BIOGRAPHY

Deon de Wet, from Dutch and French ancestry, was born and raised in South Africa, speaking Afrikaans as a first language.

Deeply committed to providing the utmost in care and compassion to his clients and students, Deon has been consistently devoted to the pursuit of self-realization, enlightenment, living fully and loving deeply.

He first discovered Nuad Phaen Bo Rarn, Traditional Thai Massage, while traveling in Thailand in the year 2000.

On his return to the USA, Deon began training with Saul David Raye, who had spent years learning the Thai yoga massage system while living in a Hill Tribe village in Northern Thailand.

Saul was personally certified to teach this ancient healing art by the legendary Asokananda, one of the world's foremost experts in Traditional Thai Massage.

After years of study and evaluated practice, Deon was certified by Saul as an Advanced Thai Yoga Therapy Practitioner.

In the same year, he was trained and certified as a Massage Therapist by the Institute for Psycho-Structural Balancing (IPSB) in Culver City, California.

He is also a California State Certified Massage Practitioner (#21085).

Deon has been practicing Yoga for many years and obtained his Teacher Training Certificate in the Anusara style of Hatha Yoga in 2001.

Still returning to Thailand periodically, he spends time in Chiang Mai, studying with master Thai Massage teachers and practitioners such as Pichest Boonthumme, one of Asokananda's early teachers.

Since 2002, he has focused professionally on helping people to feel better from the inside out. He applies his unique interpretation of Thai-style Yogic Bodywork, to private treatment sessions around the world in cities such as Los Angeles, New York, London and Washington D.C.

Deon also teaches for The International Dermal Institute as a featured guest instructor, across the USA and internationally.

As his Therapy and Yoga practice evolved, Deon began to teach, sharing the profound wisdom of the work at Yoga studios around Los Angeles. Ultimately, he formalized a curriculum and created guidebooks for his unique, integrated method.

To date, he has trained massage and skin-care therapists, yoga practitioners and instructors, couples, friends and family all over the USA, and in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and South Africa.

As a professional instructor, Deon is certified to provide continuing education training and credits through the National Certification Board of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB #450538-07).

He completed the Advanced Therapeutic Thai Massage Training with Dr. C. Pierce Salguero, author of the Encyclopedia of Thai Massage, at the Thai Institute in February 2011.

Deon lives in the Upper Ojai Valley, Ventura County, California with his wife Michaela. Whenever he is not treating clients, teaching students or practicing Yoga, he can be found walking their dogs, petting the cats, tending to the donkey, horse, goats, pigs, chickens, ducks and guinea fowl.

And when he’s not around, he’s probably blasting through the canyons toward the desert on his BMW GS1200 motorcycle.