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Hot Stone Massage Course Online

Learn hot stone massage techniques for safe, effective, and creative professional bodywork. This course teaches foundational stone placement, warm and cool stone applications, client cautions, full-body hot stone massage routines, and advanced therapeutic protocols.

Instructor Carollanne Crichton guides you through practical hot stone massage training that can be used in spa, therapeutic, sports, pregnancy, side-posture, restorative, and meridian-based massage sessions.

What You Will Learn

How to safely use heated stones in a professional massage session
How to choose stones based on size, shape, texture, and placement
How to apply hot stone massage techniques for relaxation and muscle tension
How to use cool stones for facial massage and contrast therapy
How to combine warm and cool stones in one treatment
How to adapt stone massage for side-posture and pregnancy massage
How to use stones for sports massage, joint discomfort, and common overuse issues
How to apply stone therapy in meridian, detoxification, lymphatic, and restorative routines

Course Details

This hot stone massage course begins with the foundations of stone therapy, including stone selection, safety, benefits, and client cautions.
You’ll then follow a complete full-body hot stone massage routine, with clear instruction on where each stone is placed and why.
The course also includes cool stone facial massage, showing how cool stones can be used on their own or combined with heated stones.
Advanced lessons cover restorative protocols for specific client needs and areas of dysfunction.
Specialized routines include hot stone sports massage, pregnancy massage, side-posture massage, meridian work, detoxification, lymphatic-focused massage, and restorative table postures.

Who This Course Is For

This hot stone massage course is designed for licensed massage therapists, massage therapy students, spa therapists, and bodyworkers who want clear, step-by-step hot stone massage training. It is a good fit for practitioners who want to learn safe stone placement, client cautions, warm and cool stone techniques, and a complete professional hot stone massage routine. It is also useful for therapists who want to expand their practice with stone therapy applications for sports massage, pregnancy massage, side-posture work, meridian therapy, lymphatic-focused massage, and restorative sessions.

Meet Your Instructor

Carollanne Crichton has practiced stone massage for over 25 years and was one of the early pioneers of hot stone massage as it became popular in spas and therapeutic massage settings.

She has taught stone massage throughout the country and helped popularize the work by showing therapists how to use stones safely, creatively, and therapeutically. Her teaching includes traditional hot stone massage as well as stone therapy for sports massage, meridian therapy, side-posture massage, restorative work, and cool stone applications.

Carollanne is also a skilled Ayurvedic practitioner, yoga instructor, and massage therapist. Her approach combines practical technique with a deep respect for healing, relaxation, and therapeutic intention.

Lessons

Introduction to hot stone massage

Length: 16 minutesComplexity: Easy

This lesson shows the basics of hot stone massage, including contraindications, uses for the types of heat, options to heat the stones, the different types of stones,

Basic Hot Stone Massage sequence

Length: 40 minutesComplexity: Easy

using hot stones to perform massage on the belly.

This 40 minute lesson shows how to perform the basic hot stone massage technique to the whole body. This includes how to perform layouts (stones under the body and on top), as well as massage techniques using the stones. Filmed in Santa Barbara on the ocean. Beautiful!