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Perfect Massage with Massage Stone

Monday, July 28th, 2008

As you stir the pot carefully, the pleasant aroma of the colorful chicken soup tells you that it is almost finished. You have spent the past few hours preparing the meal. First you made the broth for the soup. Then you added the ingredients. Now the [...]

Manual Lymphatic Drainage

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

Developed in the 1930s by a Danish massage therapist, Dr Emil Vodder, manual lymphatic drainage (MLD) is a gentle, but amazingly powerful, technique that consists of slow, delicate, repetitive movements. Dr Vodder and his wife discovered that gently palpating and moving the skin could stimulate the [...]

Self Massage

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

Now that you have been introduced to all the basic strokes, I am sure you can hardly wait to put the moves together into a complete sequence. Don’t worry if you don’t have a willing partner close at hand, because doing a massage on yourself is the perfect alternative! By practicing on [...]

Swedish Massage Tips

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

Although massage has been around for centuries in Eastern cultures, it didn’t really take off in the West until the 19th century. Under the influence of a Swedish physiologist and fencing master, Pir Henrik Ling (1776-1839), a system was developed that combined massage with physical exercise. [...]

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