatiable appetite for continued learning is contagious. She is constantly exploring with you — encouraging curiosity and ways for MTs to feel comfortable in their own bodies.
Tania is enthusiastic, a skilled communicator, and provides quality feedback that is both easy to integrate and delivered with compassion.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
—Leonardo da Vinci
Let me show you the practical, hard-won insights that can help you consistently grow your skills—earned over 25+ years of real-world trial and error.
I’ve invested over 25 years in refining what actually works — hands-on strategies, efficiencies, and unique "tricks"you can start applying right away. Now, it doesn’t have to take you a lifetime to leap forward, because I already took one to figure out what truly works and why.
Save yourself years of learning the hard way.
The information and concepts presented in Tania’s course are truly a game changer. Massage and bodywork elevated to the next level!
Thank you so much for that class again! I loved it. My technique has changed; my patients love it.
—Olya Frederici, OPEN Bodyworker
Screenshot of the email containing the above quote, so you don’t have to take my word for it 😉
Touch is an art of communication.
It's a clear, universal, humanistic language understood across all species. Touch was the first medicine and until today, remains the go-to reflex for soothing discomfort and pain.
I help translate this language through nuanced nervous system engagement modalities and bring reliable data to back up how.
But mostly, I teach people how to teach themselves and fill in the gaps along the way.
💥 If there’s a spark in you that’s itching for something uniquely human in your practice, let’s turn that spark into a supernova.
Meet some of my friends
That’s the rundown of what I love to do. Some might call that “work,” but massage and manual therapy feel more like play to me, like a fish swimming in its river.
So, going with the fish metaphor… I guess I’m the fish who shows its fish friends where to catch the best current for the smoothest, easiest swim.
Take a dip with me and let’s make your work feel more like play. 🐟
