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This book is a self-care and injury prevention manual for bodyworkers. It is intended to provide techniques and ideas to prevent injury. This book also gives solutions to therapists that are injured and provides appropriate steps for therapists to heal and prevent re-injury. Each bodyworker will gain an understanding of the injury and healing process. Advice will be given to help you protect your own energy with breathing, yoga, tai chi, and nutrition. The information on self-care includes self-massage, receiving massage, and restoration of the physical body. Creating Peace with Your Hands is an innovative manual for anyone that uses their hands repetitively. In this book, Karina has given techniques to facilitate the health of body, mind, and spirit. She incorporates an approach to healing that is not only accurate but one that everyone can embrace. The book Creating Peace with Your Hands is brilliant, thought provoking, and inspiring to everyone that reads it.
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About the Author:
Karina Braun has been in the massage therapy and bodywork field for 14 years. She has worked in all aspects of this career. She attended the University of North Texas for her undergraduate studies and then went to Hands on School of Massage in Garland, TX in 1997. She began her career by owning a small hair salon and spa in Texas. Later, Karina decided to study Reiki and began teaching others how to utilize Reiki in order to balance the energetic body of their client. She also received Certification to be a Yoga Instructor in 2001 from Yogamotion. In 2002, Karina relocated to Las Vegas and taught at Dahan Institute of Massage Studies, then went on to work at a world renowned spa on the strip. Karina has firsthand knowledge in many facets of this career, in addition to, experiencing a repetitive strain injury from doing barefoot deep compression massage. Feeling all the emotions that go along with being injured definitely gave her more empathy to help others in this field. Also, Karina has been through many aspects of the medical system and can assist other therapists in the healing of their injuries. The book Creating Peace with Your Hands is compiled from many hours of hands on practical knowledge and a great deal of research on injury and prevention.
Review:
Creating Peace with Your Hands: Injury Prevention and Education for a Healthy Career in Bodywork is a guide for massage therapists and would be therapists who want to use their chosen field in order to maximize the effects that the art of massage can bring to its patient. Creating Peace With Your Hands is a strong pick for those who believe in the power of massage. --James Cox, Midwest Book Review
Creating Peace with Your Hands is a thoughtful and comprehensive reference book for the manual, hands-on therapist. As the need for adequately trained bodyworkers grows, so does the need for a practical and effective daily approach to repetitive stress injuries that sideline and end the careers of too many talented therapists. This volume fills that need. --Renee Gladieux, The Pressure Positive Company
Creating Peace with Your Hands offers a candid depict of how we, as caregivers and healers, injure our own bodies by neglecting the basic principles of body mechanics. I found Karina s book both enlightening and educational. I would highly recommend this book to all who venture into the healing domain. --Deb Lazarski, PT
Creating Peace with Your Hands is a thoughtful and comprehensive reference book for the manual, hands-on therapist. As the need for adequately trained bodyworkers grows, so does the need for a practical and effective daily approach to repetitive stress injuries that sideline and end the careers of too many talented therapists. This volume fills that need. --Renee Gladieux, The Pressure Positive Company
Creating Peace with Your Hands offers a candid depict of how we, as caregivers and healers, injure our own bodies by neglecting the basic principles of body mechanics. I found Karina s book both enlightening and educational. I would highly recommend this book to all who venture into the healing domain. --Deb Lazarski, PT
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- PublisherGet In Touch Publishing
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0981619908
- ISBN 13 9780981619903
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages198
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