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TAI CHI & QIGONG CLASSES

Learn to massage fully clothed people “anywhere and anytime”, using the Awareness Massage lomilomi approach. Learn ways to give massage in environments where people live, work and play, such as in our homes, our work places, our classrooms, our churches, at sporting events, or in hospitals or nursing homes. The recipient may sit on a sofa, a kitchen chair, a wheel chair, an office chair, a stool, a bench, another surface, and/or they may lie on the floor. 

While this massage can be used with paying clients, particularly those who cannot easily lie on a massage table, it can also easily be used to treat family members, friends and colleagues in informal settings.  Sessions may be a short as a few minutes, or as long as an hour, or more.

Each massage stroke is done with intention to produce specific, measurable, clinical and/or structural results. Is someone’s neck, back, shoulders or feet stiff stuck or aching? Do they have a headache? Learn techniques to provide relief.

These are also good techniques to teach your clients to use at home.

date: Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Time: 9:30 am - 6:30 pm
location: private home in Olympia, WA
cost: full price is $175.  Class offered Pay What You Can (See PayWhatYouCan details here).  Minamal price is $75.

PREREQUISITES: none

COVID RELATED INFORMATION:

• All participants are expected to test negative to a Covid test within 24 hours of the start of class. (Home Covid test is acceptable.)
• Participants are expected to stay away (skip class) if experiencing Covid symptoms, including unexpected and unexplained coughing, sneezing and/or fever.
• Masks are NOT required.
  

This Lomilomi Fundamentals class teaches a clinically and structurally oriented, 60-90 minute full-body lomilomi massage done with intention to relieve pain and improve movement. The touch is bone deep yet gentle, and includes lomilomi strokes, long strokes, compressions, compression-tractions, exploratory ROM engagement and stretches, vibration, tapping, and traction.

Participants are introduced to Hawaiian healing philosophy including the concepts of aloha and other traditional values, connections with ancestors, ho’oponopono (right living and clearing wrong doing), and the power of words, thoughts and images in manifesting our desires and our life paths. Healing blessings and Hawaiian chants are included.

(NOTE: This lomilomi lineage shared in this class was developed on Hawaii Island, commonly referred to as "The Big Island". This lineage of lomilomi uses anatomically specifically focused techniques done with a modest amount of lubricant, and even sometimes done without lubricant and with the client clothed.  It does NOT use long flowing strokes and abundant use of oil that many people associate with lomilomi.)

This Lomilomi Fundamentals class establishes groundwork to be built on in advanced lomilomi classes.

This class is offered in a 4-day, 8 hours per day (plus lunch), 32 CE hour format. 

dates: Thursday-Sunday, September 25-28, 2025
Time: 9:15 am - 6:30 pm
location: private home in Olympia, WA
cost: Full price for this 4-day class is $650. Class offered Pay What You Can (See PayWhatYouCan details here).  Minimal price is $300.

PREREQUISITES: none

COVID RELATED INFORMATION:

• All participants are expected to test negative to a Covid test within 24 hours of the start of class. (Home Covid test is acceptable.)
• Participants are expected to stay away (skip class) if experiencing Covid symptoms, including unexpected and unexplained coughing, sneezing and/or fever.
• Participants are expected to retest daily if experiencing any mild, possible Covid-like symptoms, or if directly explosed to Covid.
• Masks are not required.

THIS CLASS IS FULL.  PLEASE CONTACT ME TO BE ADDED TO THE WAIT LIST.

Tai Chi and QiGong classes  ~ 4-20 CEs ~ no prerequisites
date: ongoing. Click here for more information.
location: online, via Zoom
cost: offered free of charge
NCBTMB approved: NO
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