Massage Basics

This day-long workshop is designed for those considering professional training at ASM or just wanting to learn basic Swedish massage for friends and family. You'll learn effective hands-on techniques and quality of touch exercises that will benefit you and your client. No Experience Necessary.

There will be an Open House from 12:30 -1:30p.m. for participants to learn more about career training options at ASM.

Admissions Advisors will be available at this time.

Tobin Rangdrol, LMT. Tobin's first bodywork teacher was his mother, Shari Sunshine, LMT, who herself has been a bodywork therapist and teacher for more than thirty years. As a child surrounded by massage therapists and massage schools, Tobin always had a natural curiosity about the healing arts. His 16-year apprenticeship with Shari included training in Syntropy Insight Bodywork , Therapeutic Bodywork, meditation, Healing Chi Kung , and extensive teacher training. In conjunction, Tobin studied Ashtanga Yoga and Yoga Philosophy at the Yoga Workshop in Boudler, CO, Lomi Lomi Traditional Hawaiian Massage on Maui, HI, and spent more than a year-and-a-half studying meditation in Thailand, India and Nepal. After years of travel, training, and practice, Tobin finally began working as a bodywork therapist and co-teaching with Shari at Syntropy International on Maui. In 2004, he founded the Arcata School of Massage in recognition of the need for a massage school that teaches in the Old World apprenticeship style that was the basis of his own training. Tobin also serves on the Board of Directors of the Independent Massage School Association of California, which works to promote the welfare of all small, student-centered schools. For Tobin's whole story, visit the ASM blog at http://arcataschoolofmassage.blogspot.com/