Comparison of PetMassage_™ Home Study Courses and PetMassage_™ Workshops

Our PetMassage_™ home study courses provide basic, easy to follow training for people who simply want to learn to massage their own dogs at home. They are enormously useful for animal massage and bodywork providers who want to supplement their level and range of skills. And they are an excellent source for students who are preparing for our workshops.

Unfortunately, home study courses have the inherent disadvantage that they provide none of the absolutely necessary hands-on instruction. Courses with only books and DVDs cannot provide a level of instruction that is in any way equivalent to one-on-one experiences. Although we can demonstrate how movements look and verbally describe how they should feel; we need to remember that massage, by its very definition, is a hands-on skill.

To learn PetMassage_™ a student needs the immediate verbal and physical feedback that can only be achieved in a workshop or private lesson environment. Master the foundation of techniques and body mechanics in one-on-one instruction. Then you can cultivate intuited nuances within the skills to create real excellence in your PetMassage_™ performance. If you truly want to learn the skills of PetMassage_™, invest a week of your life and take a workshop. Study directly with the founder of the PetMassage_™ program, Jonathan Rudinger. Foundation level Workshops are offered several times each year. Find our current schedule for 2007 workshops online here.

Our current selection of home study courses will continue to be available. In 2007, we plan to expand on them to include courses in Basic Anatomy for PetMassage_™, and PetMassage_™ End of Life Care and Grief Counseling.