Learn to be touch able!
Touchable; the intelligence of touch.
Touchable is a program for everyone—and every body—who wants to develop a powerful, healing touch. It is designed for those who wish to support friends or partners in releasing common physical restrictions that cause discomfort or pain, and to help guide the body toward greater spaciousness, fluidity, and ease of movement.
In this program, you will learn how to use your own body with relaxation and efficiency, allowing your touch to be both sensitive and effective. The work can feel similar to deep tissue massage, yet more profound. As we gently meet deeper layers of restriction and long-held patterns begin to soften and melt, many people experience a deep sense of relief—often described as the unwinding of years of physical or emotional body armoring.
Drawing on over 20 years of experience working with clients around the world, Touchable offers a grounded, human approach to developing touch that is felt, meaningful, and impactful. No prior experience is required.
Elements within Touchable
Touchable is a program that combines multiple elements to create powerful, lasting changes for those you work with. By integrating touch, perception, and embodied awareness, it allows interventions that are precise, responsive, and deeply transformative. Please feel free to scroll down and explore each element and how it contributes to your Touchable learning experience.
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Touchable incorporates the Rolf Method by drawing on its principles of structural integration, helping practitioners understand how the body organizes itself in gravity and movement. These foundations are woven into the learning experience to support more precise, effective, and perceptive hands-on work.
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Touchable incorporates myofascial release by working with the fascia’s natural unwinding rhythms rather than imposing force or technique. This respectful, listening-based approach allows the structure to reorganize with greater ease, making the process both more effective and more enjoyable for practitioner and client alike.
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Touchable incorporates visceral manipulation by addressing how organ position, restriction, and inherent motion can aberrate the musculoskeletal structure. When visceral tissues lose mobility or become fixed, strain is transmitted through fascial pathways, altering posture, movement patterns, and overall structural balance.
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Touchable incorporates craniosacral principles by prioritizing responsiveness to the parasympathetic nervous system, creating conditions of safety, stillness, and internal listening. When the system settles into this restorative state, the body’s innate capacity for deep healing and reorganization is amplified, making the work feel both profoundly supportive and naturally pleasurable.
Joel Gheiler is the creator of Touchable and brings over 20 years of clinical experience working directly with the body through sustained, intelligent touch. His training in deep tissue massage, myofascial release, and extensive study of Iyengar yoga—along with the original Rolf Method—has developed a refined sensitivity to fascial response, natural unwinding rhythms, and the body’s capacity to self-organize when met with presence rather than force.
Joel designed Touchable to make this integrative, multi-dimensional approach accessible to everyone. Through the program, people from all walks of life can tap into the body’s natural healing mechanisms, exploring structural, visceral, myofascial, and nervous-system-responsive principles in a way that is both approachable and deeply transformative.
Start your Touchable journey
If you are interested in classes please send us a message and we will notify you when the next series of classes take place. Classes are normally held on Saturdays from 10am to 3pm.
Rate per class : $250