LIVE IN-PERSON 18 CE Hour Heavenly Hawaiian Lava Lomi Bodywork

Our live in-person classes require an 8 student minimum to hold the training. Please email the school at info@CeInstitute.com prior to booking nonrefundable travel to ensure we have the minimum attendance required to hold the class.

This live course is approved by NCBTMB, FL, SC, GA, NH, MI & TN boards of massage and all states that accept NCBTMB hours. Florida Board of Massage will accept this course as a live "relevant to massage techniques" hands-on training for the 2024/2025 relicensing period due Aug 31, 2025.

If you are taking this training for CE credit, please check with your own board to ensure you will receive the credit you need PRIOR TO registering or paying for this class.  There is a $25 cancellation fee to cancel for any reason, plus 7-days notice is required prior to the start of training to change or cancel or else there is no refund. Please click HERE to view all of our school FAQs & Policies. 

We provide massage tables and chairs so you do not need to bring yours to class. Students should bring 2 sheets, a handle towel and face cradle cover to participate in hands-on training. Hands-on practice is encouraged, but not required to receive CE credit.

The next 3-day LIVE IN-PERSON 18 CE Hour Heavenly Hawaiian Lava Lomi Bodywork hands-on class is scheduled for:

• Please select "10:00 am, July 26, 2025" above for the following 3-day class schedule:
  • Saturday, July 26, 2025 from 10:00 am to 4:30 pm Eastern Time
  • Monday, July 28, 2025 from 1:00 pm to 7:30 pm Eastern Time
  • Tuesday, July 29, 2025 from 1:00 pm to 7:30 pm Eastern Time
  • There will be no class on Sunday, July 27th

A 30-minute meal break provided in the middle of the class day as well as a 10 minute break each class hour.

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This Lomi Lomi Bodywork Class is strongly influenced by ancient Hawaiian temple practices.  The bodywork is performed with mostly forearms and long captivating strokes.  There are 2 sections to this class.  In the 2-day 12 hour Hawaiian Lomi Lomi massage portion of training, you will be provided a brief lecture in:

• Hawaii’s history, peace and hostility
• Ahupua’a
• Ho’oponono
• Pule or prayer
• Chanting
• Hawaiian heiau
• Hawaiian language
• Aloha
• Hawaiian culture and sharing
• Lineage
• Anatomy versus nature
• Spirits
• The sacredness of bone
• Geographical isolation
• Religious influence
• Lack of standardization

The lomi strokes taught in this class include:

• Prone: Short & Long Back Strokes
• Prone: Hand & Forearm Strokes Heel to Head (and back)
• Prone: Sole of Foot Forearm Stroking
• Prone: Heel to Wrist Stroking (and back)
• Supine:Face Work with Forearms
• Supine: Wrist to Waste Stroking
• Supine: Simultaneous Chest & Back Strokes
• Supine: Simultaneous Anterior & Posterior Leg Strokes
• Supine: Foot Work with Forearms

6 Hours and a 3rd day of the class is dedicated towards learning about hot stones, volcanic lava and how to apply this to the body for therapeutic effect.  A brief lecture is provided in:

• The history of using lave and stone for health purposes
• Bodywork contraindications
• Therapeutic effects of heated stone work
• Lava stone classifications & categories
• Supplies required for lava lomi application

There are multiple instructor demonstrations plus student practice and receipt of bodywork in addition to multiple theoretical powerpoint presentations.  We will use bolsters, the face cradle and top/bottom sheets (draping is with full sheets instead of a towel).  Students should be comfortable fully undressing for practice.  Genitalia and breast tissue are covered with draping at all times; however, in prone position, 1/2 the body is exposed from head to heel for long body stroking (no gluteal cleavage or genitalia are exposed).

Enjoy a taste of Hawaii in this incredible 18 CE Hour Multi-Day LIVE IN-PERSON Heavenly Hawaiian Lava Lomi Bodywork CE Broker Course #20-636491

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This Lomi massage class was written and is taught by CE Institute LLC Founder, Selena Belisle.  Selena has been practicing massage therapy for 30 years.  She started with sports massage in 1989, and later sought formal “full body” massage therapy training in a 1,000+ hour program at the Massage Institute of New England in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  It was at the Massage Institute in 1995 where Selena met and trained with a student of Kahuna Abraham Kawai`i.  Selena’s instructor (Christine), taught Selena her first strokes in Ancient Temple Style Lomi Massage and other authentic Hawaiian cultural practices.  Selena was drawn into Hawaiian history and healing practices when she learned about the ahupua'a system in the 1990s.  Selena’s practice/study of Ancient Temple Style Lomi Lomi Massage and Hawaiian culture/history spans 25 years. She has trained and practiced in both Ancient Temple Style and Auntie Margaret/Big Island style Lomi Massage.

In more recent years, Selena completed an intensive week-long Lomi Lomi workshop by Harry Uhuane & Sila Jim in: Creating Space, Bone Washing, Po'o, Lomi HA, Kala'e, and Laulima.  The course was created and taught by Halau Uhane Lomilomi Lapa'au, School for Sacred Soul Teaching and Healing through Native Hawaiian Culture Traditions in 2018.  In 2017, Selena studied Lomi Massage in Maui and Big Island Hawaii.  This included a month-long trip to multiple heiaus, a sacred-sites tour by a native Hawaiian Lomi Brother, another 3-day Lomi Massage course in Pahoa from Kalani Honua Inc., working with half a dozen other native lomi massage practitioners, participating in several different special Hawaiian practices amongst the Hawaiian people and visiting even more ancient and revered Hawaiian places and settings.  Selena has also completed the Sacred Lomi Hawaiian Temple Bodywork workshop and several more lomi massage trainings with other various Lomi “instructors” – some being authentic - and some not. 

Selena will be returning to the Hawaiian Islands for another month in the Fall of 2019 to continue her Hawaiian healing and cultural training.  This includes her geology studies of volcanic basalt and minerals plus her aromatherapy studies of indigenous Hawaiian plants – many of which are (or were) used for medicinal purposes.  Selena invites her lomi students to join her Hawaiian trips and explorations, as means to spread the word of our Hawaiian culture. Selena’s experience with true Hawaiians is that they are a giving people who want to share their heritage (so that it is not lost) – which is what Selena achieves amongst her students in her authentic lomi massage classes. 

Register for your CE Institute LLC Lomi Massage class  today, to become part of our Ohana (lomi family).  Not only will you add a wonderful healing modality to your practice with Lomi massage, but you will also gain from your fellow students some new lomi brothers, lomi sisters, lomi mamas and/or lomi papas! Aloha and Mahalo