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 trainings and services.
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
- 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.
Want to create courses or trainings like these?↓ 👇🏽
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Below are just a few of the learning systems I’ve built over the years.
I’m not only good with my hands, but know how to deliver massage education end-to-end, from techniques and curriculum > to the student experience > to 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 actually 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!
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Learning from Tania has shaped the way I approach massage therapy. Her years of experience are matched only by her investment in evidence-informed research as it applies to manual therapy. Tania’s appetite for continued learning is contagious. She is constantly exploring with you and encouraging 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
A proven track record with 30 years of verified, 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.
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.
The information and concepts presented in this course are truly a game changer. Massage and bodywork elevated to the next level.
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 and start leveraging your full potential.
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. 🐟
