DAHM Academy

🎊 Welcome Kate 🎊

We’re so pleased to welcome Kate to the DAHM team, who’ll be joining Dan in delivering our Level 3 Diploma in Sports Massage Therapy!

With a BSc in Sport and Exercise Science and six years’ experience as a PE teacher, Kate brings a brilliant combination of practical knowledge, teaching experience and enthusiasm for helping others learn.

Having refreshed her Level 3 Sports Massage qualification with us, she’s now working towards her Level 4, so she knows exactly what it’s like to be on the other side of the learning experience!

Outside of teaching, you’ll find Kate in the gym or spending time with her family and golden Labrador, Zeus 🐾

A great addition to the team, and another experienced educator for our learners to work with 💜🚀

…Swipe for her baptism of fire trying to manage the unruliest members of DAHM 🙄😂

Weekend 5/6 for our L3 PT learners…things are getting real!

This weekend we focussed on client consultations, effective communication and health and fitness screening. From postural assessments and range of motion testing, to 1.5-mile runs and pull-up tests, there was plenty of hands-on learning, alongside some really valuable discussions around real-life scenarios and how these skills translate into working with clients 🤲🏼

Having structured, face-to-face weekends doesn’t just provide opportunities to practise, ask questions and learn from one another. It creates accountability, keeps learners progressing and helps them work towards completing their qualification in a realistic timeframe.

The finish line is in sight, and it’s brilliant to see how far this group has come!
One more weekend…🚀

When completing a qual just makes sense! And with some of the best in Cumbria around me I probably should’ve done it sooner 🫠😂

Level 3 Diploma in Sports Massage Therapy…completed it ✅

But there was a bigger reason for doing this…I want to be more available to our SMT learners and graduates. To better support them, empathise with them, and hopefully become a better educator because of it 🤲🏼

It also means I’ll be spending a few hours each week working hands-on in the clinic, building my experience and putting my new skills into practice. But before anyone thinks I’m disappearing from the Academy…absolutely not! If anything you’ll all see more of me than ever 😂

And if you do plan on coming to us after completing the Cumbrian Run…I’ll be the flustered one asking you a million times if the pressures ok 🤦🏻‍♀️😂

Stop thinking about the thing...Start doing the thing 🫱🏼‍🫲🏽

Our Level 3 Diploma in Sports Massage Therapy course dates for 2026 & 2027 are here 👆🏼

This is a face-to-face course and the dates above are the weekends you will be with us in clinic covering a mixture of theory and practical 🤲🏼

If you’re already a gym instructor, PT, studying physiotherapy or sports rehabilitation, this is a particularly useful string to add to your bow 🏹
Improve your understanding of soft tissue, get more confident assessing what you’re feeling, and add a skill that can really complement the way you already work with clients, patients and athletes.

If the thing holding you back is feeling nervous or a little out of your comfort zone… don’t wait for that feeling to disappear. Harness it. Turn the nerves into excitement and come and learn alongside other like-minded people!

DM us for more information 📩

Congratulations to our latest myofascial dry needling graduates 🪡👏🏼

A brilliant group who really embraced the learning, challenged their thinking and finished the weekend demonstrating their competency by successfully completing their theory and practical assessments…walking away with another skill to add to their clinical toolbox 🫱🏼‍🫲🏽

We hope you enjoy integrating this modality into your practice!

Heather Hills | Sports Massage Therapist | Appleby
Ross AJ Metcalfe
Justin Braines
Shaz Holmes
MB SPORTS MASSAGE&PERFORMANCE
Beau Studholme
Lucy 💥

Honoured to have been invited along to ARK KONDITIONING KLUB tonight…and proud to know we’ve played even a small part in Jamie’s journey to creating this place. A space where proper expert coaching and a genuine family feel sit side by side. And the fact the boys felt at home enough to get stuck straight in says it all 🌪️😂
So excited to see what’s to come. You’ve all created something really special and should be immensely proud 🤲🏼

Weekend 4 of 6 for our L3 Personal Training learners 💪🏼
From delivering their business presentations to getting stuck into the practical application of Unit 3: Understanding lifestyle, health, wellbeing and common medical conditions…last weekend was all about developing PTs who can think, adapt and coach the person in front of them 🤲🏼

Learners covered: 
🏋🏼 Adapting programmes for clients with low-risk medical conditions
👀 Movement screening…looking at how someone actually moves and using what they see to cue 
📈 Knowing when, why and how to regress or progress exercise

Good programming isn’t just about having a bank of exercises. It’s knowing which ones are right for the person standing in front of you. And it’s this knowledge that will set the group up well as they move into the final two weekends covering client consultations and programme design and delivery 💪🏼