Massage Training at the Kripalu School of Massage

Study with exceptional faculty who draw from more than 30 years of experience creating extraordinary learning environments

Why do your massage training at Kripalu?

The Kripalu approach takes the technical skills and strokes and transforms them into a sacred experience of intuitive healing touch. Kripalu therapists attune to the essential within themselves and their clients to offer an experience infused with life force. The tools of the Kripalu approach include intention, intuitive awareness, attentiveness to energy, and yogic stances and breathing and can be used with any bodywork modality.

Through this comprehensive residential massage training, you will learn the principles and practices of massage therapy, develop an authentic healing presence, and experience bodywork as a vehicle for personal and spiritual transformation for both you and your clients.

The massage training program at the Kripalu School of Massage offers the following two levels of certification:

* Essentials of Kripalu Massage (170 hours)
Learn to provide compassionate, intuitive touch with technical expertise in our 170-hour foundational massage training.
* 500-Hour Kripalu Bodywork and Massage Training (340 hours)
Increase your repertoire of bodywork techniques and deepen the skills and experience acquired in Essentials of Kripalu Massage. This course provides an additional 340 hours of bodywork and massage training and together with Essentials of Kripalu Massage gives you the 500 hours of coursework necessary to apply for licensing as a massage therapist in most states in the United States and abroad.

The Kripalu School of Massage is licensed as a private occupational school by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Education.

Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a continuing education provider.

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