Explore the powerful secrets of Thai massage--a vigorous technique that will enhance your health, happiness, and wholeness, and create a fresh, stimulating, giving-receiving relationship between you and your partner. Like other forms of massage, you employ a flowing sequence of stretches, but instead of using only your fingers, pressure is applied with thumbs, palms, elbows, knees, and feet. It has been called "yoga in action," with its emphasis on relaxing your mind, restoring your energy, and conditioning your body. A detailed program for complete body massage covers ten lessons, each concentrating on a particular part of your body. Full-color photographs of every move match still shots with superimposed artwork that indicates the directions of the movements you make. Each technique is clearly explained and its benefits detailed. Many have names as calming and as invigorating as the actions: Spiraling Arms, Opening the Energy Gates, Rainbow Dance, Flying Wild Goose, and The Longest Yawn and Stretch in the Universe. More than most massage techniques, Thai massage enhances the bond between partners, with its unity of mind and body, and its harmony of body and body. As you become familiar with the sequences, you'll experience the coming-together of the precise positions and postures to create a cumulative impact. Besides the principal program, there's a section on ways to devise your own approach for addressing specific healing needs such as stress, chronic pain, postural problems, and insomnia. Another feature: brief sessions for busy days. 144 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 11.

The Thai Massage Manual: Natural Therapy for Flexibility, Relaxation and Energy Balance

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mercati, Maria

Alternative Medicine

Sterling

For the first time in the West, Chinese tui na massage techniques are brought together in an easy-to-use method for whole-body health 
The Handbook of Chinese Massage integrates classic Tui Na (meaning push and grasp) techniques used in the Orient for centuries into a revolutionary method for health and well-being. Traditional Chinese massage practitioners use specific individual techniques to treat a wide variety of ailments--techniques demonstrated in this book. But after years of study in China, Indonesia, and Thailand, Maria Mercati has taken these separate techniques and combined them into a whole-body treatment never before seen in East or West. Tui Na massage stimulates the flow of qi, vital energy, in healthy individuals as well as sick ones. It requires no special equipment and is simple enough to do at home or in a chair at work. 
The Handbook of Chinese Massage includes step-by-step instructions for each of the fifteen unique tui na techniques, many of which are unfamiliar to Western massage practitioners. 
More than 100 color photographs and diagrams clearly show where to place your hands on the body and where to find the key meridians.

The Handbook of Chinese Massage: Tui Na Techniques to Awaken Body and Mind

Healing Arts Press

Maria Mercati, Britain's leading authority on Tui Na and Acupuncture, has written the first, comprehensive, English language book for the world. In large size and in full colour, it presents Abdominal and Navel Acupuncture in a unique and riveting way for the first time.\nIts clear step-by-step approach which focuses solely on the abdomen and navel, is for qualified acupuncturists looking for alternative ways to treat the body. It is also valuable for those trained in other forms of bodywork such as Tui Na and Shiatsu where Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is relevant to abdominal massage as well as Acupuncture. 
Maria has been teaching and practising acupuncture and Tui Na (Chinese medical massage) for over 30 years. To date she has studied acupuncture extensively in Chinaat Traditional Chinese Medicine hospitals in Shanghai, Weihai, Beijing, Xian, Jinan and Hangzhou since 1992. Her experience in the field of acupuncture is unique in the UK. She is an internationally published author and her books are highly regarded as leading works on the subject.\nMaria explains how these two Abdominal and Navel Acupuncture Microsystems operate through a treatment area on the abdomen and navel that embraces the Meridians, a Turtle reflex microsystem and a Bagua microsystem, giving access to the complex, healing energetics of the human body.More than 125 unique, colour diagrams show in detail, all the abdominal Meridians and acupoints, the abdominal Turtle reflex points and the Bagua acupoints.\nShe teaches you a new and an easy-to-use method to master and achieve a quick, therapeutic response that can treat all acute, musculo-skeletal conditions and chronic, internal, degenerative ones as well. Maria describes how to use multi-depth needling techniques on regular TCM Meridian acupoints together with ones that are based on Turtle and Bagua concepts and how they link into the wider energetics of the whole body.\nThe aim of this book is to show how easily Abdominal and Navel Acupuncture treatment options can be used to maintain good health and address the everyday health problems and injuries that are so prevalent in this modern world. 
Abdominal and Navel Acupuncture is very powerful and effective and, when learned with understanding, is easy to apply. Maria explains how the complex autonomic nervous system of the abdomen and its links to the central nervous system provide an excellent basis for the functioning of Abdominal Acupuncture. This means that Meridians and their acupoints on the abdomen can tap into all the vegetative but vital functions of the body, such as digestion, respiration, immune response, blood pressure and many others. 
The uniqueness of this book is in the way Maria Mercati has explained how the acupoint combinations she describes, actually work. They provide a means of slowing the inevitable growth of the seeds of ill health, as well as treating a wide variety of existing health conditions. Remarkably it can treat everything that full body Acupuncture can.\nAdvantages of Abdominal Acupuncture 
The big pluses for Abdominal Acupuncture are its effectiveness, simplicity, lack of side effects and its provision of treatment with minimal discomfort. Much of the needling requires little or no manipulation. This provides for a gentle and more pain free experience, because there is much less needle sensation than is experienced when needling the hands, feet and face acupoints in mainstream Acupuncture. 
Abdominal and Navel Acupuncture gives a comprehensive introduction to the use of this Ancient Healing Art of Acupuncture. Its clear approach is accessible for those who are qualified acupuncturists looking for alternative ways to treat the body. It is also valuable for those trained in other forms of bodywork such as Tui Na and Shiatsu where Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is relevant to abdominal massage as well as Acupuncture.

Abdominal and Navel Acupuncture: Awaken the energetics of your body

maria mercati

Thai Massage is the touch that enhances health, happiness, and wholeness--and with more than 150 expertly demonstrated sequences unfolding on these pages, everyone can enjoy its benefits. Sometimes called "yoga in action," Thai massage has worked its relaxing wonders for more than 1,000 years. Explore its secrets with a detailed program that includes ten complete lessons, each concentrating on a particular part of the body. Like other forms of massage, it employs a flowing sequence of stretches, but instead of using only your fingers, pressure is applied with the thumbs, palms, elbows, knees, and feet. Full-color photographs of every move match still shots with superimposed artwork that indicate the direction of the movements. Each technique is clearly explained and its benefits--from improved flexibility to increased vitality--detailed. "All of the techniques are shown in sharp color photographs that are pleasing to the eye. Descriptions of the techniques are clear."--Massage Therapy Journal.

Thai Massage Manual: Natural Therapy for Flexibility, Relaxation, and Energy Balance

Union Square & Co.

Thai Massage is the touch that enhances health, happiness, and wholeness—and with more than 150 expertly demonstrated sequences unfolding on these pages, everyone can enjoy its benefits. Sometimes called “yoga in action,” Thai massage has worked its relaxing wonders for more than 1,000 years. Explore its secrets with a detailed program that includes ten complete lessons, each concentrating on a particular part of the body. Like other forms of massage, it employs a flowing sequence of stretches, but instead of using only your fingers, pressure is applied with the thumbs, palms, elbows, knees, and feet. Full-color photographs of every move match still shots with superimposed artwork that indicate the direction of the movements. Each technique is clearly explained and its benefits—from improved flexibility to increased vitality—detailed.

The Thai Massage Manual: Natural Therapy for Flexibility, Relaxation, and Energy Balance

Sterling Ethos

A full-color, illustrated guide to Chinese tui na massage techniques for whole-body health • Demonstrates each of the 15 unique Tui Na techniques with rich full-color photos and step-by-step instructions • Explains how to use qi-points to treat conditions in close proximity to the points as well as enact healing in tender or injured regions through the use of distant points • Details how to use Tui Na in all ages to release stress, re-energize the body, invigorate the mind, and relieve pain, sciatica, headache, sports injuries, and other common ailments Tui Na, which means “grasp and push,” is a Chinese system of therapy that uses massage and bodywork manipulation to relieve pain, release tension, and treat common ailments. Often practiced in conjunction with acupuncture and Chinese herbalism, Tui Na is also used as a treatment to address specific patterns of disharmony and stimulate the overall flow of qi, or vital energy, throughout the body. The leading authority on Tui Na in the West, with years of study in China, Indonesia, and Thailand, Maria Mercati combines the individual techniques of Tui Na into an easy-to-use method for whole-body health. Providing rich full-color photos with step-by-step instructions, she demonstrates each of the 15 unique Tui Na techniques, showing clearly where to place your hands as well as offering clear diagrams of the meridian energy channels and more than 100 powerful qi-points, where qi energy can be directly affected to restore balance and harmony. She explains how to use the qi-points to treat conditions in close proximity as well as enact healing in tender or injured regions through the use of distant yet connected qi-points. The author details how to use Tui Na treatments to relieve neck, shoulder, and back pain, sciatica, headache, and many other common ailments, treat sports injuries, and improve athletic performance. She also shows how it can release stress, re-energize the body, and invigorate the mind, as well as provide healing massage for adolescents, the elderly, and babies. Offering a healing method that requires no special equipment and is simple enough to do at home or in a chair at work, this fully illustrated guide provides a hands-on program to help yourself and others find whole-body health.

The Tui Na Manual: Chinese Massage to Awaken Body and Mind

Tui Na Massage : For a Healthier, Brighter Child

Gaia Books Ltd

One of the most ancient of healing arts, Thai massage harmonizes the energies of body and mind. By pressing, stretching and manipulating the body, powerful healing forces are released to ease pain and stress, and correct postural alignment. This step-by-step guide teaches a fullbody treatment, highlighting the healing benefits of each technique, and also incorporates work on acupressure points, bringing additional therapeutic effects that will totally transform your Thai massage treatment. There are tailormade routines to ease chronic pain for specific conditions, too. Set your body's natural healing powers in motion!

The Thai Massage: Oriental therapy for flexibility, relaxation and energy balance (The Manual Series)

Eddison Books Ltd

Massage chinois pour les bébés et les tout-petits

Self-Help

Relationships

COURRIER LIVRE

<div>El trabajo corporal tailandés se encuentra en un proceso de evolución constante desde hace más de mil años. No es de extrañar, por tanto, que encontremos tantas variaciones sutiles en las técnicas empleadas por los distintos profesionales. Existen diferencias todavía mayores entre los estilos de trabajo corporal característicos del norte y el sur de Tailandia. Las técnicas de este libro son básicamente una combinación de diversas regiones del país. A los principiantes les resultarán fluidas y armoniosas, y muy similares a las que recibiría de un maestro thai. Esta guía le permitirá dominar una gama completa de técnicas de masaje y manipulación con una secuencia fluida que le ayudará a mantener un cuerpo joven. Las técnicas también sirven como tratamiento curativo para el dolor crónico. One of the most ancient healing arts, Thai massage harmonizes the energies of body and mind. This step-by-step guide teaches a full-body treatment, highlighting the healing benefits of each technique, and also incorporates work on acupressure points and routines to ease chronic pain for specific conditions.</div>

Masaje tailandés: Terapia, técnicas y rutinas (Spanish Edition)

Blume

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