What training do the therapists have at the Umstead Spa?

  1. All training is done onsite with each therapist. Training is individually based pertaining to each person’s learning style. Training can be done as quickly as one month. Typically it takes about two months to be fully trained as there are quite a few body treatments on the menu. Most therapists have the basic requirements from their school training on Swedish, deep tissue, hot stone and sports massages - they just have to learn our protocols and products.

    The therapists must do on-going continuing education in order to maintain their licenses. For each department, the requirements are different. For massage, therapists must have 24 hours of continuing education along with three hours of ethics training and 100 hours of working as a massage therapist. For esthetics and nail technicians, eight hours of continuing education is needed each year.