I left my native Kentucky as a teenager and have traveled widely ever since. Along the way I have learned, practiced and taught a variety of therapies involving touch.

My first teacher was Mr. Li in Malacca, Malaysia. A Chinese Tui Na practitioner and fruit farmer, he only took 2 students per year for 6 months each. It is impossible to do justice to all he taught me in that time but he was the first of many teachers for me and he recognized and disciplined me as my skills emerged and put me on the healing touch path. It was Mr. Li who sent me on to Thailand after we finished our time together.

While there I discovered Traditional Thai massage and studied at the Old Chinese Medicine Hospital in Chang Mai for 2 months. I had a chance to put my newly acquired training into practice in Dharamsala, India.

The home of the Tibetans Spiritual leader in exile, the Dalai Lama,I worked on monks and Westerner meditation practitioners who did long sittings. It was fantastic to begin doing Thai massage that way as it was invented for the monks originally. Returning to my then home in Europe, Austria, I was able to immerse myself with another teacher, Inge from Hungary and learn some Western style relaxation and therapeutic massage techniques.

Later my travels found me for the winter in Alberta, Canada, I learned more Swedish massage and hand and foot reflexology.

In Vancouver I received Level 1 Reiki training from Lani Kato and later in Guatemala received Level 2 and then Reiki Master training from Santa Fe based Reiki Master Rohini Skilling.

In 1985 I returned to Guatemala to settle down with my children and begin a practice which thrives to this day. I continue to study and learn new ways to assist others on their healing journeys or simply help them relax and be in touch with themselves in a sincere and caring way.

Here I have studied Acupressure using a Tei Shin which is the tool that preceded needles in acupuncture, 5 Element form balancing, Auricular therapy and the I Ching with Guatemalan based acupunturist James Easter.

I still travel and now work and teach in the U.S several times a year. I have taught in Bozeman, Montana at the Health Works Institute, in Colombia and Kansas City, Missouri, South Texas and I can be found 2 times a year at the Kabuki Springs and Spa in San Francisco, Ca.

Here at home, where I have been for 20 years now, I am a mom, a love practitioner in my life and in my work and am thrilled to be able to offer the transformative and healing power of Thai Massage and the cultural experience of Guatemala

Simply Blissful Massage
Jennifer Martin - Lake Atitlan, Guatemala

tel: ++502 7762 2223 & 5954 7273
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