by davidl | Nov 24, 2015 | All Articles
“A Symphony must be like the world – it must contain everything”. – Gustav Mahler Mahler, the great composer, in his Symphony #3 gave titles to the various movements: · “What the Flowers in the Meadow Tell Me” · “What the Animals in the...
by davidl | Jan 31, 2014 | David Lauterstein
Much research is disproving or not yet supporting our assumptions about how we affect the body through massage. Circulation – we may not affect venous return much, even though it’s been a hallmark assumption of Swedish massage Fascia – it’s been shown that fascia...
by Ristine Williams | Mar 14, 2012 | David Lauterstein
by David Lauterstein I once got a greeting card, “On the Family Trip to Nirvana,” with parents sitting in the car’s front seat and two kids in the back, asking their parents, “Are we there yet?” With this next deeper level of the nervous system, we are not at Nirvana...
by Ristine Williams | Mar 14, 2012 | David Lauterstein
When we do our strokes in Deep Massage, when we pause, particularly at the beginning or the end of a stroke, it creates a kind of “window”. These pauses naturally occur at the beginning and near the end of the muscle – at the origin and the insertion. As in most...
by Ristine Williams | Mar 14, 2012 | Anatomy, David Lauterstein
The scalenes are actually the uppermost of the intercostals muscles, those muscles lying between your ribs that assist inhalation and exhalation. However, big surprise, there are no ribs in the neck! Actually a number of books say the scalenes attach to the vestigial...
