Sooth away stress, banish pain, and share the language of touch with the healing powers of massage What reduces pain, enhances athletic performance, job efficiency, improves the circulation, raises immune efficiency, promotes the healing of tissues, increases the functioning of the skin, enhances focus and emotional balance, and improves appearance? Right, massage! So what are you waiting for? Discover how to knead your way to relaxation and wellness with this fun guide to the art of massage. With the help of numerous step-by-step hands-on photos and illustrations, Massage For Dummies, 2nd Edition shows you, move by move, how to harness the healing power of touch. In no time you'll master the basics and learn how to give and receive a therapeutic massage. <ul>
<li>25% new and expanded content in this edition</li> <li>Covers an array of techniques, from Swedish to Deep Tissue and sports massage to self-massage</li> <li>The newest strokes and techniques that can relieve specific painful conditions</li> </ul>
Hands-on and extremely practical, Massage For Dummies, 2nd Edition shows you how to integrate massage and its benefits into your everyday life.

Massage For Dummies

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Capellini, Steve

Van Welden, Michel

Alternative Medicine

For Dummies

All the basic techniuqes of quick, easy massage to relieve tension and provide enjoyment are outlined in this Running Press Miniature Edition™, from Swedish and Shiatsu to sports and self-massage. Convers both health benefits and guildelines, with special techniques for pets and family members, and tips for massage on the go, at work, and in the bedroom. More For Dummies Miniature Editions™

Van Welden, Michael

Religion & Spirituality

Running Press

“Everything you need to know about giving and receiving a massage.” —Jack Canfield, author, Chicken Soup for the Soul 
“I recommend this book for everyone who would like to make the art of massage a part of their lives.” —John Gray, author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus “...reveals dozens of healthy tips to help you achieve inner harmony, peace of mind, and an entirely new level of well-being....” —From the Foreword by Robin Leach What reduces pain, enhances athletic performance, job efficiency, and sexual function, improves the circulation, raises immune efficiency, promotes the healing of tissues, increases the functioning of the skin, enhances focus and emotional balance, improves appearance, is completely legal in all 50 states and Puerto Rico and can be had for as little as...nothing? Right, massage. So what are you waiting for? Discover how to k nead your way to relaxation and wellness with this fun guide to the art of massage. With the help of 150 hand-on photos and illustrations, experts Steve Capellini and Michel Van Welden, show you, move by move, how to harness the healing power of touch. In no time you’ll: <ul>
<li>Master message basics</li> <li>Give and receive a therapeutic massage</li> <li>Soothe away stress with self-massage</li> <li>Alleviate sports aches and pains</li> <li>Improve circulation and skin tone</li> <li>Get intimate with massage for lovers</li> </ul>
From Swedish to Shiatsu, sports massage to self-massage, Capellini and Van Welden cover an array of techniques and tell you how to: <ul>
<li>Choose the right style of massage for you and your body and getting the most out the receiving a massage</li> <li>Knead, manipulate pressure points, shake, rub, stretch and perform all the basic massage moves and techniques</li> <li>Give and receive special massages for the workplace, including reflexology foot massages</li> <li>Perform sports massage, sensual massage, and specific massages for every age group and physical condition, including infant massages and massage for pregnant women</li> <li>Become a massage professional</li> </ul>
Sensitive, funny and extremely practical, Massage For Dummies shows you how to integrate massage and its incredible benefits into your everyday life.

Massage for Dummies

Welden, Michel Van

The Complete Spa Book for Massage Therapists is specifically for massage therapy students who want to succeed in the spa industry, whether as an employee or an owner of their own spa. It is the only book that includes extensive information about real-world working conditions in actual spas, with an enormous amount of feedback from working spa directors and owners regarding what they are looking for in employees. Beyond giving explanations and step-by-step instructions regarding a wide range of spa modalities, the book offers an in-depth look at topics that many other resources do not cover.

The Complete Spa Book for Massage Therapists

Business & Money

Job Hunting & Careers

Milady

This resource helps students recognize, understand, and retain key concepts while minimizing assistance from the educator.

Workbook for Capellini's The Complete Spa Book for Massage Therapists

Massage Therapy Career Guide: For Hands-On Success, 2e is a wonderful resource for individuals considering massage therapy as a profession, as well as those who are currently studying massage therapy. In addition to providing guidance on what it takes to become a massage therapist and what the profession entails, it is filled with useful ideas for starting and maintaining a successful practice. An insightful, practical guide, it is a must-have for anyone looking to build a thriving career in massage therapy.

Massage Therapy Career Guide for Hands-On Success

Full of quirky characters that populate a profession most of us know little about, Touchy Subjects is a behind-the-scenes look at the lives of those who make their living touching others. In this tell-all memoir, Steve Capellini, author of Massage for Dummies and other mainstream massage titles, yanks the draping sheet aside and comes clean about the temptations and transgressions that have marked his own career. Then he embarks upon a far-flung adventure seeking the true meaning of human touch. From a Madison Avenue boardroom to a gross anatomy lab; from the deck of a private yacht to a seedy Asian massage parlor, the author uncovers stories that others haven’t told: sex stories, prostitution stories, adultery stories and stories about a modern massage slave trade that ensnares hundreds of thousands of young women, many of them in the U.S., some of them working right in your home town. The author tangles with a Trinidadian rapist, a nymphomaniac ex-Playboy bunny, an impotent sea captain and an overweight multimillionaire ukulele player. Through each of these stories, he gradually guides the reader toward the underlying Truth of massage, debunking myths along the way and getting to the heart of what it’s all about—touching people. The stories are interspersed with cutting-edge research on the science of touch, evolutionary biology and the grooming habits of some of our closet primate relatives, the bonobos. The author’s quest to get to the bottom of touch takes him to a clothing optional hot springs resort in Northern California, a meditation retreat in the Virgin Islands, an ashram in the Berkshire mountains, behind the wheel of a Maserati on the back roads of Arizona and finally to Kathmandu Nepal where he meets a man who has risked everything—his health, his money and years of his life—on a quixotic mission to train “untouchables” to become massage therapists. It is there, among some of the world’s most impoverished and oppressed people, that the true meaning of massage is revealed. Doing massage is a profession unlike any other, filled with flamboyant practitioners of all stripes. Touchy Subjects features them all, in a circus side show of chapters such as Nudity, Impotence, Adultery, Homosexuality, Cellulite and Disney World. Throughout each passage, Capellini seeks to answer important questions: Is it possible to touch dead people? What’s it like to massage a horny guru? And what percentage of women have seduced their masseurs? Hint: it’s high. This is a raucous, irreverent, insightful and, in the end, touching story about what it means to touch people, from someone who has, quite literally, touched thousands.

Touchy Subjects: Tales from the Massage Table

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

This new book provides answers to all the questions a massage therapist might have, whether he or she is working in a day spa, a physician's office, or as a self-employed professional. Readers will learn how to get started in the business of massage therapy, including how to network with chiropractors, physical therapists, and other professionals. Featuring firsthand stories from professional massage therapists across the country, this informative resource is an easy-to-follow guide to practicing in the field. Just some of what you will learn includes:

Massage Therapy Career Guide

Beauty, Grooming, & Style

En este libro encontraras todo lo que necesitas saber para hacer una entrada triunfal en el arte del masaje. Desde las tecnicas suecas, hasta el shiatsu, la aromaterapia y la reflexologia, te descubrimos un mundo de posibilidades para que aproveches los beneficios de un buen masaje, tanto para tu salud como para pasar un rato agradable. Cada tipo de masaje se acompana de una secuencia de fotos para que puedas seguir su desarrollo paso a paso.? Algunas ideas generales ? en que consiste un masaje, como nacieron las tecnicas mas populares y como funcionan y que efectos beneficos puede tener sobre tu salud.? Es mejor dar, que recibir ? observa con atencion las secuencias de fotos y las ilustraciones para no perderte ni un detalle de como dar un masaje terapeutico eficaz.? No seas un nudo con patas! ? aprende a preparar tu cuerpo y tu mente para recibir un masaje (si, esto tambien es un arte) y domina las tecnicas de respiracion, la meditacion consciente y otros modos de enriquecertu experiencia.? Masaje para todos los publicos ? descubre los tipos de masaje indicados para cada persona y situacion, desde el masaje deportivo hasta el masaje para bebes o el masaje sensual.

Masaje para Dummies (Spanish Edition)

Para Dummies

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Massage For Dummies

Massage For Dummies

Massage for Dummies

The Complete Spa Book for Massage Therapists

Workbook for Capellini's The Complete Spa Book for Massage Therapists

Massage Therapy Career Guide for Hands-On Success

Touchy Subjects: Tales from the Massage Table

Massage Therapy Career Guide

Masaje para Dummies (Spanish Edition)