Facial Gua sha is a simple and effective anti-aging beauty technique from the Far-East aimed at enhancing the look and feel of your face totally naturally. It involves light scraping techniques on your skin to help enhance and rejuvenate your face and help to combat and prevent wrinkles, eye bags, crow's feet, facial lines and other signs of aging.

Clive Witham, author of 'Gua Sha: A Complete Self-Treatment Guide' and 'Holographic Gua sha', takes you through how your body can influence your face and how you can activate the vitality of your skin and muscle tone through ancient Oriental ideas of health and wellbeing. With over 130 color illustrations, he comprehensively shows you which muscles, channels and points are involved in each case and then how to complete five Gua sha sequences on your face, head, body, arms and legs to optimize your whole face and neck area.

With his holistic approach to beauty, now you can unlock your potential and look and feel the best you can, both on the inside and outside.

Learn how to use simple Gua sha scraping techniques to maintain your health and help to prevent and combat ailments such as headaches, colds, neck and shoulder pain, anxiety, backache, insomnia and depression.

This classic best-selling guide takes you step by step through everything you need to do to treat yourself and others both safely and securely within a holistic vision of health and well-being. It includes anatomical information, muscles, key areas and channels in Chinese medicine and clearly explained techniques for treating your whole body from head to toe, including Facial Gua sha.

A very comprehensive, clearly laid out and written book which is ideal for beginners as well as practitioners, offering simple step by step practical treatments for common conditions. Excellent value. Yoga & Health Magazine

Packed with accessible information and fully illustrated, anyone with an interest in their own health and wellbeing, whether you are just curious or a professional, can benefit from this essential guide.

Facial Gua sha is an elegant anti-aging beauty technique from the world of Chinese medicine which involves targeted light scraping techniques on your skin to help enhance and rejuvenate your face and help to combat and prevent frown lines, worry lines, eye bags, crow's feet, smile lines and other signs of aging.

In this revised edition of the classic Facial Gua sha book, Clive Witham, author of the Gua Sha, Facial Gua sha and Holographic Gua sha series, brings his expertise to show you how your body can influence your face and how you can activate the vitality of your skin and muscle tone through ancient Chinese ideas of the natural world. With sections on Gua sha tools, an introduction to Ecology in Motion and over 100 colour illustrations, he comprehensively shows the muscles, channels and points involved in each part of the face and then how to complete five Gua sha sequences on your face, head, body, arms and legs to optimize your whole face and neck area.

With this ecological approach to beauty, now you can unlock your potential and look and feel your best, both on the inside and outside.

Clive Witham LAc MSc is a licensed acupuncturist and health promotion specialist. He is director of the Komorebi Institute, creator of Ecology in Motion and author of various popular Gua sha books published in 5 languages. He has used Gua sha professionally for over 20 years and runs the Gua sha Center in Barcelona, Spain.

Introducing a fresh, game-changing approach to treating people with Gua sha on the face and body for practitioners and aspiring practitioners in health, wellness, and beauty. Based on the natural science of Chinese medicine and informed by current scientific research and over twenty years of practical experience, Clive Witham unlocks the secrets to treating others.

As director of the Komorebi Institute and creator of Ecology in Motion, he is a pioneer in Gua sha and has published 6 popular books, including Facial Gua sha, Holographic Gua sha, and Self-Healing with Chinese Medicine. In this more technical work, with over 200 references to historical Chinese medicine and Western scientific studies, he systematically reveals his ground-breaking natural approach to Gua sha and how to apply it.

- Identify the universal key features of all Gua sha treatments on the face and body, which can transform your understanding and enable you to give safe, effective treatments with the results you need .

- Learn the practical procedures, tools, skills, and techniques required for professional treatments by health, wellness, or beauty practitioners, such as acupuncturists, manual therapists, estheticians, or massage professionals, but also for informal home care, simply consisting of treating friends and family.

- Understand Gua sha through historical Chinese medicine sources and modern Western science to help you base your treatments on solid, natural foundations.

- Discover a unique integrated way of approaching Gua sha using the accessible language of the natural world and systematically explore 11 focus areas around the body: head, face, neck, shoulders, arms, hands, chest, abdomen, back, legs, and feet.

- Examine 21 common reasons to treat, with clear practical strategies based on modern Gua sha research and extensive experience, including:

Aging featuresPain and discomfortColds and fluHeadachesDepression & anxietyFatigueDigestionNasal ProblemsInsomniaCoughs & breathing problemsHeatstroke & feversCold hands and feetDigestive disordersMenstrual discomfort

With this straightforward, practical approach of looking to the past to inform the present, EIM Gua sha effectively equips you to treat people with Gua sha in any modern situation in the twenty-first century.

The Yakushima Guide is the third edition of this classic must-have guide to Yakushima. Fully updated and still packed full of everything necessary to visit Yakushima. Whatever your budget, you do not want to go without it.

Highlights:

How to get to Yakushima with full details, up-to-date prices, timetables, website and contact details.

Detailed information about how to travel around the island by bus, car, motorbike, bicycle, and on foot.

The best of Yakushima's accommodation from luxurious 5 star resorts to the mountain huts and campsites.

The Food and drink section covers the best restaurants on Yakushima and also includes bakeries, cafes and bars.

Waterfalls, rivers, beaches, parks, hot springs, museums and just about any place you could want to visit on the island are detailed and explained.

16 hiking trails from gentle strolls to major expeditions, including the trail to Jomon Sugi and Miyanoura dake, have their own individual maps and full details of each route.

- Addresses how and why illness in the body occurs according to the natural principles of Chinese medicine

- Shares self-care treatments for a number of common health disorders, from colds and high blood pressure to backache, nausea, menstrual pain, and depression

- Offers clear illustrations and step-by-step instructions for hands-on treatment modalities and techniques such as acupressure, massage, and Gua sha

The human body is a part of nature and as such is governed by the universal principles of the natural world. When we turn to ancient Chinese medicine, we find a unique ecological approach to understanding how our body functions. Basic concepts like yin and yang, the balance of the elements, flow and blockage, dampness and dryness explain the effects of change on our body systems, thus providing tools for how to keep our body healthy and flourishing.

In this detailed and easy-to-follow guide, licensed acupuncturist and health promoter Clive Witham addresses how and why illness in the body occurs and what we can do to nurse ourselves back to health. With clear illustrations and step-by-step instructions, he shares effective and proven self-care treatments for a number of common health disorders, from colds and high blood pressure to backache, nausea, menstrual pain, and depression.

The simple application of the core principles of Chinese medicine give the backdrop of how you can use food therapy, manual techniques of acupressure and Gua sha, exercise, and lifestyle advice to make the changes you need from within. You can learn to assess your own ailments, understand the main syndromes and illness patterns, and become proactive in lifestyle changes that can alleviate symptoms and support recovery.

Self-Healing with Chinese Medicine allows you to manage your own healing process, delve into a fresh perspective of the natural world to maintain balance and flow in your body system, and build up resilience with simple self-care.

Gua sha Facial es una técnica de belleza de anti-envejecimiento simple y efectiva del Lejano Oriente enfocado en realzar el aspecto y la percepción de su cara de manera totalmente natural. Consiste en técnicas de raspado ligero sobre la piel que ayudan a realzar y rejuvencer la cara, y a combatir y prevenir arrugas, ojeras, patas de gallo, lineas faciales y otros señales de envejecimiento.

Clive Witham, autor de 'Gua Sha: Guía de Autotratamiento Completo', le llevará a recorrer las maneras en las que el cuerpo puede afectar la cara, y las maneras en las que puede activar la vitalidad de la piel y el tono muscular a través de antiguas ideas orientales de la salud y el bienestar. Con más de 100 ilustraciones a color, le mostrará detalladamente qué musculos, canales y puntos están implicados en cada caso, y como completar cinco secuencias de Gua sha en la cara, cabeza, cuerpo, brazos y piernas, para optimizar la totalidad de su cara y la zona del cuello.

Con este enfoque holístico de la belleza, ahora puedes desbloquear su potencial y verse y sentirse lo mejor posible, tanto por dentro como por fuera.

Clive Witham es acupuntor y especialista en educación sobre la salud. Es director del Komorebi Institute, creador de Ecology in Motion Gua sha y autor de varios libros populares sobre Gua sha publicados en 5 idiomas. Ha utilizado Gua sha profesionalmente desde hace más de 20 años y dirige The Gua sha Center en Barcelona.