Massage Therapy and Bodywork: Healing Through Touch
... Varieties and Techniques of Massage & Bodywork Scientific Support for Massage & Bodywork Choosing a Practitioner "The physician must be experienced in many things, but most assuredly in rubbing." Hip...

Varieties and Techniques of Massage and Bodywork
... For this chapter, the sections on varieties and techniques are combined. As stated earlier, there are over eighty different types of massage therapy and bodywork. Many are variations on each other, o...

Self Applied Massage
... Every original culture on the planet earth has a system of "hands on" healing. In western cultures this is generally called massage. However, there are many named systems including reflexology, Swedis...

Why Soft Tissue Manipulation is a MUST for Aromatherapists
... Introduction Aromatherapy has extended the horizons of massage therapists by taking them into the realms of herbal/botanic medicine in a way which allows them to incorporate the powerful healing poten...