Touching Essence: Green Witchcrafting for Women’s Wellness
Teachers: Ellen Watson & Micha Merrick
Dates & Location: 22-27 March 2021 - Mimpi Resort, Menjangan, Bali
Dates & Location: 22-27 March 2021 - Mimpi Resort, Menjangan, Bali
Elemental theory: earth, air, fire, water, ether
A lecture class illuminating the basics eastern and western elemental theory in herbalism and bodywork, students will develop a basic awareness of the elements and an intuitive framework for applying this knowledge to massage and medicinal plants. Song, intention, sharing and ritual set the tone and weave naturally through the class experiences. |
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Micha will create a beautiful altar of dry medicinal plants, lovingly gathered from Big Sur and her family farm in New England, She will also include fresh local herbs from Bali, Students will learn the basic medicinal and energetic properties of healing plants and become intimately acquainted with new plant friends. As they see, touch and smell the displayed herbs, students interactively learn useful scientific information, engaging myths and stories of each plant offering.
After learning the basic properties of each plant, students have the opportunity to craft a unique herbal bundle for massage. Pounding roots with a mortar and pestle, breaking herbs by hand and selecting herbs using intuition and elemental theory. Learn a time honored technique to fold and tie herbal compress bundles, a craft that blends art, magic and sensory enjoyment with traditional healing.
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If you would like to participate in the Touching Essence: Green Witchcrafting just fill in the info below and we'll get in touch as soon as possible!
Places are limited so we advise registering interest at your earliest convenience.
Places are limited so we advise registering interest at your earliest convenience.
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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. |
Pricing & Payment
Price Including Shared Accommodation : TBA
Tuition Fee: TBA
Includes: 17 days classroom instruction, post training support through certification process, training manual, course materials, pre/post and during training support, translation from English to Italian and Croatian. Food as detailed in the tab to the left.Ellen Watson
Ellen Watson is a long standing member of faculty at the Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California. During her time at Esalen in combination with time spent teaching and learning around the world, Ellen has intensively studied and developed a broad range of wellness practicies and modalities.
Ellen is a teacher of Esalen® Massage & Bodywork, Gabrielle Roth's 5Rhythms®, Holotropic Breathwork, Vibrance, Touching Essence and Wake Up & Roar.
At 71 years old and continuously travelling the world to teach, Ellen's lifestyle and state of being is a true advocation of the wellness practices she shares.
Micha Merrick
Micha Merrick is using techniques from yoga and ancestral herbal compress massage to help women deliver babies naturally. Time and again she's seen the wild strength and fluid grace of feminine nature first hand creating circles of support for women through song, dance, herbs and massage.
Over a period of six years she lived and studied with traditional women's healers, folk herbalists and shamanic midwives in Bali,Thailand and Northern Hilltribes. With her teacher's blessing, she adapts these traditional practices to include the healing plants of her celtic roots and the indiginous healing herbs that grow abundantly in your own community.
Micha is a faculty member at the Esalen Institute. She offers yoga, doula and herbal compress rituals in Big Sur California and teaches retreat-trainings worldwide. Micha lives in a magical yurt in the redwoods and enjoys tending her mountain side garden.Course Content
The training course to become an Esalen® Massage Practitioner consists of two intensive modules for a total of 100 hours of training.
Esalen Massage Skills / Techniques / Theoretical Foundations (70 hours)- Understanding of the experiential nature of Esalen Massage.
- Presence, awareness and attention
- Opening and closing a massage session
- Understanding of the classical long strokes / long passages along the body, front and back, and their relaxing integration functions
- Treatment in Supine and Prone positions
- Suitably covering customers with relation to nudity
- Special cases: physical discomfort, lateral lying posture, treat the elderly
Communication skills (5 hours)- Basic understanding of the communication skills given by the Gestalt process: Gestalt language, basic communication skills
- How to deal with the conflict / misunderstanding when it presents itself within the customer / operator relationship
- Communicating the ethical boundaries of the professional relationship
- Applied anatomy and physiology / pathology (10 hours)
- Integration of anatomical knowledge of a specific area of the body and massage
- Study of anatomy and physiology to conduct a massage session: motor, muscle, tendon,
- Understanding how fabrics change in relation to touch
- Contraindications to massage
Professional ethics (5 hours)- Transference and counter-transference
- Define the appropriate boundaries within the customer / operator relationship
- How to deal with "difficult customers"
Self care tools (10 hours)
Strengthen the body through Yoga, Chi-Gong, 5 Rhythms, etc.
Use meditation and oriental disciplines to improve centering, concentration and presence at workAccommodation
For this program, accommodation is available at Centro D'Ompio. Contact Us for information on private accommodation upgrades or any further information about Centro.Location: Pratolungo, Italy
Centro D'Ompio is located in Pratolungo. This town is about an hours drive North West from Malpensa, Milan's International Airport.
Can I share a room with someone else joining the training?
Yes! Just contact us and let us know that you're interested in a room share and we'll put you in touch with someone else joining the training to organize.
How do I Sign Up?
Complete our registration form, together with payment of deposit or full payment. Links to these are at the top of this page. Note that as a professional certification training there are limited spaces in this program and spaces are reserved only on a "first come, first served" basis.
Will the be another 100-Hour Certification in Europe?
Not so soon! The next 100-Hour Esalen training run by MovingVentures won't come back to Europe until 2020/2021. Take the opportunity while it's here in these fantastic locations!
What are the advantages of being Esalen® Certified?
Esalen® is a world-renowned practice. It's key fundamental is the requirement for practitioners to really understand the body, and healing through touch. Unlike sequence based practices, the experience of the receiver is unique and tailored to them. Most of our past students have discovered that they have significantly improved their skills and knowledge, and are now able to offer a better practice, generating more interest and income.
What are the requirements for approval into the 100-Hour Program?
We will ask you to send us:- Your past work-experience in healing arts
- Copies of any qualifications or certificates from previous educational trainings.
