The Book of Massage: The Complete Step-by-step Guide to Eastern and Western TechniquesA guide to the relaxing and healing skills of massage, the ancient Japanese art of shiatsu and reflexology. With step-by-step instructions, the book guides the reader through the complete working sequence for each skill and provides detailed descriptions of appropriate strokes for each part of the body. The book also explains what the body can tell you and shows how massage can be used to soothe, to invigorate, to relieve aches and tensions and to help in difficult circumstances, from work to leisure, from pregnancy to old age. |
Contents
Introduction | 10 |
Beginning | 18 |
Creating a Relaxed Environment | 20 |
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abdomen ankle arms and hands Ascending Colon base begin belly body bone breathing buttocks centre chakras circle coccyx Diaphragm Draining elbow element emotional energy eyes face feel feet fingertips flow foot forearm forward front Gall Bladder Gall Bladder Meridian gently give shiatsu giver glide heels hip joint hold hollow Ileocecal Valve inner inside keep Kidney Kneading knee knee-cap Large Intestine lean let your hands lift Liver Long Stroke lower back lumbar Lung massage Meridian runs move movement muscles neck nerves Oiling and Long painful painful reflex Palm Pressure partner partner's partner's head pelvis points pull receiver's reflex reflexology relaxed Repeat rest rib-cage ribs Rotating sacrum sequence Shizuto Masunaga shoulder joint shoulderblade shown right side skin skull slowly Small Intestine spinal spinal nerves spine squeeze stretch techniques tension thigh thumb toes torso touch treat treatment Triple Heater tsubos whole Wringing wrist Yin and Yang zone