Requirements for the Esalen Massage Ground Training Diploma
The following homework is intended to support you in your learning process during your Esalen Massage training. If you follow these guidelines success in acquiring good massage skills is guaranteed. It will also help provide a smooth transition for you from one training module to the next. The time involved is 2-3 hours a week.
In order to have all participants at the same level during the training it is important that everyone adheres to these guidelines, so no one person holds back the group from moving forward in its learning of new massage methods and insights. Thank you for understanding and please feel free to call us if you have any questions.
Requirements between every training part, 2 until 9
- Give 3 massage sessions and write protocols for them.
- Give and receive 1 exchange massage session, with a training participant, and write protocols for them.
- Between parts 2 and 5 and 6 and 9, receive 1 professional session from an Esalen Massage Practitioner and write a protocol.
Requirements after completing part 10
- Give 30 massage sessions and write 10 protocols for the most interesting treatments you give. No more than 4 sessions with any one person.
- Give and receive 5 exchange massage sessions with training participants and write protocol for them.
- Receive 3 professional sessions in Esalen Massage from an Esalen Massage Practitioner and write protocols for them.
- Give 1 supervised massage session to an official “proofer” and write a protocol. This is done approximately after you have given 15 practice massages.
The “Test” Massage has two parts
When you are done with all of your “homework”, please send in all your protocols and your yellow booklet to the “proofer”, before you give your test massage. After your protocols have been approved you can then make do the evaluation massage.