Level 1-2 Ayurvedic Yoga Massage Therapist Training

Wed Feb 22 2023 at 10:00 am to Sun Feb 26 2023 at 05:00 pm

The Hideout Bristol | Bristol

The Hideout Bristol
Publisher/HostThe Hideout Bristol
Level 1-2 Ayurvedic Yoga Massage Therapist Training Ayurvedic Yoga Massage is a wonderfully effective method, which is a pleasure to both give and receive. It was developed by Kusum Modak in Pune, India, based on traditional Ayurvedic Massage and Iyengar yoga. AYM's popularity in the UK has been growing, as more therapists and clients experience it. This training is suitable for beginners, but also as a specialization for therapists trained in other modalities.
Ayurvedic Yoga Massage Levels 1-2 is an intensive 37-hour course, which teaches you an extremely effective AYM sequence, and helps you develop your intuition as to how to adjust the method to suit client needs.
We will be completing the practical training from 10 am to 5 pm on Wednesday 22nd to Sunday 26th February. The online introduction consists of approximately 6 hours of short videos, which can be accessed and completed in the two weeks before starting the practical element of the course at the students' convenience.
On completion of the practical part of the training you will also receive videos of the whole training, which you will maintain access to at no additional cost for one year, as well as a one-year student membership of the Ayurvedic Yoga Massage Therapists Association.
In Level 1 students find out what Ayurvedic Yoga Massage is and what it can do. We understand what it is that we are trying to achieve, setting the foundations for students to become exceptional practitioners who will help transform people's lives. The Level 1 training includes:
1. Body mechanics: how to position your body and adjust the techniques to make sure you are working with ease, using your body weight rather than your strength. This will feel a lot nicer to your clients and protect your own body in the long term. Offering AYM feels wonderful for the therapist's body, you warm up, breathe, move, and even stretch a little, much like an easy yoga practice (videos, and practical training in classroom)
2. Indications and contra-indications (for AYM treatments generally and for each specific technique), and safe and comfortable prone and supine lying positions for the client. Learning when and how clients' bodies need to be supported, and what positions are appropriate for which clients (videos and practical training).
3. Learning how to respond to the sensations that we get from our hands/feet/other body parts that we massage with. We need to understand what the quality of the tissues that we are massaging is like, how we adjust the surface area and amount of pressure appropriately, and which body parts we can use to provide the pressure that the client needs with ease, without straining any part of our own bodies (practical training)
4. Similarly, we learn to interpret the feedback that we get from the soft tissues when we are stretching, and the client's feedback, to understand when and how far is beneficial to stretch (practical).
5. Clear and effective communication with the client, building a trusting relationship that can help foster healing (videos and practical application in classroom)
6. Massage ethics (1 hour in classroom)
7. Hygiene (videos and practical application)
8. Business skills (videos, if any questions arise during the classroom hours we answer them, plus ongoing support after your training).
The techniques that we learn in L1 can be put together to form a sequence that will feel wonderful to clients to receive, and very effective in terms of its therapeutic benefits. It will feel fairly complete as a treatment (clients will feel like they've received a full body massage), even though we are not yet learning how to massage every single part of the body, or how to respond to every possible client need.
Ayurvedic Yoga Massage Level 2 is an intensive 15-hour course, which revises L1 (so the Level 1 course is a prerequisite), and teaches you a sequence to complement the L1 sequence, so that you can offer a full body AYM treatment.
Level 2 includes more techniques, and indications and contra-indications for each technique. By attending L1&2 you can offer a complete full body massage which will leave your clients feeling like they're walking on clouds.
Most of what we do in the AYM videos (
) is included in L1-2.

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The Hideout Bristol, ,Bristol, United Kingdom

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