Esalen® Massage for Couples Friends and Family
With Perry Holloman and Johanna Holloman
November 3 - 5, 2023
In this basic skills workshop, couples, partners, and friends will refine their relationship with touch, our forgotten language. Participants will learn to listen to each other, gain sensory skills in initiating and receiving touch, experience the felt sense of muscle release, and close with a balanced tenderness.
Seasoned instructors will offer exercises, massage demonstrations, and at-the-table guidance during paired practice. The simple principles of Esalen® Massage — presence, connection, attending rather than fixing, self-care, receptivity, and slow-paced strokes encompassing the body — will build a heartfelt experience with our partners and friends and, perhaps most significantly, ourselves.
By the final session, participants will share the basics of a classical Esalen massage. Experienced practitioners and caregivers will find it refreshing to apply the Esalen method and notice its healing effects as their rhythm slows and the mind becomes focused on compassionate contact rather than technique.
Touch evokes an opening to spirit as we tap our innate ability to move into healthful balance and a recognition of our natural field. The edgy wildness of Esalen’s grounds, canyons, hot springs, and mountain backdrop invites this deeper connection.
View the continuing education syllabus here. This class offers 10 hours of CE credit for massage therapists. Learn more about the requirements to receive continuing education credit.
Recommended reading: Connecting Through Touch by Peggy Horan
About the Leaders
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Perry Holloman
Perry Holloman has been a teacher and practitioner of Esalen Massage, Deep Bodywork and body-oriented approaches to Relational Gestalt Process work for more than 30 years. He teaches in the U.S., Asia and Europe, and makes his home in Big Sur. Email Me www.deepbodywork.com
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Johanna Holloman
Johanna Holloman is a German-born clinical psychologist, Diamond Approach® teacher and certified Esalen Massage and Deep Bodywork instructor. She teaches internationally. She is a yoga teacher (E-RYT 500) and created the Esalen in-house yoga training program. Email Me
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