Linda Hoppe, Bkin, TRP, MT
Linda Hoppe is the Proud Owner, CEO, and co-founder of Seminars for Health Inc, the Western Canada leader in Massage Therapy Advanced Education offered in both in-class and online.
Linda has utilized her 30+ years of experience treating, instructing, curriculum design, and course development to acquire the best faculty to develop courses exclusive to Seminars for Health. As a Lead Instructor, she taught Musculoskeletal Anatomy, Gross anatomy, Deep Tissue Massage, Arthrology, Advanced Massage Techniques, Treatment, Clinical Internship, and Kinetic Massage. Linda has an innate gift for instruction as well as developing courses that are comprehensive and challenging, yet achievable. Her course delivery is clear, confident and caring.
Linda is the creator of SFH Orthopedic Massage, SFH Kinetic Massage and SFH Assisted Stretching Online Certification programs. Linda’s published and created, Dynamic Muscle Base, Kinetic Method principles and SFH Orthopedic Massage Handbook. Linda’s passion for elevating the profession of massage therapy is evident through her creation and offering of high-quality continuing education courses. Linda was proudly inducted on the Hall of Fame in 2020 at the World Massage Conference.
Linda is an active member of the Mount Royal University Massage Advisory Committee and has extensive international clinical experience. She had the chance to practice using the many languages she enjoys speaking, working in Spain, Quebec, and Alberta. She holds a degree in Kinesiology from the University of Calgary, a three-year diploma as a Physiotherapy Technician from CEGEP F.X Garneau, Quebec and is a Massage Therapy graduate from Mount Royal University.
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I wanted to take Pregnancy and Postnatal Massage with Seminars for Health to become more confident in treating pregnant and postpartum women as my college didn’t touch on this at all. I honestly feel that a lot of therapist leave school scared and too nervous to treat pregnant and postpartum women. I actively avoided it. Janine does a great job of dispelling the misinformation that’s out there regarding pregnancy and massage. Her knowledge and experience is vast and fills you with confidence. She showed some great techniques and made sure everyone was super confident with the sidelying positioning, draping and bolstering. The booklet we used and took home is great and really useful. I’ve been taking it with me when I have a maternity or postpartum massage just for reference. It gives you all of the contraindications and cautions to watch out for broken down into trimester as well as safe positioning and techniques to use for each trimester. All in all I feel 100 times more confident since taking the course and I feel like clients feel more cofident in you when you know the right questions to ask and understand the issues facing pregnant and postpartum women. I would highly recommend this course to all therapists! Pregnant women aren’t scary and they need massage and support more than anyone.