Massage Training Program Overview

Full-Time Massage Training Program.

Classroom Time:     9am – 5pm Monday – Wednesday.

The 725-hour Professional Massage Program at the Ashland Institute of Massage is designed to develop massage practitioners with a deep appreciation of the human body, a solid foundation in therapeutic and relaxation massage techniques, valuable clinical assessment and treatment skills, business fundamentals, and a greatly enhanced understanding of Self and community. Our graduates enter the workforce as highly prepared and competent massage therapists, ready to find employment in a wide variety of settings or to begin their own private practice.

Building on a foundation of traditional Swedish massage, our program deepens into myofascial release, neuromuscular therapy, and advanced therapeutic assessment and treatment techniques. Your student clinical experience will help you integrate academic knowledge of the body, hands-on techniques, case assessment and treatment, and client relations skills.

2023 – 2024 Massage Training Program

Our Intensive Day Program starts September 5, 2023 and completes July, 2024. This ten-month intensive program features full class days Monday – Wednesday, allowing students the ability to work part-time on other days. Class runs from 9:00am-5:00pm with a lunch break from 12:00pm-1:30pm. Students are in class approximately twenty hours a week and can generally expect ten to twenty hours per week outside of class time for homework, massage practice, and studying. We are currently enrolling for the upcoming school year. Program space is limited! Do you have further inquiries? Contact the office and we will put you in touch with our Admissions Team!

Partial Program Students

Partial Program students enter the program having completed a portion of their training at AIM or another massage school or are massage therapists from other states who need additional training and specific courses to fulfill Oregon licensing requirements. These students’ requirements are established prior to enrollment based on their prior training. AIM has the right to require specific courses that we deem to be acceptable in meeting the OBMT’s requirements. Students may take additional courses at their choosing. Tuition for partial program students is $23/course hour.

Auditing Students

Occasionally, students who are not pursuing a massage degree but are interested in a specific course are accepted (including licensed therapists), given that there is room in the course and the instructor allows students to audit his or her course. These students pay $9/course hour, do not take exams, and do not receive a transcript or certificate in massage therapy. Auditing students may not be eligible to sit for the Oregon Board Exam.

Catalog

For more details, download our latest Catalog from the Publications page.