Orientation Module
Janet Mwamburi, BSc, RMT, COTT, MOT
Registered Educator by Saskatchewan Ministry of Advanced Education
Role: Instructor – Orientation Module
Email: janet@moccanada.ca
Janet is a Bachelor of Science Graduate from the University of Alberta: Augustana Faculty, a massage therapy graduate of Northern Institute of Massage Therapy and Alberta College of Massage Therapy, Calgary, Alberta. Janet has attained training in Osteoarticular Techniques; Myofascial Remodeling; Visceral Manipulation; Low Intensity Laser Therapy; Pregnancy Massage and Therapeutic Ball Release. She has also completed the Instructor Development Program and is certified in Basic American Sign Language. Janet became an instructor in 2012 and completed two NACC Instructor Development Programs. Janet feels very fortunate to have the opportunity to encourage manual osteopathic therapists-in-training as they pursue their dreams of helping others into health and wellness. If you asked Janet what the greatest highlight of her role is, she would say “Nothing excites me more than listening to budding practitioners talk about how their techniques effected lasting change and vastly improved their client’s quality of life. Nothing beats that!”
Osteoarticulations Module
Blaine Skleryk, BSc, MSc, RMT, COTTI, DMO, CCSE
Registered Educator by Saskatchewan Advanced Education
Role: Instructor – Osteoarticulations
Email: blaine@moccanada.ca
Blaine is co-founder of LaserHealth® Solutions and lives in Calgary where he has worked in his busy practice since 2004 treating a variety of chronic and acute soft tissue and joint conditions. Using a manual osteopathic approach Blaine has helped his clients find relief from chronic somatic dysfunction through a uniquely integrated approach, working to restore balance within many systems of the body.
Blaine is a Manual Osteopathic Therapist, a Registered Massage Therapist, an Onsen® Techniques Instructor, and a Certified Clinical Somatics Educator. Blaine holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Kinesiology (University of Waterloo,1982), and a Masters of Science in Biomechanics and Biomedical Sciences (University of Alberta, 1985). Prior to commencing his clinical practice, Blaine worked in gait assessment research at the University of Waterloo and the Human Performance Laboratory of the University of Calgary.
Blaine enjoys teaching the complicated subject matter of osteoarticular techniques in a simple and understandable way.
Terri Cuthill, RMT, MOT
Role: Instructor – Osteoarticulations
Email: terri@moccanada.ca
Terri graduated from Alberta Massage Training in 2009 and became a teacher’s assistant in February 2010. She completed an online instructor course in November 2010. To add to her skills, Terri has taken a cranio sacral workshop, a jade stone workshop and standard first aid and level C CPR. In September 2019, Terri completed the Manual Osteopathic Therapy program with Manual Osteopathic College of Canada. Terri is an active member of the Canadian Massage and Manual Osteopathic Therapist Association, working out of a clinic in Sherwood Park during the week. Terri enjoys helping others, whether it’s working out a client’s knots or helping a student learn the body.
Involuntary Mechanisms Module
Dwayne Manary, DC, DMO
Registered Educator by Saskatchewan Advanced Education
Role: Instructor – Involuntary Mechanisms
Email: dwayne@moccanada.ca
Dwayne is a practicing Manual Osteopathic Therapist. He loves manual osteopathic therapy because of the whole body fluid movement approach to form and function. His personal philosophy is “Movement Is Life” and his professional purpose is to help clients to do more of what they love to do.
After spending five years at chiropractic college in Dallas, Texas, Dwayne and his wife moved to Melbourne, Australia, where he practiced for ten years. Dwayne and his wife moved back to Red Deer where they could be close to extended family through their kids’ school years.
Dwayne is a co-owner of Black Rock Therapies in Red Deer, Alberta, where he practices as a Manual Osteopathic Therapist.
Darlene Diminutto, RMT, CST-T, BSc, CCSE, ERYT200
Registered Educator by Saskatchewan Advanced Education
Role: Instructor – Involuntary Mechanisms
Email: darlene@moccanada.ca
Darlene graduated from the University of Toronto in 1986 with a degree in Human Physiology. In 1993, while working it the Foothills Hospital in The Cardiac Cath Lab, she took her first massage therapy class as a night course. Over her 25 years of massage therapy, Darlene has taken workshops in different osteopathic techniques and have woven them into her practice. “If I had known about Manual Osteopathic Therapy 20 years ago I would have taken the whole program!”. In 2010 Darlene enrolled in an Upledger Craniosacral class and was hooked. Realizing that bodywork did not have to be a battle between the client’s body and the therapist, that it could be cooperative work with the client’s innate healing knowledge leading the way, she has continued her studies in bodywork focusing on CranioSacral Therapy, fascial release techniques, Lymphatic Drainage Therapy and Somatic Education. Darlene is a certified CST from the Upledger Institute and is currently working toward certification in MLD from the Chikly Institute.
Darlene has studied Iyengar Yoga, Sivananda Yoga, Astanga Yoga, Anusara Yoga and Critical Alignment Therapy (CAT) Yoga. It was the therapy of the movements that attracted her attention and the different intentions that each style of yoga offered that expanded her learning.
It was through her yoga community that she was introduced to Somatics. After completing the “Myth of Aging” workshop and realizing that this was the “missing link” for her clients to heal fully, she signed up for the full clinical training. Today Darlene teaches Critical Alignment Therapy classes infused with Somatics and runs Somatic Movement workshops to facilitate the healing potential of movement that is within each of us. Darlene loves to be outside, cross county skiing in the winter and kayaking and hiking in the summer. She also plays badminton and has a serious addition to pickleball.
Visceral Manipulations Module
Sheryl Hamilton, BSc, RMT, RCST®
Registered Educator by Saskatchewan Advanced Education
Role: Instructor – Visceral Manipulation
Email: sheryl@moccanada.ca
Sheryl Hamilton has been in practice as an RMT since 1997, first in Toronto and then in Vancouver and now in Armstrong, BC. She has taught the anatomy and neuroanatomy components of massage therapy at both the Swedish Institute College of Health Sciences in New York, NY and at OVCMT in Vernon, BC. Sheryl has been developing and teaching continuing education courses to massage therapists since 2012. Her own Continuing Education training includes Visceral Manipulation through the Barral Institute and Biodyamic Craniosacral Therapy training through Body Intelligence. Sheryl brings a passion for living anatomy and the process of healing to her teaching, to facilitate ease of understanding and application for students. Sheryl is also trained as a Spiritual Director. She lives in Armstrong with her husband, two sons, poodle Orion and tortoise Flower.
Gaelen Gibson, RMT
Role: Instructor – Visceral Manipulation
Email: gaelen@moccanada.ca
Gaelen graduated from Sutherland-Chan in 1995 and has been happily working in BC since. She went from exploring deep-tissue work into lighter more specific modalities as her hands became more sensitive and developed better proprioception. “Like many therapists, I explored a lot different manual therapy modalities. I took a visceral class with the Barral Institute and was hooked! It’s like I found a groove that fit with my perception of the work that I do and the world I live in. I’ve gone through most of their offered curriculum and became a TA for them, I loved helping other therapists ‘get’ the visceral component.” She re-developed and teaches an Introduction to Visceral class for Langara College’s RMT program and is super excited to share her love of visceral and the advanced visceral program with the students of MOCC.
Most of Gaelen’s practice involves visceral work of some sort, she loves working with women’s issues (lots of digestion and pelvic organs) as well as infants and children.
Myofascial Remodelling Module
Tanya Simpson, RMT, MOT
Registered Educator by Saskatchewan Advanced Education
Role: Instructor – Advanced Myofascial Remodeling
Email: tanya@moccanada.ca
Tanya is a Registered Massage Therapist and Manual Osteopathic Therapist who has practiced in both provinces. A graduate of the West Coast College of Massage Therapy in 2008; she developed an interest in fascia early in her career. This prompted her to pursue further study of fascia related techniques in the majority of the professional development courses she has taken. She continues to increase her expertise of fascia through studies and her practice.
Tanya currently has her own massage therapy/manual osteopathic therapy practice in Edmonton. She is excited for the opportunity to inspire other health care professionals on the importance of a healthy fascial system and teach methods to treat fascial dysfunction.
Corbett McCabe, RMT, BA
Role: Instructor – Advanced Myofascial Remodeling
Email: corbett@moccanada.ca
Corbett graduated from Okanagan Valley College of Massage Therapy in Vernon, BC in 2010. He is an RMT working at West Kelowna Massage Therapy and Wellness. Corbett’s practice focuses on Intergated Fascial Techniques, these include Myofascial, Cranial Sacral Therapy and Visceral treatment. He has completed much of his training as well as a 3 year IFT series under his mentor and friend Natale Rao. Although born and raised in the prairies he has greatly appreciated living in the Okanagan for the past 12 years. He feels that teaching and learning are always connected and they truly promote each other. Corbett is excited to assist other health care professionals in understanding and working with Fascia.
