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About the Workshop

Let's agree on a few things. Massage feels good and is good for you. As a society we know this to be true. Let us also agree that regardless if you've never had a professional massage, or, if you have been getting massages for years, you could benefit from learning a little bit at home. None of this should surprise you, however.

Instead, imagine the positive consequences of you learning how to do massage at home. It's a pretty picture. Connecting with your partner. Adding quality to your quality time, even if all you are doing is watching your favorite movie. Having less tense shoulders, effectively turning down the volume on the stress from work. There a lot of awesome reasons to give this a try.

Attendees can expect themselves, and the person they come with, whether hey are familiar with massage or not, to have all the knowledge required to successfully start massaging each other regularly. This is more than just a "how-to" class. It is a "what-to" class. It will leave you and your partner inspired to massage each other regularly, not just provide one fun afternoon or evening in a Yoga Studio with some friends.


The cornerstone of the workshop is that it has to start with you giving each other shoulder rubs. The reasons are as follows:

  1. The focus should not be on a full body massage, since most of our pain stems from tight neck and shoulder muscles. Most of your time when starting out massaging should be spent there.

  2. You can learn how to give a really good shoulder rub in one workshop. If the focus was on the full body, you wouldn't leave skilled enough to end up doing it for each other. In my research, the #1 flaw in every other workshop was that when surveyed 6 months later, the couples were simply not using what they had learned.

  3. The shoulder rub aproach requires no set up time, music, lotion, candles or even a massage table. This will make massage convenient in your lives and as simple to master the microwave in your kitchen.

  4. By starting with something so simple that you can easily do it well, and which yields immediate benefits, you will not have an excuse to not do this on a daily basis.

  5. This is the first stepping stone to learn how to do massage. While you perform these simple techniques, you will be improving your skills and learning how to fix knots in the muscles at the same time.

The Navarro Method (TM) is not a simple Massage 101 class. It's approach will change you.

This workshop isn't dumbing anything down, or cutting any corners. This is simply the best way to become proficient at massage. If you tried to massage each other at home, chances are it might take 50 times before you are really good at it. 50 evenings with candles, lotion and babysitter fees. And most of don't have the patience for that. Thus, most couples dont massage each other, and simply pay for it instead.

Massage is by no means rocket science, but of course you should expect to have to be shown how to do it. In the same way someone taught you how to cook food. You learned a few basic things, and then made it your own. While everything you do now is probably learned by looking up recepies online, at one point someone had to teach you how to bring water to a boil. In our culture your parents didn't show you how to do massage. I will get you started. And besides that it isn't rocket science, there is no "healing touch" requirement that only a few of us possess. This is only a craft, just like the woodworking in my family generations ago, which sometimes transcends itself to the level of art.

Generations from now, massage is going to be orders of magnitude more common in society. This is because we are rediscovering the benefits of massage, which were documented by Hippocrates, but lost to history during the Dark Ages, and then greatly discredited during the Industrial Revolution. Today, all agree that massage is good for you. Think back what you knew about massage it 10 years ago. In fact 10 years ago, almost nobody even knew it was good for you. Now it's benefits is accepted as fact. While no one can put it in a pill and patent it, massage is literally sweeping the nation and and I am lucky enough to be a part of it.