On the following pages, you can find out about learn some of the techniques involved in giving a massage - hopefully enough for you to make a start yourself.

Although, in fact, you have already started ...
Everyone massages by instinct

Whoever we are, when we are hurting, it's automatic to rub the pain away. When a baby cries, we hold, rock, & pat to ease distress without thinking if we're doing it "properly". A simple hug and stroke of a friend's back is often more comfort than words. All these things are "massage".

It's been around a long time

There is much evidence that from the earliest times people started to develop some form of touch or massage for healing, improved well-being and protection from injuries. Today's massage therapy combines the caring instinct with modern understanding of our bodies, minds and spirits.
Massage is very powerful

"When receiving a good massage a person usually falls into a mental-physical state difficult to describe. It is like entering a special room until now locked and hidden away; a room the very existence of which is likely to be familiar only to those who practice some form of daily meditation."

George Downing

The sense of touching ...

"The greatest sense in our body is our touch sense. It is probably the chief sense in the process of sleeping and waking; it gives us our knowledge of depth or thickness and form; we feel, we love and hate, are touchy and are touched, through the touch corpuscles of our skin"

J. Lionel Tayler

Benefits of massage include

  • Pain relief from muscle tension, headaches and arthritis

  • Improved circulation, posture, flexibility and digestion

  • Enhanced skin condition

  • Raised self-esteem from caring treatment

  • Reduced fatigue and insomnia

  • Feelings of calm, peace and completeness.

Finding out more ...


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