INSTRUCTORS
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Onsen International is your gateway to a world of wellness. With experienced instructors stationed worldwide, you can immerse yourself in learning sessions in idyllic places like Hawaii, Canada, and Australia. Alternatively, invite one of our skilled instructors to enhance wellness practices in your local area!
Teri Eliades - United States
Certified Onsen Techniques Therapist™ (COTT™)
Certified Onsen Techniques Therapist Instructor™ (COTTI™)
Certified Onsen Techniques Examiner™ (COTTE™)
Certified Onsen Techniques Instructor Examiner™ (COTTIE™)
Teri is a Licensed Massage Therapist in the State of Hawaii. She lives in Kapaa, Hawaii on the island of Kauai with a thriving massage and fitness practice featuring Onsen Muscle Therapy™. She also teaches anatomy, physiology, kinesiology, and massage theory at a local massage school.
With over 10 years of teaching experience, Teri brings clarity and ease to the clinic as well as the classroom, assisting both clients and students to find the source of the pain and help alleviate it.
Teri has used The Treatment of Pain™ known as Onsen Muscle Therapy™ to help clients find relief from chronic back, neck, knee, foot, and shoulder pain. She has also gotten amazing results in the treatment of sacroiliac joint dysfunction, vertebral rotations, and pelvic asymmetry.
Linda Leeson - Canada
Certified Onsen Techniques Therapist™ (COTT™)
Certified Onsen Techniques Therapist Instructor™ (COTTI™)
Certified Onsen Techniques Examiner™ (COTTE™)
Certified Onsen Techniques Instructor Examiner™ (COTTIE™)
Linda Leeson, dip RM, COTTIE has managed her busy Treatment of Pain Clinic™ in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada since her Certification as a COTT™ in 1996. She toured with Rich Phaigh since her certification as COTTI™ in Molokai, HI in 1998 until Rich retired in 2001. Rich Phaigh assigned Onsen International® to Linda Leeson in 2001, in an awards banquet held in front of 30 students, for Rich's last time teaching during his retirement cruise in the Bahamas. He also presented Linda with her Certification documents for COTTE™ and COTTIE™ with the sole copyright to reproduce the Treatment of Pain® VHS/DVD - Textbook system previously held by the Excel Sports Science of Eugene, Oregon, USA.
Linda has completed post graduate hours in a diploma of Remedial Massage, Reflexology, Functional Direct Technique™, Functional Indirect Technique™, Advanced Rib Repair, Sports Injury, and Sensory Motor Amnesia Therapy™
Linda is the Chairperson and Managing Director of the Board of Directors of Rich Phaigh’s Onsen Techniques Therapists Instructors Certification Program™.
Linda is the Dean of Onsen International® Worldwide which is responsible for the Certification and examination of all Onsen Therapists, Instructors, Examiners, and Instructor Examiners around the World.
Linda started as an Onsen® client with a fractured T-11 spinal vertebrae and extreme Pelvis dysfunctions after a two car impact from behind that broke all the welds in her trailer hitch, with the hitch bent into a “V”, driving it 10 inches into the back end of her car, breaking her car bench seat- with her in it.
The Insurance Corporation –ICBC- spent 2.25 years and over $150,000 in therapy to try to help Linda. She experienced her first pain free treatment with The Treatment of Pain in 1996 and received only 16 hours of Onsen Muscle Therapy™ to be set free of pain.
She now works 4 days a week, 10 to 15 hours a day in Clinic, and 3 days, 10 hour days, the same week in the Head Office setting up courses, setting up Accreditation Boards, writing manuals, designing websites, testing, teaching, researching and she has stayed pain free whether in the class or therapy room.
Linda has two more things she would like to tell you if you hurt as a client or a hard working therapist:
1. Onsen Muscle Therapy is the future of pain free living™
2. Onsen Muscle Therapy is the future of pain free therapists™
Greg Burgess - Australia
Certified Onsen Techniques Therapist™ (COTT™)
Certified Onsen Techniques Therapist Instructor™ (COTTI™)
Certified Onsen Techniques Examiner™ (COTTE™)
Greg co-manages a multidisciplinary clinic of 20+ therapists in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, AU and has integrated The Treatment of Pain™ into his practice using it to help clients prevent and relieve pain. He works with both world class athletes and the public to alleviate difficult body stress & chronic pain helping to prevent injuries and maintain the structural balance of joints.
As the latest COTT™, COTTI™, COTTE™ trained by Jeff Murray for Australia, Greg brings certainty and clarity into the classroom with his technical knowledge and sharing personality. His passion for helping students progress in their professional development, working to “share the love” of Onsen Therapy™ and how it can help them help their clients.
The Treatment of Pain™, also known as Onsen Techniques™, Onsen Therapy™ and Onsen Muscle Therapy™ was Developed by Rich Phaigh LMT, COTT™, COTTI™, COTTE™, COTTIE™ in the early 1980’s while he was the LMT for the World Class NIKE© Team FOR THE OLYMPICS with EXCEL SPORTS SCIENCE.
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