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The Oxford Massage Academy Ltd (TOMA) a centre of excellence in Holistic and Therapeutic massage training

18/11/2025

toma_yoda 🛡️ The Importance of Practitioner Protection in Massage Therapy

Massage therapy is not only about safeguarding clients—it’s equally about protecting the practitioner. At TOMA our student therapists learn about their own well-being, boundaries, and professional integrity as one of the key foundation stones of sustainable, ethical practice.

🌿 Practitioner Protection Matters

• Boundaries: Establishing clear policies around touch, communication, and session structure. Massage is intimate, and practitioners must protect themselves from emotional burnout, compassion fatigue, or inappropriate client behavior.
• Professional Safety: Clear informed consent, and awareness of contraindications protect therapists from liability and ensure ethical standards are upheld.
• Energetic Balance: Many practitioners view massage as an exchange of energy. Protecting oneself means maintaining balance—avoiding depletion and ensuring the therapist remains grounded and centered.
• Environment: Creating a safe, professional space that supports both client comfort and therapist security.
• Legal & Ethical Safeguards: Insurance, professional registration, and adherence to codes of conduct.

15/11/2025

toma_yoda 🌿 Health isn’t just the absence of illness—it’s the harmony of body, mind, and spirit.
When we take a holistic approach to massage therapy, we see our clients and ourselves as whole beings:

🧘Nourishing the body with movement and rest
☺️Calming the mind with mindfulness and clarity
Honoring the soul with connection and empathy
🩷 Supporting the heartbeat to deepen into its natural cadence

True wellness is not a quick fix—it’s a gentle weaving of actions that bring balance, resilience, and vitality.

12/11/2025

toma_yoda 🎄TOMA Christmas Gift Vouchers are now available 🎄

Know someone who’s ready to change lives with their hands and heart?
Our gift vouchers can be used toward any of TOMA’s massage therapy courses throughout 2026—an invitation to learn, grow, and heal.
♥️🎄♥️Give the gift of transformation this Christmas ♥️🎄♥️

Purchase through the Contact Form at:
tomaacademy.co.uk

11/11/2025

toma_yoda 👐 Professional Massage Refresher – One-Day Course

Refine your technique. Reconnect with your practice. Reignite your confidence.
This immersive one day course is tailored for qualified massage therapists seeking to refresh core skills, deepen therapeutic presence, and renew their connection to touch.

📅 Date: 2nd February 2026
📍 Location: Loyd Lindsay Rooms Ardington Oxfordshire
🎓 Eligibility: Minimum Level 3 Diploma in Massage

Led by highly experienced tutors in a supportive, hands-on environment.
Places are limited to ensure quality and personal attention.

🔗 Book now at tomaacademy.co.uk.

05/11/2025

toma_yoda One Day Massage Refresher Course ✨ Calling all past students + curious practitioners…
It’s time to return to your roots. Reconnect with your skills, your breath, your knowledge.
Our Refresher Course is here—a space to remember what you may have forgotten, and to learn something new too!

🌿 Reignite your confidence
🌊 Reclaim your rhythm
🌀 Reawaken your touch

Whether it’s been months or years, this is your invitation to come back—to deepen your knowledge, to refine your techniques, to feel how amazing it is to be a massage therapist, all over again.

📅 2nd February 2026
📍 “In-person at TOMA” The Loyd Lindsay Rooms Ardington Oxfordshire
🔗 Book your place now at tomaacademy.co.uk/shortcourses/massagerefresher

Let’s begin again, together.

31/10/2025

toma_yoda 👻🎃 Happy Halloween 🎃👻 from Pedro & the TOMA Team 🖤🤍🖤

28/10/2025

toma_yoda Percussion in Practice

✅And the answer is ………. Cupping! ✅

A dynamic technique used to stimulate circulation, loosen fascia, and awaken the body’s natural rhythm.
This method combines the therapeutic benefits of cupping with rhythmic percussion to support lymphatic flow and release tension and congestion.

💡Remember….. cupping should be performed with a cupped hand, creating a cushion of air between the therapist’s hand and the client’s skin. Working with loose wrists each rythmic beat should create a hollow sound …… never a slapping one!

25/10/2025

toma_yoda ✨Weekend Vibes✨ This weekend, give yourself permission to pause. To sink into stillness. To let rest be the remedy and relaxation the ritual.

20/10/2025

toma_yoda Listening is a major element of our role as holistic therapeutic massage therapists. Our Level 3 Diploma students recently completed a workshop on communication skills and implementing their learning through practising on each other.
Our listening is intuitive,
we attune to the unspoken:
the sigh of release, the guarded shoulder,
the way someone holds the world in their jaw.

This is where we support the client’s healing journey to begin—
not with fixing, but with witnessing.
Not with rushing, but with reverence.

Because to truly listen
is to say:
I see you. I feel you. I’m here.

16/10/2025

toma_yoda 💧 The body is a living current—fluid, dynamic, ever-changing.
Each day, billions of cells are replaced, repaired, and reborn.
Water—our most essential element—the constant that flows through every transformation.
It carries nutrients, removes waste, and facilitates the quiet miracle of renewal.

Massage therapy supports this through,
enhancing local circulation, aiding lymphatic flow, and reminding the body of its innate capacity to heal.

Just like the weather, we are not static. We are a tide in motion.
And supporting our inner healing begins with honouring that flow.

13/10/2025

toma_yoda 🦴✨ Pedro, our ever-composed classroom skeleton, has been key in our students’ anatomy explorations. With unwavering patience and impeccable posture, he helped us trace the poetry of the human form—bone by bone.

He may be all ribs and no rhythm, but when it comes to demonstrating muscle attachments or joint mechanics, Pedro’s got it nailed! Students left class with a deeper understanding—and a few giggles too.

Thanks for holding it together, Pedro. Literally. 💀👐

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28A North Street, Marcham
Abingdon
OX136NG

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 5pm
Tuesday	10am - 5pm
Wednesday	10am - 5pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 5pm

Website

https://tomaacademy.co.uk/

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