Healing Massage for Babies and Toddlers

Julie Woodfield

Softbound

$24.00

Loving touch and bodily contact is essential for the healthy development of babies and toddlers. The author of this book explains when massage can help and shows the connection between tactile stimulation and physiological reactions in children.

Julia Woodfield introduces various massage techniques:

• Leboyer’s method,
• RISS,
• kangaroo,
• and polarity

Photographs and illustrations help demonstrate these methods.

This book is wonderful for parents!

Includes 60 photographs and 30 illustrations to demonstrate step-by-step methods.

From the Heart Through the Hands
The Power of Touch in Caregiving

Dawn Nelson, author of Making Friends with Cancer

Softbound, large format

$23.95

This book is for people who like to touch and be touched, and for those who long to be touched more. It is for those who feel comfortable communicating through their hands and for those who wish to feel more ease in transmitting care through touch. It is for people whose responsibility or job or gift it is to oversee or to help take care of the elderly and ill members of our society. It is for sons and daughters caring for aging parents with physical impairments that effect a role reversal in a lifetime of relating. It is for those courageous men and women who continue caring for spouses or mothers or fathers with dementia related diseases such as Alzheimer's after such a disease has robbed that loved one of the ability to remember the relationship he or she once shared with the caregiver. It is for anyone who wishes to use touch more consciously and compassionately in relating to the elderly, the ill, and the dying.

Dawn Nelson, M.F.A., C.M.T., Founder of COMPASSIONATE TOUCH® for those in Later Life Stages, is an internationally known speaker, author and touch educator and a pioneer in the effort to utilize gentle touch massage in palliative care.
Dawn's own cancer diagnosis, after a decade of working with the seriously ill, was, she says, "ultimately a blessing in disguise" giving her a healthier lifestyle, new perspectives and a continued commitment to help enhance quality of life for those in later life stages.

Medicine Hands
Massage Therapy for People with Cancer

Gayle MacDonald, M.S., L.M.T.

Softbound, large format

$23.95

Medicine Hands debunks a pervasive health myth that massage is anathema for those suffering with cancer. The idea that cancer can metastasize as a result of massage is not rooted in any science. This book cites clinical evidence that proves just the opposite. Touch and massage are vital to a cancer patient’s health and well-being.

Medicine Hands is a practical book written for both health professionals and the lay person. Research is highlighted with anecdotes, stories, and vignettes of cancer patients, massage therapists, caregivers, hospice workers and other health professionals. Practical information is presented on administering touch, drug-related considerations, providing care at home, and dealing with hospital and hospice situations.

Medicine Hands is an invaluable resource for:

• Massage therapists and other touch therapists (e.g. Therapeutic Touch and Reiki)
• Cancer patients and their caregivers and families
• Oncologists and cancer treatment centers
• Natural health clinics
• Massage and other alternative medicine schools and educational settings
• Health care professionals—nurses, doctors, hospice workers—who come into contact with cancer patients

Gayle MacDonald, M.S., L.M.T, a long time health educator and veteran massage therapist, finds that her personal and professional interests are inseparable. It was after suffering ill health herself that she became the health and physical educator she had always wanted to be. She continues to teach in her native Oregon, helping others to expand their awareness that in massage they are performing a service that integrates the sacred with the mundane, and that they not only touch their patients body, but also their heart, mind and soul.