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Detracting From a Session
... birds in her massage room, and they really take away from the experience. Can I tell her they bother me? It is her office after all. ... to Nina McIntosh, ethics expert and author of The Educated Heart : “By all means, you should speak up about anything that ...
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Mind, Body and Spirit
... chairs, in your spa rooms, and, in fact, everywhere you take the profession. Not the trunk and peanuts kind. No, this animal is metaphorical ... a dangerous thing,” writes McIntosh in her new book The Educated Heart . She admonishes it’s not appropriate to be a spiritual ...
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Try a Little Tenderness
... as a massage therapist would make a difference. For one of the only times in her career, intimidation was looming. It was 1997 and behind ... TMJ pain) are removed, or at the very least, reduced, my educated guess is that the body will always seek homeostasis, or its optimum ...
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Informed Consent
... above his injured knees for several minutes. He wonders when the massage will start. As professionals, we know our clients should ... including deep tissue and energy work. Unless we’ve educated clients about these, and clients have agreed to them, they may wind up ...
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Sharing Common Ground
... Some years ago, I wrote an article for the New York State Society for Medical Massage Therapists titled “Counseling ... Rolfing experience with Ed Maupin, a clinical psychologist educated at the University of Chicago. “His manipulations felt more like an ...
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Touch Therapy With Infants and Their Mothers
... doors when I became a certified infant massage instructor in the Perinatal and Neonatal Units at St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., ... hugely different than its mother’s uterus. If parents are educated, they are more able to help their baby cope and to be an advocate for ...
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Massage and the Cancer Patient
... Like most attorneys, Jo Anne Adlerstein is a fiend for the kind of research that can make or break a case. So when she was diagnosed ... Doctors and other health care professionals must be educated about the benefits of bodywork for cancer patients, just as ...
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Making the Most of Your Massage
... It may seem like all you have to do to get the most out of a massage is show up, relax, and let the massage therapist do ... experience as a bodyworker. She’s the author of The Educated Heart: Professional Guidelines for Massage Therapists, Bodyworkers and ...
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Guided Imagery and Massage
... For massage therapists, there is no mistaking the connection between body and mind. It’s evident in each day’s ... in hospitals and clinics. For example, the Cleveland Clinic Heart Center offers a healing program to patients and families that focuses on ... something that most of us have never really been educated in. Most of us have never been taught to use our imagination for ...
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The Body Knows
... One best-selling author isn’t shy about touting the benefits of massage. Mary Pipher, psychotherapist and author, makes it a ... to think about their bodies in new ways. “Women are educated to think, ‘Am I attractive?’ ‘Am I thin?’ and maybe ‘Am I ...