100 hour Esalen Certification Mexico

100-Hour Esalen® Massage & Bodywork Certification

With Jessica Fagan & Ellen Watson
At The Table Assistant and Translator: Cristina Hernandez
Dates: April 24 - May 11, 2023
Location: Barra de Navidad Yoga Center, Barra de Navidad, Jalisco, Mexico
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About This Program

This course is specifically for those already certified and/or qualified in the practice of massage, who wish to add the Esalen approach to their professional skill-set, or for those already certified to deepen their knowledge and experience several different teachers. Esalen has been a place dedicated to supporting many approaches to integrate body, mind, and spirit, and Esalen Massage reflects this rich history in the depth of its curriculum. The West coast of central Mexico provides us with the rhythms of the Mighty Pacific, stunning sunsets, ocean swimming, and all else that this oceanside pueblo offer to us.

This program offers not only education in massage theory, method, and relevant anatomy and physiology, it also offers an experience of the “bigger picture” of the Esalen approach: how to use simple human touch to support self-organization and healing within the whole person. Through lecture, demonstration, and supervised hands-on practice, students will be taught massage as a holistic approach to optimal health and functioning.

The course offers 100 hours of comprehensive Esalen Massage experience, including relevant anatomical & physiological explorations that link theory to practice. Students will have ample time for massaging one another, emphasizing body mechanics, self-care, and innovation.

The curriculum includes centering skills, Esalen long-stroke methods effective in whole-body integration, draping, detailed structural work, passive joint movement and gentle stretches, and techniques that energetically balance a massage. Students will learn communication skills for interacting with clients in a clear, compassionate manner, including education in difficult ethical situations that sometimes arise in massage practice.

Teachers

Silvia Guersenzvaig

Silvia arrived at the Esalen Institute in 1982 with a background in psychology following her BA at Belgrano University, Buenos Aires. She took on a role assisting Stanislav Grof in Holotropic Breathwork whose teachings amongst other esteemed teachers in the developing world of Healing Arts, shaped the course of her journey.

In 2004, Silvia began training in transformational kinesiology and is now a certified bi-lingual practitioner of this practice. Amongst many more qualifications Silvia has certified in Scar Treatment, co-founded a company creating an online transformative group for women and participates as a speaker and panelist on the survival of consciousness after death for the International Association for Near Death Studies.

Needless to say, a vast wealth of knowledge and philosophy comes incorporated in Silvias teachings through Esalen massage and bodywork.

Jessica Fagan

Jessica Fagan has been deeply immersed in the practice and teaching of bodywork, movement, and Yoga since 1994 having studied, practiced and taught in the US, Mexico, Europe, Asia, and Indonesia. She came to Esalen Institute in 1997 where she became part of the Healing Arts department and has been deeply influenced by the evolving and innovative forms of bodywork and Somatic therapies ever since.

Jessica’s teaching utilizes her background in Eastern and Western body therapies, Psychology, the Arts, and love of making healing contact through the hands, to create a unique approach to working with the body and her students.

Jessica currently resides in the San Francisco Bay area and is pursuing her Masters in Counseling Psychology with a focus on Expressive Arts Therapy, bringing a creative method of expression into the clinical practice of therapy through dance, drama, music, visual arts, and poetry/ narrative therapy. Jessica maintains a private massage practice, teaches locally as well as internationally, and is passionate about combining her knowledge of the body as it relates to the field of Psychology in order to address a diverse population with a multicultural perspective.

Course Requirements

This Esalen Massage certification training is open to massage practitioners certified by an accredited school. This program is suggested to those who have completed our Touching Essence Program or have completed a minimum of 150 hours of hands on massage & bodywork training. This program is ideal for experienced and certified bodyworkers wishing to continue or extend their education. Upon satisfactory course completion, two successful evaluation sessions, and documentation of fifteen additional massages at your home site, an EMBA Certificate of Completion for 100 hours will be issued. The certification fee is $150. Esalen is an approved school by the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education (school code 2700571), and all EMBA approved courses are included in this code. This is a professional training with limited admission.

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Pricing

Housing: Off site housing is available for every budget. Please write to us for recommendations to suite your budget

There are a small number of bunk-beds available and these will be reserved and awarded based upon financial need and social impact. Partial work exchange scholarship assistance is available, again based on financial need and social impact.

We will be joined by local Massage & Bodywork professionals. Having local women enriches our experience exponentially.

To register, please complete the online application and registration form, send to us, and make a copy of your certificate, scan it and send it to us. If you have any questions at all feel free to Contact Us using the link below.