Therapeutic Touch Lessons
I’ve been teaching Thai Massage & Acro Yoga to beginners since 2018, and I’ve taught hundreds of folks how to connect with themselves & others through touch. I absolutely LOVE teaching people to touch each other nice, because I think we could all use to know how to give present, healing touch, to ourselves and others.
In my opinion, as humans we could do VERY well with more intimate, platonic touch in our everyday lives & I’m here to deliver it in easy-to-understand and easy-to-implement ways. I will always advise you to be as lazy *ahem* energy efficient… as possible, so that your hands aren’t aching after only 10 minutes.
These sessions are 2:1 meaning I teach you and your partner how to work on one another. If you’re interested in this as a larger group activity, please reach out! I’d love to teach anything but Table Massage to a group (for modesty and lack of more than one table)!
Massage
Learn floor-based Thai Massage, or table-based oil massage, which includes a blend of Lomi-lomi, Thai, and deep tissue techniques.
Thai Massage is great for folks who don’t have ready access to/storage for a massage table.
Therapeutic Acro
Learn to base and fly Acro therapeutics; how to balance your partner on your feet to provide spinal decompression and delightful gravity-countering stretches, all while cultivating trust & communication skills.
Can be combined with Thai Massage lessons.
How do you combine Thai Massage & Therapeutic Acro lessons?
Thai Massage and Therapeutic Acro follow the same principals when it comes to work, alignment, and gravity; finding the path of least effort, that feels good for both bodies. We use gravity to our advantage so we can work smarter, not harder.
We’ll have 2.5 hours together learning 2-3 therapeutic Acro poses (depending on your skill level), and a 25-30 minute Thai massage flow for each person.
Tell me more about just massage lessons…
We’ll spend 2.5 hours together learning massage techniques by taking turns working directly on your partner.
Each of you gets an hour to work on the other person, with my guidance, and each partner’s massage is tailored to their body specifically. At times, each of you will receive a 4-handed massage so that whomever is doing the massage can mirror me.
Thai Massage is fully clothed, on a mat on the floor.
I wanna know more about just Acro…
We’ll spend 2.5 hours together on the floor, going over the basics of basing and flying- depending on your skill level, you’ll each learn between 3 & 5 different poses or variations of poses to play with.
If there is a significant size difference (8+” height and/or 100+lbs weight), we may change the format of the lesson to teach one of you to base, the other to fly, & to reciprocate, the flier will learn some Thai massage “leg love” movements.