Learn a complete full-body massage region by region, one chapter per session over 12 weeks.

Protect your hands and body with body-mechanics cues, hand conditioning, and peer review in every chapter.

Track your progress with procedure assessment sheets, session logs, and S.O.A.P. documentation.

What's inside: 36 chapters over 12 weeks

Foundations of touch, intent and movement · The massage methods · Practitioner preparation, hand conditioning and draping · Arm, hand and shoulder · Legs, feet and gluteal · Abdomen and chest · The back · Face, scalp and ear · The neck · Full body with transitional strokes · The thirty- and sixty-minute session · The complete session at professional pace. Each chapter includes objectives, step-by-step procedures, body-mechanics cues, practice activities, a self-check, and a session log, plus a health information form, S.O.A.P. session note, contraindications quick reference, assessment standard, and glossary.

Lori Vargas, MBA, CPA, CMT

Lori Vargas, MBA, CPA, CMT

Lori Vargas is the founder and CEO of 360 Wellness Education. Before founding 360 in 2019, she built a full-service spa that grew to four locations in five years, then ran a massage therapy vocational school where this curriculum was designed, refined, and taught. Two decades of training, certifying, hiring, and mentoring practitioners shaped The 360 Method™, a framework that unites technical excellence, clinical application, and business strategy.

Purpose with every movement

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