The ChillOut Society

The beginner’s classes often run on Wednesdays and Sundays, and one-off workshops and Reiki attunements are mostly on the weekend. Each class is different, however, and when the class runs will be worked out depending on what days and times the participants can make. We normally announce new courses on the website and mailing list and will give an idea of the days and times at this point. After people have signed up, we work out when is best for everyone.

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 ChillOut

ChillOut has been teaching massage since its beginnings many years ago, and massage remains the activity for which we are best known. Zeb Shaw has, for many years, developed the massage courses to suit the way students learned best and allow students to learn an enormous amount of useful applicable techniques and knowledge in a short evening course. None of our courses are certified and the teaching provided is intended to be informative, but we advise our students not to treat anybody without being a insured as a massage therapist and trained in an approved, certified course.

Courses 

ChillOut society currently offers three different massage courses.

• The Beginner’s Massage Course teaches the basics of swedish masage and covers most of the body over 6 weeks.
• The Intermediate Massage Course takes this much further, teaching advanced therapeutic techniques in an intensive 8-week course. Many of the ‘graduates’ of this course go on to train professionally or help teaching in the society.
• Indian Head Massage is a very simple, beautiful and relaxing form of massage which we teach in a one-day workshop.

More Information

Please read the detailed pages about the above courses before going to the Questions and Contact section.

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INDIAN HEAD MASSAGE
We intend to put on an Indian Head Massage
workshop one Saturday in February. Cost is £15 and
for that you’ll learn and practice all you need to
know. Please email us with good dates if you’re
interested so we can reserve you a space and book
the venue.

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Indian head massage and Reiki courses run according to demand. If you wish to do one, please let us know.

Please do not email us asking us when our next massage course is. We run a lot of massage courses in the first term, and a few more during the second term. Join the email list to hear about these when they are starting.

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No. We run courses during university term only. Most things are during the first semester or the early part of the second semester, before exams and dissertations interrupt these activities. We normally run multiple beginners courses in the first term, with one or two more in the second term. Indian Head Massage, Intermediate Massage and Reiki attunements may be in either term.

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When is your next course?

What times and days are your classes?

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No. The beginner’s massage course and indian head massage course are introductions to the techniques only. Our intermediate massage course teaches you skills well beyond many professional massage courses in Swedish Massage, but all of our teaching is for your personal use only. This is not a professional qualification and ChillOut does not accept any responsibility for the way in which you use what you have learned at our courses. There is no certificate of completion, no qualification, and we offer no guarantee that any of our students are fit to practice.

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Once we announce courses on the email list, you can ask for a place using the email address given in the announcement email. Beginner’s massage courses are started in the first few weeks of each semester and Indian Head Massage would be announced a few weeks before it is planned to run (in either semester). Intermediate massage courses are normally announced towards the end of the first beginner’s course of the year (near the end of the first semester).

If you wish to come on a reiki course, email the reiki organiser to ask if there is likely to be another course soon and register your interest.

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When is your next course?

Are your massage courses certified?

Do I have to be a member of Edinburgh University or ChillOut society to do a course?

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We provide a massage service for social events. We normally do seated shoulder massage in a discrete corner with immaculate towel technique. Sometimes we also do indian head massage or reiki, if this is more appropriate. We have worked at club nights, ceilidhs, balls, fundraiser charity nights and many more. We mostly work with other societies and this is easy to organise. Private events take a little more organisation. To request our services, contact our events organiser (below).

Events Contact Form

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Indian Head Massage is a beautiful, relaxing form of massage based on old Ayurvedic techniques involving work on the upper back, shoulders, neck, scalp and face.

Indian Head Massage is used by practitioners to help reduce stress and fatigue, increase mental clarity, and relax and rejuvenate the receiver. A treatment will last between 20 minutes to one hour.

The ChillOut society teaches this in a 6-hour course on a Saturday a couple of times a term. Indian head massage is a beautifully relaxing experience given whilst the client is clothed and seated. No previous experience is needed. The basic skills are easily picked up in one afternoon and perfected through practice.
The workshop leaves you confident, relaxed and peaceful. The ideal antidote to the build up of exam stress.

Cost: EUSA £15, Concessions £20, Real people £25.
If the class is at capacity the cost may go down, it will not be higher than
this.

Next Course: Join our email list or see our blog. We normally do a course each term. We can’t predict when we are going to run the next one. We don’t run these over the holidays.

Contact details: Contact us through the massage course contact form to enquire about or join the course.

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Welcome to the ChillOut Society where you can learn various forms of massage, healing, chilling and living life to the full!

We’re a chilled out group of people at Edinburgh University (Scotland) whose sole pursuit is that of relaxation. We teach and share swedish massage, therapeutic massage, Indian Head Massage, Reiki, EFT etc. as well as good food, good hugs and good friendship. The ChillOut Committee are normally a great bunch to hang out with and open to new people and new ideas.

Massage courses

Most of the expertise and activity of ChillOut Society currently revolves around our massage courses. We teach different courses, including a one-day Indian Head Massage course, a 6-week beginner’s Swedish Massage Course and an intensive 8-week intermediate course in therapeutic & remedial massage techniques for students who wish to learn some of the tricks used by advanced practitioners without paying the full price for a professional course.

Reiki healing

We run Reiki attunements one or twice a year for those who wish to learn Reiki, and you can receive healing on a drop-in basis on Thursdays at Tollcross healing group, all year round (not organised by ChillOut, but many of us go there). The ChillOut healer’s group usually meets weekly- join the Reiki email list if you would like to swap healings with other healers.

Events Massage Service

The events massage service is available for societies, charities and private functions in Edinburgh doing seated shoulder massage (or even Reiki) - at ceilidhs, balls, fundraising events, parties, club nights- its all been done. Find out more…

Other activities

We run retreats in Roslin Castle a few times a year. EFT, timeline therapy, reflexology and hypnotherapy and many other workshops are all possible, depending on interest.

Most of the courses take place at Teviot House, Bristo Square, Edinburgh. To take part in the courses, you need to be a member of the ChillOut Society. The cost of joining is £3 for the year.

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