Faculty & Staff

History of ASIS Massage Education
(Arizona School of Integrative Studies)

The Arizona State Board for Private Post Secondary Education approved for the Arizona School of Integrative Studies to begin classes in the Fall of 1995. Directors Joseph and Jamie Rongo began training massage therapists in January 1996 at the Healing Arts Center at 753 North Main Street, Cottonwood, Arizona.

In January 2000, the first ASIS campus was opened at 701 South Broadway, Clarkdale, Arizona. Once again in January, but this time in 2005—five years after the original campus opened—ASIS Massage Education opened its second campus at 115 South McCormick Street in Prescott.

ASIS Massage Education opened its third Northern Arizona campus at 113 West Phoenix in Flagstaff's historic downtown district, just off the iconic Route 66.

And in May 2012, ASIS opened its fourth campus at 639 North 6th Avenue in Tucson, at the old Desert Institute of the Healing Arts Building.

Shortly after the grand opening in Tucson, a new partnership was born between ASIS founders Jamie and Joseph Rongo, and David Merwin and John Robinson, owners of the Finger Lakes School of Massage and the Central Maryland School of Massage. It was a natural merger as all schools share a common vision.

In the spring of 2016, ASIS moved its flagship campus to downtown Mesa, at 209 West Main Street.

We are proud to say that ASIS has produced, and continues to produce, well-trained, passionate, dedicated, and satisfied graduates that embody the spirit of trust, cooperation and integrity that ASIS prides itself on.