STRETCHING TECHNIQUES ORIGINALLY were used as an aspect of Swedish Gymnastics, and were taught in conjunction with Swedish Massage.
These stretching techniques are applied to a person as a means of stretching tissues, ligaments, tendons and bones. These techniques have been part of the curriculum at the New Mexico School of Natural Therapeutics since 1974. As the years unfolded many new stretches were developed and assimilated into the base techniques. These techniques can now be done as a complete treatment or integrated with other bodywork modalities.
Stretching techniques can be used as a complete treatment or be integrated with other modalities.
- The motive of science was the extension of man, on all sides, into Nature, till his hands should touch the stars, his eyes see through the earth, his ears understand the language of beast and bird and the sense of the wind; and through his sympathy heaven and earth should talk with him.Ralph Waldo Emerson
