Massage: Basics for Beginners – our massage book in English

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Based on the beginners' course book of Touch Amsterdam, this is a book to help you build step by step a basic massage to relax family and friends. (This is classical massage, not Shiatsu.) Such a book is also of course the perfect birthday or Christmas present (or just … the perfect present!). You're giving someone you care for something invaluable: the gift of touch. (And who knows … you might get a massage in return!)

• A teacher guides you through the various techniques, speaking with you from the pages, as it were
• Good support material for diploma courses
• Possibly the most complete and structured guide for beginners available today
• 124 pages (26 x 19 cm) full of instructional and background information
• Special binding ensures that the book always lies flat for practical use
• 166 photographs (and no exploitation of women)
• 22 anatomical drawings (from The Anatomy Coloring Book)
• Chapter about general and specific anatomy with emphasis on skeleton and muscles
• Background information about oils, history, choice of courses, books and music
• Available also in Dutch
• DVD with the same title already a success: see the separate pages on this site
• Book and DVD support each other but are also meant to be used separately; in combination you have a formidable source of knowledge in this field

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We specialize in:

Individual massage

Everyone needs time out, an hour for him- or herself. Touch masseurs have considerable experience in providing good, deep massages for stress release. You are in good hands!

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Courses

We present the basic Touch beginners’ course in classical massage which we have developed and refined over a period of 20 years. About 2200 people have attended such a course. At the moment we can offer only:

Gaytouch

Perhaps partly because one of the founders of Touch is English, this Dutch massage practice has always had an international outlook. Gaytouch is for gay men because of the relative ease of reaching a particular target group (targeting ‘all the men in the world’ is not realistic) and also because of the quite intensive social aspect of such a week.
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