WHY LEARN THAI YOGA MASSAGE?

• Help your community by offering compassion and spreading loving-kindness, working on friends and family.
• Help yourself by making money, offering treatments as a professional practitioner.
• Help others by showing them how to be more receptive, to surrender and drop their resistance to feeling really good in the body.
• Improve your relationships by finding ways to deepen intimacy, non-verbally, non-sexually.
• Offer a distinctly Yogic style of bodywork and connect with the exploding international Yoga community.
• Tap into the skyrocketing worldwide awareness and demand for wellness-based therapies in the Spa industry.
• Earn valuable continuing education credits as a licensed Massage Therapist for ongoing regulatory requirements.
• Create profound effects as a Yoga Teacher, by providing students with deeper hands-on adjustments safely and appropriately.
• Access a wider audience for bodywork, since it is performed comfortably clothed.
• Work on a portable mat on the floor — much easier for outcalls than conventional Table Massage.
• Find out how to safely and effectively adapt and incorporate Eastern floor-style techniques into Western table-style massage.
• Avoid occupational hazards associated with conventional table massage therapy, by reducing physical strain as a practitioner and utilizing more parts of the body — feet, elbows and knees — in addition to hands and thumbs.
• Emphasize wholeness of body and mind as energy is reciprocated and both client and therapist feel rejuvenated.
• Work in a way that strengthens your body and improves flexibility, while enhancing insight, awareness and emotional wellbeing in the practitioner (as well as the client).
• The Thai Yoga Method has been perfected over thousands of years, with the therapist simultaneously moving through Yoga postures while guiding and supporting the client through the stretches and presses, to result in an interactive healing dance of body bliss.

WHY LEARN FROM THE DEONTHAI™ SCHOOL?

• Founder and senior teacher Deon de Wet has been successfully practicing as a Thai Yoga Massage Therapist for many years with glowing testimonials from hundreds of clients, worldwide.
• Deon has been certified by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a Continuing Education Approved Provider (450538-07) and all classes in the curriculum qualify for CE Hours.
• Deon teaches internationally as a Guest Instructor for the International Dermal Institute, one of the most prestigious post-graduate skin and body care education organizations in the world.
• Deon has done advanced Thai Massage training with well-known Thai Massage teachers in Thailand (Pichest Boonthumme) and Los Angeles - Saul David Raye, with whom he co-teaches and still assists from time to time.
• Practitioner and Advanced Practitioner Certification Programs are available. The training curriculum has been segmented into a modular system of 3 day classes, economically priced and convenient for professional practitioners, teachers and anyone else with a busy schedule.
• Classes are offered in many locations, including the beautiful Upper Ojai Valley, in Los Angeles and at Yoga studios and training facilities around the world.

PHILOSOPHY OF THE DEONTHAI™ SCHOOL?

Mission of the deonThai™ SCHOOL:
To enable people to thrive as they help others to feel better, from the inside out.

We are committed to teaching and guiding our students in the most open-minded and non-dogmatic way, whether they come from a lineage that calls their work Thai Massage, Thai Yoga Therapy, Thai Yoga Massage or Thai Bodywork, whether it’s the Southern, Northern, Royal, Commoner, Urban or Rural style, whether they’ve had any prior training or not, and whether they have studied in Thailand or in the West ...

We are inviting everyone into an all-inclusive community of students and practitioners dedicated to the mutual deepening of understanding and wider dissemination of the Ancient and Sacred Healing Art of The “Nuad Bo Rarn” Way of Healing with the Hands (and Feet).

The deonThai™ METHOD of Thai Yoga Massage is based on the belief that blissful wellness (homeostasis) is the natural state of being for all living organisms and that the role of the Healer is that of an effective facilitator, removing blockages and guiding those who desire healing back to their inherent place of Wellness.

It requires an ever-deepening understanding and ongoing physical application of the Four Divine States of Being as presented in the Thai (Theravada) Buddhist tradition:

• Loving-Kindness (Metta)
• Compassion (Karuna)
• Equanimity (Upekkha)
• Joy for the Happiness of Others (Mudita)

The sincere practitioner, who learns to work and live by these principles, will be rewarded with a deep sense of harmony in relationships, physical health, mental clarity, spiritual openness and grounded connection to Life.