‘The 2010 Free style Thai Massage European Gathering takes place on the island of Veli Iz, near the coastal city of Zadar, Croatia. The event begins on Wednesday, 23rd of June at 10 AM, and closing ceremonies are on Sunday, 27th of June 2010 at 3 PM.

The core of the Gathering will be numerous specialized workshops held by internationally respected teachers. However, the major goal of the event is to connect European Thai massage practitioners and teachers on a larger scale and to straighten the European Thai massage community. In Europe, many practitioners struggle on their own, often isolated in their own countries, and this event is an effort to improve that situation by providing a unique opportunity for dozens of practitioners from a various lineages to meet and work with each other on their own continent. This is especially important for those practitioners who have never visited Thailand and have never felt the great spirit of the Thai massage motherland, or how it feels to be connected to a large number of colleagues.’

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Dates: 10, 11, 17, 18, 31 October and 1, 7, 8, 9, 10 November

Hours: Saturdays from 13:00 to 19:00. Sundays from 10:00 to 16:00

This 60-hour course teaches the myofascial approach to Thai Massage developed by Howard Evans during fifteen years of practice and teaching. This is described in the book, ‘A Myofascial Approach to Thai Massage‘, published in January 2009 by Churchill Livingstone.

Traditional Thai medicine is based on the concept of a system of 72,000 channels called ’sen’ through which, it is said, energy is transformed and distributed in the human body. In Thailand much of the theory of this system has been lost. Of the little that remains there is a series of diagrams outlining the ten major sen used in Traditional Thai Massage. In the West these are often likened to the meridians used in Chinese acupuncture or shiatsu.

The myofascial approach to Thai Massage teaches the sen as myofascial pathways similar to those used in Structural Integration (or Rolfing). This approach brings clarity and simplicity of action to the massage allowing the practitioner to relax into the practice, and invite ever-deeper levels of relaxation in the receiver.

Dates: 12, 19, October and 2, 9, 23, 30 November

Hours: 15:00 until 20:00

Cost: €400

Craniosacral Therapy 1 is the first of four thirty hour modules teaching craniosacral work. It is structured around the theme of stillness and the physical body. The specific craniosacral techniques covered in this course relate to the organisation of experience in the transverse structures of the body and the softening of these structures.

Although these skills are drawn from craniosacral work they are taught within a context framed by bodywork pioneers such as Wilhelm Reich, Alexander Lowen, Stanley Keleman, Arnold Mindell and Ron Kurtz.

Dates: 24, 25 October; 13, 14, 15 November; 12, 13 December

Hours: To be confirmed

Cost: £400

Craniosacral Therapy 1 is the first of four thirty hour modules teaching craniosacral work. It is structured around the theme of stillness and the physical body. The specific craniosacral techniques covered in this course relate to the organisation of experience in the transverse structures of the body and the softening of these structures.

Although these skills are drawn from craniosacral work they are taught within a context framed by bodywork pioneers such as Wilhelm Reich, Alexander Lowen, Stanley Keleman, Arnold Mindell and Ron Kurtz.