Body Basics - [Stratford, London] Information on APNT and ITEC diploma courses in various forms of massage including sports, Indian head, aromatherapy, ayurvedic and reflexology.
Clare Maxwell-Hudson School of Massage - [London W1] Teaches a wide variety of therapeutic massage techniques, cancer care, aromatherapy, sports and manual lymph drainage.
Fulcrum - [Wiltshire and Oxfordshire] Information about training in fitness instruction and massage therapy.
Essentials for Health - [London] Details of various levels of training in massage and aromatherapy.
Active Health Group - [Manchester] Offering treatments and professional training courses in sports therapy, and various massage treatments, and is a professional membership organisation. Detailed section on various injuries and how they can be helped.
The Soma Institute - Details of a diploma in chavutti thirumal - massage using the feet. Explanation of the treatment and a list of practitioners.
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Training The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Training
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Training "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Training
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Training With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Training
Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Training A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Training
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Training "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Training
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Training Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Training
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Training "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Training
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Training "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Training
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Training Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Training
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Training America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Training
>From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Training "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Training
