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| We specialize in animal-massage
training workshops; we have developed
instructional workbooks, DVDs and have produced
colorful, fully-laminated equine, canine and
feline anatomy charts to help you learn.
You can purchase these products
through our secure on-line store.
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| ITT workshop CE's have been accepted
by ABMP, IMA, NBCAAM
and Holistic Nursing. Check with your
governing body.
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Welcome to Integrated Touch Therapy! |
At ITT,® Inc., we provide hands-on animal massage
and bodywork workshops that teach you touch modalities,
which enhance health & wellness, providing relaxation,
stress reduction and/or performance enhancement for
dogs, cats and horses. The small student-to-teacher
ratio of 8/1 helps each of our students receive
individual skills development and the attention they deserve.
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As of January 2024, our business office will remain in Circleville, Ohio,
but our workshops will now be held at the Annisage Farm, 2080 Tallyho Drive in
Aiken, South Carolina.
A quick overview of the Tallyho Farm is available here.
Maria Duthie will conduct all the workshops and classes.
You may contact her via text, email or phone:
440-669-6023◆ mariaduthieflip@icloud.com
You may also visit her website annisage.com.
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Patricia Whalen-Shaw, the president and primary instructor for ITT, has been riding
and working with animals for over 40 years. She has taught equine, canine
and feline massage for over 26 years. She's a licensed massage therapist in Ohio,
nationally certified by the NCBTMB, and is sports-massage certified.
Patricia has had cats and dogs her whole life.
She has hundreds of hours of hands-on training and
uses her many training techniques including cranial sacral therapy, equine
myofacial therapy techniques, Swedish massage, polarity therapy, Reiki,
acupressure, jyn shin jyutsu and lymph-drainage therapy.
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ITT was one of the first pet-massage schools established.
We have taught thousands of students, from all over the
world, the art of animal massage and bodywork. Our
dedicated, temperature-controlled classroom is located
at the scenic, relaxing atmosphere of Synergy Farm
in South Central Ohio.
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Explore the massage-therapy techniques for animals in
our intensive pet-massage workshops. These techniques
also enhance muscle function and efficiency, reduce
recovery time from injury or soreness after competition,
and strengthen the human-animal bond. You will discover
how animals can achieve full range of motion through
increased flexibility. We welcome your dog, cat or horse
to our workshops.
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The workshops we offer are for both professionals as well
as individuals who simply want to learn this work for the
benefit of their own animal family. With a little hard work and
the willingness to learn, anyone can become adept at animal-massage techniques. Our
students integrate the skills they learned in our workshops
into their businesses, such as veterinary clinics, massage
practices, grooming businesses, pet sitting, boarding/
training facilities, etc. Our graduates have told us that
the integrated touch therapies they learned here are a
must for those who volunteer to work on abused or
rescued animals and in wellness programs with recovering
or senior animals. Working on aging
and recuperating cats, dogs and horses is life changing!
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For your convenience, we have a library of educational
materials that you may check out while you are
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Patricia can travel for workshop training. If you
are interested in hosting a canine, equine or feline
workshop in your area, please contact our office to
get more information.
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