Massage Therapy Is BACK on NOVA’s Annandale Campus!
The Massage Therapy program is running another course. Wait … you didn’t know NOVA had a massage therapy program? Well, then you’ve been missing out! Not only could you enroll to work toward your certification in massage therapy and sitting for the national exam, but you could also donate your body to science for an hour!
Our current Massage Therapy cohort started on September 6 and will finish on April 17, 2024. The next cohort will begin on May 8, 2024. The program is run through Workforce Development and does not follow the traditional college credit schedule. It’s a rigorous program: participants take a full 500-hour course, 4 hours per class, 4 times per week, both online and in person.
If you have any questions about signing up for the next cohort and earning your Massage Therapy certificate, please email WorkforceHealthcare@nvcc.edu or click here for the program details.
If you want to help out the current cohort with their hands-on practice hours, click here to sign up. PLEASE READ the entire booking instructions section before booking.
You will donate your body to science for 50 minutes so the students have a variety of body types to practice on. Student massage therapists will perform an intake interview to find out where you need pain relief, after which they will use a combination of Swedish and deep tissue strokes (there are five main strokes for each — feel free to quiz the students!) to customize a therapeutic massage just for you. After your massage, we will ask you to fill out a review form to tell us how well the students performed.
Appointment times are on Saturdays only: 9:30 a.m., 10:40 a.m., 12 p.m. and 1:20 p.m.
- Nov. 4 and 18
- Dec. 2 and 16
- Jan. 6 and 20
The system will only allow you to book up to two weeks in advance. Please limit your bookings to two total per person so that our students have as many different clients to work on as possible.
Thanks and have a great fall!
Submitted by:
Lori Vintilescu, AN-Massage Therapy, LVintilescu@nvcc.edu