Dual-modality-approach | Dual-Modality Massage Therapy School Opens In Denver

Monday, August 30th, 2010

Thai Yoga Massage, it’s IN ” and fast becoming one of the most popular massage modalities to study in North America. Massage therapists are flocking to learn Thai Yoga Massage, and most massage schools only offer Thai Yoga Massage as a Continuing Education class. Massage students have options in Colorado on where they decide to study, and Denver Integrative Massage School offers a completely unique Certified Massage Therapy program that integrates Western styles of massage along with all Anatomy, Physiology, Kinesiology, and Pathology requirements within an Asian Energy Bodywork framework of 180 hours of Thai Yoga Massage studies. Denver Integrative Massage School has JUST OPENED and offers a Dual-Modality CMT program that focuses 320 hours on Western Massage and 180 on Thai Yoga Massage. The instructors at Denver Integrative Massage School include a Doctor of Physical Therapy (with 18+ years experience), a Registered Nurse (with 25+ years experience, and one of the first instructors to introduce Thai Yoga Massage to the Rocky Mountain Region (10+ years ago).

Denver Integrative Massage School offers innovative massage therapy training because it offers a Dual-Modality approach to a CMT education”both Eastern and Western modalities ALL at ONE school. The school’s location reflects it’s unique and contemporary massage curriculum”it’s located in the heart of one of the coolest, hippest parts of Denver”the LoHi area”Lower Highlands along 32nd Street, which houses an eclectic mixture of new and old architecture, business, houses, and ideas. The school is located at 2416 W. 32nd Ave. Denver, CO 80211.

Why Thai Yoga Massage? Thai Yoga Massage is an ancient modality (2,500+ years) that is now finding it’s way within spas, clinics, and the Western medical community. Thai Yoga Massage is following the same path as Yoga”a venerable healing art that resonates with a modern audience because it incorporates assisted, passive, yoga-like stretches, reflexology, acupressure, aromatherapy, and a sacred sense of the spirituality within each person. In this form of bodywork, usually performed on the floor, practitioners hold yoga postures while palming and thumbing along the body’s energy lines and pressure points. Together these actions result in a comprehensive, holistic, full-body treatment that relieves muscular tension, improves circulation, boosts the immune system, and balances the body energetically.

Potential massage therapy students are excited to have an option to study both Western and Eastern massage modalities from a State and Nationally-Approved massage school in Denver that meets Colorado’s regulations for massage therapy certification. Typically, massage schools in Colorado range from $9,000 – $12,000, and Denver Integrative Massage School has chosen to make their education affordable at $5,800 for their 600-Hour Certified Massage Therapy program. The other programs include a 320-Hour Western Therapeutics module that solely focuses on Western massage”this program is perfect for current Thai Yoga Massage and Yoga Therapy practitioners who wish to use their previous training in other Thai Yoga Massage and Yoga Therapy schools as “Previous Credits”, so they can receive enough hours to qualify for the NCBTMB board exam, as well as qualify for State

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