Massage For The Senior Dog

Massage for the Senior Dog describes senior dogs, their needs at their mature stage of life, instruction for how to address those needs with the skills of massage therapy. This book describes the psychosocial needs of dogs, dogs pack mentality, canine body language, and instinctual behaviors. It describes a style of safe animal handling during the massage which is based on awareness and use of universal animal body language and self-awareness techniques. Practitioner body mechanics are more than moving in a balanced and grounded way; all movements are directed by breath, intentionality and ownership of space. Included in this book are massage skills, body mechanics, animal communication, the aging cycle, specific requirements of geriatric dogs, and a full massage sequence. The instruction is based on the authors 30 years of canine massage experience as a practitioner and instructor at the PetMassage Training and Research Institute in Toledo Ohio.Massage for the Senior Dog is the text for the PetMassage Home-study course, Senior Dog Massage for the Canine Massage Practitioner.Find the link when you visit: http://www.petmassage.com