Holistic Massage Workshop

29.11. 2025

Back Massage Workshop #1 –

What you’ll learn:

• Simple anatomy of the back and shoulders

• How to work with breathing principles

• Effective massage techniques with & without oil

• How to use your bodyweight for effortless pressure

• A guided sequence to practice at home

Your Teacher:

Mary (Marianne Schmidt) – medical massage therapist & holistic bodyworker with 12+ years’ experience. Known for her playful, sensitive approach and her ability to listen through touch.

Price:

60 € single | 2 people: 50 € each

Location:

Soul Treats Studio

Near Mauerpark

Schönholzerstr. 13

10115 Berlin

Read about your teacher here:

https://soultreats.de/team/marianne-schmidt

https://www.instagram.com/soultreatsbody/

SIGN UP HERE:

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#Focus Area: Basic Techniques

This workshop will focus on the basic techniques you need in order to offer the amazing kind of massage that leaves both YOU AND YOUR PARTNER feeling relaxed and rejuvenated. This workshop is the introductory for all other massage workshops and a base to work from.

Each workshop has a different focus area in order to learn techniques and anatomy of each part of the body to offer a better structured and more effective massage.

Please check the website for the exact details on each workshop !

What this massage workshop offers in short:

• Each massage workshop will give you an insight into topic specific anatomy, physiology and contraindications to lay the foundation for a healing massage and create a safe space.
• You will learn how to position your body to maintain your energy levels, as well as how to practice deep listening.
• You will learn how to recreate this at home.
• Each workshop also offers you a small sequence to practice with and flow from.
• In a very small group of max 6-12 people, German / English speaking,
• 3 hours in put and hands on and a half hour closing workshop

Specific Content of the Massage Workshop

ANATOMY / PHYSIOLOGY

• basic anatomy of the back, legs, shoulder, face etc.
• basic topic related cardiovascular, lymph muscular and skeletal systems
• integrating breath into a massage
• integrating deep listening and energy work
• contraindications

THE ROLE OF THE GIVER

1. self care in the role as giver of massage
2. to use your body weight
3. integrating breath and bodyweight to listen to flow of energy and blocks
4. discovering the dance of touch
5. creating a safe space through atmosphere and consent

MASSAGE TECHNIQUES

1. massage techniques without oil - deep listening, stretching, palm acupressure, fascia techniques
2. massage techniques with oil- effleurage, kneading, stroking, targeting specific muscle tissue groups

WHAT WILL YOU TAKE HOME FROM THE COURSE?

1. hand out with a massage sequence to practice at home
2. self confidence to touch
3. the ability to apply the right amount of pressure in massage according to the individual
4. knowledge on anatomy, psychology and physiology, insight into chakra and meridians

FACILLITATOR AND TEACHER

Marianne Schmidt, best known as Mary, brings 14 years of professional massage and bodywork and an extensive variety of trainings as well as a special ability to listen through touch.

Wild and soft, Marianne embodies this seeming contradiction. As a nomad by birth, she speaks several languages and is a fun and sensual mix of temperament, passionate for life and an activist for making the life profoundly light, deep and pleasurable.

Her education varies from Western medical massage and med. balneotherapy as well as manual lymphatic drainage to many alternative therapies and styles of massage such as Osteo-Thai, Holistic Bodywork and Energy Work.

Read more about Mary here:

MARIANNE SCHMIDT From SOUL TREATS

“A good massage is not me giving while my partner receives but when we melt together into a masterpiece of art and hormonal bliss, when the boundaries of where I begin and my partner ends become fluid; each stroke is like the stroke of a brush; movement like a dance to music only we can hear; we become the installation in the art studio.

As a professional massage therapist of over 12 years now, and a nonprofessional for years before that, each massage session I offer is a work of art.” -Mary Marianne

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