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Basic Massage Therapy Sequences
This is a small collection of massage sequences that can be performed by
almost anyone.
       
Massage Therapy Links
Massage & Bodywork
Cancer Resources
Community Building
Education Theory and Learning Styles
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food for thought for those who like to
ponder and debate various educational
strategies for massage. Much of what we
encounter in such discussions is simplistic
and reactive. Far less frequently do people
delve into understanding the diversity of
learning styles and strategies to discuss
how to best train and encourage kinesthetic
practitioners. |
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John Abbott — 21st century learning
initiative - The Child is Father of the Man |
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John Abbott — Battery Hens, or Free Range
Chickens: What Kind of Education for What
Kind of World |
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Alfie Kohn — Articles and Books on Teaching,
Parenting, and Managing, from the
author of
The Case Against Standardized Testing:
Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools |
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Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence by Gerald
Grow, Ph.D. |
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Critical Thinking Resources: An Annotated
Bibliography, Montclair State
University |
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Linda Darling-Hammond on:The Purpose of
Education |
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Education and Training: Some Differences
Dr. John A. Kline, Air University Review 36,
No. 2, January-February 1985. |
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ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and
Vocational Education (ERIC is the
Educational Resources Information Center) |
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ERIC Digest ED312773 — Alternatives to
Standardized Educational Assessment. |
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ERIC Digest ED284910 — Minimum Competency
Testing. Update. |
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Exploring Learning Styles and Instruction by
Karen Hood |
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Facts On standardized tests and assessment
alternatives by Constance Weaver —
the Michigan English Language Arts Framework
project |
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Harvard University's Project Zero |
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ERIC Digest ED350487 — Higher Order Thinking
Skills in Vocational Education by
Sandra Kerka |
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Howard Gardner on: Being Educated (in 2010) |
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Howard Gardner on: Unresolved Issues |
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Howard Gardner — On Teaching for
Understanding |
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Howard Gardner — Truth, Beauty, and
Goodness: Education for All Human Beings |
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How People Learn: Bridging Research and
Practice National Research Council |
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Learning Styles -- West Ed |
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Mel Levine —All Kinds of Minds A
nonprofit institute for the understanding of
differences in learning. |
| Mel Levine —Articles by
S.F. Chronicle columnist Joan Ryan on Levine
and his education perspectives.
It Takes All Kinds and
Lighting the Path to Excellence |
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Meritocracy's Crooked Yardstick —
from
Standardized Minds: the High Price of
America's Testing Culture and What We Can Do
to Change It by Peter Sacks |
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National Center for Research in Vocational
Education (NCRVE) |
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NCRVE — Using Alternative Assessments in
Vocational Education MDS–946 |
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The New Conversations About Learning —
Insights From Neuroscience and Anthropology,
Cognitive Science and Work-Place Studies
by Theodore J. Marchese |
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New Horizons for Learning: Welcome to The
Building A very comprehensive
resource on teaching and learning. |
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New Horizons for Learning -- A Multiple
Intelligences Bookshelf |
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New Dimensions of Learning (David Lazear,
MI) |
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Performance-Based Assessment and Educational
Equity, Harvard Educational Review,
Volume 64 Number 1, Spring 1994 by Linda
Darling-Hammond, Teachers College, Columbia
University |
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Random Thoughts of Louis Schmier
Louis Schmier is a Professor of History at
Valdosta State University in Valdosta,
Georgia. He is an inspirational teacher and
philosopher. |
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| Educational psychologist
Howard Gardner has called physics education
research the smoking gun in terms of
students being able to achieve academic
success without gaining deeper
understanding. |
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Research in Physics Education—Richard Hake |
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Research in physics Education —L.C.
McDermott |
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Research in Physics Education —Edward F.
Redish |
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Peter Schrag —High Stakes are for Tomatoes |
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Charles Schwab Learning Foundation —Teach
Each |
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Situated Cognition and the Culture of
Learning John Seely Brown, Allan
Collins, and Paul Duguid |
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Standardized Testing is Undermining the
Goals of Reform By Marilyn Bizar —
North Central Regional Educational
Laboratory |
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Teaching NLP How To Be Consciously
Unconsciously Skilled, Richard
Bolstad -- When you really learn how to
teach, you teach how to learn |
Exercise Physiology
Fibromyalgia Resources
Integrative Healthcare
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Center for Healing and Wellness
Center for Healing and Wellness is a 25 year
old nonprofit organization providing family
oriented psychosocial services to adults,
children and families affected by serious
illness. |
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Center for Mind-Body Medicine |
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ChiroWeb Columnists |
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Health in Common
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Health Medicine Forum email list. Health
Medicine Forum is a non-profit educational
foundation with the mission of promoting
"Health Medicine" with a focus on
Alternative, Complementary, Integrative and
Holistic Health Care. |
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HealthWorld Online |
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HealthWorld Online -- Chaitow's Bodywork
Masterclass |
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HealthWorld Online -- Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome |
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The Lymphatic System —A Review by
Professor Harry Greer - Cayuga Community
College |
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The Lymphatic System —A Review by
Jim Swan, Adj. Asst. Prof. of Biology,
University of New Mexico |
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Medscape — Provides clinicians and
other healthcare professionals with the most
timely source of clinical information that
is highly relevant to their patients and
practice |
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Naropa Institute, Oakland Campus
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National Center for Complementary and
Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) - National
Institutes of Health (NIH) |
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Gateway to Neurology at Massachusetts
General Hospital |
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Neuromuscular Disease Center, Washington
Univ. School of Medicine |
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Physical Therapist Online |
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PubMed -- National Library of Medicine's
Search Service |
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PubMed —Complementary and Alternative
Medicine on PubMed |
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Scientific Support for Massage and Bodywork
When the Office of Alternative Medicine
at NIH invited applications for its initial
wave of research grants, eighty-five of the
450 applications were for massage related
studies, the largest number of any modality.
Of the first thirty grants awarded, the
following four dealt with massage therapy: |
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The Mind and the Body are the Same Thing
(an article on mind-body connections by
Leonard Holmes, Ph.D for about.com with many
links) |
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White House Commission on Complementary and
Alternative Medicine Policy (WHCCAMP) |
Music
Psychology and Social Research Methods
Small Business Resources
Social-Sector / Nonprofit Resources
Supplies
Trauma & Stress
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Braddock Body Process — Traditional
therapeutic approaches to treating trauma
survivors focus on survivors' words about
their mental processes. The Braddock Body
Process®, described in Body
Voices, was developed in response to the
author's observation that many survivors
have no voice to express the kind of anger,
sadness, frustration, or pain they
experience. Instead, they suffer in silence. |
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The Focusing Institute — Focusing
(Eugene Gendlin) consists of specific steps
for getting a body sense of how you are in a
particular life situation. It begins with
the body and occurs in the zone between the
conscious and the unconscious. Peter Levine
(Waking the Tiger) uses the "felt sense"
work of focusing in healing trauma. |
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Foundation for Human Enrichment —
Peter Levine (Waking the Tiger) |
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The Institute for Authentic Process Healing
— A nonprofit educational foundation |
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International Society for Traumatic Stress
Studies |
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McKinnon Institute — Trauma and Stress
Bibliography |
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National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder — a division of the Veterans
Administration —An authoritative source of
information on post-traumatic stress
disorder (PTSD), with over a hundred fact
sheets and a wealth of published articles,
videos, and information for researchers and
clinicians |
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Sidran Traumatic Stress Foundation |
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V-Day: Until the Violence Stops —
V-Day is a global movement to stop violence
against women and girls. V-Day is a palpable
energy, a fierce catalyst that promotes
creative events to increase awareness, raise
money, and revitalize the spirit of existing
anti-violence organizations. V-Day helps
these organizations to continue and to
expand their core work, while we generate
broader attention for the fight to stop
worldwide violence. |
Women's Health
| Breast Care —Material
on common Abnormalities in Normal
Development and Involution (ANDIs) of breast
tissue and on the importance of and
techniques for promoting good lymph drainage
of the tissues. Also see related material in
the bibliography under specialized facilitations. |
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Self Care for Your Breasts |
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Breast Massage, by Robin Cunningham with
illustrations by Lyn De La Mott |
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Breast Massage for Better Health - a
possible prevention measure to help avoid
Breast Cancer |
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Dressed To Kill: The Link Between Breast
Cancer and Bras |
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Understanding Breast Changes — A Health
Guide for All Women — National
Institute of Health. Understandably, women
are concerned about getting breast cancer,
and this concern prompts them to watch for
breast changes. Breast changes are common.
Even though most are not cancer, they can be
worrisome. This information is designed to
help you with these concerns. |
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| General Care |
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The Women's Complete Healthbook - The
American Medical Women's Association |
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Women's Health Interactive
Providing information on gynecology,
infertility, menopause, osteoporosis, and
breast cancer |
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| Menopause |
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Menopause - Doctor's Guide to the Internet |
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Women's Wellness - Menopause Research |
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| Osteoporosis —Massage
can be part of a nutrition and exercise
program aimed at preventing osteoporosis
and, with appropriate caution about
pressure, part of nuturing care for those
diagnosed with osteoporosis. |
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Ben Benjamin's Corner - Osteoporosis
(Column from Massage Therapy Journal,
Summer 2001) |
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Google Directory of Osteoporosis Links |
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HealthWorld Online — Complementary and
Alternative Care for Osteoporosis |
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Learn About Osteoporosis (.com) |
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National Osteoporosis Foundation |
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Osteoporosis Online of Canada |
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Winona Osteoporosis Center |
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| Sports & Exercise |
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Strength Training and Female Athletes
by Charles I. Staley, B.Sc., MSS (Myodynamics) |
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Women's Sports Foundation |
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