Massage Text Books

Massage Textbooks for Basic Massage School

Basic Clinical Massage Therapy: Integrating Anatomy and Treatment (Lww Massage Therapy & Bodywork Educational Series.)

Job's Body: A Handbook for Bodywork (Third Edition) One of the best books on how the body works. Reads more like a story than a text book but a must read for any massage therapist.

Theory and Practice of Therapeutic Massage (Hardcover) (THEORY & PRACTICE OF THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE)

Introduction to Massage Therapy (Lww Massage Therapy & Bodywork Educational Series)

Mosby's Essential Sciences for Therapeutic Massage: Anatomy, Physiology, Biomechanics and Pathology (Mosby's Essential Sciences for Therapeutic Massage)

Advanced Massage Texts

Clinical Massage Therapy: Understanding, Assessing and Treating Over 70 Conditions

Orthopedic Massage: Theory and Technique I highly recommend Whitney Lowe's work and trainings to anyone interested in doing more technically oriented massage work.

Massage Ethics

The Educated Heart: Professional Guidelines for Massage therapists, bodyworkers and movement teachers by Nina McIntosh. Building a practice is more about setting professional boundaries, creating a healing container and learning to serve rather than "fix" your clients. Nina is a pioneer in the field of supervision, mentoring and peer groups. The future of the profession lies in creating a support network to educate the public as to what massage/touch can really do.

Why Women Earn Less: How to Make What You're Really Worth by Mikelann Valterra. This book could be really titled "Why massage therapists earn less". Getting a hold on your money issues is imperative in this profession. You don't need to live in poverty or give your services away to be a success. Learning to ask for the money you need to be a successful business is what it it all about.

How Can I Help? Stories and Reflection on Service by Ram Dass. If you are thinking of becoming a massage therapist it will really help you to begin looking at the reasons why you want to help. It is often a deeper need that you are trying to get met through building a massage practice. While most massage therapists do have these deeper needs it is important to get those met outside of one's practice or business.