Healing Massage

The pleasure of massage can be a profound experience that helps to nurture, soothe, and comfort an individual. Massage can help one reconnect with his/her body and relieve stress and pain.

Healing Massage brings together the ancient healing practices of the East with Western massage techniques to heal both mind and body. Step-by-step, practitioners can help people unwind with a simple healing massage.

Many common ills are a consequence of our modern lifestyle and working practices. Sitting for long periods, staring at the computer or television screen, or working in a noisy environment can lead to sore eyes, muscle aches and stiffness, tension, and headache. This can lead to colds, cough, and flu. The accupoints in this guide can alleviate many of these symptoms and strengthen the body’s resistance to infection.

Delve into aromatic sensuality with rose-scented body scrubs and hot-oil Ayurvedic massage, try accupressure for pain relief, and soothe your mind with Eastern visualization techniques that have empowered and healed the spirit for thousands of years.

Healing Massage goes over how to:
• ease headaches
• boost fertility
• alleviate insomnia
• ease abdominal pain
• ease mild palpatations
• relax muscles and tendons

Detailed strategies teach ways to ease blocked sinuses, and reduce toothache and tensions in the jaw. Approaches also alleviate oedema, fluid retention, and bronchitis.

Areas go over reflex zone therapy. This branch of reflexology teaches how to release tension in the neck, spine, head, shoulders, solar plexus, ears, and eyes through the bottom of one’s foot. It also offers information on sea stones, which are placed between the toes to open the reflex zones in the feet.

In addition, topics touch on the important role of massage when working down the back. This section reviews several acupoints to strengthen the respiratory tract and help prevent coughs and colds. It also reveals that acupoints allow the practitioner to influence the flow of Chi energy. Each acupoint could either calm an over-energetic flow of Chi, or stimulate a sluggish one.

The chapter on massage on the move reveals that physical and emotional tension builds when one is sitting at a desk, traveling, or even standing in a queue. It offers several techniques on how to calm anxiety, boost energy, or treat an ailment.

This book teaches the five elements of Chinese Medicine, which include the heart, lungs, liver, spleen, and kidneys. It discusses that Chinese medicine draws together all aspects of nature and combines the elements, the seasons, and bodily systems into one unifying theory.

Beautifully illustrated, this book offers several photographic images and techniques to help practitioners give massages that touch both the heart and soul.