To be assessed for Practitioner Certification with The Blisstitute of Living Aloha you will need to give enough Spiritual Hawaiian Lomilomi Massage sessions after your initial 6-day training, to reach a place of feeling ready to offer sessions professionally. 

 

When you feel that you have reached this place, please reach out to Charlie Snow to let them know. You will be asked to share your experiences of at least 5 sessions (this can be via email, voice message or phone call as is Pono for you) before you can book in for your Practitioner Assessment. 

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Assessments can take place either whilst you are attending another 6-day training, or at a Lomilomi Refresher Workshop, or by giving a lomilomi to any Senior Practitioner. If you would like to be considered as a person to represent The Blisstitute of Living Aloha by being on our website and joining our Blisstitute Team, you will need to give to a Senior Practitioner (this can be after an assessment, or as your assessment, depending on which way you choose to be assessed)

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WHAT YOU WILL BE ASSESSED ON: 

 

You will be asked to conduct your session as if you don’t know the receiver or their gender, and work as if the person receiving has not had a lomilomi before. This allows you to show how you work with a new client, including an explanation of what lomilomi is and what happens in the session (to the extent that is appropriate to talk about with a new client)

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• Was your communication with setting up the assessment time/lomilomi booking clear?

• Is the session conducted in a professional manner? 

• Are you wearing appropriate clothing to give lomilomi in?

• Do you allow time to connect and check in before the lomilomi? 

• Do you ask if there’s anything you need to know about the receivers body? 

• Do you ask how the receiver is and invite them to share more? 

• Do you ask about pronouns and use them correctly? 

• Do you invite the receiver to set an intention for the lomilomi? 

• Do you explain what lomilomi is clearly/well? 

• Do you explain how to get on the table, what will happen at the end etc?

• Do you share a Hawaiian Pule (prayer) at the beginning of the session? 

• Do you have an appropriate playlist of music? 

• Do you use a good amount of oil?

• Do you drape the sarong appropriately?

• Do you utilise long flowing strokes, stretches, underbody work and focussed work appropriately? 

• Do you take into consideration anything the receiver has shared about their body/needs during the lomilomi? 

• Do you invite the receiver to move their body/communicate with you if they need to? 

• Do you utilise your own breath while giving? 

• Do you work intuitively? 

• Are you fully present and working with aloha (both during the lomilomi and either side)?

• Do you end the lomilomi well? 

• Do you allow space at the end of the session to check in (whether this is needed or not)? 

• Do you keep the session professional at all times? 

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Ideally, to pass your practitioner assessment, the answers to all the questions above will be a clear YES. Occasionally, usually due to nerves, a person may forget one or two things, or not do them very well.

If these are small things, the Senior Practitioner will speak with you about this after the session and ask if you usually do these things or not. If it becomes clear that you do, and the Senior Practitioner feels that you can still be passed, you will pass.

 

If however, you miss vital things and/or you donʻt usually do these things, the Senior Practitioner may discuss all of this with Charlie Snow before a decision is made. If itʻs completely clear that you are not working at a professional level to be passed for Practitioner Certification by The Blisstitute, then the Senior Practitioner assessing you will let you know this. This will all be done with aloha and encouragement to keep giving, practicing and growing, so that you can return to be assessed again when you feel you are ready to try again, using the Senior Practitioners feedback and support.

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If you would like feedback from the Senior Practitioner who is assessing you, you can ask for this and they will share this with you at a time that is Pono for you both, usually sometime after the session. 

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In the rare circumstance that someone does not pass their Practitioner Assessment and they do not agree with this outcome, they are welcome to have a discussion with Charlie Snow about this. 

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