Erica Bhavani

Erica has been practicing yoga, spirituality and healing modalities for over 15 years. Having explored other forms of bodywork already, she found a real connection and faith upon discovering Thai Yoga Massage and hasn’t looked back since. She received her practitioner certificate through the Sunshine Network in 2015 and runs her private practice in Lisbon, Portugal since 2017.

As a member of the Thai Healing Alliance, she continues to study regularly with a variety of teachers, taking advanced courses and assisting her teachers in their own trainings. Her studies have branched out into osteopathy and even more present, shamanism, or the understanding of how nature, the elements and energy all play a part in who we are. Erica believes in our ability to heal ourselves, and shares these modalities as a complement and support to help her clients and students along their own personal journeys.

– Certification through the Sunshine Network, following the tradition of Asokananda.
– Studied and taught beside Pau Castellsagué of the Sunshine House in Greece since 2015.
– Studied and taught alongside Katrin Heuser of Hadadi School of Thai Massage in Portugal since 2016.
– Many other influences and teachers along the way!!
– Currently studying the meeting of Osteopathy and Thai Massage.
– Main focus in the past three years studying alongside her guides in shamanism and plant and energetic medicines.
– Erica has lived, practiced and taught yoga and Thai massage across three different continents.

Co-founder of Integrative Bodywork Ireland, in 2024, an informal school of bodywork training courses, based on listening touch and bridging modalities from a multicultural landscape of healing arts. 

Trainings & Practice

2023-2024

  • Osteo-Thai training programme, 1-1 sessions, with Katrin Heuser – Lisbon, Portugal

2023

  • Cranialsacral Biodynamics (Level 1) with Howard Evans – Lisbon, Portugal

2022

  • Meeting Point: Thai Massage Meets Osteopathy, 10 day training with Pau Castellsagué – Sunshine Network, Spain

2019-2022

  • Three Year Training in Shamanic Practices and Plant and Energetic Medicine – O Sopro de Deus, Portugal

2019

  • Osteopathy meets Thai Massage – Advanced Practitioner Training for Pelvis, Hips and Sacrum – Patrick Tanner, Thai Massage Vacanza, Switzerland
  • Functional Anatomy with the Anatomy School with Osteopaths Rachel Ellery and Arno L’Hermitte

2018

  • Releasing Energy Patterns; Advanced Course in Thai Massage with Katrin Heuser – Hadadi School of Thai Massage, Portugal
  • Teaching Assistant for Level 1 Thai Massage Course with Katrin Heuser – Hadadi School of Thai Massage, Portugal
  • Teaching Assistant for Beginner’s Thai Massage Course with Pau Castellsagué – Sunshine Network, Greece

2017

  • Yin Fascial Yoga & Myofascial Release weekend training with Beta Lisboa – Dynamic Spiral Yoga, Portugal
  • Advanced Thai Massage Training on Healthy Backs with Katrin Heuser – Hadadi School of Thai Massage, Portugal (Certified)
  • Thai Massage volunteer training in practice with Pau Castellsagué – Sunshine Network, Spain

2016

  • Vipassana Meditation 10 Day Silent Practice – Vipassana Center, Portugal
  • Advanced Thai Energy Lines Course with Laurino Bertelli – Sunshine Network, Italy (Certified)
  • Thai Massage volunteer training in practice with Pau Castellsagué – Sunshine House, Greece
  • Various Thai Massage Workshops with a collection of teachers – Barcelona Yoga Conference, Spain
  • Beginners Thai Massage Course with Katrin Heuser – Hadadi School of Thai Massage, Portugal (Certified)
  • Founder of Bhavani Thai Massage Therapy – massage treatments, yoga workshops and courses – Lisbon, Portugal
  • Yoga and Shamanic Retreats with Hayoka Yoga – organizing and teaching –  Wicklow, Ireland
  • Davanna Yoga – massage treatments – Peurto Vallarta, Mexico

2015

  • Beginners Thai Massage Course with Pau Castellsagué – Sunshine House, Greece (Certified)

2014

  • Shiatsu Introduction Weekend Workshop with Julien Joly – Shiatsu College Dublin, Ireland
  • Ayurvedic and Thai Massage Introduction Course with Sidhamo Johnson – Vibrantly Alive Yoga, Ireland
  • New Balance Therapies – massage treatments – Dublin, Ireland
  • Harvest Moon Center – yoga teaching and massage treatments – Dublin, Ireland

2013

  • RYT 200 Hours Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Teacher Training  – Sivananda Ashram, Bahamas (Certified)

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