Many beauticians and alternative therapists offer massage, hot stone therapy, reiki etc as part of their daily routine of appointments.
However, as a customer do you care if the therapist has trained for 3 years or 3 hours in the practise?
The answer might wholeheartedly depend on the feeling that you receive as a consequence of having the aforementioned massage/hot stone therapy/reiki treatment. If you feel better as a consequence and your holistic health improves, does it matter?
However, imagine you’re going to the doctors. Let me ask you the same question.
I’m almost sure, regardless of any smart answers, that the answer would be that you wanted to be sure that the practitioner was well trained, and you may put this down to length of study (and potentially even years in practise). Even if the outcome was the same, and you felt better for leaving the doctors – you want to know that not only you feel better, that you aren’t going to need to go back for a while, or that you are at least improving an issue.
With this in mind, and in light of the thousands of ranging courses you could do, surely it is important to decide which is most important to you.
There is infinite difference between knowing which direction to move your hands in, or where to place the stone on the chakra’s of the body – and knowing what the body is trying to tell you through the muscles, positioning and aura.
A masseur that can locate issues with your back, neck, leg, and tailor your massage to target those problem areas will ultimately have achieved more in their and your time than one that follows the protocols of improving holistic health.
An acupuncturist that can identify the reason for your headaches and treat the problem will be better than one that gives you a whole body treatment every time you go.
Thinking of these treatments as diagnostic troubleshooting for your body and soul may seem silly, but imagine a car without an MOT – it will eventually stop working.
Your holistic health and wellbeing is a serious issue, as is the health and wellbeing of the customers of the therapist.
Some therapist will have done the ‘off the peg’ course in ‘Reiki’, ‘Hot stone therapy’ ‘Massage’ (all of these courses can be found via regional centres, a site called Coursestore makes it easier to find one local to you), many others will have furthered their development and undertanding through years of studying other complimentary courses, like perhaps human biology, psychology, reflexology to name only few possibilities.
Either way, the decision is yours…