The Art of Massage
Posted on01 Jul 2019
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Massage & Reflexology Courses in Greater Manchester and North Wales.
Welcome to Orchid Massage Academy!
Are you a qualified massage therapist or reflexologist, looking for a new, exciting course to add to your repertoire? Maybe you’d like to update and refresh your current skills? Or would you like to learn more in-depth, advanced techniques to improve your existing treatments?
Whatever you’d like to learn, we can help you. We provide CPD workshops, refresher sessions, introductions days, and therapist mentoring, along with a selection of online courses for professional therapists.
Orchid Massage Academy is dedicated to helping you become an (even more) amazing therapist. We believe that the world needs more great therapists, so we have made it our mission to provide the best quality courses, the most outstanding tutors and the most supportive and friendly learning environment, to enable you to become the best therapist you can possibly be.
We have training centres in Rochdale, Greater Manchester and Bangor, North Wales. Our courses will help you to get ahead of the competition, and are all insurable (although do check with your insurer, before booking). We have an excellent reputation for offering personalised training courses, specifically developed for adult learners. We have a large portfolio of courses, including:
Introduction /Taster Courses
Introductory Courses and Taster Days for newcomers to massage and reflexology.
Private Tuition
One-to-one mentoring and private refresher sessions, to really fine-tune your treatments
Professional Workshops
Develop your skills and knowledge with our CPD courses for existing therapists.
We offer professional CPD courses recognised for insurance by various organisations such as FHT, AOR and H&L Balen.
We also offer a selection of online self-study courses:
- Massage Mastery – how to be an exceptional therapist, our signature self-study course.
- Red Flags and how to recognise them (coming soon)
Our Massage Mastery course has been designed to allow certification within 2-6 months, which means that you can take your time to qualify within a time scale to suit you.
Our aim is to be flexible, offering all our massage and holistic therapy courses in weekday and weekend modes. Our tutors are highly qualified and experienced in working with a range of learners and we can promise:
- Fully insurable courses: Our CPD workshops are all fully insurable, enabling you to start working professionally immediately after qualifying.
- Expert tutors: All our tutors are hand-picked for their passion, experience and expertise. They all have at least 10 years experience in the industry and all have a teaching qualification.
- Very small classes: Our aim is to produce amazing therapists – and to do this we need small classes. We never have more than 6 people in a class, so everyone gets the attention and support they need.
- On-going support: All students will be sent high quality learning materials to refer to throughout the course and all have access to continuous support from your tutor and the school principal by phone or email. Our private Facebook group allows you to communicate with and get support from other students and graduates.
Highest quality teaching and assessing: Our academy is regularly inspected by VTCT to ensure our standards remain high and we are providing the highest quality learning environment.
Flexible Payments: We provide a payment plan for many of our courses, enabling you to pay in three monthly instalments
Quality provision and value for money: there are no hidden charges.
Discounts for multiple course bookings
Our high quality, professional training courses have been developed for all qualified massage therapists and reflexologists.
- Body Massage
- Deep Tissue Massage
- Hot Stones Massage
- Hopi Ear Candling
- Refresher Sessions
- Private Mentoring
- Balinese Massage
- Manual Lymphatic Drainage
- Pregnancy Massage
- Reflexology
- Maternity Reflexology
- Massage Mastery Course
Accredited Professional Courses
We offer a range of Massage and Holistic Therapy Diplomas, approved and accredited by the VTCT. 
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