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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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It is with gratitude and thankfulness that I write this message. At the end of this year, 2025, Integrated Touch Therapy, Inc.
will close its doors.
The amazing students and animals have been an inspiration to me for over 30 years. To dream a dream of a school
for learning effective, lightly applied touch therapies on animals has started thousands of you, from all over the world, to become
practitioners; you are now spreading these skills and teaching others how to use them effectively. I am very proud of you who have written books, made videos/DVDs,
taught at universities and schools, and have had successful businesses. The power of appropriate touch is much bigger than any one of
us and we have sent ripples of love throughout the earth. Thank you one and all.
It is time for me to back away and let those who follow continue to work with the animals with respect, love and appropriate
touch for their healing and utilize the relationships that those bonds have propagated.
What do I do next? Stay tuned…. I am still working with human and animal clients, mostly at my office in town. It is and has been
a joy to do since the beginning of my schooling. I am cutting back to three days a week. This gives me time at the farm to enjoy
the solitude and peaceful surroundings. And I have started gardening!
Oh, I have decided to let the post office box go. I have now a mailbox at the end of the driveway. The address is
7037 Zane Trail Road, Circleville, OH 43113. If mailing a package, please use 6094 Zane Trail Road; my neighbor has an
in-home business and will accept your packages for me.
Sincerely and with love,
--Helen Patricia Whalen-Shaw, MS,LMT, RCST.
And I send holiday greetings to each and every one of you.
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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
attending class. |
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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