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Misunderstood Modality
... MYTH: THAI MASSAGE IS HARD ON THE PRACTITIONER’S BODY Would-be practitioners often fear that Thai massage will be taxing to ... be out of tune with the receiver and inadvertently push beyond the client’s comfort zone. Or, pain might be accepted as part of the ...
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Nurses’ Injuries
... fatigue can set in after many hours, leading to poor body mechanics and overwhelming the soft tissues from excessive demand. Fatigue ... additional psychological stressors can lead nurses to go beyond their physical limit or ignore the signs of developing problems to ...
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MT Straight Talk
... will startle you, and your hands will jerk away from the body. To their credit, they will almost always say, “Excuse me.” YOU ... Boundaries are flexible, not rigid lines. Sometimes pushing beyond what we think is professional can built trust. Sometimes it destroys it. ...
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Yin and Yang of Seated Massage
... massage, tui na is also a part of Chinese physical therapy. Beyond the benefits of relaxation, tui na is a rehabilitative approach ... standard Western approach. The first has to do with proper body mechanics. “The posture of the therapist is different in tui na,” he ...
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The Power of Self-Healing
... you,” the teacher guided. “Feel the weight of your body pressing down; feel the sensation of the mat on your skin.” He paused ... I felt enraptured. Something magical existed in a realm beyond what I’d experienced up until then, I knew, and I could access it ...
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The Table and the Mat
... their creativity as bodyworkers, while their knowledge of body mechanics enhances their own yoga practice and teaching. For their ... education into massage strokes that awaken alignment and go beyond stress relief. They combine these strokes with their new insight into ...
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Soma
... him insight into the integration that could happen when body, mind, and spirit met. While Rolf, with whom he was teaching and ... deep tissue, repatterning therapies as those that can go beyond the physical manipulation of fascia to work with our emotional ... (i.e., the principles of balance, alignment, and suspension mechanics). Nolte explains that after the session work has created structural ...
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Touching Grief
... the people on board were from the Bay area. For us this went beyond a sad story on the evening news: our friends and neighbors had died, ... way toward this goal. We worked with each client to bring body and spirit to a place where the client felt alert, contained and able to ...
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Relax the Thai Way
... By Rebecca Wilkowski Originally published in Body Sense magazine, Autumn/ Winter 2003. Recent studies show ... encompasses a Western notion of massage, but extends far beyond a series of techniques applied to the surface of the body. ...
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Back from Hell
... as if the letting go into the massage process allowed the body to bring up the memory, even though it was so old,” said the therapist ... vet encapsulated his state of hyperarousal: “Scared beyond my wits The scent of fear lingers in the patties of rice Senses alert, ...