Holistic Junction's featured school of week is Oriental Healing Arts Institute - 'training hands that heal.' Conveniently situated in central Denver, Colorado, Oriental Healing Arts Institute offers a Chinese Medical Massage program that has been personally developed by Dr. Zhizhong Nan.

Oriental Healing Arts Institute of Colorado's therapeutic massage course is unique and separate from other forms of massage curriculumns, as their Denver massage school includes natural healing training and instruction by expertly trained faculty that are not only highly skilled but also educated in both Eastern and Western forms of healing techniques.

Oriental Healing Arts Institute includes instruction in Anatomy and Physiology, Kinesiology, Pathology, CPR, Swedish Massage, Deep Tissue, TuiNa, Eastern Massage, Tai Ji, Hydrotherapy and much more.

Limiting class size to 12, Oriental Healing Arts Institute provides an incredible opportunity for individualized attention and productive educational progress in a hands-on learning environment.

The Oriental Healing Arts Institute continually achieves and exceeds their teaching mission through maintaining following objectives:

" *To develop a modern, expanded definition of massage as a body and mind energetic, integrative approach that unites physical and behavioral perspectives on human health and related dysfunctions.

*To ground educational programs of school in a competency-based model where experience through hands-on instruction comes first.

*To train students in various styles of classical and modern massage techniques, as well as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practices.

*To create a learning environment which gives students an expansive pool of health-giving knowledge through exposure to master senior practitioners that are trained in East Asian, European and North American medical traditions.