Aryana Libris

Author : Gold Richard
Title : Thai massage A traditional medical technique Mosby's massage career development series
Year : 1998

Link download : Gold_Richard_-_Thai_massage.zip

Foreword to the Second Edition. The healing fostered by touch therapy is immediate, direct, and nuanced. The contact between two people is always unique and nonreplicable. The shifts in body and mind initiated by healing massage depend on countless subtle nuances and nonverbal negotiations between hands and body. Each civilization and culture has developed its own style and tradition that is a condensation and simplification of the inexpressible details that make bodywork such a subtle domain for healing. As the world develops an ever-increasing cross-cultural dialogue, it is important that the different approaches to massage learn from one another. Every approach can potentially increase the sensitivity of practitioners and their abilities to foster healing. The first edition of Dr. Richard Gold’s Thai Massage: A Traditional Medical Technique was a breakthrough event for Thai massage. Thai bodywork’s touch and voice were finally easily and authentically accessible in the west. The publication of a second revised edition of Dr. Richard Gold’s Thai Massage, now the recognized classic in the field, is a visible demonstration that more health care practitioners are seeking training in Thai massage. Many are undoubtedly trained in other massage traditions and are learning to expand their repertoire and sensitivity. Some may become primarily practitioners of Thai massage. But in any case, this expanded knowledge and skill set will benefit many patients and clients. Practitioners will have new sensitivities and patients will have more options. Besides its practical and therapeutic value, Thai massage will have an important influence on the entire Western encounter with Asian medicine. This book is valuable for any Western practitioner seeking to learn any form of Eastern healing. Drawing on indigenous traditions, Thai massage also represents an engagement and absorption of knowledge derived from China and India. This Thai encounter with its giant neighbors has important lessons to teach Westerners as we now encounter and absorb Chinese and Indian healing. How did the Thai absorb the Chinese idea of meridian pathway or the Indian idea of Chakras and still remain uniquely Thai? How does knowledge become global but still remain infused with local meaning and genuineness? These are important lessons in Thai massage on what it means to learn from other cultures, yet still remain authentic to local traditions. This second edition emphatically reminds us that Dr. Gold’s Thai Massage has become an important landmark for anyone who wants to learn from the East or learn how to learn from the East. Ted J. Kaptchuk Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Author, The Web That Has No Weaver: Understanding Chinese Medicine. ...