Blue Ridge School of Massage and Yoga, in Blacksburg, Virginia, offers a comprehensive Medical Massage-based curriculum: Swedish, Deep Tissue, Trigger Point and Myofascial Release, Shiatsu and Thai Yoga Massage as major bodywork modalities, with Reiki, Polarity, Reflexology and Pregnancy Massage in-depth introductions. Yoga and Chi Kung are integrated into classes to promote wellness and safe massage practice, focus, and kinesthetic body awareness. Students are well-grounded in Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, Communication, Ethics, and Business Practices by their graduation.

Our Program meets national and state certification requirements for 550-hour massage therapy training. Our graduates have had a consistently high level of performance on the National Certification exam. They have established successful practices, worked in other holistic or conventional health facilities, and have entered the teaching profession.

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Winter 2007 -12 Month Program (Afternoon Classes) begins Jan. 9, 2007

Spring 2007 - 12 Month Program (Evening Classes) begins Mar. 19, 2007

Jeff Tiebout, CMT, founded the school. A graduate of the Florida School of Massage, he has had an active private practice for twenty-four years, and has been an inspiring and much loved teacher of massage and yoga for nineteen years. Jeff has a reverence and keen interest in the human organism, which he brings to the instruction of Physiology and Pathology. His unique and ever-evolving form of shiatsu practiced on the table, is grounded and practical. He is a certified Ashtanga yoga instructor who "walks his talk" embodying yogic practices and principles. He, along with Victoria, have made life committments to teach and to heal. Together they have created Combined Deep Therapy, a portion of the program which combines Neuromuscular Trigger Point & Travell Trigger Point Therapies with Counterstrain practices, a uniquely broad and highly therapeutic set of related techniques.

Victoria Stone, CMT,a 1991 graduate of the Blue Ridge School, has been in private practice for thirteen years, Formerly a university instructor and owner of an advertising and design firm, she brings practical knowledge of business to preparing our students to operate their own practices. She is dedicated to well-structured curricula and assignments that meet the needs of all types of learners. As a doula, she has worked with pregnant & birthing women, and teaches the pregnancy & infant massage classes. With a passion for continuing education she has added Cranial-sacral therapy, Watsu aquatic bodywork, hot stone therapy, and Thai yoga massage to her own private practice and into her teaching. She has taught massage, art, and repetitive strain injury prevention over the past eleven years, and brings abundant energy to the school through her own consistent wellness practices. She is a Yoga Alliance registered yoga instructor.

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Information on classes, open house dates, and tuition plans is available by email or on our web site.

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Student clinic massages are one hour and fifteen minute sessions and the price is $35

Those interested in scheduling a session should call 552-2177.

Clinic Hours:
Mondays 1:00 - 5:00 PM
Fridays from 4 - 7:30pm
Selected Saturdays 10AM to 2 PM

After completing our state-approved 550-hour massage therapy program, graduates are eligible to take the National Certification Exam in Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork. Blue Ridge School helps students prepare for the exam by including “The Complete Review Guide for the National Certification Exam” as one of our texts. After passing the exam, graduates may apply to the Nursing Board of Virginia for the Certified Massage Therapist credential. This certification permits graduates to legally practice massage therapy in Virginia. Every two years, certified massage therapists must complete 25 hours of continuing education requirements to maintain their certification.

Blue Ridge School of Massage & Yoga provides coursework for continuing education credits, including required classes in Ethics; Hot Stone Therapy; Injury Recall, Applied Kinesiology, and Muscle Testing; Introduction to Structural Integration; Pranic Healing; Reiki; Shiatsu; Sports Massage; Chi Kung and Yoga for Bodyworkers; Introduction to Aromatherapy; and Introduction to Trager; Natural Spa Facial and Spa Feet. We will be adding other continuing education classes, so check with us for the latest schedule and offerings at   blueridgemassage.org

Yoga is integrated into the massage therapy program, in the practice of asana (physical postures) at the beginning of classes for the purpose of self-care for bodywork, cultivating the focus, centering and grounding that are hallmarks of conscious bodywork, and to educate students in stretches to give their massage clients for self-care. The ethical foundations of yoga and the ethics required of massage therapists are very similar and complementary.

Tai chi and chi kung are interwoven into our program as well; these practices also assist in promoting focus and concentration and assist students in consciously coming into contact with and working with subtle energies in the body. All of the movement studies that are part of the massage program assist in the cultivation of grace and flexibility, and help students be more present and attentive to the academic and experiential components of learning massage theory and practice.

In addition, we are offering various movement classes to the public. If you would like to receive updates, please call us at 540-552-2177.

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