Gladden Therapy Training & Spiritual School

AROMATHERAPY MASSAGE THERAPY
Practitioner Diploma

Distance Learning / Home Study / Correspondence Course

Date: - start anytime

Cost: £149

Course Type: Distance Learning / Home Study / Correspondence Course

Entry Requirements: None , no prior qualification is required for this course.

Course description: On completion of this CMA (Complementary Medical Association) Registered diploma course you will be a qualified therapist in your chosen subject, enabling you to gain insurance and charge clients money for treatments.

Course Format:

• You will have your own personal tutor, to support you throughout your course
• There are approximately 10 modules per course, 1-6 hrs each
• Each module has revision questions (some also have practical exercises), approx 1 hour
• Course length – you may take as long as you wish to complete your course
• Case studies are required, to consolidate your learning

Continuous assessment - to support your learning - each module has a revision questions section, and where relevant, an exercise too. Each question paper will be checked by your tutor, and feedback given, before you are sent your next module (this enables us, and you, to be confident that you understand the lesson to the required level, before moving onto the next one).

Course length – you may take as long as you wish. However some students find it constructive to set themselves target dates - for example one week per module, or two modules per month.

Case studies are required at the end of the course, to strengthen and enhance your subject knowledge and confidence (friends and family are normally more than happy to receive free treatments).

Syllabus-
Each module contains:
- Module introduction and objective
- Module subject material, text and diagrams
- Practical exercise
- Revision questions

Module 1: The Practicing Therapist
-Taking care of yourself: inc grounding, balancing, protecting and cleansing your energy body
-The Therapy Room
-Professional Ethics

Module 2: The Client
-Benefits of this treatment
-Contra-indications
-Client Consultation Form
-Post treatment advice
-Creating the client’s experience, the five senses

Module 3: Anatomy & Physiology
Focus on head, neck, shoulders, face, hands & feet
- Skeletal system
- Muscular system
- Tissue and cells
- Skin
-The Energy Body: Chakras, Aura, Meridians

Module 4: Legalities
- Health & Safety
- Public Liability Insurance
- Becoming self-employed

Module 5: About Massage and Aromatherapy
-Massage: benefits and effects
-Essential Oils: building a basic collection, benefits and effects, choosing and preparing
-Carrier oils

Module 6: The Techniques and Methods
All sections in this module have experiential exercises
-the therapists posture, warming up, grounding
-deep breathing techniques, to enhance benefits from the essential oils
-choosing and mixing oils for each routine, personalizing and picking a theme
-techniques: effleurage, kneading, petrissage, percussion, pressure points.
-treating seated or reclined

Module 7: The Treatment Routine
All sections in this module have experiential exercises
-preparation: the space, yourself, everything you will need
-client consultation
-prepare oils
Continuous reminder for deep breathing
-‘Hello’ Hand Massage
-Stress Relieving Neck and Shoulder Massage
-Face Lift Massage: prep routine, main routine
-Energizing and Grounding Foot Massage
-aftercare advice
-treatment reminder sheet

Module 8: Case Studies
- Instructions
- Case study template sheet

Module 9: Business & Marketing
-Setting up as a therapist
-Promoting your therapies

Module 10: Further study. Recommended reading. What next?

Requirements for this course?
No previous knowledge is required. However a good command of verbal and written English is an advantage. It is also advisable that you have reasonable computer skills to enable you to email and open attachments. Tutorials are sent by a PDF file (most computers have Adobe Reader, however it is available as a free download). If you have problems with reading PDF files please email your tutor as other options may be suitable – please ask.

This course is best done by email correspondence, as new tutorials and tutor feedback are emailed to you. (If you do not have an email address – maybe you have a friend or relative who could print them off for you?) (Lessons can be posted to you by special request – please ask)