About Me
I have worked with a very diverse clientele throughout the United States, bringing over 33 years of experience in teaching exercise, 29 years in Eastern and Western bodywork and massage, and 16 years in process body-centered therapy to you. My ability to blend structural bodywork with energy work is quite unique. Over the years, I have eclectically integrated the best healing modalities into my newest work called, "Pink Tantra"; a process of awakening the Chakras, and proliferating health and vitality. For me, massage is a personal journey which I share with each client on a deeply karmic level. The process of healing requires your participation and presence, too.
I have been a Kundalini practitioner since 1976, initiated in West Hollywood at the Buddha Tree. In New York City, I began my study and practice of Hatha yoga in July of 1978 as the direct student of Swami Bua Ji Maharaj M.H.Y. former director, Department of Yoga Health, Government of India, who is still alive and over 100 years old. I also studied with Dharma Mittra at his New York City Yoga Asana Center starting in April of 1983. At Northwestern University Dance Center in Evanston, Ill., I studied Hatha Yoga with Joanie-Tomb-Williams in 1994-95. In Gainesville, Florida I studied deep tissue-process massage, B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga, and sitting mediation. I moved to St. Louis Park, Minnesota in 1990, where I joined the staff of The Marsh in Minnetonka teaching yoga classes and giving massage treatments. In the last decade, my work has evolved into 'Sacred Tantra' where Eastern and Western thinking and feeling comes together.
1972 Sacred Prostate Healing (Siddhayoga) with Dr. William Wood in Chicago; 1973 Certified in The Kounovsky Physical Fitness Method: Rena, Inc., North Michigan Avenue, Chicago; Alex and Walter Physical Fitness Studio, Beverly Hills, California; Robert Carreiro Physical Fitness, Inc., West Hollywood, California; and Drago’s 57th Street Gym Inc., New York City; 1977 became a Colt model, photograph by Jim French and study Sacred Tantra (Lingam Worship and Anal Breathing) with other Colt models and Mart Crowley (The Boys in the Band) in West Hollywood; 1980 Published The Cellulite-free Body, New York: Putnam & Sons, Forward by Calvin Klein; 1986 AMTA Professional Member & Graduate of The Chicago School of Massage Therapy and The Chicago School of Shiatsu; Florida School of Massage and Florida Institute of Natural Health, 1989 passed in high honors with a Florida State Massage License; 1991 Graduate of The Tien Tao Chi Kung Internal Work: Heaven’s Way of Longevity, Chinese National Chi Kung Institute; 1992 Integral Yoga Meditation Residential Teacher Training Program; NCTMB Certification 1994; 1995 Counseling for Bodyworkers with Bruce Burger MA, RPP at Heartwood Institute in Garberville, CA; Certified in Rebirthing and Transformational Breathing by Transformations Inc. The School of Spiritual Psychology in Milwaukee, WI ( Jim Morningstar, Ph.D., ABPP ); 1996 Hakomi of Minnesota/Hakomi Integrative Somatics Training; 1997 City of St. Louis Park Massage Therapist License-500; 2001 Hawaiian Lomi Lomi Training on the Big Island; 2004 Namasta Professional Member of The North American Studio Alliance; and, over 2,000 Continuing Education Hours in Bodywork, Massage & Yoga.
Larry Melamerson, internship with Walter Rozhen, a master fitness trainer and body therapist from Russia at his studio in Beverly Hills beginning in 1975, a graduate of the Chicago School of Massage Therapy in 1986, achieved a Florida State Massage License in 1989, Nationally Certification in Massage Therapy & Bodywork (C.M.T.) in 1992, and certified in Myofascial and Soft Tissue Therapy, Lymphatic Massage, CranioSacral Therapy, Cervical Trauma, and Orthopedic Massage. Certified by The National Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCTMB).
Larry also attended the Network Chiropractic Attunement & Communications Certification (Module A & C) for healing facilitators program (1993) by Donald Epstein, DC.; Orthopedic Massage Training with Thomas Hendrickson, D.C. at Heartwood Massage School in 1997; Northwestern Health Sciences University, Department of Continuing Education (Tui Na); Myofascial Release, Unwinding, and Rebound with John Barnes, PT.; Medical Massage Training for back pain with Leon Chaitow, ND, DO, MRO; and Orthopedic Massage with Robert King, Thomas Myers, and James Waslaski.
