Thai Step-by-step Massage: the Perfect Introduction to Using Massage, Yoga and Accupressure to Balance the Body's Natural Energies, with Easy-to-follow Techniques Shown in 400 Photographs - Softcover

Nicky Smith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780191650 ISBN 13: 9781780191652

Publisher: Southwater, 2012

Synopsis

Updated in 2017. This is the perfect introduction to using massage, yoga and acupressure to balance the body's natural energies, with easy-to-follow techniques shown in 400 photographs. It is a unique approach to unlocking your inner energy using a combination of yoga stretches and pressure-point work. You can gain greater awareness of your body and mind, to improve your physical health and find a new spiritual stillness and strength. It includes a complete body routine to follow for a total in-depth treatment, plus shorter routines to concentrate on specific areas of the body. It features bodywork specially devised for pregnant women and older people. It provides bodywork to ease everyday complaints such as headaches and an aching back. All techniques are illustrated with step-by-step photographs, with more than 400 photographs in total. This powerful form of body work uses the body's own energy lines, combining gentle yoga stretches with massage techniques and also introducing elements of other popular healing approaches, including acupressure and reflexology. The book begins by outlining this ancient healing therapy, its origins and objectives, and then explains and demonstrates the elements and requirements of a typical session. The core of the book is a comprehensive full body treatment, working through each area of the body sequentially. With over 400 specially taken photographs, this is the perfect guide to the subject, providing absorbing background information and clearly illustrated step-by-step routines.

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About the Author

Nicky Smith is a highly regarded teacher of Northern-style Thai massage in the UK and Thailand. She is a recognised teacher with the Sunshine Network and her school, Bodywisdom School of Thai Massage, is endorsed by the Institute of Complementary and Natural Medicine and the Traditional Thai Yoga Massage Association. Nicola trained extensively in Thailand with two leading figures in Traditional Thai massage: Asokananda and Pichet Boothumme. Her approach to teaching has developed from over 15 years of richly varied work with yoga, integrative massage and energy work techniques. Nicola s teaching focuses on showing students how to listen and respond to the Bodymind and in so doing open themselves to greater knowledge, self-awareness and a heightened sense of health and well-being.

Edition details

• Publisher: Southwater
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1780191650
• ISBN 13: 9781780191652
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128