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Polarity Associate Polarity Practitioner

Southwest Institute of Healing Arts (SWIHA) is proud to be the only college in Arizona with an approved Associate Polarity Practitioner Program.  Students who complete this program as a specialty or Certificate of Excellence may become nationally certified by the American Polarity Therapy Association (APTA). 

The 200 hour Certificate of Excellence/Primary Specialty in Polarity program is designed for students enrolled our Massage Diploma or Mind-Body Transformational Psychology and Holistic Health Care AOS Degree program, as well as for continuing education students.  Polarity is a clothed modality and does not specifically require a massage license to practice the modality, although the majority of practitioners do combine Polarity with the practice of massage and are licensed massage therapists.  The 200 hour Associate Polarity Practitioner Certificate of Excellence is a very popular choice for students enrolled in the 600 hour Mind-Body Wellness Practitioner program as their Specialty.
 
Polarity Therapy has four distinct areas of technique by which proponents believe life force energy can be influenced: touch (accuprressure or point specific focusing), stretching and exercise, diet, and mental-emotional process.

Polarity therapy is a synthesis of ancient Eastern and alternative medicine health care ideas centered on the concept of a Human Energy Field. Using touch, verbal interaction, exercise, nutrition and other methods practitioners of Polarity Therapy seek to balance and restore the natural flow of energy which, it is claimed, flows from the universe and into the body through the chakras. Polarity Therapists work with the reciprocal, complementary or "polarized" forces, known as Yin and Yang.  Although, the concept of polarity implies two forces in opposition, these dualities are said by some to be mediated by a subtle third neutral factor, leading to the idea that phenomena are essentially triune in nature. In Ayurveda, the three factors are known as Rajas, Tamas, and Satva which is underlying theory on which this program is based.

SWIHA's Associate Polarity Practitioner Program is under the direction of Gary Strauss, Executive Director of Polarity Arts of California.
 
The required courses in the Polarity Certificate of Excellence are:

PC 100           Polarity - Basic I                                    

PC 850           Cranial Unwinding I                                    

PC 150           Polarity - Basic II                                       

PC 700           Polarity - Reflexology                                 

PC 400           Polarity - Communication, Resonance & Relations I                 

PC 200           Polarity APP/Cranial - Practicum
 

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