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The Zen Massage

By on Saturday, November 26th, 2011 | No Comments

The Zen Massage There are very many massage techniques in existence today; some of them stemming from the far Eastern World of antiquity while others originated in the more recent years of the Western world. Although they were born out of very different philosophical and cultural persuasions, each of these obtainable massage techniques provides some [...]

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The Swedish Massage

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The Swedish Massage The Swedish Massage, which was conceived by Henri Peter Ling, a Swedish physiologist at the University of Stockholm, was publically introduced in 1812 as a means of improving blood circulation, of relieving muscle stress and pain, of increasing flexibility and of promoting total relaxation of the body and mind. The Swedish Massage [...]

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The Sports Massage

By on Monday, November 14th, 2011 | No Comments

The Sports Massage Describing it in a nutshell, the Sports Massage is a specialty massage technique that was created and developed with athletes in mind. And as such, the Sports Massage prepares the bodies of professional and amateur sportspersons for their best possible performance before participating in a sport and it then helps their bodies [...]

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The Shiatsu Massage

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Massage The Shiatsu Massage Literally translated from Japanese, “Shiatsu” means “finger pressure” and it was incorporated into the Japanese culture approximately 1,500 years ago. Today, the Shiatsu Massage is, in fact, just one out of a large assortment of Japanese massage methods known as Nihon Kaifuku Anma. The Shiatsu Massage is the best known among [...]

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The Korean Martial Therapy

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Korean Martial Therapy The Korean Martial Therapy The Korean Martial Therapy, also well known by its acronym KMT, had been recognized for its effectiveness in keeping warriors in their topmost forms after as well as before battles. The Korean Martial Therapy, therefore, became widely used and closely associated with the numerous Korean martial arts since [...]

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The Indian Head Massage

By on Thursday, October 27th, 2011 | No Comments

The Indian Head Massage Its origins stem from an Indian remedial and grooming practice which had been and continues to be part of the Indian daily ritual for over 4,000 years. The ancient Indians believed that when energy channels become blocked and the flow of positive energy is obstructed, negative energy builds up and increasingly [...]

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The Hot Stone Massage

By on Friday, October 21st, 2011 | Comments Off

Massage The Hot Stone Massage The Hot Stone massage is a therapeutic massage technique in which a heated stone is held by the massage therapist who uses it to apply the customary and traditional Swedish massage strokes. Because they have the tendency to absorb heat and retain it for extended periods of time, the stones [...]

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The Health Benefits of Massage Therapy

By on Friday, October 14th, 2011 | No Comments

The Health Benefits of Massage Therapy In an attempt to understand how and why massage therapy is as effective as it seems to be, scientists and medical researchers from around the world have been studying it for decades. Some characteristics of massage therapy have been conclusively resolved with apparent consensus among the learned scholars, while [...]

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The Hand and Arm Massage

By on Saturday, October 8th, 2011 | No Comments

The Hand and Arm Massage From the moment we wake up until the moment we fall asleep, we all work with our hands, as they are our anatomical tools with which we perform the day-to-day tasks of living; the simple as well as the complex. Some of us use our hands to a greater extent [...]

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The Foot Massage

By on Saturday, October 1st, 2011 | No Comments

The Foot Massage Some 2,500 ago and during Lord Buddha’s time in ancient India, a physician named Jivaka Komarabhacca developed a complex massage system which somehow ended up in Thailand where it was pass on by word of mouth from one generation to the next and is still practiced today in much the same way [...]

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