Learn how to give and receive profound hands‑on healing in your community.
Ready to talk it through? Book 20 minutes.
A real conversation about where your practice is now, whether this cohort is the right one for you, and what the seven days would actually ask of you. No pitch. If it isn't a fit we’ll say so, and you'll leave with a clearer plan than you arrived with.
Let's be straight about who this is for.
Three kinds of people take this training. All three sit in the same room, and it works better because they do.
You want to go deep into your own healing
You're here to experience a profound connection to yourself and to understand the body, the nervous system and trauma at a far deeper level. You leave equipped with self-healing tools for the rest of your life.
You want to give this to the people around you
You don't necessarily want to do this professionally, you want the skill to facilitate deep care for your friends, your family and your community, with your own hands.
You already work in the healing arts
You’re a yoga teacher, massage therapist, bodyworker, coach, therapist, breathwork facilitator, or holistic practitioner looking to raise the level of breakthrough you can facilitate in your professional practice through healing touch, somatics, and embodied transformation.
Beyond that, it's an intimate, hands-on week. It works because everybody in the room is genuinely there for it.
It's a yes if…
- ◆People already confide in you, and you want the skill to confidently help them
- ◆You want hands-on mastery, not another certificate you don't feel qualified to use
- ◆You're willing to be worked on as much as you work on others; this training changes the practitioner first
- ◆You want to leave the world better than you found it, and you're ready for real change in yourself
It's a no if…
- ◆You want a weekend certificate and a title, without the practice hours behind it
- ◆You're not willing to give or receive touch in an intimate, supervised small-group setting
- ◆You want a purely online course. The seven days in person are the heart of this and cannot be skipped
- ◆You're not in a season where you can be present for a full week away
Positive healing touch was once a part of every home.
In every culture, hands-on healing was recognized as an essential need, from childhood to old age. Over time that sacred value was lost. Most people now go years without a single pair of skilled, unhurried hands on them.
The world needs healing more than ever, and each of us has a part to play in it. Not as a metaphor, but as a skill somebody has to actually learn, practice, and be corrected on until it's reliable. That's what these seven days are.
We teach a small group, in person, with daily practicums, because there is no other honest way to hand over a craft that lives in the hands.
Vital points where the body, energy and awareness meet.
Marma points are vital points in the body where muscles, nerves, blood vessels, joints and subtle energetic pathways converge. Vedic doctors, sages and warriors have worked with these points for thousands of years to support healing, restore vitality and protect the body.
Ayurveda describes 72,000 subtle channels, or nadis, that carry prana, our vital life energy, throughout the body. Marma points act like reservoirs of energy and cellular communication along this network. When stimulated through conscious touch, they release stored tension, reveal important insights about the person, improve the movement of energy and support the body’s natural capacity to restore balance. Stress, physical tension and held emotion accumulate around these vital areas. Marma practitioners use precise, intentional touch to restore energetic flow and reconnect the body with its own healing intelligence.
Marma Therapy
Traditional hands-on marma bodywork, the core craft of the method.
Marma Somatic
Somatic transformative therapy for what the body is holding underneath.
Marma Coaching
Conscious communication and transformative coaching, so the session lands in their life.
Marma Lifestyle
Ayurvedic lifestyle and dietary education you can hand a client on day one.
The Marma Way
Vedic values and philosophy, the ground you stand on as a practitioner.
What you'll actually learn with your hands.
Mornings are practice and class. The rest of the day is workshops and bodywork practicum, giving and receiving, corrected in real time. And because we're in Colombia, we're taking the group out to the waterfalls together.
Included in your tuition
- ◆All accommodation for the week , a first for this training
- ◆Three fresh-cooked Ayurvedic meals a day, plus cleansing teas and treats
- ◆Travel to and from Cali airport, both ways
- ◆A beautiful retreat and training space for the week
- ◆Excursions to Colombian waterfalls together
- ◆Marma tool kit: jimmy, charts, hand and foot rollers, finger roller, acupressure mats
- ◆High-quality Ayurvedic massage oils for the in-person week
- ◆Access to the online healing school before and after the week, with live Q&As, practicum and feedback
- ◆Professional recordings of every exercise to review afterwards
Not included
- ◆Airfare to Cali (CLO), generally $300–$650 return depending on your city
- ◆Personal spending, extra nights before or after the week
- ◆Travel insurance
A quiet finca outside Cali, and the water below it.
You'll sleep, eat, study and practice in the same green place all week: open-air halls, bamboo, birds that walk in on class. And we'll head out into the mountains to the waterfalls together.
Graduates, unedited.
“I have learned much more than the intellect of marma therapy and body work — moving beyond knowledge and investing even more in the energetics and intention within our choices to serve. My life has changed. My understanding of myself and what I am capable of has expanded in ways I never thought possible. Full heart, hands healing from deep roots.”
“In just one week, I not only learned the foundational techniques of marma therapy, but I also traversed some of my own internal obstacles and became prepared to share this healing art more fully. My life is forever better.”
“Throughout this training we were all giving and receiving small parts of the sequence, but on the last day it all came together. When I received this massage from my classmate I felt so much love pouring from her hands through my body — I remember thinking, wow, now I can offer this love to the people around me.”
“I decided to work with Yamuna because I have faith in his abilities and in his intentions. I learned marma therapy techniques and how to hold a mood of seva while treating someone. My life has changed because now I have an invaluable gift I can share with others.”
Meet your facilitators.
Yamuna Bihari
Ayurvedic practitioner, marma therapist, educator and mentor to wellness practitioners. Thousands of hours studying the sciences of the Vedas, in formal programs and in traditional guru-disciple settings around the world, woven into a method that gets to the root of the disconnect rather than the symptom. His mission is healing and healers in every home, thriving internally and financially.
Vira Tansey
Trained with masters of Marma, Ayurveda, Yoga and Conscious Living throughout his life. Founded Veda Wellness in 2009, then directed two spirituality and wellness centers that have collectively served 18,000+ people from around the world. He co-founded the Marma Method with Yamuna after fifteen years integrating leadership, transformative coaching, psychosomatic therapy, marma therapy and Ayurveda.
Two ways to enroll. Choose the one that fits.
Everything is the same either way: the seven days in Colombia, your room, three meals a day, airport transfers, the toolkit, the online school before and after. The only difference is how you'd rather pay for it.
- ◆7-day intensive in Cali, March 13–19
- ◆Accommodation, three meals a day, airport transfers
- ◆Marma tool kit, oils and recordings
- ◆Online healing school, before and after
- ◆Your seat confirmed immediately
- ◆Everything in the paid-in-full option
- ◆Your first $800 payment holds your seat, no separate deposit
- ◆Four more monthly payments after that
- ◆Completed in full before day one
Scholarships are real here. At least 10% of every cohort comes in on scholarship. The fund sponsors veterans, elderly people and mothers in need, paid forward by students with greater means. If that's you, or you want to sponsor someone, say so on the call.
One more thing worth saying plainly: we're training an army of skilled Marma practitioners to help us carry this mission into much larger trainings in 2027 and 2028. If that's something you want to be part of, this cohort is where it starts.
Before you book.
Is this for beginners or working practitioners?
Both, and they sit in the same room on purpose. If you already have a practice, the method gives you a complete hands-on modality and a framework that raises the ceiling on your existing client results. If you're starting out, you leave with a craft, a toolkit and twenty documented sessions behind you.
What exactly is marma therapy?
Marma or “vital” points have been known to Ayurvedic doctors, yogis and ancient warriors for thousands of years. They connect to the subtle nerves (nadis) and energetic centers, and act as switches for prana, the vital life energy, to move through and heal the body using its own intelligence.
At marma sites, toxins, stress and held emotion get lodged, sometimes for years, eventually surfacing as physical or mental disease. Marma work opens, relaxes, clears and rejuvenates those channels, which is what makes it effective across a very wide range of conditions.
How long is the whole program?
The seven days in Cali, Colombia are the training itself, March 13–19, 2027. Around it you get access to our online healing school, before the week to prepare you and afterwards to keep supporting your practice for as long as you want it.
Is this a professional certification?
No, and we won't pretend otherwise. This is not a license to practice massage. Massage and bodywork laws vary by region, and it's on you to know what applies where you live. What you receive is a certificate of recognition from the Marma Method Bodywork School, and a real craft in your hands.
When can I call myself a Marma Method Practitioner?
After your homework checklist, your partner practice exchanges and your twenty documented Marma Method sessions.
What support do I get before and after?
Access to our online healing school before and after our in-person immersion. The online school dives deep into Ayurveda, Marma Therapy, Somatics, Conscious Coaching and Communication, and some of the Philosophies of the Vedic and Red Path Lakota schools.
Are there scholarships?
Yes. At least 10% of every cohort comes in on scholarship, and the fund is used to sponsor veterans, elderly people and mothers in need , paid forward by students with greater means. If that's you, or you'd like to sponsor someone, say so on the call. It's a normal conversation here, not an awkward one.
What does a day look like?
7:30–8:30am morning practices and class, breakfast, 9:00am–1:00pm workshops and bodywork practicum, lunch, 1:30–5:00pm workshops and bodywork practicum. Rough schedule, subject to change.
What's the cancellation policy?
Your first payment is non-refundable. It’s what holds your seat and lets us plan the week. Up to one month before the training, a 50% refund less that first payment. No refunds inside 30 days of the start date.
Why are you training so many practitioners?
Because the mission needs hands. We're building an army of skilled Marma practitioners who can help us carry this work into far larger trainings planned for 2027 and 2028. This cohort is where those practitioners come from.
Every in-person week ends with us treating the community for free.
Elders, neighbors, people in need. That's the point of all of it. And in March, in Cali, those will be your hands.