Our Invitation
Six Ways to support the work we do at the New Mexico Academy of Healing Arts:
1. Donate to the Diversity Scholarship Campaign
At thirty years of age, The New Mexico Academy of Healing Artshas seen a lot of students pass through its doors. To celebrate our 30th anniversary we are launching a new scholarship opportunity:The Diversity Scholarship Campaign
Its goal is to enable students who would typically not be able to consider to attend our program the opportunity to jump into a program of study at which they can excel and graduate into immediate employment and a promising career.
For the year 2011/2012, we at The New Mexico Academy of Healing Arts are committed to creating a local-diversity scholarship and a global-diversity scholarship fund. Our local diversity fund will provide tuition assistance to students (from Santa Fe and within New Mexico) who would normally not have the funds to pursue a career in Bodywork. It is our belief that many students, currently in our New Mexico school system maybe be kinesthetically-gifted, yet unable to excel in an academic setting.
Such students may become disenchanted with their educational progress and become one of the 27% of high school dropouts in the state (source: the New Mexico Public Education Dept.’s Academic Growth Analysis Bureau). Even if they graduate high school, they may see their career choices as limited. At The New Mexico Academy of Healing Arts, with our low student-teacher ratio, our hands-on curriculum, our extra-tutoring programs and our ability to work with special learners, we can adapt our programs to accommodate students who need more time or more innovative support, to learn. Once trained, the students are virtually assured of a career in the health care industry with a 19% growth rate over the next 8 years! (Employment of massage therapists is expected to increase by 19 percent from 2008 to 2018, faster than the average for all occupations.)
Our students may potentially receive immediate job-placement in HARMONY, The Academy’s own Integrated Bodywork Center.
The New Mexico Academy of Healing Arts is currently working with the SFPS, the SFIS, and the IAIA to assist them to provide a link for a diversity of students to successful, rewarding, compassionate careers.
2. Assist Special Programs for Special Education
In 2009/2010, the Academy initiated its first special education pilot-program for kinesthetically-gifted students whose academic level would typically exclude them from a massage or bodywork program. The pilot program has been a tremendous success and the Academy is looking to increase its special ed. population in the coming years.Students in this program can expect to take more time to complete their course work and to have one on one tutors assigned to assist them in the classroom and in individual tutoring sessions.
Often the students, though academically challenged, are gifted in bodywork and in perception or sensitivity to energetic work. Even the sciences when taught one on one become comprehensible and retainable.The Academy is excited about the possibilities this program’s ability to meet the needs of many specially gifted students.
3. Help launch our Worldwide Outreach Program
The New Mexico Academy of Healing Arts is reaching out to students nationwide and worldwide through our 2012 Outreach Program, with the goal of sponsoring 30 students from disadvantaged countries to attend NMAHA in the year 2013 and beyond and to bring the gift of bodywork back to their communities.
4. Send us out on Externships
Massage, Somatic Polarity and Dual Massage/Somatic Polarity students at The New Mexico Academy of Healing Arts complete almost 100 hours of bodywork on clients and members of the community.One of the unique features of bodywork education at The Academy is the opportunity for students to experience the art of giving bodywork in diverse settings for diverse populations. For 30 years,The New Mexico Academy of Healing Arts has provided massage and bodywork services to clients and members of organizations throughout Santa Fe and New Mexico.
A sampling of groups visited by Academy students in 2010/2011 where we provided free bodywork:
Teachers at the public schools of Santa Fe
Faculty and administrators from the Santa Fe Indian School
Staff and performers at the Santa Fe Opera
Firefighters from all over New Mexico
Staff of Esperanza Women’s Shelter
Staff and patients from Southwest Care: AIDS & HIV Treatment Center.
Members of the New Mexico Legislature (Yes, you too may give the governor a rub!)
Elders and residents of Tesuque Pueblo
New Mexico Harley Davidson Chapter
El Castillo Retirement Home
The Santa Fe Reporter newspaper
Camp Corazone-week-long national camp for children affected by or with HIV and AIDS.
5. Adopt-a-Student!
Sponsor a student of your choice to attend The New Mexico Academy of Healing Arts – one of the premier bodywork schools in the world at one of the lowest tuition rates available!
6. Endow and Perpetuate
Assist in allowing these vital Missions to continue and thrive.Create a lasting impact on the world of complementary medicine by supporting the fastest-growing alternative therapy in healthcare today: Bodywork.
For more information or to join the ranks of our Donors, Sponsors, and Endowment members,
please call or email:
Genie Stevens
Executive Director
New Mexico Academy of Healing Arts
501 Franklin Ave.
Santa Fe, NM 87505
505.982-6271 ext 228
Thank you, in advance, for your thoughtful participation with our education!
