Massage feels good -- it also reduces stress, eases back pain, relieves depression, reduces high blood pressure, boosts the immune system, and stimulates the mind. Now Healing Massage shows how you can tap into the physical, spiritual, and emotional benefits of healing touch, whatever your previous experience.

With handsome full color photographs and clear, user-friendly text, Healing Massage introduces the traditional holistic concepts of the ancient art of touch. Following a careful, graduated program, this comprehensive guide teaches the skills of massage strokes and pressures, then shows how to combine them in a personalized regimen for overall health, or to treat common ills like stress, headaches, muscle cramps, pain and fatigue. This beautifully designed book:
-- Combines the spiritual benefits of touch with the healing practice of massage
-- Includes a short course on chi, energy fields, chakras, and the body's energy centers
-- Demonstrates all of the basic massage techniques, including kneading, circling, and effleurage
-- Provides specific massage programs to relieve common ailments
-- Is illustrated with more than 150 full color photographs
-- Makes the perfect follow-up to the author's Complete Guide to Massage (Plume), with 40,000 copies in print and a backlist pace of nearly 1,000 copies a month.

For every part of the body and for every level of skill, Healing Massage provides the key for soothing the body, invigorating the mind, and attaining a total sense of well-being.