seminars- retreats -workshops

Planet Spa - Your Resource for Spas, Resorts, Retreats, Wellness, & Business Solutions 

All of our courses are perfect for: MASSAGE THERAPISTS, SPA TECHNICIANS, ESTHETICIANS, SPA OWNERS OPERATORS AND PRIVATE PRACTITIONERS. If your looking to get into the industry or need a customized executive retreat contact us for details. More Luxury Retreats and seminars are now in development, please contact us direct for details.

Our mission is creating core and customized seminars for individual practitioner's, spa and resort staff, and executive level professionals in and out of the industry. Review our partner site at Spa College International

 

THAI HERBAL BALL FUSION MASSAGE

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH - AUGUST 10-13

Bring a friend and receive a $50 credit. Refer seven friends and YOU can attend the class for free. Learn this traditional hot treatment used by the royal family of Thailand. This course is accredited by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork.Other class dates provided below. Sponsored by SABAI SPA. This includes your manual, video clips, discounts and certification for 24 CEU'S.

  • Increase client/therapist connection
  • Save your hands and body
  • Thai stretching and accupressure for the table
  • Technique of the Royal Thai Family
  • Anti inflammatory, antiseptic and analgesic herbal mixes
  • Enhancement for facials or massage
  • Increase your bottom line and profit margin
  • Add a competitive edge
  • Deep muscle relief
  • Hot and cold herbal compress therapy and thermal heat
  • Use cutting edge trends in your practice
  • Relieve fatigue and stress for yourself and clients
  • Deep, heated compressions for faster healing
  • Selling and marketing of new techniques
 

JUNE 6-8

Early Bird Sign up for Thai Herbal Ball Three Day Intensive $50 off - Make your deposit now.

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COSTA RICA TRANSFORMATION AND ADVENTURE GET AWAY

MANUAL ANTONIO, COSTA RICA - JANUARY 15-19 2009

Pacific Spa Training Center and Luxury Resort

THIS RETREAT WILL INCLUDE BREAK OUT SESSIONS FOCUSED FOR LIFESTYLE AND TRANSFORMATION FOR EVERYONE, WITH SEPARATE SPECIALTY SESSIONS FOR SPA PROFESSIONALS WITH CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT.ld at our training facility in tropical Costa Rica, and hosted by Liz Galloway, and Angela Martindale at a beautiful resort. We will be your personal destination guides and acting as your personal hosts in another country, bringing you into the local culture, and creating once in a lifetime, experiences. Our location includes a media center and full service spa. With our key training team, you will enjoy this educational, and adventurous get away. See immediate results in yourself, your life and your career with our focused touch points, interactive workshops, hands on training, and a well thought curriculum customized for you. Join our fitness guru for personal fitness, nutritional transformation, motivation and more. Join our professional coaching team for success strategies, perspective, goal building and hands on workshops. These and other exciting programs are co produced and designed with Morris Murdock TravelMorris Murdock Travel, and Black Pearl Destinations to enable the best.

You will be pampered, and transformed with your personal hosts. You will have your choice of several key break out sessions to choose from daily, on everything from 'Success Strategies' to 'Eating for Your Body', 'Spa Management and Sales', and several other key sessions we have planned for you. We will take you into the local spa's for your personal transformation sessions, meet with experts, and address the real needs of life transformation, management, motivational needs, communication, sales, marketing and intensive one on one work that brings results. Here's a sample of topics you will be choosing from.

  • Marketing Mastery
  • Successful Relationship in Salon and Spa
  • Ten Secrets to Success in the Spa Industry - and Life
  • Turning Your Vision into Reality
  • Life Transformation
  • Mindful Meditation
  • Moods, Hormones and Food, How it Affects You
  • Rejuvenating Yoga/Couples Yoga
  • Why I Crave Sweets and How to Drop the Habit
  • Keeping Perspective in Your Daily Life and Business
  • Success Strategies
  • Manifesting and Managing a Compelling Vision
  • Secrets to Spa Essentials
  • Thai Traditional Therapy and Back Walking
  • Thai Herbal Compress Massage
  • Fa-ssage
  • Motivate and Inspire The New You

Make Your Spa a Destination Spa Management Foundations Eco Centric Spa Applications and Trends All of your break out sessions, choice of a spa treatments, adventure tours, fitness sessions, and personally planned meals are all included. You take care of your airfare, we take care of the rest for only $1,750. This is an investment in your self and your career. We take care of all the details, so YOU don't have too. You will leave with certifications and tools you can apply to both career and life success. May 13 - 19 Costa Rica $1,750 without airfare

5 Intensive Days of Transformation and Adventure and CEU credits for attending spa professionals

MAKE A DEPOSIT NOW $300 reserves your space 50% due 30 days before workshop, total due 15 days before workshop

The following is a three part complimentary series that will provide you with everything from the fundamentals of spas and therapies to management specialties. Take one all all of the courses in sequence or as needed.

SPA ESSENTIALS I FUNDAMENTALS OF SPA THERAPY AND THE MARKET - Dates to be announced 2008

DISCOVERY BAY - JAMAICA

Providing a much needed cutting edge training, for spas and spa technicians, in a beautiful tropical setting. You can join us for element I, Element II, and the final Spa Management seminar as a bonus. We recommend taking the entire course for full benefit, but you are welcome to join us for any combination of the elements. We will enjoy beautiful surroundings, great education and networking. You will also enjoy some relaxation time, great tours, yoga and other activities. We look forward to seeing you there. Please feel free to contact us directly with any questions or just follow the link to register! Spa treatments or adventure tour of your choice is included in the course, along with daily morning body movement/fitness classes.


Learn all about spa body treatments. This hands-on edu-vacational workshop is specifically designed for skin care professionals, cosmetologists, massage therapists, body-workers, aestheticians, salon owners as well as avid spa enthusiasts. Want to get into the business? Now is the time to take course specific career training.

  • Know scrub, wrap, mask and treatment enhancements
  • Application techniques, client intake and role playing
  • Product purchase expectations
  • Your articulated sales argument
  • Ingredient and product knowledge
  • Treatment design challenge and reward
  • More....

$750 USD 4 days/32 hours CEU credits

MAKE A DEPOSIT NOW $150 reserved space 50% due 60 days before workshop, total due 15 days before workshop

SPA ESSENTIALS II ADVANCEMENT OF SPA SPECIALTIES AND THE MARKET- Dates to be announced 2008

DISCOVERY BAY, JAMAICA

Spa Essentials - Advancement of Spa Specialties and the market of advanced spa body treatments for massage therapists, aestheticians and cosmetologists. Learn how to fine-tune your spa body treatments with tricks of the trade. Learn how to provide spa services like the leaders. Whether you would like to learn how to position yourself to work at a high-end spa or bring the quality of high-end spa protocol to your practice, this module is for you. Learn the ins and outs of top-of-the-line spa protocol from the pro’s. One spa treatment or adventure tour of your choice is included in the course, along with daily morning body movement/fitness classes, manual and forms.

  • Creation and development of standard operating procedures
    Review of policies and making the right choice for your team
    Intensive hands on practicals of advanced therapies
    and enhancements
    Selling your specialty therapies
    Creating your spa style career
    Development of marketing/break even
    Budgeting review and understanding
    Client centric planning and multi sensory spa treatment development
    Needs and trends of eco based and pre manufactured therapies Client aquisition and retention systems with best practice
  • Creative writing for spa treatment design/menu/marketing
  • The mind mapping tool kit and design
    Sales scripting and role playing
    Field trips to local spas, panel questions and experts
    Advanced protocol design
    Client aquisition and retention
    Vendor and product sourcing
    Spa treatment design challenge, source your creativity
    Services - Choosing the right service and product mix
    Sales/Retail/Service
    Operational Essentials, including understanding compensation
    Self and business branding
    More....

$750 USD 4 days/32 hours - CEU credits

MAKE A DEPOSIT NOW $150 reserved space 50% due 60 days before workshop, total due 15 days before workshop

SPA AND BODYWORK MANAGEMENT INTENSIVE – Dates to be announced 2008

DISCOVERY BAY, JAMAICA

Spa directors, spa managers, spa owners and operators:
Learn how to introduce, market and sell spa treatments and advanced services at your facility. A step-by-step guide to improving guest satisfaction, retention and revenue by establishing an attractive menu of spa treatments.

This 2 day seminar will furnish you with a menu, protocols, resources for products and supplies customized to your spa as well as a marketing and pricing plan based on your individual circumstances. One spa treatment or adventure tour of your choice is included in the course, along with daily morning body movement/fitness classes

  • Branding, Retail and Service Markers
  • Intensive hands on spa therapies
  • Spa therapy design and menu design
  • Project Management as a therapist or manager
  • Interview techiniques to hire the best team
  • Advertising and Marketing in a virtual world
  • Financial management how to's
    Pricing services for profit
    Creating a destination in any location
    Inventory, Point os Sales and Budgets
  • Choosing, mixing and creating the right treatment blend
  • Operational understanding
  • Visits to local spas/resorts, panel discusion, experts
  • More...

$350 USD 2 days/16 hours CEU credits

SECRETS OF SPA ESSENTIALS COURSE SERIES-With mind/body retreat and fasting center

KO SAMUAI, THAILAND -Dates to be announced 2008

Providing a much needed cutting edge training, for spas and spa technicians, in a beautiful tropical setting. Join us for "Secrets of spa essentials" educational and inspiration retreat on the beautiful and tranquil island of Ko Samuai, Thailand. We will be enjoying the amenities and hospitality of our host location. Fast Healing Retreat Center. You can join us for element I, Element II, and the final Spa Management seminar as a bonus. We recommend taking the entire course for full benefit, but you are welcome to join us for any combination of the elements below. We we enjoy beautiful surroundings, great education and networking. You will also enjoy some relaxation time, great tours, yoga and other activities. We look forward to seeing you there. Please feel free to contact us directly with any questions or just follow the link to register! One spa treatment or adventure tour of your choice is included in the course, along with daily morning body movement/fitness classes

MAKE A DEPOSIT NOW $150 reserved space 50% due 60 days before workshop, total due 15 days before workshop

For more email us here contact@thelotuseffects.com

Many new seminars, workshops and unique retreats to be announced. We are excited to share our growth with combined classes and additional industry trainers. The following are course topics and retreats in development. Most classes certified by the national certification board of therapeutic massage and bodywork.

  • Managing Selling Points of Spa Treatments and Bodywork
  • Deep Tissue for the Spa
  • Effective Communication and Conflict Resolution for the Spa
  • Keys to Dressing for Success in the Spa & Business Industry
  • Sales and Entertainment in Your Spa
  • Add fashion consulting and personal shopping for spa clients
  • Motivation and Empowerment for Your Lifestyle
  • Body Fitness and Mind Focus Transformation Retreat
  • Spa Luminary Training - Train to be a trainer
  • Treating Pain with Ki Shin Heiken

Spa and hospitality education 

 

 

 

 

  • Thai Herbal Ball Fusion Massage
  • Spa Business Development Intensive 
  • Costa Rica Transformation and Adventure Getaway
  • Fundamentals of Spa Therapies and the Market
  • Advancement of Spa Specialties and the Market
  • Spa and Bodywork Management Intensive
  • Secrets of Spa Essentials

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