Posts Tagged ‘massage’
Beyond the Immune System: Making History with Massage Part 2
Let’s take a moment for reverie. For a minute just imagine that you are receiving an incredible massage. Not just a good massage – an incredible massage, anywhere in or out of this universe, from anyone or anything. Enjoy imagining receiving your most ideal, incredible massage. (Please breathe and pause). My guess, from having talked…
Read MoreAnatomy Review: Latissimus Dorsi
by David Lauterstein Origin: sacrum, iliac crest, L5-T7, R 10-12, inferior angle of scapula, Insertion: Intertubercular grove of humerus, Action: Extension,medial rotation of humerus, adduction of humerus, depression of shoulder girdle, lower fibers depress ribcage, especially in coughing. Just as it may be said that we reach out from our guts –insofar as pectoralis major…
Read MoreMassage and the Impact of Touch: Inspiration
This beautiful passage was written by the French philosopher Jacques Lusseyran in his book, And There Was Light. At the age of seven, Professor Lusseyran lost his sight due to a childhood accident. This passage has become a classic in the understanding of the deeper impact of touch. Inspiration When I had eyes, my fingers…
Read MoreZero Balancing: Special Donkeys
By Zanna Heighton Zero Balancing has been my inspiration for over 25 years. There’s not much you can’t work out with the Zero Balancing principles that its originator, Dr. Fritz Smith, teaches alongside the manual skills. When I started looking at the principles closely, I came to the conclusion that they resonate with the…
Read MoreMassage in the Recording Studio
For years, I’ve enjoyed playing guitar to inspire students even more when they practice. My background and degree before massage was in music composition and improvisation. And for years people have asked me, “Do you have a recording”? I didn’t. I enjoy what gets spontaneously created in the moment in the classroom. But then I woke up one morning…
Read MoreAnatomy Article: Quadriceps
By David Lauterstein Origin:Rectus femoris: Anterior inferior iliac spine; Vastus lateralis and medialis: Linea aspera; Vastus Intermedius: Lateral and anterior surface of femur, Insertion:Tibial tuberosity (via patella ligament), Action:Rectus femoris: hip flexion, knee extension (Excessive: compression of hip) The“Vasti:” knee extension (Excessive: patellar subluxation), Antagonist: Hamstrings The quadriceps always have struck me as being rather…
Read MoreHow to get 57 Massages in 6 Months
The other day we began a new class. One of the teachers welcomed the students saying, “This course is going to be the best time in your life. Because you will get, in the next months, the most massage you will ever get in your whole life.” And I thought, “Yeah, he’s absolutely right!” Massage…
Read MoreMassage and Alternative Medicine
I wonder sometimes in articles on alternative medicine why massage isn’t mentioned more prominently. It is, BY FAR, the most utilized of all alternative therapies. I suppose that may mean it’s not “news”. But massage therapy and bodywork, especially when practiced at a high level, is so powerful. I suspect research will eventually show regular…
Read MoreAnatomy Review: Back of the Future – Future of the Back
Most people don’t know much about their bodies. As a result, we live with suffering individually and as a society suffer from the symptoms of “psycho-physical illiteracy”. Most of the physical suffering happens in the back. Lower, middle, and upper back problems account for most worker absentee-ism in the U.S. – as well as most client complaints…
Read MoreMassage School Graduate’s Dream Comes True – in Germany!
by Lauren Palmour, Graduate from the June, 2009 program Working in Europe was a dream of mine that I’ve had for years. So when I found this job through one of my Lauterstein-Conway Classmates Dawn Page, I was ecstatic. It’s a job at a Military Resort at the base of the Bavarian Alps, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen…
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