Robert Gardner Wellness

04/24/2026

First people told me what I taught wasn't Thai.

Then people told me what I taught wasn't massage.

Eventually I agreed with both.

04/23/2026

Your hands don't have to hurt.

We don't have to operate from scarcity.

You can choose to humanize the connection you have with your clients for long lasting relief.

You can break the mold and chart your own course.

No one gets to tell you how to work on your clients.

No facility gets to dictate what tools you use to help people.

✅ First 30 days FREE — try it out risk-free!💲 Only $7/month after — cancel anytime.🎯 Learn pain relief & bodywork techniques + how to grow your practice — all for just $7/month.📚 Access 1,000+ hours of online classes: Table & mat-based techniques Business & marketing str...

04/23/2026

Classes are coming up in Sikeston, MO and I added a class in Carrolton, GA.

In person hands on classes are a core piece of what I teach but I spend more time teaching online. Can you learn via video? There is no value like my video vault membership. Well over 1k hours of me teaching and sharing and the new vault is graphic based and looks a bit more like netflix.

You can see every class for the last 8 years.

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When you're ready I'll be livestreaming to you directly and answering your questions interactively live.

I'm here. I'm teaching. I'm looking for students who are ready to really invest in their practices and stand out in their communities.

04/17/2026

The video vault has been updated. I'm about 98% done and I'll be working on releasing new footage soon.

Due to changes in the vault there are likely 100s of hours of new footage that was not available on our former school.

✅ First 30 days FREE — try it out risk-free!💲 Only $7/month after — cancel anytime.🎯 Learn pain relief & bodywork techniques + how to grow your practice — all for just $7/month.📚 Access 1,000+ hours of online classes: Table & mat-based techniques Business & marketing str...

04/14/2026

Do you want you practice to be Next Level?

04/12/2026

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I cannot teach you to do my work.

I cannot make your body fit what mines does.

I have a different size, different shape and my being, my energy is Robert shaped. Yours is you shaped.

You do not need robert's magic touch .com. It's not magic and it's not beholden to me as a person. I come from a long lineage of healers. A lineage that stretches back 3.7 to 3.9 billion years. It's called life. It's not particular to me, or for that matter anyone else.

My entire job as a teacher is helping you find your work.

Is that table based? Is that your dream? Then so be it. I won't change what I'm doing but I'll make my work fit whatever limitations you impose and I'll do so in a way that is culturally expedient.

Is it hybrid mat and table? So be it. I will not fight you but if you ask me a direct question you will get a direct answer.

Why are you not interested in teaching table work? Because table work forces the therapist to overuse their hands and arms and creates a thoracic flexion that leads to the same upper back and neck and arm pain we see in clients. Mat work? Sets therapists free.

I will teach you wherever you are. I will nurture you where you currently live. I will not force and I will not cajole. If you ask me a direct question? You will get a direct answer.

If you think my insistence on mat based work is crazy, it's really gonna blow your mind when I insist on teaching 10k a day via my cameras.

You will insist that you cannot learn online. It is not perfect. I will always prefer hands on in person. As do you, so do I. But, I will not submit, I will not slump and I will show steadfast refusal to believe the silly notions you picked up in massage school. The only people who can't learn online are the Amish and massage therapists.

Very soon, if you do not learn online with me? You will simply get left behind.

I did two things that made people uncomfortable. I made the work better for clients in chronic pain. I made the work effortless for the therapist. As I did that everyone grew increasingly uncomfortable and angry.

When I asked why doing great work for clients that was easy for the therapist made them angry? Oh there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

I won't apologize for helping people. I will not apologize for making it easier to deliver. Whether you choose to use it? That's up to you. I will teach you to play your instrument but and only you can teach you to improvise.

04/08/2026

Robert Gardner Wellness will soon turn into Next Level Pain Relief®.

My fun channel with poker, video games, liquor, beer reviews and various debacles in cooking will be on Robert Gardner Vice.

Some followers didn't think that tequila reviews and no limit holdem pot odds for A2s from the small blind were health and wellness related and well, we don't hang out with those people. lol ❤

04/08/2026

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“The Secret is being fully present and aware. Seeing through your limited egoic self, be free.” ~Lama Surya Das

04/06/2026

About this workshop:

Esalen has long been a home for approaches that refuse to stay in one lane.

For decades, this has been a place where bodywork, psychology, movement, healing, and human potential have crossed paths—where the most interesting work has often emerged not from tradition alone, but from what happens when disciplines begin to overlap.

This workshop lives in that spirit.

Next Level Pain Relief® is an interdisciplinary, hands-on approach to helping people get out of pain and back into relationship with their bodies. It draws from Thai massage, yoga-based movement, pain science, somatic awareness, and practical biomechanics—but it is not confined by any one of them.

This is not a spa treatment.
It is not a rigid therapeutic protocol.
It is not stretching for the sake of stretching.
And it is not about forcing the body to change.

Instead, we’ll explore how relief often emerges when the body is given the right combination of support, movement, pressure, leverage, pacing, and safety—allowing the nervous system to soften protective patterns and reorganize around a new possibility.

Through guided partner work, floor-based movement, supported positioning, and collaborative exploration, participants will learn how to work with common pain patterns in ways that are often more intuitive, effective, and sustainable than conventional approaches.

Together, we’ll investigate:

Why pain is often less about damaged tissues and more about learned protection
How touch, positioning, breath, and movement can interrupt chronic tension patterns
Practical ways to address common issues such as neck and shoulder tension, low back and hip discomfort, and postural strain
How to use body weight, leverage, and sequencing rather than force
The difference between “doing techniques” and actually helping a body change

This workshop is designed as a living laboratory—part bodywork training, part movement inquiry, part nervous system education.

You will spend time both giving and receiving, learning through direct embodied experience rather than memorization. The emphasis is not on performing a perfect sequence, but on learning how to listen, adapt, and create meaningful change in real time.

At its core, this workshop asks a larger question:

What becomes possible when we stop separating healing touch, movement, awareness, and pain relief into different silos—and begin working with the body as a whole?

This workshop welcomes bodyworkers, yoga teachers, movement educators, helping professionals, and curious beginners alike. Whether you are here to deepen your professional practice or to better understand your own body, you will leave with a new framework for working with pain, mobility, and embodied change.

04/05/2026

Students tell me they've never seen anything like it.

These are licensed Lmt. They spent 500 hours in school and umpteen thousand hours in session. I have to sit back occasionally and take inventory on my life and practice. How did I get here?

I was a 22 year old philosophy student and my life was destroyed by a drunk driver. I didn't get help from the medical system so I went my own way to find out how to heal myself. Once I figured that out I used it on clients. Clients kept asking why Lmt weren't doing whatever it was I was doing and I'd just say, "I'm teaching it as fast as I can."

Is it new? Eh, not really. All my influences are obvious but when assembled and put together? There's a reason Lmt tell me what I'm teaching is not massage. To be clear, in my teachings full expression you must work for yourself. Facilities that sell massage find it confusing, against the grain and frustrating because change at its foundation is hard for people.

It was easy for me to change. I had to. It was either figure it the f**k out or start using opiates. I chose.

Now I travel. Classes are coming up in MO, TX, AR and I'm working out details for GA outside of Atlanta. I'll teach you. I'll show you how to do it right where you are on a table. Its effective. It saves your hands.

When I teach NLPR Level 1 I often ask therapists how their hands are after class and they go, "we barely even used them."

So if the work is better for chronic pain, easier for therapists to deliver and saves facilities on laundry, cream and oils and could lead to increased rebooking of clients....if all that is true what's the issue?

Someone in the back will say, "but whatever you're doing isn't massage."

That's up to you. You define it however you need. I'll keep teaching and sharing and it's up to the public what services they choose in the future.

I'll see you in class. Sign up now and get started.

Robert Gardner Wellness conducts in person Educational Classes in Thai Massage, Table Thai Massage, and Reboot Insider's Club.