Navina Enhanced Training Intensive (Current Students)

Dive into the worlds of Ayurveda and Element Theory, adding another layer to your customization practice and another way in which you can help meet the needs of each individual. We’ll also add a whole toolkit worth of using your knees, feet and forearms as your massage tools. The intensive is a really unique way to immerse yourself back into your practice (and also to get treatments for yourself, because I know it’s been a little while).

Included in this package:

• 8 nights accommodation at the retreat centre
• Daily meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner)
• 1 x beach trip
• 2 x Enhanced Training Modules (3-days in length each):
• – Enhanced: Thai Massage & Ayurveda
• – Enhanced: Expanding Touch Techniques & Enhancing Sensitivity

Please note that this package is only available to current students who have participated in a minimum of Module 3 of the Navina curriculum. You do not need to be certified, but you need to have taken Modules 1-3.

The retreat centre is located in walking distance to 2 beautiful waterfalls with natural pools that are accessible to you at any time during the day (outside of class time). The beach is located about 25-minutes up the road and we’ll be going to one of them.

Course Information:

Thai Massage & Ayurveda –
Ayurveda is an ancient system of medicine developed thousands of years ago that allows us to see discrete differences within each individual. We learn the basics of Ayurveda to better customize our massage treatments. This advanced module focuses on:

• Introducing us to the 3 doshas, the Vayus and the 5 elements, and putting these into the context of Thai massage.
• Allowing this knowledge to inform our posture selection throughout a treatment.
• Integrating an extra 45 minutes of massage postures into a new sequence as well as extending our abdomen massage.
• Revisiting postures learned in modules 1-3 with a new perspective of (in particular) the Vayus and discussing how this will impact your treatments.
• Highlighting that all physical work is also energy work. This course will help us to integrate the worlds of anatomy and science with traditional Thai massage and energy work.

Expanding Touch Techniques & Enhancing Sensitivity –
“Thai massage is as good to give as it is to receive” – we have already explored this concept in our practice by using efficient and safe biomechanics. This course will extend this idea to the use of our different “tools” when massaging. Course content includes:

• Exploring greater use of our feet, knees and forearms in the application of massage pressure and muscle manipulation techniques to improve practitioner and client experience.
• Developing our touch sensitivity in these larger areas of our body so that we can use them for the full spectrum of pressure from superficial to deep touch.
• Comparing the use of different tools for different postures. This will help us see if a new touch technique will replace or add onto a previously used technique taking us deeper into the pose.
• The addition of another hour of massage postures to add into our existing repertoire.
• Discussions on how these new touch techniques impact our ability to customize our treatments.

This is an opportunity to expand your practice in our stunning new centre in the jungles of Costa Rica. Join us.

If you secure your place with a deposit, we’ll contact you as soon as possible to set up your payment plan arrangements. To read through the payment plan policies in advance, please see this page.