We all love to travel and most of us also love to be massaged, so you can envision how very lucky I feel that my life contains both these pleasures. Since my first day of training, I have learned of many different world massage techniques, and the very different but universal ways people heal each other through touch.
My first trip was actually to the British library where I sat studying after following massage back over ancient eras and drawing the conclusion that massage is everywhere from Polynesia to Persia. Japan to the hoagie islands. I discovered how in ancient Greece, Herodotus, teacher of Hippocrates, made massage and exercise cornerstone of the medicine of the day something that modern doctors now support in ancient Rome. Julius Ceaser was pinched daily by a specially trained slave, to alleviate his neuralgic pains. In the 6th century, the physician of Aetius of Amide ordered massage for certain women who do not conceive. This is just what we are beginning to do again today. I also have come across two stories of massage used on women with this problem and both later successfully conceived.
After traveling through history, my real journeys began. In places as diverse as America and Afghanistan, New Zealand and Zanzibar the hammams of Turkey and Hungary and mountain villages of Thailand. I learned everything I could. I found that while we in America work with anatomy and physiology in mind, in the East, people work with concept of balancing energy in the body. I was taught how both methods can be valid that because travel is easy today, we can learn from each other like never before.
A doctor in Afghanistan taught me that a way to establish contact and reassure a patient is to clasp their ankles or wrists, and hold them firmly for a few minutes. He showed me how to stroke softy down the body from the forehead to the feet, to produce a state of total bliss. An Indian midwife taught me how to make deep upward strokes on a mothers abdomen after childbirth.
The cross fertilization and overly distinct diversity between cultures and practices is as obvious as it is beneficial. Culturally diverse rubbing has grown into a practice like no other with its own silent language and vocabulary of strokes and pressures. Modern research is now confirming the power of massage. This is proof of what scientific method now substantiates has been known and tested by observation all over the world. May it be as fulfilling for you as it has been for us.
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