MASSAGE
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EMBA Esalen Massage and Bodywork Association Approved Courses Spain
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ABOUT ESALEN® MASSAGE
Esalen® Massage is a holistic approach to bodywork in which the whole person is considered, contacted and worked with. Esalen Massage is best known for its long flowing strokes and quality of touch/contact. It integrates many techniques, including soft rocking, passive movement and joint mobilization, stretching and deeper work on specific parts of the body. Esalen massage stimulates the skin, circulatory and lymphatic systems, encourages a fuller sense of fluidity, spaciousness and vitality and greater awareness of one's body.
Many times we have heard clients say:".... this was the best massage I have ever had" and we have seen many practitioners regain enthusiasm for their massage practice by learning Esalen Massage
ABOUT ESALEN
& THE HISTORY OF ESALEN MASSAGE
Esalen® Institute which is perched on a magnifisent piece of land between the Santa Lucia Mountain Range and the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur CA is home to Esalen massage. Esalen Institute was founded in 1962 by Michael Muphy and Dick Price and became the center of the human potential movement. Esalen was a exploratorium for body, mind and spirit. Thinkers like Alan Watts and Aldeous Huxley lived here, Fritz Pearls and Dick Price practiced Gestalt Therapy here and many of the worlds great masters of bodywork developed and practiced their work here, among them:
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Charlotte Selver, founder of Sensory Awareness
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Moshee Feldenkrais, creator of the Feldenkrais Method
- Milton Trager, creator of the Trager Approach
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Ida Rolf, creator of Structural Intergration (Rolfing)
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Dr. Stan Grof, creator of Holotropic Breathwork
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Emily Conrad & Susan Harper, Continum
to name just a few.
Influenced by the work of all these teachers and masters, the surrounding nature and the presence of the Pacific Ocean Esalen Massage was born and developed at the Esalen Institute over the past 50+ years.
Workshops
Introduction to Esalen Massage
October 29, 2024
Centro Mandala • Madrid
Hours: 9:30- 19:30
Cost:
150 Early Bird ends
150
Training
100 Hour Esalen Massage Certification Training for Professionals
May & October 2025
100 hours in two modules of 8 days
UPCOMING WORSHOPS & TRAININGS
THE TEACHERS
Silvia Guersenzvaig
Embarked on her journey as a massage practitioner in 1985 and became an Esalen®️ Massage instructor in 2005. Silvia is a certified Transformational Kinesiology®️ teacher from the Polaris International College from Denmark.
Inspired by her contemplative vision, Silvia developed a practice of alignment and a method to evoke Presence which uses the essential elements of nature and their direct expression in the quality of our stance and touch.
She is the creator of AstroSoma, somatic astrology and streams AstroBites, a bimonthly podcast in Spotify.
Nora Matten
Nora devoted the past 20 years to the exploration of body, mind and spirit and is passionate about teaching the art of touching with presence, sensitivity and listening hands. Nora's professional journey into massage began in 1999 when she first traveled to Esalen Institute to explore massage. She became an Esalen® Massage Crew member in 2003 and has been teaching Esalen® massage since 2005. Nora's work and teaching is influenced by Gestalt awareness practice, many forms of bodywork, dance and yoga practices, her training in movement based expressive arts therapy at the Tamalpa Institute, and her training in prenatal and birth therapy as taught by Ray Castellino.
All of her work is supported by her studies of the Diamond Approach for self-realization.
WHAT STUDENTS SAY
Corinne
Patricia
Gadea
REGISTRATION
Blanca San Roman
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