The Philosophy of Our Massage Classes

Most massage classes and massage courses in Australia, the United States and UK are designed to be between 6 months and two years long. But does this make their massage classes better?

Quantity does not always equal quality. Many of these massage classes are filled with hundreds of hours of learning scientific jargon that is not relevant tothe real world practice of massage. When a person wants to study massage therapy they must ask what does it take to be a good massage therapist?

Is a good therapist someone who can recite Latin anatomical jargon while talking to a patient/client or is a good massage therapist someone who can help people alleviate some problem that they have and/or generally make them feel better.

In this way we must look at what is the goal of massage therapy and then we must judge all training based on whether that training is going to help us achieve that goal. In other words a person may do 500 or 5000 hours of training but how relevant is the training that a person does?

There are two distinct goals of massage therapy. The first is to produce a nice relaxing feeling while receiving the massage treatment. Usually Swedish massage, lymphatic drainage and some types of Beauty Therapy massage fit into this category. The other goal of massage therapy is to alleviate tension in the muscles of the body, increase the circulation of blood and lymph and in the Eastern forms of acupressure massage philosophy, to increase the flow of chi (life force) through the meridians.

Therefore when choosing a massage school at which to study, a prospective student should consider whether the particular massage classes that they are going to study will aid in these goals and what is the quickest and most cost effective and interesting way to achieve the goal of becoming an excellent massage therapist. Brandon Raynor is a world innovator in massage classes and naturopathic training courses. His massage school, Brandon Raynor’s School of Natural Therapies has been instrumental in making massage training programs more relevant to the Brandon Raynor’s School of Natural Therapies offers two main massage courses 5 day Raynor Massage Certificate Course and 10 day Raynor Massage Diploma Course.

For those that would like advanced massage training we offer our Advanced Massage Diploma Course.

If you would like to receive a massage therapy treatment from a massage therapist that has graduates from our school then please visit the International Natural Therapies Association.