
Why do aMandala massages focus on the Parasympathetic state and longer periods of time than typical massages?
Healing Art Session
$240
3 for $600
Massage
An introductory treat
$85
A one hour session will allow you a taste of what an aMandala massage is like. Blood flow is stimulated through your tissues and your endocrine system releases natural endorphins that help you feel stress relief along with feeling restful and reinvigorated.
A parasympathetic treasure
$110
4 for $400
In this one and a half hour session, your body will begin to awaken to its own healing potential. After you receive relief from specific target areas of pain and discomfort (the ones that are calling to you), you will be more able to enter into a meditative state, which allows the parasympathetic state to set in as your muscles relax, your brain goes into alpha waves, and your levels of the feel-good endorphin dopamine are increased.
Deluxe rejuvenation!
$155
5 for $700
This two-hour massage session is intricately adapted to suit your physical, emotional and spiritual needs. In addition to being able to work from a variety of angles your area experiencing pain, it allows the time for more Ayurveda reflexology of the hands and feet as well detailed work with the neck, face and head. This leaves you with the benefits of a much improved immune, neurological, endocrinological, and muscular-fascia system as well as a deep meditation with the divine self.
Chair Massage
Chair Massage on-site
$75/hour
CE Courses
- Essential Anatomy and Techniques for chair massageDates: January 25 Time: 9AM-6PM
- The Art of Presence: Accessing the Parasympathetic Dates: August 25 Time: 9AM-6PM
Workshop Price: $150 ($125 if registered at least three weeks prior. $250 if registered for both Saturday and Sunday classes)
Location: Florida School of Massage
CE Credits: ★ Florida: 9
To Register: Contact Frank Merillat at 352-371-0743 or e-mail at fmerillat@mac.com
Chair massage is an ever-increasing tool used by massage therapists to expand their clientele, reach a new customer base and offer healing touch to those in need. It is excellent for marketing as well as for a profession on its own. Increasingly more businesses are requesting chair massage as a gift or a service for their employees. Wedding planners, grocery stores, hotels and hospitals are some of the varied businesses that appreciatively pay for chair massage services.
This course will examine the basic anatomy of the neck, shoulders, arms and lower back that a massage practitioner can access while doing chair massage. It will integrate multimedia teaching tools along with activities that illustrate upon the human form the basic muscle structures including their origins and insertions. Students will learn where the muscles are located, how they function, and specific techniques to address them during a chair massage to relieve pain and tension. Students will walk away with a routine of their own that integrates the techniques from the class, which allows them to offer a 15-minute chair massage session confidently. Time will also be spent exploring how to market and promote a chair-based practice.
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Questions: fmerillat@mac.com
About the Instructors
Frank Merillat has been an instructor at the Florida School of Massage since 1995. He teaches Kinesiology, Neuromuscular Therapy, and Boundary and Ethics in the basic program. He also offers several different CEU courses as both and instructor and provider. He offers an eclectic approach to bodywork combining elements from several styles of work to customize the work to meet the individual client. He has studied with Deane Juhan, Tom Myers, Ben Benjamin, as well as Giorgia and Hugh Milne, all noted instructors in the bodywork field. His time with these noted instructors is incorporated into his teaching style and approach to the body. He enjoys time with his family, dogs and on the salt water, as well as working with people.
Amanda Concha-Holmes merges her training as a cultural anthropologist with her practice as a massage therapist and her love of ensemble contact improvisation dance. In her massage practice (licensed in 2010) and in the classes she teaches, she integrates her training in Reiki and in Thai massage with her years of teaching Transformational movement, ecosenses and partner yoga. For the last few years, she has been dedicated to crafting her practice around chair massage to be able to offer healing touch to people in their daily lives. She looks forward to sharing the conceptual and experiential aspects of reaching the parasympathetic state along with anatomy essentials and techniques in a chair massage practice that will become a source of clients for a career in table and Thai massage at the office.
Dates: August 25
Time: 9AM-6PM
Workshop Price: $150 ($125 if registered at least three weeks in advance $250 if registered for both Saturday and Sunday classes)
Location: Florida School of Massage
CE Credits: ★ Florida: 9
To Register: Contact Frank Merillat at 352-371-0743 or e-mail at fmerillat@mac.com
The ability to be present with another human being is key to healing. In this one-day class, students will explore the sensations of touch long before skin to skin contact. Then, once tactile, the somatic communication among fascia, the nervous system, the endocrine system and the use of presence will be explored through experience. Through massage techniques, we will enrich and enliven our sensory capacity to perceive and communicate presence and encourage the body to enter the parasympathetic state, which allows for relaxation, rejuvenation and a sense of meditative calm. This class will focus on applying the art of presence to all types of bodywork modalities to increase the effectiveness and the depth of transformational healing.
Act Now!
Questions: fmerillat@mac.com
About the Instructors
Frank Merillat has been an instructor at the Florida School of Massage since 1995. He teaches Kinesiology, Neuromuscular Therapy, and Boundary and Ethics in the basic program. He also offers several different CEU courses as both and instructor and provider. He offers an eclectic approach to bodywork combining elements from several styles of work to customize the work to meet the individual client. He has studied with Deane Juhan, Tom Myers, Ben Benjamin, as well as Giorgia and Hugh Milne, all noted instructors in the bodywork field. His time with these noted instructors is incorporated into his teaching style and approach to the body. He enjoys time with his family, dogs and on the salt water, as well as working with people.
Amanda Concha-Holmes merges her training as a cultural anthropologist with her practice as a massage therapist and her love of ensemble contact improvisation dance. In her massage practice (licensed in 2010) and in the classes she teaches, she integrates her training in Reiki and in Thai massage with her years of teaching Transformational movement, ecosenses and partner yoga. For the last few years, she has been dedicated to crafting her practice around chair massage to be able to offer healing touch to people in their daily lives. She looks forward to sharing the conceptual and experiential aspects of reaching the parasympathetic state along with anatomy essentials and techniques in a chair massage practice that will become a source of clients for a career in table and Thai massage at the office.
Contact


By appointment
At Chance Chiropractic 1240 NW 11th Ave. Gainesville, FL 32609
Every Wednesday 4-7 pm
Chair Massage at Farmers Market 111 E University Ave, Gainesville, FL 32601
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