Conscious Touch Massage Level 1.Â
7-Day Intensive Course
Embark on a transformative journey in our 7-day intensive course on Conscious Touch Massage
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Conscious Touch: A New Paradigm in Healing
Conscious Touch, developed by Roger Jackson, represents a transformative shift in how we approach healing and repair. Unlike many modalities—therapy, yoga, coaching, breathwork, and even some somatic practices—that often view the body and mind as projects to be worked on, Conscious Touch offers a refreshing perspective: nothing needs to be fixed.
The Essence of Conscious Touch
In this innovative approach, the body is not a project, and the mind is not a problem to solve. Instead, Conscious Touch emphasizes the importance of simply being with another human being. It fosters a space for non-demanding, platonic, physical contact, allowing the body to rest, open, and ultimately trust.
This shift moves us away from a goal-directed mindset—where the focus is on doing, improving, or fixing—to one of being, acceptance, and connection. Here, touch serves as a medium, inviting you to receive love, attention, and care without needing to earn it. For many, this is a novel experience, rarely encountered during childhood or adulthood.
Conscious Touch provides nurturing and loving contact that replicates the vital early developmental experience of receiving unconditional caregiver love through touch—an experience that many individuals may not have had the opportunity to encounter.
The Impact of Conscious Touch
Conscious Touch provides a unique opportunity for individuals to experience true repair at the nervous system level—not through words or striving, but through the simple act of being met without conditions. This approach is powerful and deeply unfamiliar for many, making it a groundbreaking practice.
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Important Information
Dates: 1st-8th August
Times: 9am - 6pm. Lunch break from 1pm until 2:30
Investment: ÂŁ1150
Requirements: No previous experience is necessary.
Includes: Teaching and contents. Teaching materials including summary of techniques. One set of massage sheets per participant.Â
This course places a strong emphasis on personal healing and individual processes, ensuring a trauma-informed approach throughout
This program integrates trauma-informed practices with a focus on personal healing and professional skill development, emphasizing the art of conscious touch and trauma healing.
Participants will explore the framework of Polyvagal Theory, gaining insights into how the nervous system impacts emotional regulation and safety in therapeutic settings.
A foundational understanding of basic anatomy of large muscle groups will enhance your ability to deliver effective and targeted massage techniques.
The course includes approximately 60 massage techniques, covering:
- Long strokes and integrating movements for fluidity
- Regulating holds and still positions for stability
- Kneading techniques utilizing hands, palms, knuckles, forearms, and elbows
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Hands-on exchanges with other participants will help develop proficiency and confidence in these techniques while fostering a deep connection with the body. Through first person experience of these techniques you will learn how these techniques feel and how this work can help open the body and release emotions, long trapped in the body.
The personal and group experience here will set the foundational learning of empathy which will set a framework for working with clients: it is through our own personal process that we will be able to accompany other people on their journey of repair.
Movement exercises of different kinds will be incorporated throughout the course, promoting body awareness, grounding, and presence. Participants will engage in sharing circles and Circling to foster empathy, community, support, and personal reflection, enhancing the learning experience through shared insights and experiences
This course places a strong emphasis on personal repair and individual processes, ensuring a trauma-informed approach throughout. You will leave equipped with professional competencies and personal insights that will enrich your practice and enhance your therapeutic relationships, as well as transform the way you live your life.
This course is perfect for
People looking to rest comfortably in the body.
People looking to deeply know themselves better
People interested in connecting with others
People looking to learn massage
People interested in working with massage
People looking to improve their embodiment.
This may not be for you if you
Are not willing to be touched.
Don't want to confront difficult emotions from the past.
Don't want to learn about yourself.
Are not open to personal transformation.
Know everything already.
More Information
This is a non-residential retreat, so meals and accommodation are not included
Includes: Teaching and contents. Teaching materials including summary of techniques. One set of massage sheets per participant.
We are limiting spaces to 20 participants
Venue: The Skylight Centre, 49 Corsica Street Highbury and, 49 Corsica St, London N5 1JT, United Kingdom
Requirements
— No previous experience of massage or therapeutic modalities is necessary although can be a help.
— Participants must be able to speak English.
— All applicants must go through an introduction call with the director of the school.Â
— Minimum age for participation is 18.Â
— This course is not recommended for people with prohibitive mobility issues.
About the Teacher
Roger is a certified Somatic Experiencing® practitioner, Esalen® massage practitioner, Californian Massage Practitioner, Deep Tissue practitioner and Transformational Connection® practitioner with twenty years of experience in bodywork, somatic therapy and trauma healing.Â
The former director of Oasis Massage School in Buenos Aires and the founder of The Conscious Touch® Academy, he emphasises nervous system regulation for self-empowerment in his work with clients and groups.
Currently, he teaches internationally in Europe and South America, both in person and online, all within a supportive environment that fosters personal growth.
Join us to give and receive the right kind of touch to let your body truly rest.
You are worthy of love.Â
