Asheville North Carolina Massage Therapy Schools Massage Therapy Training in Asheville North Carolina
NC Clinical Massage Therapy Training and Continuing Education for licensed Massage and Bodywork Therapists begins with the North Carolina School of Advanced Bodywork. In your training, you will receive the most advanced massage and bodywork techniques in the country.
The North Carolina School of Advanced Bodywork is a Clinical Massage Therapy school in Asheville, NC and is a massage school specializing in Clinical Massage Therapy Training. Meet the Founder
The NCSAB teaching staff have 60 years combined experience in the massage and bodywork profession both in practice and instruction.
Maximum of 14 Students Per Class – Individualized for a Superior Education Here You’ll Discover Your Pathway to Superior Competency and Professional Status among the Elite of massage and bodywork professionals.
A Serious Education for Those Serious about their Future
Classes Now Enrolling
for December 5, 2011
and March 12, 2012
Day & Evening Classes with Full or Part-Time Schedules
Check out our Continuing Educational Courses
Here at the North Carolina School of Advanced Bodywork You Will Receive the Most Advanced Clinical Massage and Bodywork Training in the Country
Total Tuition Cost Breakdown of Tuition |
A Serious Education for Those Serious About Their Future!
Why CLINICAL Massage Therapy? Because . . . Chronic pain affects 97 million Americans and |
Your New Career As A Leading Edge,
Clinical Massage Therapist
Awaits You
In The Beautiful Mountains
Surrounding Asheville, North Carolina
Message from Kyle Wright
Interviews with Kyle Wright
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Kyle Wright's newly released book STRUCTURAL BALANCING, A CLINICAL APPROACH, published by McGraw-Hill Publishing, is the primary textbook used for the Functional Anatomy and Clinical Bodywork curriculum. This clinical textbook was written for massage therapy students as well as physical therapy and chiropractic students. You can now order this forward thinking clinical manual by clicking on the McGraw-Hill direct ordering website link below. |
Stephen M. Brenan, D.C. |
I have been utilizing neuromuscular therapists from [Kyle Wright’s Schools] for 9 years and in my opinion, their students are by far, the best in the business.After you get to know me and my work a little better, we can talk about your concerns and ambitions, and I can help you decide if massage therapy is the profession for you, and whether this is the place for you to learn.
From Relaxing Swedish to Solving
Complex Neuro-Structural Problems
Notice this is a school of CLINICAL Massage Therapy. Most massage therapists practice one or more forms of massage that are very relaxing, healthful, yet general in nature. While modalities like Swedish Massage and Asian bodywork are very useful and valuable in many settings, there is a difference.
Yes, you'll get an excellent training in the skills of Swedish Massage, the more overall relaxing type of full body massage with oils and all that. You will get an introduction to Asian approaches, including yin/yang and five element theory. This is all great and useful stuff. You'll be really good at it when you finish our program.
Although our work is a very Western approach to bodywork, we recognize that in the end, it is all energy, and you should have a wide perspective on the various manual, soft-tissue modalities, including the best of Eastern perspectives and techniques. But energy without structure can be chaotic and difficult to manage effectively. We give you the structure that is missing from many energy-based systems.
When you add our scientific elements, with our No Pain, More Gain “Edge” technique and Structural Analysis Strategies, you’ll get the most results in the widest range of myofascial and neuro-structural syndromes. Though Western in nature, we believe, it is a no less conscious system than some of the more esoteric modalities out there.
What Is Clinical Massage Therapy & Structural Bodywork?
And why is it different from most other forms of massage?
Our focus is on you becoming a specialist in managing and resolving significant pain, posture, movement and dysfunction issues for which many people have not found relief.
Dennis D. Dewey, M.D. |
As David Scott Lynn puts it, we have found that many of the seemingly irresolvable problems people face are the result of Chronic, Excess Muscle & Nerve Tension, or C.E.M.&.N.T. for short. A more medical term for it is hypertonicity. This is an almost unrecognized source of trouble for large numbers of people, and few health care professionals or therapists of any kind have mastered the techniques, strategies and subtleties needed to manage or resolve this widely pervasive cause of many common problems.
Because the ability to contract muscles is, obviously, necessary to function on a daily basis, few recognize it as a problem. The problem is that while everyone is pretty good at contracting muscles, few know how to DE-contract, or fully relax, their muscles. And a well functioning human body must be able to relax or de-contract their muscles just as easily as we contract them.
Chad Jasmine, LMT, NCTMB |
Here are some of the problems chronic, excess muscle tension causes:
- Imbalances between muscle groups
- Poor posture & stooping
- Faulty movement patterns
- Pressure on and irritation of nerves
- Trigger Points & referred pain
- Myofascial pain syndromes
- Disc related problems
- Sports related injuries
- Faulty ergonomics
- General & Specific chronic pain
- Many problems of aging
- Scoliosis and kyphosis
This Is Your Unique Opportunity
This unique approach to Skillful Resolution of chronic muscle tension and the problems it causes is the primary skill you’ll be developing here at the school.
Many of our Clients over the years have been to many kinds of therapy — including various kinds of massage and bodywork — searching for relief from a variety of problems. Yet they did not find sufficient or complete relief until they experienced our unique approach to soft-tissue therapy.
This skill — and the related knowledge — is what will set you apart from many, if not most, of the therapists out there today.
So Much in So Little Time?
Now, to the question of how we can give you what amounts to an advanced education in 500 hours when other schools offer more hours for a more basic training?
We can provide the education you need to be an excellent practioner of therapeutic Swedish Massage, all along teaching you how to achieve a higher level of therapeutic skill through our training in Clinical Massage Therapy and Structural Bodywork.
How can we do this?
With over 20 years of teaching, I have developed and continuously refined the process of teaching this material to a high art. The training curriculum has been precisely thought out and sequenced allowing the material to be delivered in the most efficient and effective way possible. This efficiency combined with a small, high caliber group of students, allows us to teach you far more than the basic requirements in a shorter time.
THIS superior and more extensive education is what my previous students have appreciated about their time with me and my schools.
If you are already convinced that we might be The Place for You, request an Information Packet or Apply Now to our school.
Vijay Singh, Professional Golfer |
In Your Foundational Program You'll Be Learning:
- How to assess posture as a clue to what’s wrong
- Evaluating movement patterns and walking
- How to find the TRUE source of most people's problems
- What is The Edge and why NO Pain means MORE Gain
- Why light pressure is OFTEN (but not always) better than deep pressure
- Precise and Effective Hand Placements for treating soft tissue
- The Nature of Fluid Movement, and how to achieve it
- The Truth about how to achieve Effortless Great Posture
- Why Relaxed and Lengthened Abdominals are actually stronger than tight and contracted Abdominals
- How to protect and maintain your own body utilizing proper Body Mechanics
Bonus: Receiving Several Massages A Week!
Be More Relaxed Than You’ve Ever Been
(or at least in a really long time!)
One of your perks for getting educated in massage therapy is receiving approximately three to four hours of massage therapy per week, every week, in supervised trades with fellow students. That alone is, I think, worth the price of admission. Just learning about how to relax your own muscles is a revelation for many people.
As we teach you to help others relax their chronic muscle tensions, you’ll find yours starting to disappear, too. And you’ll have the opportunity to learn many other ways of dealing with muscle and nerve tension that often causes a person’s pain.
The reality is there is an art to relaxation, and the more you know how to do it, the more you can help others achieve the deep relaxation they and their muscles need.
A Life Changing Experience Awaits You
For lots of students, their massage education is, with no exaggeration, a life changing experience. Because of the simultaneous inward and outward focus, and getting to know other human beings at a more intimate, holistic level, your sense of what’s possible will expand dramatically.
Like many students before you, their careers have flourished with the deep satisfaction of helping people at levels that nothing else can, and getting them out of pain or other problems of posture, movement and dysfunction.
If you decide this is the direction for you, please contact us and set up a visit. If you need to fly in, I will personally pick you up at the airport.
If you can’t make it here, then we’ll set up a time to talk on the phone. Either way, pick up your phone right now and call my school at (828) 628-3007 or the toll free number which is (877) 628-3007. Ask for your free, No Obligation Information Packet. You can also email me at kyle@ncsab.com
Are You Willing To Be One Of The Best?
Now, I also admit that I am biased. I want you here learning from me and my staff. That is, IF you want to be among the best and most highly trained massage therapists in America, and maybe even beyond. ... IF you want clinical massage to be not just a better job, but a highly valuable profession you can be truly proud of. ... IF you want to be a highly successful massage therapist and learn from the best in the business with your new career making it an integral part of your life.
If so, then we are THE massage therapy school for you, and YOU are THE student for us, and I want you here.
Because, with all the schools out there competing for students, it's not always easy to find people who are fully committed to getting the most out of their education, people who want to be the best, people who know that in a profession like this, the learning never stops.
Living On The Edge of Advanced Bodywork & Life Itself
As you get to know us, you’ll understand more about this Edge thing. It is a central key to providing great bodywork for people, not to mention managing many of the aspects of your own life and self.
The short story, though, is that too many people think that deep tissue work has to hurt to work. But the best results come when your Client is within their Edges of pain, meaning they LIKE (or are very neutral about) what they are feeling, and are not having to tolerate the pressure you are applying to their muscles.
Working with The Edge keeps you, the therapist, and your Client, focused on the internal tension release process, making neurological connections that increase the effectiveness, efficiency and results of your work.
Yet, like much of what you will be learning with us, there is A LOT more to it than that simple description. Yes, our technique treats the deep tissue. Many say we go deeper than most. The trick is to let the surface tissues release first, THEN go deeper. Yet you’ll learn to deliver deeper bodywork with no pain involved.
This might sound simple and obvious to you, but you’d be amazed how many systems do not seem to practice or understand this simple principle.
Our entry level program will give you all the tools you need to be a VERY successful practitioner. In a few moments I'll tell you about our track record on that. Yet after 20 years of private practice, teaching and managing five massage therapy schools, my learning never stops either.
There is always going to be a Client with a new and different problem that is unique and challenging. And as you get better and more experienced, more of them will come your way. As will your opportunities to expand your knowledge and improve your skills.
Your Teachers and Your Big Advantage:
Highly Experienced Massage & Bodywork Professionals
Our Continuing Educational Trainings are built upon the principles you'll learn in our Foundational Program, with a high level of continuity and integration. And the Foundational and Continuing Trainings are taught by top professionals, people with decades of experience in the treatment room, not recent graduates of massage school, as many massage teachers are.
Although there are many naturally gifted and great teachers out there, practical experience is a major plus when teaching certain important aspects of clinical massage. Be sure you check into that when you are examining different schools.
So when you travel here to study with us in the Beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of Asheville, North Carolina.
Your New School will provide you with the Leading "Edge" training and hands-on skills not available any where else. NCSAB will bring you many state-of-the-art perspectives and techniques for more effective therapy.
Your Instructors are forward thinking, innovative, and highly experienced professionals with proven, decades-long track records in the treatment room, resolving a wide range of myofascial and neuro-structural pain and dysfunctions.
Your Training will equip you with skills, knowledge and insights that can often lead to employment working in a variety of healthcare settings.
Sanford Z. Pollack, DO |
If you are already convinced that we might be The Place for You, Sign Up to receive an Information Packet or Apply Now to our school.
What, Exactly, Will You Be Able To Do When You’re Done?
Well, it’s a wide open field, ripe for innovation and creativity.
One huge market that is opening up is the Baby-Boomers who are about to start retiring in large numbers. They are also the most health conscious group of people we’ve ever seen. They tend to be more financially secure as well.
Another opportunity is working with physicians who understand the value of soft tissue therapy treatments for many of their patient’s painful afflictions that have been difficult to treat by other means.
Ronald W. Dennie, MD |
Another market is athletes and sports enthusiasts. Most of us have heard about top athletes who consider some form of massage or bodywork as vital to their success and injury prevention.
“Then 3 years ago during a tournament at the TPC Sawgrass, I was introduced to Kyle Wright. I had heard of him from around the circuit from players such as Vijay Singh and Davis Love III and many others, as being the one to see for pain related issues. When he shook my hand and began to speak, I knew I had met someone truly amazing. He exuded a passion for his work like no one I had ever seen. He knew the human body and more importantly he knew golf and the relationship between the two. Prior to working with Kyle I questioned my future as a pro-golfer, fearful that pain would be the determining factor for the things I could do. Since working with Kyle, I feel like I have taken back control. Pain is no longer my main focus on the course, once again my game is. To golf is to fulfill a passion. To play on the PGA tour is to fulfill a dream. Thanks Kyle, for having such passion to help me meet my dream. Brent Schwarzrock |
I personally have worked with a number of world-class, professional athletes who have been extremely appreciative of the benefits my approach to therapy has provided them. But please bear in mind that if I was using the techniques that most therapists use, and that I used in my early days as a therapist, I most likely would not have gotten the level of results I did with many of my Clients.
And it is these very techniques of Clinical Massage Therapy & Structural Bodywork, developed over the years by myself and David Scott Lynn that you will be learning here at the school. And I firmly believe you will be hard pressed to find this approach in many places in America.
Now, unfortunately, I cannot guarantee how well you will do as a professional massage and bodywork therapist. Only you know how dedicated and hard working you will be. And yes, it takes work to get started and build a practice. But in truth, you are only limited by your imagination and willingness to work hard, along with the quality of your training. And of course, if you go into private practice, like any other business, you will need to develop your marketing and networking skills, which we will help get you started.
Dr. John Bordiuk, M.D. |
Become A Self-Employed, Private Practitioner
or A High-Value, In-Demand Employee
One common option of graduates is a self-employed, private practice. With the right training and personal motivation to get the word out to potential Clients, this option affords you
- Set your own hours
- High career satisfaction
- Helping people on a daily basis
- Contributing to society
- Low stress environment
- Choosing Who you want to work with as Clients
- Design your life the way you want it
Alternatively, you can work in a wide range of employment opportunities:
- With Physicians (medical, chiropractic, osteopathic)- that employ licensed massage and bodywork therapists
- In Health Care Facilities
- In Health & Athletic Clubs
- In Spas & Resorts
- Become a well respected Instructor of Massage Therapy
For you to take advantage of these opportunities, I truly believe the North Carolina School of Advanced Bodywork, Inc. is a unique school specializing in providing you with the most advanced clinical massage therapy training available in the country.
Dr. Joseph J. Altomare, D.C. |
In many of your classes, you’ll be studying directly with Kyle C. Wright. Kyle was founder of the Wright Centers of Advanced Bodywork in Jacksonville and Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. He’s successfully treated many people, including the rich and famous. Kyle’s track record as an instructor and therapist is unparalleled in the field.
Gerry James, PGA Professional |
Kyle’s successful career as a Clinical Massage Therapist includes:
- 23 years clinical experience restoring pain free bodies
- Changing or Restoring people’s lives in the process
- 30,000 patients treated throughout his career, and still going
- Worked successfully with neurologists, chiropractors, podiatrists, dentists, osteopaths, in fact, nearly every health care discipline
you can imagine - A proven educational resource to physicians, including lecturing to conferences for osteopathy, chiropractic, physical therapy, strength & conditioning coaches
- Speaker to Mayo Clinic’s Florida Physical Therapy department
- In 1999 to 2002, on teaching staff of UNF Complimentary Alternative Medicine (CAM) program on muscular imbalances and myofascial
pain syndromes - Speaker to numerous massage related conventions, as recently as the 2007 FSMTA state convention, with highest ratings of presenters
- Massage Therapist of the year in 1992 by the North Chapter of FSMTA
- Therapist to many top professional golfers on U.S. & European tours
- 2004 massage therapist for the NFL Jacksonville Jaguars
Bill Reid |
Kyle was Founder, CEO & Curriculum Developer of the original five Southeastern Schools of Neuromuscular & Massage Therapy located in Florida and North and South Carolina, which he owned and operated successfully for 17 years. After years of developing and managing a large administrative and teaching staff, Kyle wanted to get back to basics and a higher quality of life. He sold his five schools and moved just outside of Asheville, in the quaint town of Fairview, North Carolina.
Wanting to stay on the Leading Edge of the massage therapy profession, he is opening the North Carolina School of Advanced Bodywork. Kyle’s school is extremely dedicated to providing you with highly advanced skills that will serve you well in becoming an integral part of the healthcare industry. He will be fully focused on ONE school and 14 students per class.
His track record in providing top quality training to new massage therapists includes:
- 8,000 plus graduates with extremely high student satisfaction
- Physicians seeking graduates of his schools for their clinics
- Many of his graduates have become leaders in the massage
therapy field
Now that you know a little more about me and why I think you’ll benefit from enrolling in my school, let’s get to the Bottom Line.
Passing The National Certification Exam
An important criterion in determining the school that will give you the best education is the pass rate on the national certification exam. Most states require a passing grade on this test to qualify for licensure, which affords you the privilege to practice in that state.
Your NCSAB instructors are highly experienced practitioners, and are experts and specialists that live and breathe soft tissue therapeutics.
Even if you have no background in massage therapy what-so-ever, my staff and I will take you step by step through the process of learning the basics. Yet upon graduation, you’ll be among the most highly trained massage therapists in the country. You’ll understand and be competent and efficient in treating the most common soft tissue pathologies experienced by the vast majority of Clients or Patients.
After that, if you decide you want more training, we’ll be here when you are ready to move to the next level of your professional development. Our Continuing Educational Programs are designed to be natural extensions of your Foundational Training.
If you are already convinced that we might be The Place for You, Sign Up to receive an Information Packet or Apply Now to our school.
Our State-of-the-Art Text Book
Already self-published six times as a primary text in my previous schools, I am the author of a text book, Clinical Massage Therapy & Structural Bodywork©. This was the primary text for the many thousands of students at my former Southeastern Schools, and will be for you, too. I have recently signed a book deal with McGraw-Hill Publishing to make this text more available to massage schools nationwide.
Now, I have to give some credit to one of MY former and most influential teachers, David Scott Lynn. He is contributing a few chapters of the brand new and completely revised version of my book. I thought it was appropriate because many of the concepts I teach, and you will be learning, at NCSAB, I learned from David in one of his DSL Method series of workshops for bodyworkers about 15 years ago. This is among the Leading Edge material I will be incorporating and teaching you.
Leslie Hunter |
We also offer several seminars and workshops on topics like:
- Advanced Structural Analysis (understanding the physics & geometry of the body)
- Advanced Structural Balancing Strategies
- Advanced concepts and techniques in manual therapy
- Principles of Tai Chi/Chi Kung movement & exercise
- Philosophy, Psychology & Science of Being Human
- And much, much more
Well, that about wraps up what I have to tell you . . . for now. But as you can guess, my staff and I have MANY more things to tell you and show you.
So please, pick up your phone, like right now, and give me a call at
(828) 628-3007. send me an email message at kyle@ncsab.com.
Let’s see what we can do to help you establish yourself as a Leading Edge Practitioner in Clinical Massage Therapy and Structural Bodywork.
I previously taught classes with 50 to 60 students at a time, produced the results and everyone got what they needed. But at this time in my life, to maintain a high level of personal interaction, I am only accepting 14 students per class, so you might want to get the process started right now.
Find out more about our programs and CEU courses.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Yours Truly,
Kyle C. Wright, LMBT, NCTMB
www.ncsab.com
(828) 628-3007
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