Our award-winning certification program prepares you to enter the fastest growing area of the massage therapy job market: spa therapies. The course in spa therapy at Atlanta School of Massage, will teach you to develop individualized massage and spa treatment sessions. The spa therapy course also covers spa history, theories, and therapeutic benefits will be discussed along with promotion and pricing. You will learn to operate and care for spa equipment, develop treatment plans, and practice creating custom treatments and corresponding spa menus.

The spa therapy course includes hands-on labs conducted in our teaching clinic and is designed to train students in a comprehensive selection of body treatments. You will review indications, contraindications, therapeutic effectiveness, and treatment protocols for the most popular spa therapies offered in the United States:

Additional classes in Aromatherapy and Hydrotherapy round out the spa therapy course. Aromatherapy classes present the art and science of using natural essential oils to aid health and beauty. You will examine the benefits, effects, and individual healing properties of each essential oil so that you can safely create custom-aromatic blends for calming or energizing effects. Hydrotherapy classes introduce the thermodynamics of heat and cold on body tissues and function. You will learn to appropriately apply water, ice therapies, and moist heat therapies.

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