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Massage includes a number of disciplines which share the use of pressure, friction and strain upon the muscles and joints of the body for therapuedic or affectionate physical response. Whether your interest is in giving or getting the perfect massage, it’s important to have the right information and the right products.
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Thai-Yoga Massage - Rising Popularity of an Ancient Therapy

Nina Schnipper  2/13/2010

Thai-Yoga massage is also known as Thai-Yoga or Thai massage. It is practiced in the Thai, or Siam, culture for well-being and prevention. It produces the therapeutic effects of yoga. However, it feels wonderfully relaxing as it is applied. You, the recipient, passively receive the treatment.

 

Thai Yoga Massage - Ancient Wisdom For Modern Healing

Sara Avant Stover  2/13/2010

I soon learned that Traditional Thai Massage (known as nuad boran in northern Thailand) arrived in Thailand approximately 2,500 years ago after its birth in India through Dr. Jivaka Kumar Bhacca, personal physician to the Buddha.

 

Yoga And Rolfing Lead One To Wholeness

Mark Powell  11/28/2004
For the last 30-some years, yoga and Rolfing® Structural Integration have enjoyed a unique and vibrant relationship, teachers and practitioners from one discipline immersing themselves in the other, in order to magnify and deepen their bodily transformation.
 

10 Principles of a Great Massage

Jonathan Price  5/27/2004
  1. Be centered and focused.
  2. Respect the recipient fully: have clear intention.
  3. Listen to the client's body and breath with your hands, heart, ears, and intuition.
  4. Massage to create more space (length and breadth) and breathing room.
 

Polarity Therapy

Jan Milthaler, MSW, RPP, CMT  5/26/2004

Polarity is a holistic natural health care system for balancing life energy. It can increase levels of energy, relieve fatigue, unwind body stress, relax muscular tension, balance the nervous system, release emotional holding patterns, increase body awareness, and provide an improved sense of well-being.

 

Bringing a Touch of Care

Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia  9/16/2003
Sister Catherine Louise provides a healing touch to Sunny Lovel, a woman who has been living in an extensive “hootch” in an industrial area of San Francisco for several years.  Find out how nuns are helping homeless people and ideas for things you can do.
 

Stone Therapy: A Discussion of Current Trends and Findings

Jill Pingree Dew  9/12/2003
 The purpose of this article is to distill what practitioners, leaders in the spa and wellness industry, and clients know or should know about the efficacy and elegance of stone therapies. The use of stones for healing is ancient.
 

Chinese Self Massage

Erle Montaigue  5/9/2003
All Chinese healing methods make use of the internal energy called by the Chinese, Ch'i or Qi. To us it is plain old life force or energy which controls or internal wellbeing. More or less of this wonderful stuff and we become well or remain ill.
 

My Own Reiki Story

Hugh Landheer  8/10/2002
In about 1986 my wife read something about Reiki, in which she recognised much of herself. Later she read a book about Reiki. No great discovery but something that fitted her own ideas.
 

Massage for the Childbearing Year

Mary Brand-James  8/10/2002
The childbearing year, according to Susun S. Weed (author of Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year) "is a 13 month year: the two months before conception, the nine months of pregnancy, and the two months following the birth."
 
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