Thai Massage Workshop: Autumn
Discover the joy of Thai massage, or advance your practice! Sarah and Sonia have been teaching together for 13 years and look forward to sharing their passion with you in this hands-on training.
Workshop Format
You might be thinking 5 hours is a long time, but it will fly by! The material is accessible and relaxing.
We will guide you to alternate giving and receiving 20-45 minute sequences. Some sequences will be led and some will be taught "workshop style," where you watch a demo and then practice at your own pace.
We'll touch on the whole body -- using hands, feet, knees, forearms, even the sit bones as massage and listening tools. 👐🦶🧎👂
We will practice static and dynamic techniques, simple pouring of weight and more playful movements, using the fundamental principles of Thai Massage. 🐌
Weather allowing, we’ll practice outside under the trees to celebrate fall. After the workshop we’ll do a pot luck picnic if you wanna stick around. 💃
What is Thai Massage?
Thai massage is a bodywork modality with an ancient spiritual tradition that combines meditation, yoga, and the practice of unconditional loving kindness. 🧘🏻♀️🙏
In Thai Massage, we don’t aim to heal; we aim to help others believe they can and will heal. Through our ability to listen to ourselves and each other, and to touch with softness, precision, and gentle curiosity, we restore the flow of energy in the body, and create a space where healing unfolds. 👂🧎🙌
What to Bring
water bottle & snack 🥨
comfortable layers as you will get cool while receiving and warm up while giving (no buttons/ zippers preferably) 🌞
Thai Massage mat (if you have one, otherwise a yoga mat (or 2) and a Mexican blanket will do)
a small pillow or extra blanket you can roll up as a pillow
something yummy to share for the post massage picnic! 🥦🍗🍪
Workshop Theme 🍁
We draw inspiration from Chinese Medicine's 5 Element Theory, and integrate this seasonal holistic wisdom into our Thai massage meditation by sending our attention to the meridians (energy lines) in the body that correlate with this season. Physically we will focus primarily on dispelling tension from the hands, arms, chest, shoulders, neck, head, and diaphragm.
🍂Autumn is the season of the Metal element 🤘🔪. In autumn, nature makes everything bare, and marks a time to start turning inward. 🧎♀️ In autumn, we learn more about ourselves perhaps than any other season. Nature invites us to return to our pure essence, to let go and eliminate what we no longer need in order to reveal what is most precious in our lives. 💎 Just as metals give value to the earth (gold and silver, minerals and trace elements), the Metal element within us gives our sense of self-worth.
Grief is the emotion of the Metal element. With loss, separation, and “letting go”, we appropriately feel grief. Grief cleanses us of what is no longer needed in our lives. However, when the energy of Metal is blocked or imbalanced within us, our expression of grief likewise becomes imbalanced. It may be excessive and ongoing, or it may be absent. 😭😫
The organs associated with Metal are the lungs 🫁 and large intestine / colon 💩. The lungs and colon work together as a team, one taking in the pure, the other eliminating waste. Our Thai massage sequences release the diaphragm and belly, and move energy through the metal meridians to restore healthy lung and colon function. We are invited to return to our essence, energized and purified, releasing old negativity, impurity and pain from our bodies and psyches.
We free tension from the shoulder, chest, and arms, working the neck and head and exit pathways through the hands, making space for deeper breath, greater clarity, self worth, improved discernment, and stellar poops.
Join us in this practice to feel centered and connected. 🧘♀️🧘♂️🙏🤝
PRICE : reserve with payment by October 13th
$200 paid by October 8th
$250 after October 8th
cancellation policy: ticket is transferable or cancellations 2 weeks or more prior to the event receive a full refund minus a $30 administrative fee. Cancellations between 2 weeks and 1 week prior to the event receive 50% refund minus $30 administrative fee. No refunds or transfers 1 week before the event.
Let us know asap if you are interested in joining as we only have a limited amount of space availablef. Also, feel free to invite your friends
We can't wait to co-create this special gathering with you all! 🧘🏻♀️💆♂️