Learn techniques that offer a unique combination of Swedish and sports massage. Purchase the Esalen Massage DVD and the Head, Neck & Shoulder Massage DVD featuring former Esalen massage therapist Sherry Galloway for $59.95 - a savings of $15.00. Not to be combined with other At Peace website special offers.
The Esalen Massage DVD offers hands-on instruction from the professional bodywork and massage therapists, on-site at the Esalen Institute. Combining elements of Swedish, deep-tissue and many other modalities, Esalen style massage is practiced worldwide.
The Head, Neck & Shoulder Massage DVD program presents a unique combination of Swedish and sports massage in the head, neck and shoulder area and how to sequence and integrate it into a full body massage. Combining anatomy, joint movement and technical massage. Instructor Sherry Galloway, also a registered nurse, spent years training and working as a massage therapist at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA.
Each of the featured members of the acclaimed Esalen Massage crew offers his or her own interpretation of Esalen® Massage, providing both narration and hands-on demonstrations. This unique format allows you to choose among different styles; try out a few and decide for yourself what makes you and your partner comfortable.
According to SPA Magazine, an Esalen massage therapist views the work as a time of meditation, using intuition to relate to a client. . . the recipient is gently urged to become an active participant through heightened awareness and surrendering to a deep sensing place. People who have experienced Esalen Massage agree that it is an extraordinary form of bodywork. This unique style of massage integrates the whole body with long strokes, blending wisdom and techniques from other cultures, and weaves new concepts of subtle energy with bodywork. Esalen Massage evolved from the contributions of early teachers at this center for experimental education and it continues to expand and grow as present-day practitioners add to the whole.
"Esalen is a sacred space where we come not to rework our practical life, but to discover an inner life, to respond to a vocation, to find a calling."
Joseph Campbell
"If feeling good is a religion, its cathedral is Esalen."
TIME Magazine
"Esalen has evolved into an institution. It is the Emerald City of massage and bodywork."
VOGUE Magazine

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I love this video. The Esalen Massage Video is a wonderful resource for anyone, from beginner to advanced practitioner, who wants to learn from the masters of bodywork at the Esalen Institute.
Dr. Ken Dychtwald
THE ROAD FROM RN TO ESALEN MASSAGE
In March of 1989, I began an entirely new and different second career as a certified massage therapist. For almost twenty years before that date, I was an emergency room R.N. My work life was frenetically busy and intensely stressful. In addition, I was a marathon runner who occasionally received therapeutic bodywork to heal strains and sprains. It was a full life. Too full. One day, realizing that I was approaching burnout, I decided to take a friend's advice and sign up for a five-day workshop at Esalen. I needed to reassess my life and the direction it was taking. The workshop included about four hours of massage instruction. I also received several massages while I was there. And I started to think: I can do this. I can create a whole new life as a massage therapist. It seemed like a perfectly natural change in direction, from nursing to bodywork.
Sherry Galloway