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This is the 3rd edition of Spa Bodywork: A Guide for Massage Therapists, a textbook originally published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. In this textbook written for today's massage therapist, you’ll learn more than 20 core spa treatments, including salt glows, body wraps, spa foot treatments, and stone massage. In addition, you’ll find that you can mix and match techniques, spa products, themes, and smellscapes for an unlimited number of original spa sessions. Step-by-step directions, illustrated with photographs, show you how to position clients, how to apply and remove products, and how to transition between the phases of a session. Video demonstrations of some spa body treatments bring these techniques to life.

While we discuss wet-room equipment and techniques at various points in the text, the focus is spa treatments in a dry-room setting, emphasizing massage and bodywork. The ability to offer spa services in your massage therapy practice without expensive wet-room equipment opens up several career options in the spa industry. You may decide to work for a luxury spa close to home or overseas. Alternately, you may choose to add bodywork-oriented spa treatments to your massage clinic menus to bring natural products and exceptional services to your clients.

You'll discover how you can bridge the gap for clients who avoid expensive, overly fussy spa experiences and clients who are curious about spa but don’t want to give up their massages. When you sit down to write your spa bodywork menu, review the 28 sample sessions with step-by-step directions for combining core treatments, enhancing treatments, specific products, and smellscapes. The promotional menu descriptions for each sample session make creating your spa bodywork menu a breeze.

You’ll love the stunning visuals in this third edition. Printed textbooks are limited by page number and keep photographs and diagrams to a minimum. This digital edition of Spa Bodywork boasts an amazing 1,154 pictures that make it easier to learn. In the text’s 16-year history, thousands of professional massage therapists and students in spa programs at massage schools have used Spa Bodywork to explore the exciting world of spa while staying true to their identities as massage therapists. We hope Spa Bodywork supports your massage career too.

Unlike regular printed textbooks, Massage Mastery digital textbooks come alive with video, striking imagery, learning games, text translation, listen-along audio, critical-thinking scenarios, instant feedback, and more. Your students are about to “read” their textbooks and like it!

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