Jennifer Ho, LMT, CIIM

 

Jennifer grew up in Avalon, on Catalina Island, giving her a love of the outdoors and a preference for living on an island. 

 

She graduated from Christos School of Natural Healing (Taos, New Mexico) and moved to Hawaii in 1981 to study lomilomi massage with Auntie Margaret Kalehuamakanoelulu’uonapali Machado. 

 

Jennifer gardens and enjoys 3 pet cats, several chickens, and a dog, going swimming in the ocean, and reading out-loud to her husband Nelson.

 

Jennifer loves to learn. Some of her educational experience is listed below:

University of California at Santa Cruz, 1972-1975

Christos School of Natural Healing, 1975-1976

EMT Certification, University of New Mexico, 1976

Hawaiian School of Lomilomi, 1982

Hawaii Island School of Massage, 1990-

Care and Prevention of Athletic Injury and Sports Massage,

    University of Hawaii at Hilo, 1993

Infant Massage Instructor, Certified by International Association of

    Infant Massage, 1996

Touch Adaptations for Infants at Risk (Medically and

    Environmentally Fragile), 1998

Infant Massage Instructor, Certified by Institute of Healthy Family  

    Living, 1999

 

She specializes in therapeutic sports massage, lomilomi, prenatal and infant massage, and Ortho-Bionomy, a gentle and focused way to relieve muscle/joint pain through slow movement.

 

Her training inlcudes herbal medicine, deep tissue massage, reflexology, acupressure, polarity, lymphatic drainage, Swedish massage, energy bodywork, Chinese medicine, neuromuscular therapy (NMT), Ortho-Bionomy, and Thai massage

 

She is licensed by Hawaii Board of Massage, 1986. (MAT-1765)