Our Massage Courses

Raynor Massage is all around the world

Raynor massage courses are taught in Adelaide, Blue Mountains, Canberra, Brisbane, Darwin, Gold Coast, Melbourne, Perth, Sunshine Coast and Sydney. We have been teaching massage courses in Australia since 1997 and worldwide since 2002.

In 2009 we set up a permanent massage school and natural therapies clinic at 45 Oxford St, Bondi Junction, Sydney where we offer massages from graduates of our school and we offer 6 massage courses a year as well as yoga and meditation classes and herbal medicine consultations. Please call our clinic direct on 02 9387 1108 to make a booking, In April 2010 we also set up a clinic and permanent branch of our massage school in Northcote, Melbourne where people will also be able to come and get massages from people who have completed our course and we also offer more massage courses in Melbourne on a regular basis.

However, apart from having massage courses in Australia, we have also expanded to New Zealand cities such as Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington.

And now, we also offer this massage course in the major cities of Canada, the US, England, Ireland, and South Africa.

Our school provides you with massage training that incorporates all you need to know to become a professional high quality massage therapist in a series of very intensive short courses.

Many massage schools are skeptical about how the Brandon Raynor School of Natural Therapies can train people in such a short period of time. Our answer is simple. Our massage training is hands on, students are not taught in a medical or theoretical way, this is experiential learning. Students learn by demonstration, doing and experiencing. This hands-on, apprenticeship style training develops your actual massage techniques and sense of touch, rather than on classroom theoretical style learning.

Within a matter of days people who have had no previous  training are able to feel tension in muscles and begin to eliminate it. Experiencing the treatment allows our students to know how it feels to be on the receiving end of a Raynor massage and to adjust their own treatment based on this knowledge.

Our courses are intensive and practical, we do not spend time in lectures, pouring over textbooks or preparing for written exams but we will recommend further reading for you and we encourage all of our students to take their ongoing professional development seriously. Our graduates are entitled and encouraged to join INTA, the International Natural Therapists Association. INTA members not only need to sign up to standards of professional behaviour but are linked into this central point for information about ongoing professional development and to keep up to date with massage developments.

Brandon Raynor, an Australian trained Naturopath, Ayurvedic medicine practitioner and world acclaimed massage training teacher developed the Raynor technique of massage therapy over 20 years of running his own massage practice and from his experience of traveling around the world to study a vast range of massage styles, working with some of the "masters" of massage from different disciplines.

Raynor bodywork has grown in popularity all over the world because of its unique ability to provide a form of treatment that works on each client individually to fix muscular, postural and alignment problems as well as releasing emotional stress and anxiety at their deepest level.

Raynor bodywork is a highly advanced style of massage therapy that combines the best of Eastern and Western styles including from the East, Shiatsu, acupressure, Thai massage and Lomi Lomi massage along with deep-tissue, sports and Swedish massage from the West. Raynor bodywork is taught in a practical and down-to-earth format so that anyone from those with no experience through to long term massage therapy practitioners and other health practitioners will find our courses highly educational and will find the Raynor bodywork easy to learn and practice whilst being an extremely advanced and effective form of whole body therapy.

For over 10 years, Brandon Raynor's School of Natural Therapies massage college has been providing the world's leading massage training to thousands of students in over 30 locations in countries across 5 continents. Raynor Massage training will teach you in a hands-on and practical way our highly advanced style of massage therapy that releases tension and stress at its source, once and for all. In our Raynor Massage Certificate Course and Raynor Massage Diploma Course, and our Advanced Massage Diploma you will learn how to develop your sense of touch and intuition to tailor make your massage therapy to your client's unique needs and trace tension to its deepest layers and learn a variety of techniques to release it.

We first started offering our massages using intensive Raynor with deep tissue and acupressure massage courses technique in Sydney, Australia over 10 years ago. Since then our  school has grown and we now offer courses world wide in locations including London, Dublin, Edinburgh, Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, and Montana.

We have also expanded our massage courses to cities all over Australia such as Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, Darwin, the Gold Coast and Tasmania.

When there is demand for courses in new areas where we do not operate, we will, wherever possible, look to meeting that demand so that people can train in this incredible therapy style and spread the word!

Our school has a very advanced approach to bodywork training. We have adopted our own unique approach to help our students to learn a very advanced and powerful form of treatment in a simple and down to earth way without overburdening the student with too much theory. Our college's approach is to teach you everything you need to know to become an excellent therapist as quickly as possible.

Raynor massage is a cutting edge massage style that takes the best from the various styles of massage from around the world such as Deep Tissue and Swedish massage, Shiatsu, Thai massage, Reflexology, Rolfing, Therapeutic Massage, Ayurvedic and Hawaiian Lomi Lomi Massage. We have taken the best techniques from these styles and combined them into one form. In addition to this we have taken many techniques from chiropractic work, physical therapy and yoga and have combined all of these into one form of bodywork treatment called Raynor massage with a simple goal - to find any muscle tension and blocked Chi in the body and to loosen the muscles and open the meridians or energy channels in the body.

Our formula for teaching, which has proven so popular for more than 10 years and led us to grow from teaching our courses in our lounge room in Brisbane and Sydney to being a major world wide massage school, is very intensive and very much a hands-on approach. It's massaging, being massaged, or watching the teacher doing a demonstration massage from day 1.

Even though our massage is commonly considered the most advanced form of bodywork therapy in the world, it is able to be taught in a very simple and hands on way to enable people to get started as a massage therapist as soon as possible In fact, due to the powerful ability to move the chi in the body and the other techniques incorporated within our technique, many people have commented that what we do is much more than just massage. It is a far more powerful experience than just receiving a normal massage!

Our approach to massage training is very different to other schools!

Most other schools will begin their training with extensive teaching of Latin terms for muscles and test students on these with written exams. There are no written exams with Raynor Massage's 5-day Massage Courses.

In standard massage courses it is usually much later into the course when students will be allowed to start massaging in a very basic way, usually getting the students to learn Swedish massage in a very simple general routine. They will then learn therapeutic or remedial massage for several more weeks, and near the end of the course, they will learn a few aspects of deep tissue massage, trigger points, or kinesiology. A few rare courses will also cover some very basic oriental techniques such as Shiatsu, acupressure, or Thai massage.

In our massage courses you will be massaging from Day 1 of the course! What we do is take the best and most useful techniques from all the major styles of massage such as Swedish, therapeutic, deep tissue, acupressure, Shiatsu, Thai massage, Ayurvedic massage and Hawaiian Lomi Lomi massage. We use the best of these concepts and techniques to use within our very advanced, yet simple to learn, form of therapy called Raynor massage.

Brandon Raynor's Naturopathic approach to massage has the consistent and simple philosophy to find any tension in the body and blockages in the chi flow of the body and get rid of them. Raynor massage has the goal of finding every tight muscle in the body and loosening it and uses bodywork and natural healing techniques from across the world to achieve that goal.

The main emphasis in our teaching of massage therapy is to equip the students to feel and find muscle tightness in the body and know how to get rid of it using our unique massage therapy. We train our students to feel tension. The best Shiatsu therapists in Japan, a country with a history of thousands of years of massage, were usually blind, their emphasis is about feeling what the body is telling them. This shows the importance of learning to feel with your hands rather than see with your eyes or over analyze with your mind and it is this that you will be trained to do on our courses.

We teach people to find a tight muscle and then we show the students that muscle tightness does not exist as a single muscle or tight spot but exists as a whole band or meridian of tension that can run from head to toe. Our students learn how one point along a band needs to be loosened in order for the next point to let go, and so on.

This makes the style of bodywork we teach a holistic style, emphasizing the inter connectedness of the body, mind and soul. We also demonstrate the Eastern medical approach, that in some people emotional stress can have a physical manifestation and, by getting rid of this physical manifestation, we can alleviate or get rid of that emotional stress.

It is this unique style which makes up the core teachings of our school and which you can learn in our Raynor Massage Certificate Course and our Raynor Massage Diploma Course.

The 5 day Raynor Massage Certificate Course is the foundation course for all of our teachings and knowledge of Raynor Massage Therapy. After completing this course, you will be able to do an excellent treatment that could range from a light, gentle, nurturing treatment to a very deep tissue type of massage that will leave your most stressed-out client with the feeling that a whole layer of stress and tension has been lifted from their shoulders.

 

Our Raynor Massage Diploma Course has the first 5 days of the Certificate Course, plus 5 more days of specific teaching, practical experience and applying our techniques. We include a full day of learning the art of Reflexology, which is foot or hand massage that has a reflex action on other areas of the body and a full day of Aromatherapy. Aromatherapy oils, which are 100% natural essential oils mixed in with base massage oils, enhance the benefits of the massage experience and we will teach you how to tailor them to the individual client's needs.

 

 

Because we keep our terminology easy to understand and we follow teaching methods that make advanced bodywork techniques easy to understand and very hands-on, there are no pre-requisites for the Certificate level massage course. The Diploma course follows on from the Certificate and it is possible to do them at different times by completing the Certificate course and later coming back for the last 5 days of the Diploma course.

We design our massage courses to be more mature-age oriented vocational courses. They are designed for people with busy schedules. The classes are great for busy working or family people who don't have time to take years out of their schedule. They are ideal for people who live a long way from a city and don't want to commute every day for years to a large city massage school.

We also get a lot of course participants who just don't want to spend a long time learning a basic massage style when a more effective style such as ours can be learned in a much shorter period of time.

The majority of participants in the course are aged 18 to 60 and have some experience of life behind them, but we accept students from 16 until 80. There is usually a balance of males and females in most classes.

We specifically design our courses for people who want to get started with their new massage career as soon as possible and with as little interruption to their lives. Our courses are designed to have a practical approach to massage training rather than an intellectual approach. The best massage is done from the heart through the hands rather than through the head. We teach massage the way we would have liked to have learned it, without all the filler subjects that many massage schools consider compulsory in their training methods

 

Our teacher in Munich, Germany, Craig Burton, demonstrating massage techniques

 

We believe that all massage therapists should be able to deliver high quality treatment. Historically there have been many different approaches to both the practice and teaching of massage. For example, Thailand is world-recognized as a place where massage is a way of life. In both Thai and Hawaiian massage, it is not knowledge of body terms in Latin that makes a good massage therapist, but the spirit of the heart (or Aloha in Hawaiian) which is the prime ingredient of a good massage therapy treatment and the ability to tune into the more subtle aspects of the person. In other words it is all about feeling rather than thinking in these styles. Particularly in the US and Canada, the massage industry has become over regulated in a movement led by those who run more bureacratic type Western style massage schools. Brandon Raynor has been a strong world-wide voice opposing bureaucratic over-regulation of the art of massage therapy knowing that world-wide there is a huge variety of highly effective massage techniques. He led a campaign in 2006 called the Freedom Ride to keep health freedom and deregulate the massage industry in the United States

In almost all the world-wide locations we teach in, graduates of our school will be able to get professional indemnity and malpractice insurance to cover them when they are practicing. They will also be able to join the International Natural Therapies Association, receive a free newsletter, and receive a listing on the INTA website.