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Massage is the targeted manipulation of the body’s soft tissue through techniques such as kneading, rubbing, tapping, and stroking, either by hand or with the aid of massage tools. Depending on the style of massage, it can be done on a table, in a chair, on the floor, or even in water.
From the lightest massage to the deepest structural therapy, from the physical to the energetic, find your match.
Perhaps you've heard of the Alexander Technique, a tried-and-true method to help actors and singers with their voices. But that's only the beginning. It's also known to dramatically help people with neck and back pain, to build poise and even boost your mood.
This book gives us a look behind the scenes of a Rosen Method bodywork session. The author reveals the philosophy that results in the deceptively simple words and touch that prove to be the magic key to unlocking tension held for years in the body.
Through the author’s detailed and caring guidance, you’ll discover how to achieve vitality and a sense of new aliveness that you may have not experienced since your childhood.
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Hands-on healing, also known as Energy, Radiant or Spiritual Healing, has been practiced by many cultures for thousands of years. In Greek mythology, Chiron, the wise Centaur, taught Asclepius, the God of Medicine, hands-on healing.
The Alexander Technique was developed in the 1890s by Frederick Matthias Alexander, born in Tasmania in 1869. Alexander’s promising career as a young actor was threatened by recurring vocal problems.
Bodywork is body-centered therapies performed by a qualified practitioner to help improve health and well-being. It includes therapies such as massage, acupuncture, chiropractic-osteopathic care, craniosacral therapy, and such.
Bodywork is a unique and holistic approach to treating the body, which incorporates more than one modality of healing techniques. Many people train to become a massage therapist, but becoming a bodyworker takes times and maturation.
If you experience chronic aches and pains it may be time to get some work done. No, not that type of work, but an all-natural, instinctive, holistic approach that has been in practice for thousands of years and doesn’t require Botox.
