Can I Customize My Massage Therapy Training Schedule at Body Wisdom?

Yes. Body Wisdom describes its learning environment as one of the most unique in the country specifically because students can custom design a training schedule to suit their individual needs. The customization works on two levels: you can shape what you study through elective tracks, and you can shape when you study through a schedule built around your life. The school frames this as "Choose Your Adventure" — a customized journey combining expert-led core training with advanced electives.

What "customizable" actually means here

The school's own framing is that you can "custom design a training schedule to suit your individual needs." That covers two distinct decisions:

• Curriculum content — which electives and advanced tracks you add on top of the core program.
• Timing and pacing — how your training is scheduled around your existing commitments.

If your main constraint is a job, family, or commute, the timing side matters most. If your goal is a specific career direction — sports massage, clinical work, spa settings — the elective side matters most. Most students are weighing both at once.

The core plus electives structure

Body Wisdom's program is a COMTA-accredited 900-hour certification. The customization sits on top of that core:

The 1,000+ hours of electives is the number to pay attention to. It means the elective catalog is substantially larger than the core requirement, so the combination you assemble is genuinely yours rather than a fixed track with a couple of add-ons.

How to decide whether this fits you

Customization is most valuable if you have a clear reason to use it. It's least valuable if you'd rather be told exactly what to take.

Customization is probably a good fit if:

• You already know which direction you want (clinical, spa, sports, holistic health) and want electives that point there.
• You need to keep working or manage family responsibilities while training.
• You want to sample several modalities before committing to a specialty.

A fixed schedule may suit you better if:

• You want the simplest possible path to licensure with no decisions to make.
• You're prone to over-optimizing course selection instead of starting.

Concrete next steps

1. Check the next start date. The site lists the next class as starting Jan 25, so timing your enrollment around that date is the first practical constraint.
2. Schedule a school tour. This is the step where you'd bring your actual schedule — work hours, commute, family obligations — and ask how a customized plan would look in practice. The school lists a tour scheduling option alongside its application.
3. Ask about financial assistance if cost is part of the decision. The site lists a financial assistance section, but no pricing figures are published on the page, so you'll need to request those directly.
4. Request the elective catalog so you can see whether the 1,000+ hours actually contain tracks relevant to your goal.

Contact

• School phone: 515-727-4890
• Spa phone: 515-727-5100

The bottom line

Body Wisdom explicitly allows students to design their own training schedule, and backs it with a 900-hour accredited core plus 1,000+ hours of electives. The flexibility is real, but it's only useful if you arrive with a goal and a set of constraints to fit around. Bring both to a tour, and you'll get a concrete answer about whether your schedule can work — rather than a general promise of flexibility.