Massage Guides

A fascinating guide to self-awareness and living well through the Oriental technique of shiatsu. Filled with diagrams, drawings, and sample diagnoses, this is not only a practical guidebook, but also a fascinating meditation on how to live.

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In this Massage Therapy Book:You’ll Learn Massage Therapy and The Original Swedish Movements…Imagine the Perfect Massage and Movements:Manual treatment for disease and massage has to a certain extent existed since the creation. Man had, by-instinct, acquired the art of manipulation and massage long before nature yielded her secrets in medicine. This is still the practice among many nations. In Sweden, even at the present time, certain manipulations are used among the peasants for cramps, swellings, etc. The Swedes seem never to have lost the art – but recently revived in other, countries.Amiot and Dally speak of a perfect system of gymnastics with massage among the Chinese three thousand years before the Christian era. They maintained that gymnastics with massage, by preventing stagnation, produced an even and harmonious movement of the fluids in the human body, which is necessary to health. Not only did they use massage and gymnastics to pre-serve health, but they a (more…)

Amazon.com Review

With more than 650,000 copies sold, massage therapist Lucinda Lidell’s Book of Massage has been updated with new photos and instructional drawings. Not for the prudish, as the subjects in most of the photos are completely in the buff, the book presents an intense, information-packed, step-by-step guide to traditional massage, shiatsu, and reflexology. No matter which method you choose to focus on (you’re advised to choose one at a time), Lidell is thorough in her explanations of the strokes and techniques necessary to give relaxing, therapeutic massage in the privacy of your own home. Detailed drawings, diagrams, and photographs help to further demonstrate how to address each individual body part. Divided into distinct chapters for each of the three methods, The Book of Massage also includes several sections that Lidell stresses are fundamental to all types of massage. The first is “Beginning,” with information such as creating the right atmosph (more…)

From Library Journal

There are plenty of good books on herbs, and some of them devote a chapter to essential oils, but there’s nothing comparable to Worwood’s work. Her premise is different from other herbalists–she believes that the most effective way to use herbs medicinally is by external application or inhalation. Both methods allow the essential oil to enter the bloodstream without passing through the digestive tract. Her grasp of basic physiology is somewhat confused, but there’s nothing dangerous in her suggestions. (Worwood runs an aromatherapy clinic in England and conducts research on aromatherapy.) Her book prescribes oils for everything from basic first aid and treating common ailments to natural cosmetics and body care, fragrance for the home and office, and cooking with essential oils. A good addition to alternative medicine collections.See also Susanne Fischer-Rizzi’s Complete Aromatherapy Handbook , LJ 7/91.–Ed.- Katharine Galloway Garstka, Intergraph (more…)