Tim Holt is a nationally certified massage therapist and California state approved instructor of massage therapy. His somatic education began with the Integral Yoga Institute of San Francisco, where he became a certified Hatha Yoga instructor in 1980. Tim was originally certified as a massage therapist in 1987 through the Body Therapy Center in Palo Alto, California. He moved to Kobe, Japan in 1989 where he opened a successful private massage practice working with both local Japanese clients as well as foreigners living in Japan. He also studied Masunaga or Zen style Shiatsu with an instructor in Kyoto. Using Japan as a base , he explored Asia +and it's healing systems. He has studied the traditional massage of Thailand with several respected teachers.
The Yoga training and background in traditional Asian massage had led Tim to develop a unique massage style. He has taken the traditional stretches and manipulations of eastern disciplines and blended them with western deep tissue massage techniques. He is an accomplished practitioner with many years of private practice and spa experience.
Tim is an accomplished instructor of massage therapy. He is an Assistant Professor of Massage Therapy at the Western Institute of Science and Health in Rohnert Park, California. And he is an instructor at the Massage Therapy Institute and Alive and Well, Institute of Conscious Bodywork. He organizes private workshops in California, as well as Japan.
Sachiyo Sano-Holt
Certified Massage Therapist
Sachiyo Sano-Holt is a native of Osaka, Japan. She was a pharmacist for seven years.
She began her career in healing and bodywork with the study of Aromatherapy. She studied in Provence, France with the founders of Oshadi Essential Oils in 1998. She studied a blend of deep muscle massage and Swedish massage with Tim Holt, massage therapist and director of the East West Massage School.
Sachi formed her private massage therapy business "Carrot Seed" in the Osaka area. She taught aromatherapy workshops and assisted in the development of a massage therapy program for the Riverside Hotel. After moving to the United States, she became a certified massage therapist in California. Sachi has a private practice in Sebastopol and works as a staff massage therapist at The Spa Hotel Healdsburg in Healdsburg, California. She specializes in Swedish massage, Traditional Thai massage, Ayurvedic Abyhanga treatments , and Hot Stone massage.
Tim
Holt C.M.T., N.C.B.T.M.B. 