CenterPoint Massage & Shiatsu Therapy School & Clinic

Enroll in our Minneapolis, MN massage therapy school today and graduate with a new career in either Shiatsu or massage therapy in as little as 12 months! Come and see what two generations of students have loved about CenterPoint! Schedule your campus visit.
Join a FREE Massage or Shiatsu Class Today!

CenterPoint's founders have been helping to set the massage training and therapy technique standards for professional bodywork education for over 20 years in and around Minneapolis…

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Enroll in our Minneapolis, MN massage therapy school today and graduate with a new career in either Shiatsu or massage therapy in as little as 12 months! Come and see what two generations of students have loved about CenterPoint! Schedule your campus visit.
Join a FREE Massage or Shiatsu Class Today!

CenterPoint's founders have been helping to set the massage training and therapy technique standards for professional bodywork education for over 20 years in and around Minneapolis and St. Paul Minnesota. Our only focus is the preparation of exceptional massage and shiatsu therapists.

Our certified massage therapist faculty are passionately engaged in supporting your development as a bodywork therapist. Massage therapy training is all we do and we do it well!

Join a school where Excellence comes first! You benefit from studying a curriculum developed and led by Minnesota’s Master-Level massage Teachers Jackson Petersburg and Cari Johnson Pelava. You will become a part of an Alumni Community that is highly skilled, professionally trained and in demand for various careers as a massage therapist. Massage therapy employers prefer to hire CenterPoint graduates!

Start your career by working in your choice of many exciting and professional settings providing Swedish Massage, Deep Tissue Massage, Sports Massage, Thai Massage, Shiatsu Therapy, Acupressure, Reflexology and more.

Upon graduation students of CenterPoint training programs are eligible to become nationally certified.

Students benefit from the foundation, experience and professionalism offered in CenterPoint’s curriculum. We offer a core curriculum whose quality, breadth and diversity is unparalleled by any other East/West bodywork educational program available today. CenterPoint's programs are accredited by the Commission on Massage Therapy Accreditation (COMTA).


CenterPoint graduates are eligible to take one or more of the certifying exams administered by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) and/or the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM). And because of the unique educational features that the CenterPoint experience offers, CenterPoint students become successful bodywork therapists.

Licensed by the Minnesota Office of Higher Education as a private career school pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 141;
Programs are accredited by the Commission on Massage Therapy Accreditation (COMTA);

Approved by the state of Minnesota to offer the SELF (Student Education Loan Fund) loan funding program;
Approved to offer the SLM Financial (a Sallie Mae Company) loan;
Approved for Veterans Benefits by the Minnesota State Approving Agency;
An approved Continuing Education provider by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB);
An approved Continuing Education provider by the National Certifying Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM);
Approved by the United States Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Service to train foreign students;
A member of the Council of Schools of both the AMTA (American Massage Therapy Assoc Categories:   Vocational Education

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