About Dr. Mally
Dr. James Mally is a massage teacher, educational content producer, and creator of MassageLibrary.com. He has been doing massage professionally since 1976 and teaching massage classes since 1979. His initial training was a 1000-hour massage program at Lindsey Hopkins School in Miami. He later attended Bastyr University in Seattle, graduating as a Naturopathic Doctor in 1984.
In 1990, he founded Healing Arts Institute, a California state-approved massage therapy school. He owned and directed the school until 2011 and graduated over 3000 massage therapists.
He produced his first massage video, Deep Tissue Massage, in 1996. The video employed a 3-D computer skeleton and is believed to be the first massage video to use 3-D computer graphics. He produced other videos (now DVDs) and workbooks on Sports Massage, Swedish Massage, Side-Lying Massage, and Massage Cupping. These DVDs and workbooks are being used in massage schools worldwide. His Side-Lying Massage DVD has been translated into Japanese and is very popular in Japan.
Dr. Mally sold his massage school in 2011 to have more time to see massage clients and develop, practice, and refine massage techniques. He operates a teaching practice where he works with massage therapists and their problem clients, sharing assessment techniques and strategies to help the clients. Selling the school also allowed Dr. Mally to travel to teach his workshops internationally, produce more DVDs, and develop an online massage library at www.massagelibrary.com.
Dr. Mally is approved by the National Certification Board of Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a continuing education Approved Provider. Provider #451329-10
Dr. Mally was inducted into the Massage Therapy Hall of Fame in 2018.
May 5 & 6, 2025 - Upper Body
May 7 & 8, 2025 - Lower Body
Monday through Thursday 9 am - 6 pm (32 hours total)
Upper or Lower Body - $300
Both Classes - $550
$25 for materials
Hands on Healing
June 28 & 29, 2025
Saturday & Sunday, 9 am - 6 pm
16 hours - $225 (Class materials included)
Massage Cupping
Carlson College of Massage Therapy - Anamosa, Iowa
September 12, 2025
Friday, 9 am - 6 pm (8 hours)
$200 + $25 materials
Carlson College of Massage Therapy
September 13, 2025
Saturday, 9 am - 6 pm (8 hours)
$200 + $10 materials
Carlson College of Massage Therapy
September 14, 2025
Sunday, 9 am - 6 pm (8 hours)
$200 + $10 materials
Assessment and Treatment of Shoulder Pain
Carlson College of Massage Therapy - Anamosa, Iowa
Monday, September 15, 2025
9 am - 6 pm
8 hours ($200 + $10 materials)
Assessment and Treatment of Low Back Pain
Carlson College of Massage Therapy - Anamosa, Iowa
September 16, 2025
Tuesday 9 am - 6 pm  (8 hours)
$200 + $10 materials
September 27 & 28, 2025
Saturday and Sunday, 9 am - 6 pm
16 hours ($380 + $20 materials)
Soft Tissue Release
Bloom! School for the Therapeutic Arts - Newport, Maine
September 29, 2025
Monday, 9 am - 6 pm (8 hours)
$200 + $10 materials
Nerve Glide Techniques
Bloom! School for the Therapeutic Arts - Newport, Maine
September 30,2025
Tuesday, 9 am - 6 pm (8 hours)
$200 + $10 materials
Side Lying Massage
Bloom! School for the Therapeutic Arts - Newport, Maine
October 1, 2025
Wednesday, 9 am - 6 pm (8 hours)
$200 + $20 materials
October 3, 2025
Friday 9 am - 6 pm
8 hours ($200 + $20 materials fee)
October 4 & 5, 2025
Saturday & Sunday 9 am - 6 pm
16 hours ($380 + $20 materials fee)
Northern Virginia School of Therapeutic Massage
Monday, October 6, 2025 9 am - 6 pm
8 hours ($200 + $10 materials)
October 16, 2025
Thursday 9 am - 6 pm
8 hours ($215 + $10 materials fee)
October 17, 2025
Friday 9 am - 6 pm
8 hours ($215 + $10 materials fee)
October 18 & 19, 2025
Saturday and Sunday 9 am - 6 pm
16 hours ($430 + $20 materials fee)
October 25, 2025
Saturday 9 am - 6 pm
$200 + $10 Materials
Massage Cupping
October 26, 2025
Sunday 9 am - 6 pm (8 hours)
$200 + $25 materials
