15th
Feb, 12

Announcing: The Complete Collection of Thai Yoga Massage Videos, with Deon de Wet

I am using today’s blog to let you know about a series of five full-length videos now available in DVD format at the deonThai Website Store, which correspond to the five deonThai training workshops that I have developed, forming the deonThai METHOD Practitioner Training Program. For me, the audio-visual segment of my practice provides more [...]

Tags: deon de wet, deonthai Method, deonthai school, thai bodywork, thai massage training, Thai Yoga Massage, thai yoga therapy, traditional thai massage
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1st
Feb, 12

Valentine Message from Deon

As we approach Valentine’s Day – 2012, it is only fitting to point California readers to the Partner Thai Yoga workshops, coming up February 11th, at Purple Yoga in Tustin, Orange County and on February 12th, at Black Dog Yoga in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles. These interactive, guided classes are not part of the deonThai [...]

Tags: brahmaviharas, buddhism, buddhist virtues, compassion, couples, deon de wet, deonthai Method, groups, immeasurables, karuna, loving-kindness, metta, mudita, sublime attitudes, thai massage training, Thai Yoga Massage, thai yoga therapy
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11th
Jan, 12

deonThai METHOD Greets the New Year – 2012

Come and meet Ziggy. Our new best friend, hiking companion and coyote chaser here at the Upper Ojai Studio. As we enter 2012 with renewed vigor, reaping the results of last year’s work and having made some exciting structural changes to the deonThai programs, I’m starting the blog series off on a more practical note [...]

Tags: brahmaviharas, buddhism, buddhist virtues, compassion, deon de wet, deonthai Method, immeasurables, karuna, loving-kindness, metta, mudita, sublime attitudes, thai massage training, Thai Yoga Massage, thai yoga therapy
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22nd
Dec, 11

Holiday Message from Deon de Wet & the deonThai METHOD of Thai Yoga Massage

During this holiday period, I have chosen to acknowledge the importance of family and close friends, and specifically made that a part of my practice – over a period of several weeks. For so much of the year, I find that I’m putting myself “out there” – extending energy outward into the world, trying to [...]

28th
Nov, 11

Loving-kindness, Compassion and Thai Massage: PART III of the Motorcycle Journey

With the Thanksgiving holiday just behind us, I return, with gratitude, to the story of my autumn motorcycle adventure – which was both physical and spiritual. As I continued on the road trip through Central California, I came across the remaining two of the four divine Buddhist states – also called “The Immeasurables”: Karuna [...]

Tags: brahmaviharas, buddhism, buddhist virtues, compassion, deon de wet, deonthai Method, immeasurables, karuna, loving-kindness, metta, mudita, sublime attitudes, thai massage training, Thai Yoga Massage, thai yoga therapy, uppekha
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15th
Nov, 11

The Journey of Thai Yoga Massage

Last time I shared with you how a bee sting on a recent motorcycle trip put me in touch with the Buddhist virtue, or Brahmavihara of upekkha: equanimity. This time I wish to recount how I encountered the virtue of mudita (vicarious joy or joy for the happiness of others) on the very same journey. [...]

Tags: buddhist virtue, deon de wet, mudita, tehachapi, Thai Yoga Massage, upekkha
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31st
Oct, 11

The Bee, Thai Yoga Massage and Equanimity

Today, I begin to share with you how a solitary motorcycle trip I took earlier this Fall helped reconnect me to the four key Buddhist virtues. Those Brahmaviharas, or sublime attitudes, are: metta (loving-kindness), karuna (compassion), mudita (joy and vicarious joy) and upekkha (equanimity). Naturally, they did not present themselves to me in the order [...]

Tags: brahmaviharas, buddhism, buddhist virtues, deon de wet, deonthai Method, living in present moment, massage trainer, massage training, thai massage training, Thai Yoga Massage
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17th
Oct, 11

Motorcycles, Thai Massage and the Open Road

Many of you may have gathered that I am an avid motorcyclist and some might find that surprising, given my focus on Healing and Serenity. And yet, for me, there has always been a unifying link between Thai Yoga Massage and Motorcycling – the two things I enjoy the most. Both require the practitioner to [...]

Tags: deon de wet, Thai Yoga Massage, yoga massage therapist, yoga massage trainer, yoga massage training
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3rd
Oct, 11

The Spillover Effect of Thai Yoga Massage

When I train therapists in Thai Yoga Massage I do not instruct only in the physical techniques, but also in those aspects of the discipline that are grounding, spiritual and inspirational. When I talk about the philosophical principles behind what we are doing – the divine states of being or attitudes, from a Buddhist perspective [...]

Tags: deon de wet, deonthai school of thai yoga massage, massage therapy, mind body spirit, spirituality, thai massage training, Thai Yoga Massage, thai yoga therapy
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19th
Sep, 11

BHAKTIFEST, THAI YOGA MASSAGE AND THE NEW SPIRITUALITY

Almost a week after arriving back at home, and I am still soaring from my experience at Bhaktifest, a 4-day happening in Joshua Tree, California that combined Yoga, kirtan chanting, music, workshops, displays, and a Loving Community. Close to 5,000 people attended, converging from all over the United States and from as far as Australia, [...]

Tags: bhaktifest, deon de wet, massage instructor, Thai Yoga Massage, thai yoga training, yoga instructor, yoga training
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