The Complete Guide to Thai Massage: sen | herbal packs | 4 positions Paperback – July 26, 2017

This is an excellent guide to Thai Massage by a top instructor.

Great guide for Thai massage

This book has great photos and descriptions for various traditional Thai massage techniques for prone, supine, side lying and seated. It also covers contraindications, anatomy diagrams, sen lines, Thai herbal compress and Tok Sen. I also recommend the The Complete Guide to Thai Massage DVD by Elefteria Mantzorou as a companion to this book.

Really helpful book of this ancient chiropractic method. Nicely structured and pictured. The author is quite detailed and experienced. Thai massage is a deeply therapeutic and dynamic bodywork for all.

This is a great book on Thai massage. I have just came back from Thailand and looking forward to giving it a go here!

Starting on side 14, and nearly throughout the book, on all of the chapters concerning massage, we get many of the known doctor drawings, and some of the Asian kind of drawing, showing the actual part of the body. And after these, then on each of the following pages, we then get big photos, or double photos, mostly with put on lines, shoving the mowing direction which we read about on the lines down on the side.On these sides there are around 210 pictures (hard to count with only my left hand), and in all of these pictures we see that it’s the author who shows us how the massage work should be carried out in praxis.Concerning the face massage, we don’t see her in work, as she would shadow for the camera. So instead we see 5 pictures with the pushing points, and on the following side we then get 6 small Thai drawings of the face, which shows acupressure points, and which turn out to be the same. I books we read that acupressure are weaker activating than by massage; but besides we also have acupuncture, often at the same points.On the side 247 start 4 side concerning “Tok sen”, a method like using a light hammer for rhythmical taps on the body or head. And we are told that it originates this method came during the Lanna Kingdom (1292-1775 AD). Only one time I have tried it, out here in Thailand.On the following sides we there get the “Lu pra kob”, this concerning the wet warm bags hold on the actual part of the body. I have tried it many times. And in this connection, we see drawing, and short texts, concerning the 14 herbs which are used in that regard. Good information about the herbs. And then preparation and 1 picture when in work.As a side remark. On the first 11 side in the book we get a few historical information. For example, about King Thaksin, I would say the best king in Thailand’s history, who among other finally throw the Burmese. But in 1782, only 49 years old, was executed by the first king in the present king family, where we now have king number 10, when Thaksin wanted to be much, which he earlier had been during 3 years. Then we read that king Rama III, in 1832 ordered the known medical text to be written on a stone. Of course, it’s correct that he ordered it made, but in the books which I have read, before this, we read that in 1832 people were told that then this stone had been “discovered”, and that it should have been made by at named king back there around year 1,100 or 1,200 AD.The book is excellent, and I have bought it to a small hospital where I now go for massage and acupuncture. Concerning massage, I have been told that there are only 2 grades of acupuncturist educations, either 1 day with 8 hours or 2 days with 16 hours. So, without doubt, by the book the acupuncturists can get more ideas. I saw this after showing them pictures from other books.