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Complete Guide to Massage: A Step-By-Step Approach to Total Body Relaxation

Complete Guide to Massage: A Step-By-Step Approach to Total Body Relaxation

Author: Susan Mumford

Who hasn't responded to the blissful touch of massage as stress, fatigue, aches and pains melt away under practiced hands? This lavishly illustrated guide helps readers learn to create the delightful benefits of massage at home, providing a user-friendly text that takes them along on a carefully graduated program from simple basics to total massage. 320 color photos.

Complete Guide to Massage: A Step-By-Step Approach to Total Body Relaxation


The Complete Book of Massage

The Complete Book of Massage

Author: Maxwell-Hudson, Clare

A comprehensive guide to massage techniques with clear step-by-step instructions. Fully illustrated for all ages with color and/or black-and-white photographs on every page. 155,000 copies sold-to-date.

The Complete Book of Massage

 


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Author: Clare Maxwell-Hudson

A hands-on approach to massage is promoted in step-by-step sequences illustrated by pioneering full-color computer-generated photographs.

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Massage Basics

Massage Basics

Author: Davide Sechi

The art and science of massage come together in a comprehensive guide to every stroke of every style for every part of the body and for every lifestyle. Full-color photos show expert hands at work, with closeups of movements so deep and effective you almost feel better by just turning the pages. More than any other book, this reveals how massage affects the organs and muscles being worked, with helpful charts and illustrations. Athletes get special attention, along with techniques especially geared to children, pregnant women, and seniors, and to relieve occupational tensions. Nearly every aspect of massage finds coverage, from traditional reflexology, Shiatsu, Shu, and Du Mai, to the latest anti-stress, manual lymph drainage, connective tissue relaxation, and sensual massages.

Massage Basics


Aromatherapy Massage

Aromatherapy Massage

Whether you want to calm your partner's anxiety, relieve your own aches and pains, shift cellulite, aid digestion or alleviate a headache, Aromatherapy Massage will provide you with all the information and instruction you need to know about essential oil's and massage. Step-by-step guidance and photographs show all the different techniques and applications for self massage, massage with a partner, and healing massage.All the basic strokes, such as fanning, effleurage, circling, and friction are explained, together with special techniques for massage in pregnancy, baby massage and massage for the elderly. A comprehensive directory lists the origin, application and effect of each of the most commonly used essential oils and throughout there are suggestions on blends and specific treatments.

Aromatherapy Massage


Loving Hands: The Traditional Art of Baby Massage

Loving Hands: The Traditional Art of Baby Massage

Author: Frederick Leboyer

For the first time in paperback, Dr. Leboyer uses his deep insight into childcare to show how, in the weeks and months following birth, mothers can use the flowing rhythms of the art of baby massage to communicate love and strength to their infants. This ancient art is described and illustrated with the author's own photos. 70 photos. 144 pp.

Loving Hands: The Traditional Art of Baby Massage


Massage National Exam: Questions & Answers

Massage National Exam: Questions & Answers

Author: Daphna R. Moore

Massage National Exam: Questions & Answers

Massage National Exam: Questions & Answers

 


Massage Therapy Cards: Learn How to Give a Full Body Treatment

Massage Therapy Cards: Learn How to Give a Full Body Treatment

Author: Fiona Harrold

By working with the cards in sequence you will learn the techniques necessary to give a full-body treatment. The accompanying book explains the history of massage as a healing art and details the power touch has had in modern healthcare.

Massage Therapy Cards: Learn How to Give a Full Body Treatment


The Educated Heart: Professional Boundaries for Massage Therapists, Bodyworkers, and Movement Teachers

The Educated Heart: Professional Boundaries for Massage Therapists, Bodyworkers, and Movement Teachers

Author: Nina McIntosh

The Educated Heart: Professional Boundaries for Massage Therapists, Bodyworkers, and Movement Teachers

The Educated Heart: Professional Boundaries for Massage Therapists, Bodyworkers, and Movement Teachers


Good Hands: Massage Techniques for Total Health

Good Hands: Massage Techniques for Total Health

Author: Robert Bahr

Good Hands: Massage Techniques for Total Health

Good Hands: Massage Techniques for Total Health

 


Canine Massage: A Complete Reference Manual

Canine Massage: A Complete Reference Manual

Author: L.M.T . Hourdebaigt Jean-Pierre

Use massage to help your dog relax, to condition the canine athlete, to assist in recovery from injuries or to ease chronic pain. Learn the techniques of a recognized expert in the field so that you can bring the well-known benefits of massage to your own dog or become a canine massage specialist. New edition has over 100 illustrations and 100 photos, detailed examinations of muscular stress points, diagnoses and treatments. You will learn the basics of canine anatomy and kinesiology; massage movements, pressures, techniques and systems; routines designed to address specific health problems; stretching and hydrotherapy techniques; tips on how to run a canine massage business, and more. Excellent source of information on dog anatomy as well.

Canine Massage: A Complete Reference Manual


The Complete Book of Massage and Aromatherapy: A Practical Illustrated Step by Step Guide to Achieving Relaxation and Well-Being with Top-To-Toe Body

The Complete Book of Massage and Aromatherapy: A Practical Illustrated Step by Step Guide to Achieving Relaxation and Well-Being with Top-To-Toe Body

Author: Nitya LaCroix

A comprehensive pratical guide to using head, face, body and foot massage techniques, an d a wide variety of aromatherapy treatments, to promote health and harmony.

The Complete Book of Massage and Aromatherapy: A Practical Illustrated Step by Step Guide to Achieving Relaxation and Well-Being with Top-To-Toe Body


 

 

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