Thai Massage CE Credits for LMTs: How the 18-Hour Weekend Works

If you’re a licensed massage therapist hunting CE hours, here’s the direct answer: the SomaVeda® Thai Yoga Level 1 Fundamentals weekend earns you 18 NCBTMB-approved continuing-education hours in two days. The Native American Indigenous Church (NAIC), the organization behind the Thai Yoga Center and this training, is an NCBTMB Massage Board Approved Provider — so these are real, board-recognized hours that apply toward your LMT renewal, not certificate-mill filler.

That’s the renewal box ticked. Here’s why therapists keep taking this class after their hours are already met.

CE that pays you back

Most CE weekends give you hours. This one gives you hours and a service you can sell on Monday.

Thai Yoga bodywork is mat-based, fully clothed, no oil — assisted stretching and sustained compression along the body’s sen lines. Almost nobody within driving distance offers it. That makes it a signature service: something clients can’t comparison-shop at every franchise spa on the highway.

CE that spares your body

You already know the occupational math of table massage: thumbs, wrists, and shoulders wear out. Thai work is done from the mat using body weight, leverage, palms, forearms, elbows, knees, and feet. Therapists consistently tell us the weekend changed how they work on the table too — less grinding through the thumbs, more leaning through structure.

What the weekend covers

Two full days (9:00 AM–6:30 PM with a lunch break each day, 18 contact hours):

• Theory and history of the lineage — this is traditional Indigenous medicine, taught as such
• Energy anatomy: the ten sen lines, chakras, wind gates, meridians and acupoints
• The five treatment attitudes (supine, side-lying, prone, abdomen, seated)
• A complete 19-asana partner flow — you give a full one-hour session before you leave
• Benefits and contraindications: when a posture helps and when to hold back
• SomaVeda® BET/Bio-Tapping for nervous-system balancing

Tuition is $450 ($350 for returning students), which includes your NAIC membership and certificate of completion; the course manual is separate ($39.95). Current dates are on the classes page.

Where it can lead

The weekend stands alone as CE. It’s also the first step of the full Thai Yoga massage certification path — through the 165-hour Certified Thai Yoga Practitioner credential, taught right here in Florida (no trip to Thailand required). Wondering about the economics of going further? We wrote an honest take: is Thai Yoga certification worth it?

Ready to bank the hours? Reserve a seat or call (813) 337-9338.