Events and Classes
IMT Training
Balance Health Chiropractic is pleased to offer a fully-certified IMT program of learning through face-to-face training sessions in Tauranga.
The program teaches health-care practitioners the principles and techniques of IMT, which can be incorporated into their current wellness practice.
Full weekend sessions (Friday evening to Sunday afternoon) are held six to seven times per year covering a different aspect of the body’s many systems. Participants can start the program at any time.
In the US, the full IMT certification program is run as a three-year intensive through North West University, CT. As a certified IMT teacher, Carla runs the same certification program here on a part-time basis, spread out over a longer time period.
Pace is dictated by the students’ level of skill and commitment, and if students are unavailable for a particular course they can learn the skills when the course is offered again.
Each course is run in its entirety during the weekend class, which means practitioners gain immediate skills to incorporate into their current practice.
IMT is unique in that we will train both unqualified health-care practitioners and trained practitioners alike.
https://imtwellnesscenter.com/
From time to time, we aim to run community talks and seminars to help more people understand the benefits of Integrated Manual Therapy.
As a clinic for holistic health, it is our vision that people stand at the center of their healing journey and learn about the potential for the body to heal itself given the right environment.
Check here for updates.
Cranial Therapy Series, Level One: 22nd - 24th May 2026
Date: 22nd-24th May 2026
Duration: 3 Days
Credit Hours: 21hrs
Cost: NZD 1,265 incl GST
Course Description: This course is the beginning of the Cranial Therapy Series. In this course, the student is introduced to the cranial system and cranial therapy. On the first day, the student learns how to palpate and assess the CRI (Cranial Rhythmic Impulse/Cranio-Sacral Rhythm). During the second and third days, presentation includes assessment and treatment of suture and joint restrictions and treatment of the cranial and facial vaults: the temporomandibular joints, the sphenobasilar joint, and the cranial and facial articulations. During these last days, the student will also learn how to assess and treat dura mater restrictions.
Course Objectives:
- Anatomy and biomechanics of the cranial fault in order to address cranial problems whatever the client population.
- Techniques to improve mobility and motility (biologic rhythms) of the head and neck.
- Techniques to decrease cranial symptoms.
Cranial Therapy Series, Level Two: 19th - 21st June 2026
Date: 19th-21st June 2026
Duration: 3 Days
Credit Hours: 22Hrs
Cost: NZD 1,265 Including GST
Course Description: This course is a continuation of the Cranial Therapy Series. The focus of this course is on assessment and treatment of membranous tissue of the cranial vault, the fluid pressure system, the facial vault, and intra-oral dysfunction. The student will learn how to treat persons with more involved cranial and neurologic dysfunction.
Course Objectives:
- Techniques to affect pain and disability from cranial and spinal membrane dysfunction.
- Techniques to affect face pain.
Summer School, via Zoom CT, USA: 1-3rd August 2026
Date: 1-3rd August 2026
Topic to be determined
Price last year was USD 750
Advanced Concussion Solutions: 28th - 30th August 2026
Date: 28-30th Aug 2026
Duration: 3 Days
Credit Hours: 22Hrs
Cost: NZD 1,265 Including GST
Helix Biomechanics, Advanced Spine 2: 18th - 20th September 2026
Date: 18-20th Sept 2026
Duration: 3 Days
Credit Hours: 22Hrs
Cost: NZD 1,265 Including GST
Course Description:
This course is an advanced lab course and is included in the Biomechanics Series as well as an advanced lab course focusing on the spine. In the course, the student will be introduced to many advanced protocols, techniques, and motilities important for correction of complex spinal syndromes such as low back pain and sciatica; cervical syndrome; spinal pain and dysfunction; scoliosis and other postural dysfunction; osteoporosis; spinal disorders related to trauma and surgery; spinal cord injury with infection, inflammation, circulation insufficiency, weakness and paralysis. The student will gain critical thinking and clinical skills in many new IMT techniques as well as gain an understanding of these spinal syndromes.
Course Objectives:
- To assess the spinal column and spinal cord, to locate and isolate problems affecting motor and sensory function
- Techniques for treatment of spinal pain, dysfunction and disability
Future Class: 16th - 18th October 2026
Date: 16-18th October 2026
Duration: 3 Days
Credit Hours: 22Hrs
Cost: NZD 1,265 Including GST
I highly recommend Carla. I first met Carla as a patient in 2024, and I was very impressed by her approach to treatment, as well as her knowledge across many areas relating to health. As an osteopath myself, I was interested to learn more about what Carla did and how she approached her work.
I have now completed six courses and intend to complete more this year. Carla is not only a skilled practitioner, but also a natural teacher. With each IMT course I have done, I have learnt a great deal from Carla, both in theory and through hands-on practice, and I feel fortunate to have her as my mentor.