Online Thai Massage Training Courses and Workshops | USA

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In the past ten to fifteen years or so, Thai Massage Distance and Online Learning has conquered its place among other learning methods, that is, as an alternative to live training.

In an era where we have become very busy bees, home study has increasingly emerged as an interesting time-efficient option. Moreover, a number of distance and online trainings nowadays are accredited for Continuing Education Units (CE Units i.e. CEU), making them even more valuable for massage practitioners and therapists.

On top of CE-value, home study is generally cheaper than live-training and it gives us the option to “taste” and get acquainted with many different kind of massage and bodywork modalities (sometimes only available outside the USA), not only Thai Massage.

Personally, I’m not the biggest fan of Online or Distance Thai Massage training courses. It’s perhaps because I’m simply just “old style,” but I still believe in the “real see, touch, and feel” method when it comes to becoming a skilled Thai Massage therapist (or any other massage or bodywork therapist, for that matter).

However, there are a few circumstances where non-live training can come handy. As already mentioned, it can supply us CE Units in a rather convenient, comfortable, time and cost effective manner.

Then, secondly, as for the theoretical parts of Thai Massage or Thai Traditional Medicine, surely we can learn online or over distance learning (books, DVD’s, streaming video, and the like).

And thirdly, if one’s already an experienced Thai Massage therapist, online or distance learning can be extremely valuable to learn more (as one can correctly interpret what one sees or what is talked about).

Having said that, and this is my personal opinion, I feel that Online Thai Massage training for beginners, that is, for those who actually want to start practitioning, is not advisable. There’s really the fact of “the feel and touch” that’s missing, something very crucial in the early stages of acquiring Thai Massage proficiency, and a thing one can only learn by actual live practice with an instructor and/or other students.

But okay, let’s take a look below at some of the options for Thai Massage online and distance learning in the USA.

Online Thai Massage Training in the US

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