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The Ancient Art of Thai Massage is an ideal study choice for anyone who desires a career in alternative healing.
- It's a way to earn extra money doing something that helps others.
- It is perfect for anyone who wants to complement their yoga practice or yoga teaching with the experience of this hands-on practice.
- It is ideal for anyone who wants to deepen their intuition and sensitivity by feeling the body and the subtle energy running through
the meridians.
- Thai Yoga Massage is a complete health discipline that keeps the practitioner strong, fit, and flexible, while deepening the practitioner's
self-awareness and breath awareness.
Each Thai Yoga Massage treatment works along the Energy lines (Meridians system) using Yoga stretches and adjustments , acupressure , reflexology and internal organ massage .
Byron Thai Massage School offers 3-week intensive, MAA, OHPAA, ATMS and AAMT Accredited,
Thai Yoga Massage courses that bring to Australia the hands-on techniques taught in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
This experiential course provides students with the practical skills required to perform the Art of Thai Yoga Massage in the Traditional
Northern style, with some additional wisdom from the traditions of Pilates and Yoga on correct body alignment.
The comprehensive training, in the intimate setting of the beautiful studio built for the course and the individual
attention offered, require that class sizes are kept small with a maximum of ten students per course.
Byron Thai Massage School is directed by Valentina Gombi, an experienced and passionate therapist, and accredited teacher, who has
studied with various Masters in Thailand and has been practicing full time since 2000.
Treatments are 100% money back guarantee, if you are unsatisfied with the session, don't pay.
Learn to flow yours and your client's energy! Study the ancient healing art of Traditional Thai Massage in a 3 week
intensive training course in Byron Bay, Australia.
Recieve one of Valentina's deepest, most thorough and complete full body Thai Massage massage. Surrender to the Yoga stretches,
the rocking movements and the manipulations and you will come out relaxed and energised at the same time.
The foundation of Thai Massage is based on the concept that a life force (also known as prana , chi or energy flow ) circulates throughout the body maintaining health and vitality. This life force - invisible currents that can be felt and experienced - is believed to run along approximately 72,000 energy lines or Sens , roughly equivalent to the meridians of Chinese acupuncture and to the Ayurvedic Nadi channels. When this energy flow is blocked or restricted, sickness or disease may develop.
To clear these blockages Thai Massage combines the application of pressure (produced with hands, thumbs, elbows, forearms, feet and knees) with manipulation , adjustment and muscle stretching to provide a comprehensive bodywork experience designed to improve overall health and well-being. Energy pathways are cleared, muscles are elongated, joints are mobilized, internal organs and all bodily functions are supported to move towards a more balanced state.
Thai Massage is like having yoga done to your body. The muscle stretching which takes the form of yoga style asanas, frees up joint spaces and deepens the stretch in a way that is passive for the recipient, yet very active in its effects. As it is similar in style, Thai Massage also offers similar benefits to yoga : flexibility, internal organ massage, oxygenation of the blood, mobilization, postural alignment, and quieting of the mind. Yoga practitioners have said: ãWith Thai Massage you are having the movements done to you. It removes the preoccupation with trying to get there and suddenly you are in a pose and enjoying itä.
Thai Massage is also very beneficial for the practitioners because it allows them to enter a meditative state of mind, stretch and strengthen their own bodies while working on clients.
The combination of yoga stretching, reflexology and acupressure make Thai Massage a very unique healing art that acts as a lymphatic
cleanser helping to eliminate toxins created by physical, mental and emotional stress.
By removing the obstructions that cause illness within the body, Thai Massage, like YOGA offers benefits that are multi-level, infact
Thai Massage:
* releases tense muscles and knots
* increases flexibility and joint movement
* assists postural alignment
* stimulates internal organs
* improves neurological functioning & vitality
* relieves tension and stress
* helps healing long term injuries
* balances the energy flow through the body
* helps strengthen the immune system
* induces deep relaxation
* calms the mind
The origin of Thai Massage traces back to the time of Yogic and Ayurvedic medicine existing 2500 years ago, at the time of the historical
Buddha. The credit for the development of Thai Massage as a medical practice goes to a famous Indian doctor named Dr Shivago Komarpaj,
who was the personal physician of the Buddha and the monks in the monasteries of the time. His name is mentioned in the traditional
writings of Theravada Buddism which views him as "the father of medicine".
Through the centuries the monks, who were the practitioners of medicine, transmitted to Thailand both Buddhist practices and Ayurvedic
medicine which eventually became an integral part of Thai culture. The generations of experience and knowledge learnt and passed
down, through feeling and intuition, has made Thai Massage one of the four principal components of traditional thai medicine, along
with nutrition, herbal medicine and spiritual practice. Thai Massage, infact, traditionally incorporates two kinds of meditations:
a metta meditation of loving kindness and compassion and a vipassana meditation of insight, which focuses on the receiver's body.
A Thai Massage therapeutic treatment combines the Eastern knowledge of Acupressure, Yoga, Reflexology and Nerve touch with techniques
similar to some Western physiotherapies such as: Mayo fascia, Trigger point, Chiropractic and others.
The combination of energetic and physical work from both the East and the West is a unique characteristic that makes of Thai Massage
one of the most thorough treatments.
Working along the meridians - energy channels where the chi, or vital force runs - with a combination of acupressure, joint manipulations, yoga stretches and adjustments, Valentina not only releases knots, tension and energy blockages created by physical, mental and emotional stress, but actually drains the sick, unhealthy, stagnant energy out of the body, through the meridians, leaving the receiver free and energized! This technique, that Valentina learnt from Master Poo, is also called "Nerve and Energy realignment" and it is considered one of the deepest, most thorough and complete full body treatments.
For Early Birds details, please go to the Course Fee section.
For each course, please send the registration form at least 5 weeks prior to commencement date. Thank you.
It is desirable to complete Levels I + II + practice week together. If that is not possible, students have the opportunity to attend
Level I, Level II and the practice week at different times.
(See Certifications and CPE Points Accreditation )
This course brings to Australia the hands-on techniques taught by ITM and the Old medical hospital in Chiang Mai. It provides students with the practical skills to perform the Art of Thai Yoga Massage in the traditional Northern style of Thailand, but with the addition of the Pilates and Yoga knowledge accumulated through years of personal practice, teaching and experience of the teachers of the course.
The use of Western anatomical terms will be kept to a minimum, as students are encouraged to be in touch with their feeling and develop their intuitive sense.
On the first day of the program, students will be introduced to the philosophy of Thai Massage, the working rules, precautions,
techniques (using of palms, thumbs, feet, elbows and knees) and correct practitioner's body positioning.
During the first week, students will learn how to move and unblock energy in the body through reflexology, energy line work (meridians)
of the legs and arms, pressure points and stretches. Special emphasis is on leg work and leg stretches, for the hips and hamstrings
and the mobilization of the joints.
A simple, but extremely deep and powerful technique for the abdominal work, or internal organ massage, is learnt to unlock the energy
in the core/ara of the body.
All students will learn to perform a complete massage on the front part of the body (feet to neck).
The second week will guide students through the use of reflexology, energy line work, pressure points and stretches on different
positions: client laying on the side, back and sitting. Similar techniques are learnt on different positions to allow massage on
pregnant women, injured, or simply create variations of treatments.
Main acupressure points are introduced for therapeutic treatments.
Special emphasis is on the whole back and shoulders, through meridian work and stretches, spinal twists and many different back
bends, so to improve flexibility of the whole spine. Pelvis mobilization, hip points, safe quads and psoas stretches and more are
all part of this second week. The program closes with the pressure points of the face massage.
At the end of the second week, students will have all information to perform a full body Thai Yoga massage of up to 3hrs long.
This week focuses on consolidating and integrating what has been taught in Levels I + II.
Students are given the chance to practice the sequence over and over with each other and the teacher.
They will deepen their experience of how Thai Massage feels to give and receive; learn from feedback; memorize movements, stretches
and sequences; fine tune their movements, pressure, use of the body weight etc.
It is a great chance for students to focus on their own body, posture and techniques.
On the last day students will prepare few different 2hrs sequences (ex: lower back pain and shoulder and neck pain treatment) to
perform in a final test.
Byron Thai Massage School is accredited by:
The Massage Association of Australia Inc. (MMA)
The Oriental Health Practitioner Association of Australia (OHPAA)
Graduates of the 3 week intensive course are eligible for MAA Membership. This quailifies students for Insurance cover. The certificate
of attendance is awarded only on completion of Level I + II + Practice week (90 hrs).
| Byron Thai Massage School is also accredited by the Australian Traditional Medicine Society Ltd (ATMS) and Australian Association of Massage Therapist Ltd (AAMT) for Continuing Professional Education (CPE). |
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