learn the art of
zen thai shiatsu
8-11 May 2025
Join our four-day introductory Zenthai Shiatsu training this October/November in Upper Ojai at an incredible private location.
You will be joined by Zenthai teacher, Lily Aagren - gracing us from the shores of Australia especially to share the magic of Zenthai with our community, Zenthai practitioners Rosie Santos and Brad David. Plus a very special guest facilitator David Hurwith, teaching embodied anatomy.
What is zen thai?
Zenthai is a flowing, seamless blend of Zen Shiatsu, Thai Massage and Osteopathic Techniques underpinned by the principles and techniques of yoga and Traditional Chinese Medicine. Zenthai is a powerful therapy, its explorative nature makes this modality ever evolving, and its depth of healing always profound.
Zenthai is more than just a practice. It is a journey of self-discovery, strengthening, letting go and being fully embraced by a beautiful, conscious community.
WHO IS THE TRAINING FOR?
All are welcome to join this training - if you would love to deepen your awareness and relationship to touch and healing - if you desire tools to share with friends and family - if you’re interested in bodywork and/or basic Traditional Chinese Medicine principles, or if you currently practice bodywork and want to explore another modality - if you’d like to explore movement as expression and movement as connection - it’s incredible for yoga teachers, wanting to add more facilitating tools to their belt - and no matter what age you are, no matter what background, this is a chance to unplug and deepen your capacity to listen.
You do not need any previous experience in yoga or massage to join. Whether you are a seasoned practitioner or just starting on your journey with bodywork, if you have a passion for holistic healing and a desire to enhance your therapeutic abilities, the Zenthai level 1 Training is for you.
WHAT YOU’LL RECEIVE
- Comprehensive instruction in Zenthai bodywork techniques
- A 2 hour sequence.
- Giving and receiving hours of quality body work
- Deepening the sense of touch
- Invitation to stay on the land, embody the teachings, meditate, unplug, play music around the fire.
- Daily yoga and movent
- Practices to strengthen the body and cultivate inner awareness
- Manual and video of the material covered
- Level One Zenthai Shiatsu Certificate
Once you have completed the level one training you are eligible for the 9-month practitioner training and all other Zenthai Shiatsu trainings around Australia and Canada. To find out more about Zenthai visit www.zenthaishiatsu.com
LOCATION
Sulphur Mountain, Upper Ojai
Strip yourself of business and spend 4 days relishing in sweet reciprocity and bodywork on the gorgeous mountains above Ojai looking West over the Pacific Ocean.
If you would like to camp for the 3 nights, please get in touch via phone or email to arrange. $75 per night.
SCHEDULE
9 - 4 30 Thurs - Sat
9 - 2 Sun
Daily yoga pertaining to the TCM element we are focusing on for the day followed by morning tea.
Bodywork module then lunch. Afternoon is spent each day with group activities and giving and receiving bodywork.
INVESTMENT
$750 before January 1. $880 after.
Meet your teachers
Lily Aagren is committed to helping people lead a life more connected to the natural world and facilitates a variety of trainings on touch, movement and the use of plants. As an herbalist and Zenthai therapist and teacher, she is passionate about marrying traditional healing modalities with modern scientific knowledge, She lives and practices in Australia.
Rosie Santos, also an Australian native, has been sharing the art of Zenthai with the Ojai Valley since she moved here in 2023. She is a seeker of spaciousness and poetry in the human body. Rosie sees Zenthai not only as a method for opening one’s capacity for deep rest, but as a method of authentic connection, movement and play with community.
Brad David, born and raised in Ojai, studied Zenthai in Australia and currently practices Anatomy Trains Structural Integration. His bodywork practice as well as his personal practice, is humbled by the ineffable qualities of our energetic and fascial systems. To take Zenthai back home to Ojai is both medicine and play.
