In our rural environment where doctors are few and expensive, most of us rely much on "Manghihilot" or quack doctors as they say. The appreciation of their skill in giving us a traditional massage and herbal supplements made us think whenever we feel something not right in our physical well-being. But as technology progresses and we reside in the urban area, we may still dependent of them but in their absence, we buy oil and lotion and personally massage ourselves or taking turns. When the so-called wellness revolution starts, day spa flourishing like mushrooms in the City, it gives us really a relief! We became spa addicts, whenever a new massage clinic opens we try their new services and were fully satisfied. That made us interested in venturing of a massage clinic, my brother Sonny and sister Adah with her husband Howell puts up the first day spa in Iligan City, Body Line Massage & Spa Clinic. All the misconception of being another sex service establishment made us decide to study few variations of massage. Though I am not with them yet as I do not have the money to put up an investment or for my own, I started learning some massage technology like the one we paid to Dermaline for P8,000, a 5-day training on Ayurveda Massage in New Horizon Hotel, Mandaluyong City. It is truly an eye opener to me and more business opportunity running wild in my mind.
The training we had of Ayurveda gives birth to a dream, I would like to own a destination spa, to locate it in a very isolated area where my customers will not be disturbed, may it be in an island of my own or a big property along hills or mountain with streams, waterfalls or river along sides that my therapeutic offerings will be possible. But before that, I would like to know what a day spa operation runs, and to maintain the quality of the services, a massage school must be established, that Body Line Training Institute was opened. With God we trust that He will prosper us in our endeavor. My sister Adah and Howell as my partners, so as to the silent financiers or investors, my sister Cristina and Cezar Climaco in New York, and a special investor who do not want to divulge its participation, we will dare to conquer and become the best day spa and massage school in southern Philippines. Fortunate enough, Spa Association of the Philippines, Inc. (SAPI) granted my sister Adah a CIBTAC Training on European Spa Operation and Management, on which she cascaded the training to the Spa owners in Iligan City and to us interested to learn. Below are some of our pictures taken on our 1-month training on CIBTAC Swedish Massage with Anatomy and Physiology.
It's fun as we study the new modality of CIBTAC Swedish Massage, I include some clips below of what we have studied, we may have taken some of the part of the sequence to make the 1-hour limit of our actual demonstration but this is it!
CIBTAC Swedish Massage 1 of 6clips...
You will learn a lot from this clip, but you still need a certificate to use this skill for employment and operating your own spa or just simply doing it as part-time massage therapist, I suggest you study with us in Body Line Training Institute, number of our students are people who work abroad, OCW or OFW, they were the ones who inspires us for they informed us that this is one of the skills in demand and it really pays good!
Equipped with two trainings we took the TESDA National Competency Assessment for NC II Certification and we passed. To complete TESDA requirements for our school, again our group attended their AM/TM seminar.
Adding a new course for our school on HILOT Wellness Massage made me study again with ATHAG, an association of traditional Hilot practitioners lead by Maestro Boy, below is our class picture.
There are still a lot to learn for this massage business, and wellness industry is expanding, God willing, Body Line Massage & Spa Clinic and Body Line Training Institute would be known authority for people who are planning to put up their Spa business.
Life is simply lessons, you opt to learn or just don't mind on it and face consequence, this blog is for the things i encountered and learned that i would like to share also, God bless us all....
2 comments:
This is really an awesome post! Thanks for sharing.
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