massage school

Each training course includes two separate six-day sessions (Sunday through Friday) with one month of independent study and practice in between. The ocean, river, forest environment creates a natural retreat atmosphere for the student's exploration. Participants form a close-knit community of friendship and mutual support as they examine the spiritual relationship between feeling states, belief systems and how they affect the body.

Tai chi, yoga and low-impact aerobics are incorporated into daily curriculum. By the end of session one, students will feel confident giving a full-body massage that combines shiatsu, Iymphatic massage, and chakra balancing with polarity, deep body work and the Swedish/Oriental traditions. This massage becomes a dance of aliveness, pleasure and transcendence. During the month of independent study, students are required to give three massages per week. Assigned research and reading are completed along with journals of each massage. This work is sent in and evaluated prior to the second session.

The second session examines healing models and the meaning of being human. Transformational Bodywork, as developed in this school, asks the question “Who lives in this body?” This introduction surveys deep tissue body work and personal growth. Advanced seminars in Transformational Bodywork are available to graduates. Second session also explores Energy Work in the form of Acupressure Modalities and SHEN, a physioemotional release therapy, and Touch For Health–which examines balance and integration of the body through muscle testing. Lessons in anatomy and physiology encompass Iymphatic and vascular systems. The Law of Five Elements and the role and function of the meridians, organs and muscles. The students also explore their identities as massage practitioners in various experiential processes.

At the end of the massage school students take an examination home to complete. Approximately three weeks later, our graduation ceremony takes place where diplomas are issued and a celebration is held. Professional and personal use of skills and knowledge acquired in our training have an immediate, positive effect on every graduate's self-esteem and financial right livelihood.