How to Become a Holistic Health Practitioner

Do you spend half your income on gemstones, energy healing books and incense? Do your friends refer to you as that hippie new age chick? Have you ever gone to the doctor for a simple complaint and wondered where the drum circle and shaman were so you could get to the serious healing? Maybe you're not that bad off yet, but maybe you are~ and you're having trouble finding a school or a mentor to help you learn the advanced techniques of holistic healing? Fear not, there are several options open to you, and some of them you can learn from home!

The first , and most popular way that people become educated in holistic therapies is through bodywork, namely massage therapy. Massage therapy schools are plentiful, often there are two or three within one hundred miles of each other. The benefits of learning massage over other therapy techniques is that massage therapy is easily insured, has defined regulations, offers board certification, and is sometimes a covered therapy on patients insurance policies. Most massage therapy schools train students to certified massage therapist status (CMT), and leave them prepared to take the licensing exams appropriate for their state, in less than a year. The drawbacks to massage training can be intense job competition, the expense of training (averages between five and nine thousand dollars), and the classroom attendance requirements. If massage therapy interests you however, search the internet for local schools, there are many sites that 'warehouse' massage school information on the internet.