Massage

Many massage therapists have the intuitive sense that the body is a whole - yet Western anatomy is taught muscle by muscle - What would this single muscle do if it were the only one on the body? Useful information, to be sure, but it tends to divide the body up, and not give a sense of the whole.

And every massage therapist has had the experience of work in one area of the body affecting something at quite a distance from where the work was given.

Anatomy Trains provides a map for the connections within the unitary fascial web in which all of these individual muscles live. The communication along the fascial fabric allows work in one spot to be transferred to another. The lines show common pathways for that communication.

Here is what a few experts in this field have to say about Anatomy Trains:

Leon Chaitow, ND, DO
Erik Dalton, Ph.D.
Deane Juhan, LMT
Whitney Lowe, Director of OMERI
Robert Schleip, Ph.D. and Rolfing Instructor

Conversation with Deane Juhan	View
Interview with Deane at IASI '05 (audio; 4,840 KB)
Deane on Bodywork	View
Archival talk by Deane Juhan from 1995 (video; 8,180 KB)
Interview with Deane 2000	View
Tom Myers talks to Deane about the future of bodywork at the dawn of the current millennium (file; )
The Short Term Path	View
Just because you work in a spa setting dosn't mean you can't effect big change. Article by Tom in Massage and Bodywork, April/May 2006. (file; 1,300 KB)
The Dread Levator Scapula	View
Making more sense of this muscle and how it relates to your client. Article in Massage and Bodywork Magazine, Oct./Nov. 2001 (file; 210 KB)

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