ADMISSION BY INTERVIEW · TOUCH & SOUL ACADEMY
Access high-level training that opens the door to working in exclusive, luxury settings
An international academy for therapists who feel that massage is more than a sequence: discovering other traditions, caring for yourself so you can care for others, and bringing to exclusive settings a touch with its own signature, the kind that is remembered.
If you’re here, you probably…
Want the value of every hour you work to multiply: to earn more while working less.
Would love to work on yachts, in resorts or luxury destinations, and want to know how those places work from the inside.
Are looking for techniques that set you apart and a certification that backs your level.
Have gathered courses and workshops, and sometimes wish you could weave them into one meaningful thread.
Feel drawn to training while you travel, to grow as a therapist and as a person.
Sense that discovering other massage traditions at their source would enrich your craft.
The soul of care is cultivated. And whoever feels it, remembers it.
How I take you from here to there
A path in stages, in small groups, in places chosen for their bond with what is taught.
01 · INITIAL MODULE WITH ME
Understanding luxury from the inside
How these settings work and what makes a client want you back. My core sequence, which protects your hands, wrists and back, and on which you build your own style. And personal work, because a massage conveys far more than technique.
02 · INTERNATIONAL RETREATS
Each tradition at its source
With local masters, in whichever order you choose: an introduction to disciplines such as shiatsu, Ayurveda, Balinese massage or lomi lomi. Each retreat has its own certificate.
03 · THE TOUCH & SOUL SEAL
Your final certification
Complete every stage and receive the academy’s final certification, bringing together everything you have lived and learned.
04 · MY RECOMMENDATION
A door that is earned
After years on yachts and in luxury settings, I have a wide network of contacts, and my recommendation carries weight. That’s why I keep it for those who earn it.
Two ways into the initial module
Depending on your training and experience, you begin with one or the other. I teach both.
FOUNDATION
Your grounding
For those with basic training and little professional experience. Technique, posture, quality of touch, listening and attention to detail.
ADVANCED
The heart of the training
For those with professional experience. Reading the body, tactile sensitivity, pressure and rhythm, personalisation and the quiet poise of exclusive settings. It opens the door to the international retreats.
An interview to get to know you and map out your path
Your moment
What has brought you here, and where you want to take your craft.
Your touch
The value already in your hands, and what you’d love to keep cultivating.
Your way in
Whether you begin with Foundation or Advanced, depending on your training and experience.
Your journey
The traditions that spark your curiosity, and where you’d like to begin.
This interview is for you if…
You have massage training: Foundation if you’re starting out, Advanced if you already have years in the profession.
You feel a call to change and you’re ready to make room for it, even if you have to create that room.
You’d love to explore different traditions and discover which ones resonate with you.
You’re drawn to luxury settings, where every detail is cared for and beauty is part of care.
You know that caring for yourself is part of caring, and you’re looking for training that nourishes you too.
What the hands know how to do, and what they learn to listen to.
The art of touch · The soul of care
I’m anna, founder of Touch & Soul Academy
In the most exclusive settings I’ve learned that what leaves a mark is the trust built session by session: consistency, discretion and a closeness that never intrudes. People used to the very best often don’t know what they were looking for until they feel a touch with intention and presence.
That’s why I created Touch & Soul, a school with no fixed home, where every destination becomes a classroom. You begin with me and continue with masters of each tradition, on retreats designed especially for the academy.
Over 20 years in massage, yoga and bodywork
Degree in Physical Education and Sport
Trained in Spain, the UK, Thailand and Bali
Teacher of several yoga disciplines and massage courses
Luxury cruise ships and yachts, where I built a large part of my career
My own centre, another key chapter of my path
A traveller across half the world, familiar with many traditions and disciplines
Today I manage the spa of a luxury resort in Panama
