Bodywork: What Type of Massage to Get, and how to Make the Most of itNot a how-to book, Bodywork is a guide for the 20 million Americans who receive massage therapy each year. Claire takes readers through a typical session of more than fifteen different massage therapies from around the world--including Swedish massage, Reflexology, Aromatherapy, the Rolfing Method, and Shiatsu/Acupuncture--and highlights other therapies, giving the history and theory behind each. |
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Ki flows throughout the body within an orderly energy system comprised of twelve
meridians consisting of six pairs. Within each pair, like a married couple, is a yin
meridian and a yang meridian. The yin meridians, which are associated with ...
Ki flows throughout the body within an orderly energy system comprised of twelve
meridians consisting of six pairs. Within each pair, like a married couple, is a yin
meridian and a yang meridian. The yin meridians, which are associated with ...
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physical damage to the liver, only that the qualities of energy related to this
meridian needed strengthening. Each meridian is considered to have a peak
time period of two hours, during which it is most active. Since there is a
successive flow of ...
physical damage to the liver, only that the qualities of energy related to this
meridian needed strengthening. Each meridian is considered to have a peak
time period of two hours, during which it is most active. Since there is a
successive flow of ...
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The heart meridian, for instance, originates in the armpit and runs to the tip of the
little finger. Other meridians course through large regions of the body. The urinary
bladder meridian, the longest in the body, starts at the inner crease of the eye, ...
The heart meridian, for instance, originates in the armpit and runs to the tip of the
little finger. Other meridians course through large regions of the body. The urinary
bladder meridian, the longest in the body, starts at the inner crease of the eye, ...
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Contents
How to Use This Book | 3 |
Introduction | 9 |
Traditional Western Massage | 19 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Bodywork: What Type of Massage to Get, and how to Make the Most of it |
| Author | Thomas Claire |
| Publisher | W. Morrow, 1995 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 15 Mar 2011 |
| ISBN | 0688125816, 9780688125813 |
| Length | 440 pages |
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