DVDs, Music, & Books

This massage video covers the hips, back, belly, shoulders & neck. Learn to alleviate pain with 53 highly effective neuromuscular techniques! Get a 3-dimensional view of the muscles, which have been modeled out of clay and feature computer generated trigger point referral overlays. This great video not only covers neuromuscular therapy, but includes functional assessment work, so you know where to work, and how. Along with range of motion and resistive tests, you will learn basic postural...

Help your horse jump better, move faster, and run longer, by using your horse's responses to guide your work! In this 75 minute hands-on guide, Jim Masterson shows 24 specific techniques to loosen muscles and increase performance, as well as over 30 tips for a successful treatment. Most importantly, Jim shows how to use the horse's response to guide your treatment. Once you know the 8 responses to look for, you will know exactly where to work, and for how long. This is a step by step...

This educational stone massage DVD is 70 minutes long and covers five routines, including: The Sports massage routine which demonstrates how to use your massage stones in a pre-event sports massage. It also covers tennis elbow, knee pain and shoulder issues. This includes hot and cold stones at the same time for joint pain.  The Pregnancy massage routine combines warm stones and a side posture massage.  It is also great for anyone who has difficulty laying on their back.  The...

This healing stone massage dvd is taught by instructor Carollanne Chrichton who has been practicing stone massage for over 20 years.  She is also a skilled Ayurvedic practitioner, Yoga instructor, and massage therapist.

The Fire Massage is a rejuvenating and revitalizing massage designed to loosen blocks, relieve stress and energize the body.The Spirit Massage is a gentle stress relieving massage designed to quiet the mind and get the client in touch with their deeper rhythms. The Earth Massage is a deep, muscular massage designed to release tension, loosen muscles and free restrictions.

Earth is a deep muscular massage designed to release tension, loosen and free muscles. This session intigrates Side Posture, Deep Tissue, Neuromuscular Therapy, Myofascial Release, and Swedish Massage. Benefits include muscle lengthening, increased range of motion and improved posture.

The Fire Massage is a rejuvenating and revitalizing massage designed to loosen blocks, relieve stress and energize the body. This video integrates Sports Massage, Active Resistance Stretching,Neuro-lymphatic Reflex Massage, Breath Work, Deep Tissue Therapy and Swedish Massage. Benefits include increased circulation, increased vitality and activation of body systems.

The Spirit Massage is therapeutic massage designed to bring benefits that include stress relief, deep relaxation, and increased mental, emotional and spiritual clarity. It is taught by instructor Jenny Wilmer

Infant massage, exercises, games, karaoke sing-alongs, original animations and a cool soundtrack make "It's Baby Time" a revolutionary way to spend time with your infant! This DVD includes three fun routines plus techniques to address common issues!

This beautiful 90 minute video will guide you through the anatomy of the lymphatic system, the location of nodes and drainage patterns, as well as contraindications and indications for lymphatic drainage massage. Then Sean Riehl leads you step by step through over 60 techniques covering the face and body.With a clear presentation and hundreds of computer graphics, learning Lymphatic Drainage has never been easier.

This DVD covers advanced nerve tension tests that will allow the therapist to precisely evaluate the median, ulnar, and radial nerves to discover exactly where they are impinged. Then Doug Alexander will lead you through over 65 soft tissue techniques. These include myofascial release techniques, fluid (lymphatic) techniques, and muscle release techniques as well as direct nerve gliding and stretching. Each technique is designed to free restrictions along the path of the nerve and normalize...

This DVD shows 16 specific Polarity bodywork sessions, using techniques based on the five elements and three principles of Polarity Therapy.  Learn how to evaluate each client to give them a unique treatment that will target specifically what they need.  Mary Sullivan, and her 30 years of teaching experience will bring your bodywork to a new level using these effective and transformative techniques.  These techniques can be light, deep, or including motion--depending on the...

In this 40 minute DVD, you will learn: Lesson 1: History of Reflexology Lesson 2: Working the 10 foot zones Lesson 3: Working the organ reflexes  Lesson 4: Working the gland reflexes Lesson 5: General foot massage Lesson 6: Working the 10 hand zones Lesson 7: Working the organ reflexes on the hands Lesson 8: Working the gland reflexes on the hands This DVD is a TELLY AWARD WINNER!    Reflexology for the Feet and Hands. Learn to give a wonderful foot and hand massage...

This comprehensive DVD gives you more than two hours of footage detailing 13 sessions that will give you the tools to work with runners, cyclists, swimmers, tennis players and other athletes. Learn about the physiological principles that govern sports massage and the differences between each sport. You get a pre-event session for runners, an inter-event massage for and tennis players and a post-event session for cyclists along with other sessions detailing sequences for many types of injuries....

Learn 3 massage routines utilizing 90 techniques. A clothed compression routine, a Swedish relaxation sequence, and a detailed muscular sequence. Contraindications, using oil, appropriate draping and self care for the practitioner are included.

Instructor Diana Hanes brings technical skills and a clear teaching style together to help you learn to "master the art" of chair massage. She covers advanced techniques and foundational material such as how to properly set up your massage chair, correct bodymechanics necessary for you the therapist to be able to provide long term effective therapy, client - therapist communication, the business of chair massage, and how to adapt your sequence and marketing. After you...

Hypnosis has long been an important tool to therapists working across a broad spectrum of disciplines and specialties. Self-hypnosis, on the other hand, is less well understood, and has been used by only a limited number of psychotherapists over the years. This book is the first of its kind to explore what self-hypnosis is, what it can do for us, how to do it, and the ultimate effects of self-hypnosis.

Now, you can bring the soothing, natural techniques of traditional Thai healing into your own home. Thai Spa Book is a luxuriant, practical entry into the wonderful world of Thai-style relaxation and renewal. With these straightforward recipes anybody can stir up a refreshing tonic, draw the most relaxing bath, or mix a satisfying facial.

The 5 Minute Herb and Dietary Supplement Consult is 400 pages and measures 8.5" by 11". This unique book gives health care professionals a quick reference to herbs, minerals, vitamins, amino acids, probiotics, enzymes, over-the-counter hormones and other dietary supplements commonly used by consumers. The text covers claims, indications, scientific evidence, possible benefits, adverse effects, contraindications, and drug interactions.

Licensed massage therapist, Meade Steadman, illustrates how to incorporate the use of hot and cold stones in full-body massage. Meade, who is also an instrutor, demonstrates how to perform the strokes (petrissage, effleurage and edging) on the different muscle groups from head to toe, while explaining the physiological effects of thermal and cryo therapy, which includes stimulation circulation, relaxing musculature, and reducing inflammation, The use of stones for healing dates back thousands...

In this comprehensive guide showing you the in's and out's of a full body chair massage. Meade Steadman, expert massage therapist, will give you detailed sicusstions of musculature, Meade demonstrated a general full body massage from head to toe, as well as techniques for addressing specific client complaints: headaches, kinked necks, aching shoulders and backs, and carpal tunnel. Massage is demonstrated on male and female models. Meade also touches on different chairs, tools...

Now, you can make your next entrance more eye-catching: try a band around your upper arm, or a fluttering pattern along your waist. This kit will commence your initiation into the mysteries of the ancient practice of henna adornment, a safe, non-permanent, beautiful art form.

The Massage Connection Anatomy & Physiology textbook is focused on the anatomy and physiology needs of massage therapy students and practitioners. It gives extensive coverage of the major body systems- integumentary, skeletal, muscular, and nervous -crucial for massage therapy. It also provides an overview of other body systems so students have a well-rounded understanding of anatomy and physiology.

The first truly professionally produced videos for the massage industry, these broadcast quality multi-camera productions are enhanced with slow-motion, freeze-frame, close-ups, original music, electronic graphics and angled views of the hands-on demonstrations.  They are also conveniently broken into appropriate chapters with review sections, so you can select your own areas of interest for repeated viewing. Filmed at the International Sports Massage Conference, these programs are hosted...

For thousands of years, archetypal labyrinth patterns have been used as a powerful tool for resolving problems, access to inner peace, and spiritual alignment. Included in The Sand Labyrinth are a 10" square sandbox, a double-sided labyrinth that fits perfectly underneath a layer of fine white sand for finger tracing and guide.

In this award-winning video, licensed massage therapist, Meade Steadman, goes deeper into the muscles to relieve tension, improve posture, and restore natural beauty from the inside out. Seeking that "softening effect", Meade demonstrates massage techniques - basic and advanced - on the head and shoulders, following the body's musculature, skeletal structure and the vascular system. This is a must-have, comprehensive video for massage therapists and aestheticians. Throughout the...

This updated reference offers a comprehensive guide to prescribing therapeutic exercise for restoring function. Case studies, accompanied by complete exercise programs (including dosage and sequencing information), address how to choose and teach appropriate exercises, and how to evaluate their effects on desired outcome.

Musical Composition created in the Ohm frequency, harmonizes beautifully with the Ohm Tuning Forks. Listening to the CD There's No Place Like Ohm and the Ohm Tuning Forks together produce a beautiful harmonic or "stereo effect." While listening to the CD, place the forks on your body in specific places where there is tightness to relax the tension. Created without human voice, in the musical key of Ohm, this CD features instead the voices heard in nature through wind instruments and animals...

A new release from Marjorie de Muynck. In the midst of her own holistic and natural healing journey from cancer, Marjorie musically explores the restorative power of Ohm (OM), an earth tone, and the beautiful & healing effects of animal sounds. As a subtly textured wave of sound, the Ohm drone carries and lifts each featured instrument. This beautiful interweaving of natural and animal sounds creates an unhurried dialogue between wind and string instruments, and the earth sounds that inspired...

Travell and Simon's Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction: The Trigger Point Manual is a 2 volume set. The second edition of this definitive reference on myofascial pain and location of trigger points features improved drawings demonstrating Dr. Travell's techniques. Set includes: Volume 1 Upper half of the Body and Volume 2 The Lower Extremities. New features include a that this book has consolidated the previous edition’s two volumes– Upper Extremities and Lower Extremities, both into one...

2nd Edition Seated Massage Technique Video. This is the 2nd Edition of the #1 selling Seated Massage video in the world! A presentation by "one of the true innovators and pioneers of Seated Massage", Massage Today, Sept '05. Raymond Blaylock has been teaching and creating Seated Massage training programs since 1988 for Stress Relief, Clinical and Rehabilitation applications, and for the Salan and Spa market with the AVEDA Corporation. This material is a clear, concise and...

This stone video will cover the basic use of hot and cold stones to produce vascular gymnastics, pleacement of the stones and the care and handling of your stones. In addition you will learn Positive Positioning. . .the correct adjustment of the chair. The video will teach a hands on system for Stress Relief unique to the Seated Stone approach and different from the Seated Massage Technique Video. This is a great video for someone who wants to add to their repertoire of "Stone...

Available as a 9 CEU Home Study Program that includes: Video Manual Test Certification upon successful completion

The Tropical Spa catalogs Asia's most luxurious spas with full color photography and a wide range of stress-busting therapies. The emphasis is on spiritual well-being and natural curatives rather than on modern chemicals and synthetic preparations. Traditional beauty treatments for revitalizing facials, relaxing baths and scrubs, refreshing, healthy tonics and meals, massage oils, blends and techniques, and much more are offered here in an easy to follow manner.

The authors of Understanding Zen believe that enlightenment can and should be accessible to everyone. Their generous book lifts the veils of mystery and esoterica which have enshrouded Zen, revealing the luminous face of a rational, simple and clear profundity which has drawn millions of people to belief.

Chapter 1: Introduction to Fascia Chapter 2: Physiological Effects of Fascial Release Chapter 3: Respiratory Diaphragm Chapter 4: Thoracic Inlet -- Emotional Stress Chapter 5: Visualization & Theory Behind the Technique; Recognizing a Fascial Release Chapter 6: The Pelvis Chapter 7: Pelvic Hand Position Chapter 8: Respiratory Diaphragm Hand Position Chapter 9: Thoracic Inlet Hand Position Chapter 10: Cranial Base Hand Position Chapter 11: Summary of Techniques Chapter 12: Working the Dural...

Chapter 1: PNF Background Information Chapter 2: Spiral/Diagonal Patterns Chapter 3: The Muscle Spindle Chapter 4: The Golgi Tendon Organ Chapter 5: The Techniques of PNF Chapter 6: Hands-on Demonstrations Chapter 7: Step-by-step Review

Chapter 1: Introducing P.S.T. Chapter 2: Moving Exercises Chapter 3: Posterior Positions Chapter 4: Anterior Positions Chapter 5: Breath Awareness Exercises Chapter 6: Exercises to do by Yourself Chapter 7: P.S.T. for Cyclists Chapter 8: Tips for Different Sports

Interview Chapter 1: Pillow Placement Chapter 2: Techniques Chapter 3: Step-by-Step Hands-on Demonstrations Chapter 4: Shoulder Mobilization and Getting Access

Interview Chapter 1: Athletes Common Problems Chapter 2: Trigger Point Work Chapter 3: Scar Tissue Chapter 4: Scar Tissue Physiology Chapter 5: Approaches to Injury Chapter 6: Eccentric Exercises Chapter 7: Local Muscle Spasm Chapter 8: Adhesions Chapter 9: Tennis & Golfers' Elbow Chapter 10: The Achilles Tendon Chapter 11: The Use of Ice

Chapter 1: From Rolfing to Soma Chapter 2: Structural Types Chapter 3: Standing Structural Awareness Exercises Chapter 4: The 10 Sessions of Soma Chapter 5: The 3-Brain Theory Chapter 6: Themes of the Body Chapter 7: Body Reading

Interview Chapter 1: Sports Massage in the Collegiate Setting Chapter 2: The College Sports Massage System Chapter 3: The U. of Florida Sports Massage Setting Chapter 4: How to Get Into Sports Massage Chapter 5: Questions and Answers Chapter 6: Sports Massage: A Bright Future

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Four Areas of Sports Massage Chapter 3: The Local Grass Roots Massage Therapist Chapter 4: Chinese Medicine Chapter 5: Acupressure of the Ear Chapter 6: 1: Large Intest 4 (LI4) 2: Liver 3 (L3) 3: Heart 7 (H7) 4: Spleen 9 (S9) 5: Kidney 1 (K1) Chapter 7: 1: Gall Bladder 34 (GB34) 2: Stomach 36 (S36) 3: Pericardium 6 (P6) Chapter 8: The Back of the Body 1: Bladder 57 (B57) 2: Bladder 40 (B40) 3: Gall Bladder 31 (GB31) 4: Governing Vessel 14 (G14) 5: Governing...