LGBT Health Issues - Online Continuing Education Hours

5 CEU Hours - $15

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Course Description

This course provides an overview of current health issues among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) populations. It is intended to create awareness among prevention specialists and healthcare providers of the needs, experiences, and health status of LGBT Americans. The course is appropriate for organizations and individuals that serve LGBT populations across the country.

Course Objectives

1. Make appropriate distinctions among the diverse LGBT population.

2. Be aware of the unique physical, behavioral and sexual health issues for different subsets of the LGBT community.

3. Be better able to identify, track and treat health needs for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trangender people.

4. Access many useful web-based resources on health issues for this population.

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5 Highly Popular Massage Treatments

Tshoulders, joints and neck are pressed hard with the help of fingertips and knuckles. The treatment is quite painful and requires constant hydration. Generally the sports persons get these massage treatments.

2. Hot Stone Therapy – Most attract therapy that uses a couple of swedish massage techniques and hot stones. The basalt stones contain iron to helps in retaining heat in the body. Massaging with these stones loosen up tight muscles, improve blood circulation and calm mind. This is the right body massage as the entire body is relaxed and de-stressed.


3. Thai Massage – This famous massage treatment is more like yoga. The therapists use their legs, knees and foot to apply pressure on your body and massage. One advantage for opting for this massage treatment is that you can be dressed. There is no lotion, stone or any oil used for the reflexology.


4. Japanese Massage – Also called the shiatsu massage means finger pressure. It is specifically done to calm mind and improve circulation in nervous system. The therapist applies pressure on body using palms and fingers. There is no dress code as such to the massage but wearing loose fit and light coloured cotton will be ideal.


5. Swedish Massage – The oil massage demands you to take off your clothes and wear a towel. Also called the aromatherapy, the fragrant oils are used to relax and stretch the muscles. The pressure is gentle unlike the deep tissue massage. Improves blood circulation in the body and relieves pain.

Shadow Work: Transforming Emotional Suffering into Freedom

Shadow Work: Transforming Emotional Suffering into Freedom

If you read last month’s blog,Creativity vs Shadow, you will remember a brief mention of Deepak and Gotham Chopra’s book,The Seven Spiritual Laws of Superheroes. In the book Chopra identified shadow as a “force of the unconscious that can be destructive, divisive and/or self-sabotaging if it remains unconscious”. Shadow is difficult to recognize because left to it’s own devices it remains unconscious. Shadow is a zapping energy that lurks in the area of emotional suffering caused to oneself or to another. The concept can be broadly applied to families, groups, religions, governments, countries, etc. if we consider them bodies of energy.

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