More Tools = More Healing Results
There has never been a time in recorded history when so many astoundingly effective massage and healing arts therapies have been so readily available for those of us in the West to contribute to others.
Students come to the World School of Massage and Holistic Healing Arts to develop a comprehensive “tool box” of therapeutic modalities that produce results for their clients.
Those who choose the World School especially appreciate the value that a wide-range of therapeutic options contributes to client healing success and the prosperity and sustainability of their practice.
All this is possible for you at the World School because of our decades-long leadership in the holistic health movement.
The World School is committed to providing you access to an expansive number of the most powerful healing massage modalities available and showing you how to integrate them in a way that reliably produces results for your clients.
Following are descriptions of many of the holistic massage and healing therapies offered at the World School.
These descriptions are designed to give you a deeper appreciation of the extraordinary breadth of integrated therapeutic modalities available at the World School’s School of Massage and Holistic Healing Arts.
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- Vibrational Healing Massage Therapy®
- Swedish Massage
- Swedish/Vibrational Massage
- Reflexology®
- Structural Foot Balancing®
- Cranial-Sacral Balancing
- Lymphatic Massage
- Deep Tissue Massage
- Applied Kinesiology
Asian Bodywork
Spa Therapy Treatments
Family (Developmental) Massage
- Pregnancy Massage
- Baby Massage
- Babies in Motion® Bodywork
- Child Massage
- Teen Massage
- Geriatric (Elder) Massage
- Pet Massage
Additional Therapies
- Chair Massage
- Floor Massage
- Standing Massage
- Flower Essence Design and Consulting
- Movement for Health
- Fluid Body Model®
- Language of Healing®
Definitions
Premier Therapies
Vibrational Healing Massage Therapy® (VHMT) Level I
Leading edge bodywork that releases trauma and shock at the tendons and ligaments and in doing so restores the natural flow of fluids and energy throughout the body. VHMT provides innovative and breakthrough distinctions in body mechanics, the use of self-responsible and empowering therapeutic language, and awareness and the fundamentally fluid and vibratory nature of the human body.
Level II
VHMT Level II is intricate training in empathic tracking and use of subtle awareness and intuition while working with people’s emotions and facilitating the body’s innate intelligence for healing and self-repair. Includes rib and breath work for deep release.
A massage protocol with techniques utilizing oil and skilled touch to promote better circulation, enhance relaxation and well-being.
A ground breaking integration of the best of two worlds: Swedish Massage and Vibrational Healing Massage Therapy®. This massage is very thorough and luxurious.
Reflexology (Feet First® Foot Reflexology)
Centuries old, specialized foot massage and bodywork techniques that simulate nerve, blood, and meridian flow in the feet and in related organs, glands, and systems. Reflexology releases disease while it is still in the early symptom stages.
Structural Foot Balancing (formerly Feet First® Foot Rehabilitation)
This protocol releases chronically held tension and misalignment in the feet tendons and ligaments. Techniques promote structural balance of not only the foot bones but of the entire skeletal structure.
Healing bodywork that utilizes very subtle movements of cranial sutures, spinal and sacral vertebra to restore circulation to eyes and ears, enhance sensory perception and relieve headaches and pelvic imbalances.
Massage techniques which focus upon the clearing and restoration of the lymphatic drainage system. Learn the use of your neuro-lymphatic points for quick pain release and rehabilitation of the body’s recycling and composting systems.
Deep Tissue Massage (Advanced Swedish/ Structural Integration)
These techniques focus upon deep muscle, tendon and fascia release. The slower, harder strokes promote the release of chronically held tension and assist in structural rebalancing. Deep tissue work is a popular and important aspect of sports massage.
Applied Kinesiology (Touch for Health)
A specialized course in the assessment and strengthening of muscles and their corresponding organ systems through muscle testing and meridian balancing. Methods are taught for use in making balanced food choices and surrogate healing.
Asian Bodywork
Floor bodywork based on ancient Chinese pressure points along energy and meridian lines. Shiatsu includes rocking, rolling, holding, stretching and focused pressure with both hands and feet.
This massage uses passive stretching and gentle pressure on energy lines to promote relaxation, enhanced energy, flexibility, and stimulation of internal organs. It can be likened to receiving yoga and acupressure simultaneously.
Spa Therapy Treatments
Hot stones are placed on the body or used with massage techniques to assist in the release and deep relaxation of harder to reach chronically held pain.
Natural aromatic plant essences are used to promote physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Aromas help clear the physical as well as the quantum field of miasmas.
Massage using oils blended with aromatherapies in specialized combinations for enhanced and specialized release and renewal.
A thorough scrubbing of the entire skin with sea salt and aromatherapies that promotes enhanced drainage and cleansing. Salt scrubs give the recipient a feeling of aliveness and improves energy flow.
Total immersion in hot steamy wraps of herbal and aromatherapy essences for optimal cleansing of the skin and deep relaxation of the muscles. As the muscles relax, they are infused with the herbs and aromatherapies.
Family (Developmental) Massage
Specialized massage techniques for women carrying babies. Particular attention is placed on the comfort of the baby and the mother for optimal structural relaxation and fluid movement. These classes include the use of energy techniques as well.
Specialized massage done with babies and their families that facilitates release of tension so that babies can relax and feel safer in their bodies.
Somatic release bodywork done with babies as their families participate and witness. These sessions facilitate release of shock and trauma from pre-natal and birth experiences. This therapy also provides leading edge methods for communicating with and listening to babies.
Massage on children that includes family participation to assist in the release of held tension and pain. Child massage helps children to focus, to feel and to communicate these feelings in a way such that they can be heard and understood.
Massage and bodywork on teens that facilitates ease and acceptance of their bodies. This therapy promotes greater understanding of the special needs of teens and their world views.
Massage and bodywork on elders focusing upon the many special needs and considerations of this population. Coaching skills are presented as well as tools such as foot care for added nurturing and post-rehab care for such occurrences as stroke.
Massage and bodywork on pets (accompanied by their owners) empowering all parties to understand the special bodily and emotional needs of animals, their typical disease manifestations, and their tendency to embody unexpressed desires of family members.
Additional Therapies
Relaxing and educational bodywork done in the convenience of any chair which provides recipients with instruction in developing spinal fluidity and in finding the optimal ergonomic use of furniture. People become versed in the Fluid Body Model® and how to sit in ways that restore health and vitality.
Innovative bodywork done on the floor that allows people to receive sessions anywhere. Special attention is placed on the fluidity of the spine and joints enabling recipients to experience a renewed level of body consciousness.
Observation techniques, done while standing at the beginning of a Vibrational Healing Massage Therapy session, that facilitate finding and releasing vectors of tension and stress that have lead to habituated and disempowering body structures.
Flower Essence Design and Consulting
Introduces the subtle realms of the flower kingdom and their role in facilitating emotional release and healing. Participants learn to make flower essences and to deepen counseling skills that empower clients.
Provides the experience of movement as a phenomenon of healing. Participants learn to access their bodies’ fluid consciousness and to realize movement as a pathway to deeper mental and emotional well-being.
New ways to think and speak about ourselves and our bodies that access awareness of the liquid nature of the human body and mind-body-spirit consciousness.
Provides training in speaking past experiences in the past, present moment experiences in the present moment, and in creating through language a powerful and tangible future. A truly remarkable tool for therapist and client empowerment, conscious intention, and stimulating the body’s innate intelligence for self-repair.
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