AYM UK Therapist Training
Become a therapist
Join our life-changing therapist trainings to understand your own body and mind better, to learn to give amazing treatment to family and friends, to become a qualified AYM therapist or to add some AYM techniques to your current wellness offerings. We have something for everyone!
About our therapist training
We help students develop into multi-skilled, discerning, intuitive practitioners, who love what they do. Our Certified Therapist Training courses are aimed at anyone wanting to become a professional Ayurvedic yoga massage therapist.
Practitioners are taught to:
- Offer powerful, therapeutic Ayurvedic Yoga Massage treatments
- Really understand each client’s needs on the day, and tailor the treatments appropriately
- Offer AYM in a way that also promotes their own wellbeing and self awareness
- Use their understanding of their own bodies and minds, and draw on their personal wellness journey, to inform their AYM treatments.
We have designed the AYM UK therapist trainings to be flexible, so that everyone can find an opportunity to attend one of our:
– 4-hour introductory workshops,
– a one or 2-weekend Introduction to Ayurvedic yoga massage training;
– an entire 300-hour therapist training, or
– tailor your training to your needs by attending as many some of our weekend trainings as is suitable for you.
At the moment we are offering therapist trainings in London, Leeds, Glasgow and Haarlem (Netherlands). Some CPD is also available as a residential training on Chios, Greece. Despina shares the Greece CPD information with our existing community of AYM UK graduates.
Still have questions
300-Hour Therapist Training
The course is delivered over several months, in ten 12-hour modules and a final assessment. This includes 96 hours of in-person classroom time and a minimum of 200 hours self study, including the virtual learning materials provided (videos).
The entire content of the training is available in video format, so you can be watch again and again.
Online mentorship is available through a group chat and weekly group video calls throughout the course, so you can ask questions and get motivation and support. You can also contact your teacher privately for advice when needed.
We have 300-hour trainings in Leeds, London, Glasgow and Haarlem, Netherlands. Our next groups are starting in April 2025 in London, October 2025 in Leeds and probably also October 2025 in Glasgow (please contact us to register interest for the Glasgow trainings).
For Netherlands trainings see our teacher Linda‘s website here.
Please get in touch to express interest and sign up for our mailing list to be the first to hear about future trainings!
Upcoming Training Courses
Leeds,
Start Dates: November 2025
Weekends
Teacher: Despina Psarra
Price: £2500, concessions available
London
Start Dates: January 2026
Weekends
Teacher: Despina Psarra
Price: £2800, concessions available
Haarlem, NL
Teacher: Linda Mebus
Glasgow
Start Dates: tbc
Weekends
Teacher: Sam Mulgrew
Price: £2500, concessions available
Weekend trainings in Ayurvedic Yoga Massage
Our weekend trainings are great if you would like to:
- Attend an AYM training as CPD if you have already trained in other therapeutic modalities, including as a yoga teacher, and would like to add some AYM techniques to your existing practice, or
- Learn some AYM techniques and offer some treatments, but you are not planning to be a full time therapist in the near future, or
- Dip your toes into the AYM technique and see if it is really for you before committing to a 300-hour training.
Each of our weekend training modules is tailored to the group of participants, so might include some revision and building on knowledge gained through previous modules. So ideally modules would be attended in sequence, if possible/practical. If this is not possible then module 1 (online introduction) is really the only prerequisite for the rest of the training, you can join whichever modules interest you and you are able to attend after that. If you could start with module 2 that is usualy ideal.
Please contact us to discuss your options. We have experience supporting hundreds of students, and can help you choose the best course for you.
CPD for AYM therapists
These trainings are the natural next step for therapists who have attended our 300-hour training. Minimum prerequisites are:
- Modules 1-3 and some practical experience of offering AYM, or
- Adequate experience in other relevant modalities, or
- Adequate practical/applied training in anatomy, physiology and pathology.
- If you have not completed our 300-hour training, then please discuss with Despina whether this training might be appropriate for you.
Pregnancy and neuropathic pains of the lower body
You will learn how to adjust what you already know about Ayurvedic Yoga Massage to make it appropriate for pregnant clients, and non pregnant clients who cannot lie in the prone or supine (lying on front or back) positions because of health conditions or injuries.
Whether you intend on regularly massaging these groups of people or not, having these options will give you confidence to support the needs of most clients that arrive. It also gives you more options and variety for clients who have regular massages with you.
Neuropathic pains of the upper body
Here we cover how to work with neuropathic pain originating from the cervical spine, clavicle area, thoracic area or arms. Despina can teach you what to do to relieve or reduce the pain, to help the clients in their journey to recovery, to help them understand their body better and move towards a lifestyle that supports them better. Also, how to work on the rest of the body, without agitating the affected areas.
Become a teacher with AYM teacher training
We have trained two AYM teachers (our amazing graduates Linda Mebus and Sam Mulgrew) and we have a few more trainees/teaching assistants who will start teaching in the coming months. We also have a few more experienced AYM therapists interested in starting their AYM teaching journeys in the coming years.
If you are an experienced AYM therapist and you are interested in teaching, then get in touch to discuss your experience, and what you can do to prepare for your teacher training. We can then add you to the next batch of teacher trainees.
Testimonials
for our therapist trainings, and for our graduates
