How to Get Certified in Dry Needling with Intricate Art Dry Needling Classes

Getting certified in dry needling is an effective way for physical therapists, chiropractors, and other healthcare providers to expand their skill set and offer enhanced treatment options for pain management and muscle recovery. At Intricate Art Spine & Body Solutions, our dry needling certification courses are designed to provide hands-on training and a deep understanding of the techniques, anatomy, and safety protocols involved in dry needling. With expert instructors and evidence-based curriculum, our programs equip practitioners with the skills and confidence to incorporate dry needling into their practice, helping clients relieve pain, improve mobility, and achieve optimal recovery outcomes. Whether you’re new to dry needling or looking to expand your expertise, our courses offer a comprehensive path to certification and professional growth.

Between our Dry Needling 1 and Dry Needling 2 classes, we cover how to needle all the safely needleable (new medical term… you’re welcome) structures in the body, aside from the pelvic floor, which we cover in our Lumbopelvic Dry Needling course.

If you are new to needling, you may begin with Dry Needling 1, Dry Needling 2, or Lumbopelvic Dry Needling. I specifically created the courses this way to make our material more approachable for more people. There is no difference in “difficulty” between these courses, the content is simply different, although all based within our unique autonomic nervous system-centered framework.

Dry Needling 1 class is a 3-day, 27-hour course where we cover the majority of the body aside from the hands, face, feet, and pelvic floor. Whatever we don’t cover in DN 1, as far a needleable structures go, we cover in DN 2, and then to complete your knowledge about everything you can safely needle in the human body, the pelvic floor is covered in our Lumbopelvic Dry Needling Course.

Dry Needling 2 class is a 3-day, 27-hour course where we cover everything in the hands, face, and feet, along with the remaining structures and approaches not covered in Dry Needling 1, all the while implementing our autonomic nervous system-centered approach to needling, health, and general wellbeing.

Dry Needling 3 class is a 2-day, 16-hour advanced course specifically focusing on how to implement our needling system into clinical practice to treat a wide variety of impairments. The autonomic nervous system is discussed in-depth, along with how to induce maximal homeostasis with our unique autonomic nervous system-centered approach. Instead of focusing on how to needle certain structures, like we do in Dry Needling 1, Dry Needling 2, and Lumbopelvic Dry Needling, in Dry Needling 3 we discuss and practice treating certain conditions, like palsies, scar hypomobility, plantar fasciitis, post-surgical impairments, rotator cuff pathology, headaches, incontinence, and more. Prior DN experience is required for this course only.

Intricate Art Lumbopelvic DN is a 2-day, 16-hour course on dry needling of the lumbopelvic structures, including the female and male pelvic floor. Students are not required to expose their pelvic floor in class. We provide live models for students who may be uneasy exposing their pelvic floor. A male and female instructor are present at all Lumbopelvic Dry Needling courses.

This course is for all practitioners, not only pelvic floor specialists. The pelvic floor is often the missing link to resolving those difficult, nagging impairments.

Our course focuses on treating the pelvic floor and associated structures as a means to help improve patient function relating to many impairments, not only pelvic health impairments. Pelvic floor needling is essential to achieving maximal potential autonomic nervous system homeostasis while treating any condition. Throughout the course you will learn the Intricate Art of pelvic floor needling to improve stress, anxiety, pain, athletic performance, and more.

The thoracolumbar spine, jaw, abdomen, pelvis, cervical spine, and hip joint complex are all essential to treating the pelvic floor and are covered in-depth throughout the course. Cesarean section and mastectomy scar needling, as well as an intro into pelvic manipulation is included. Internal palpation, internal treatment and internal assessment are NOT included in this course.

We cover the most important safety-related applications of needling in all our courses, the multifidus being one example. We do this to ensure our students are able to comfortably, safely, and effectively treat these areas after any class. This is important, as it improves both overall safety and overall efficacy of treatment.

By targeting locations like the auricular branch of the vagus nerve in the ear, cranial suture lines, upper cervical, suboccipital, S2-S4 and the structures said nerves innervate, along with certain locations in the hands, feet, and elsewhere, we can leverage the outsized homeostatic effects of needling certain areas to combat the unfortunate, typical state of the human nervous system: chronic sympathetic autonomic hyperactivity.

Throughout our courses we demonstrate and discuss our unique autonomic nervous system-centered approach focused on depressing sympathetic activity, elevating parasympathetic activity, and achieving autonomic nervous system homeostasis. You will walk away with a deep understanding of our needling methodology and how to help any impairment with dry needling, including why electric auricular vagus nerve needling is a key to success.

The gut-brain axis, hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, and trigeminocervical complex are all components of the autonomic nervous system and are strongly and positively affected by thoughtful needling. You will learn why. Electrical needling is discussed and you will learn why it increases efficacy, pain relief, and comfort of treatment. Advanced neurophysiology is discussed at length in regard to utilizing thoughtful dry needling to positively affect our autonomic nervous system and regulate it toward homeostasis. The key to health.