Massage Therapy Concepts and Modalities | Page 8

Body Language | Conscious and Unconscious Communication
Body Language is a type of conscious and/or unconscious non-verbal communication in which specific physical behaviors, physical postures, organs, and/ [ ... ]

What Is Mind-Body Therapy? | Concepts, Aims, and Modalities
Mind-Body Therapy (or MindBody Therapy) — sometimes synonymously referred to as Somatic Therapy — is a general term for a variety of heali [ ... ]

Wheel of Consent and Massage Therapy | Relationship and Interaction
The Wheel of Consent — sometimes also called the Circle of Consent — is a model developed by sexologist and intimacy coach Betty Martin. I [ ... ]

Thai Massage versus Sports Massage | Difference and Similarity
There are some interesting similarities between Thai Massage and Sports Massage, but also very big differences. But let’s first take a quick loo [ ... ]

What Is a Trauma Informed Practice? | Massage, Bodywork, and Somatic Therapy
In the context of massage, bodywork, and somatic therapy treatment offerings you may read that the practitioner or therapist states that they run a Tr [ ... ]

What Is Gay Massage and What to Expect?
In this post, we’ll discuss the phenomenon of Gay Massage offerings, also called Gay Male Massage or Gay Men Massage, that is, we’ll look [ ... ]

Lower Back Pain, Core Muscles, and Muscular Compensation
One of the common remedies proposed for low back pain — which can have many causes — is to strengthen our so-called core muscles, which ar [ ... ]

Massage Therapy and Bodywork – Short Term versus Long Term Results
In descriptions about the efficacy of specific massage therapy treatments or bodywork practices we too often see an exaggeration or even complete fict [ ... ]

Massage Therapy and Bodywork – Job or Calling?
Looking more closely at the tradition of massage and bodywork in Asia, we can conclude that giving treatments, or teaching a modality, was never seen [ ... ]

Abdominal Massage for Constipation and Excessive Gas
Abdominal Massage can be a remedy for a very broad range of physical and emotional discomforts and ailments. Nevertheless, one of the most popular goa [ ... ]