Healing Hands: A Neck & Shoulder Thai Massage Workshop

Learn the Art of Healing Touch — For Couples, Friends, and Anyone Ready to Make a Real Difference

Prerequisites: None

Early in my Thai Massage training, I put my forearm to a partner’s shoulder for the first time — and felt how effortlessly I could help them release. In just a few seconds, real relief. Real joy. Both of us felt it.

That moment changed everything for me. And in 24 years of teaching since, I’ve watched it happen thousands of times — that look on someone’s face when they realize they can actually do this. That they have the capacity to genuinely help another person feel better, right now, with their own body.

That’s what this workshop is about.

There’s something quietly extraordinary that happens when you learn to give a truly skillful massage. Your mind settles. Your attention deepens. And without even trying, you slip into a kind of moving meditation — one where your presence becomes the gift, and the touch that flows from you can genuinely change how someone feels in their body.

Join Shai Plonski — Thai Massage teacher, author, and 24-year practitioner of this art — for an intimate, hands-on afternoon at Deep Roots Yoga & Wellness, where you’ll learn a complete neck and shoulder massage sequence rooted in the Thai tradition — adaptable for a chair or on the mat, and immediately usable the moment you leave.

One thing that surprises most first-timers: this work is done primarily with forearms and elbows, not hands. These are tools most of us never think to use — but they allow you to deliver deep, effortless relief without tiring yourself out, and they’re what give Thai Massage its distinctive quality of ease and power.

Pretty much everyone carries tension in their neck and shoulders. What you’ll walk away with is one of the most empowering skills I know: the ability to offer real, lasting relief to the people you love — and to feel genuinely nourished yourself in the giving of it.

Because this isn’t just a technique class. It’s an experience of Thai Massage as a form of yoga — one of the most blissful forms — where moving with presence, breath, and loving intention makes you feel better in your own body while you help someone else feel amazing in theirs.

What You’ll Learn:

• A complete Thai Massage sequence for the neck, shoulders, and upper back
• How to work on the mat and in a chair — so you can use this anywhere
• The surprising power of forearms and elbows — and how to use them with confidence
• The art of giving massage as a meditative practice — calm, centered, and deeply present
• Loving-kindness principles that transform technique into genuine healing
• How to receive with full presence — and why that matters as much as giving
• Skills you’ll reach for again and again, for years to come

Perfect for: Couples wanting to deepen their connection, friends who want to genuinely support each other’s wellbeing, wellness enthusiasts, or anyone who’s ever thought I wish I actually knew how to give a good massage.

No experience necessary. Just curiosity, an open heart, and someone you’d like to practice with.

Investment: $90/pair | $49/individual
🎁 Early Bird: $75/pair until July 3rd