Welcome

Congratulations on your choice to become a massage therapist. In doing so we understand that by becoming more in touch with your own body you will have a deeper understanding of your clients needs. Trinity's programs are designed to be an experience that will make an extraordinary difference in your life.

The student handbook is designed to help you understand the theme, purpose, and theory of our programs. It will be most effective used along with your weekly assignments and bodywork sessions. Together, we will identify your needs from every level allowing you to step into your power, opening you up to the possibility that you can and will achieve your desires to become a successful therapist.

Massage is one of the oldest healing techniques used to help us overcome psychological and physical health problems. It has probably been used since the dawn of human evolution and has been found to have been used in countries all over the world and in the early part of this century was still used in orthodox medical hospitals and clinics, but fell out of favor when high tech medicine began to dominate our health care system.

Massage is one of the easiest ways of attaining and maintaining good health and well being. It's a healing instinct, innate in all of us, to rub an aching knee, or stroke a furrowed brow. Headaches, aches and pains, insomnia, tension and stress can all be alleviated with one simple instrument -- our hands.

The basis of massage is touch. There is increasing medical evidence to show the great value of touch. Touch is so natural that without it people become depressed and irritable. Observations show that children brought up in families where parents and children touch each other are healthier and more able to withstand pain and infection than those children deprived of touch. They tend to sleep better, are more sociable, and generally happier.

Despite all the evidence to show the benefits of touch, we are still hesitant about touching each other. We think this is due to confusion between sensuality and sexuality. Because we are so afraid of the connection between sex and touch, we have formalized touch. There are only a few occasions when adults are allowed to touch each other freely. Massage removes the taboos of touching and allows people to touch in a positive way.