Full-time training for yoga teachers · Santa Teresa, Costa Rica
Thai Yoga Massage for Yoga Teachers
Six days to understand the body behind every asana, and to use your hands to help your students go further. Thai massage taught with yoga in mind, from the anatomy to the mat.
Why this training
Your students are stuck in a pose. Your hands can help them through it.
Many yoga teachers know the asanas perfectly, but when a student can't open the hips for Lotus or can't fold forward, words and cues are not enough. Often the limit is in the muscles and the joints, not in the effort.
This is Thai massage, but only where it serves yoga. Every technique starts from an asana: you learn to read which muscles and joints are behind each pose, and how to release them with Thai stretching, joint mobilisation and muscle manipulation, so your students progress faster and safer.
What you'll learn
Five subjects, one week, all of it for the yoga mat.
Thai massage & yoga anatomy
The muscles, joints and muscle chains that work in yoga, explained simply and from the point of view of a practitioner, not a textbook.
Asana anatomical mapping
Take a pose apart: which muscles stretch, which ones work, which joints move. Then choose the right techniques to prepare the body for it.
Muscle & joint manipulation
Hands-on techniques to release tight muscles and mobilise the hips, shoulders, spine and ankles, beyond simple stretching. Not part of my yoga teacher workshop: you learn them only in this training.
Advanced assisted stretching
Thai yoga stretches with correct positioning and leverage, safe for your student and easy on your own body.
Thai massage techniques
Compressions, acupressure and rhythmic work, with body weight and gravity, to use in private sessions or before and after class.
Use it in class, in private sessions, in your retreats.
A new skill to offer your students, and a new service for your teaching business.
Which training is for you?
Same six days, two different goals.
Full-Time Thai Massage Training
From the basics of Traditional Thai massage to the advanced techniques, until you have enough knowledge to build your own massage routine around each client's needs.
See the therapist training →Thai Yoga Massage for Yoga Teachers
Thai massage specifically for yoga. Every technique starts from an asana: Thai stretching, plus joint mobilisation and muscle manipulation, to help your students go deeper into their practice.
Already joined my Advanced Thai Yoga Stretching workshop? The six days follow the same asana-first approach, go deeper, and add joint mobilisation and muscle manipulation, which are not part of the workshop.
How you'll learn
Pose by pose, hands on the mat.
We start from an asana, look at the anatomy behind it, then practise the techniques in pairs while I walk around and correct you. You give and you receive, so you feel in your own body what your students will feel.
No previous massage experience needed: your yoga practice is the foundation.
Included in person
Go home with every technique on video.
Everyone who joins the training in person gets the online video courses of the yoga path, to review and keep practising after the week.
Advanced Thai Yoga Stretching Masterclass
The foundation of the yoga path, organised by muscle chain.
Thai Massage for Yoga
One complex asana per class, with all the muscle chains and techniques behind it.
Zoom follow-ups
Live classes to ask questions and keep improving once you are back home.
Your teacher
Ciao, I'm Gigi.
I trained at the Old Medicine School and at ITM school in Chiang Mai, and in Santa Teresa I have worked on more than 2,000 clients, many of them yogis and yoga teachers.
It started with Maria, a client who could not get into Lotus. For the first time I chose my Thai massage techniques with the anatomy of one asana in mind, and it worked. This training is everything I learned from that day on.
Choose your package
Stay with us, or just come to train.
Training + stay
The six days of training with accommodation and meals included. You just focus on learning, practising and resting.
Price on request
Bring your own stay
Same training, same videos and the same certificate. You organise your own accommodation and meals in Santa Teresa.
Price on request
Getting to Santa Teresa
Joining a training? Just ask and I'll organise your transfer with my trusted local drivers.
Ready to bring Thai massage into your yoga teaching?
Write me and I'll send you the next dates and what each package includes.