Thai massage program
Classical Thai massage is focused on maintaining health and vitality while relieving tension and encouraging energy flow in the body through the use of massage, pressure points, and assisted stretching.
The program's focus is on a massage also known as ( Thai Massage). In one way, it is understood as an equivalent to physical therapy, used to promote healing and recovery from various types of injuries, including repetitive injuries, when the body comes into balance it naturally begins to heal.
Course Descriptions
Thai massage is different from other forms of massage, there is no oil applied, the practitioner uses a comfortable floor mat (as opposed to a table), and the client remains comfortably clothed throughout the massage. Which helps to open this modality and service to many new clients.
Thai massage blends pressure, and stretching, benefiting those who find themselves stiff, sore, and tired from over-exertion in work or sports, or from arthritis or other debilitating diseases. Thai massage enhances strength and flexibility, relaxes sore or tense muscles, and can help to recapture lost range of motion. By encouraging lymphatic function, this traditional massage can also detoxify the body, heighten the immune system, and prevent disease or injury by promoting flexibility.
Ethics and business practices
Code of ethics, standards, scope of practice with the requirements of massage therapy, the importance of client confidentiality and the basic psychological and physical dynamics of practitioner- client relationships. Legal and ethical parameter of scope of practice, planning strategies for single and multiple sessions, and session record keeping practices. How to build your practice and have return clients emphasizing the importance of physical fitness, breathing and nutrition. Lessons in grace, hygiene, and personal attributes, stance, and body movement. More on ethics and business instruction.
Anatomy, physiology and kinesiology
Anatomical direction, planes of division and body cavities. General knowledge of the ten body systems and processes through the study of anatomy and physiology and its correlation with massage therapy.
Pathology
Medical terminology, signs and symptoms of disease, psychological and emotional states (depression, anxiety, grief), effects of physical and emotional abuse and trauma, and factors of/alleviation of disease (biological, psychological, environmental). Modes of contagious disease transmission (blood, saliva), effects of life stages (childhood, adolescence, and geriatric), indications, contraindications and cautions for massage therapy, the principles of acute chronic conditions and the body's natural ability to heal itself.
