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 bring together hands-on massage therapy skills with modern learning design to help practitioners, businesses, and organizations develop and optimize their training.
Modality and Technique Specializations
including therapeutic relaxation approaches like myofascial release (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
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- Curriculum development
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- Instructional design
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- Online training (synchronous and asynchronous)
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- In-person, hands-on training
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- Hybrid course delivery
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- Learning Management System (LMS) integration
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- Digital Transformation as a Service (DTaaS) for massage professionals, educators and organizations.
Here’s how I can be of help to you↓ 👇🏽
Below are just a few of the learning systems I’ve built over the years.
I’m not just good with my hands. I know how to deliver massage education end-to-end, from techniques and curriculum to the student experience and the behind-the-scenes tech that teaches across screens.
If you’re creating a course or want custom training that brings out the best in your team, I can help bring your learning objectives to fruition.
I learned this by building every layer myself, so I can help you get there faster, stay on budget, and skip the false starts.
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.
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.
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. 🐟
