Val Guin's Forearm Dance

Val Guin’s Forearm Dance™ is a NEW practitioner-friendly, instructional massage program.

Discover an invigorating, groundbreaking massage technique that combines efficient body mechanics with the use of only the Forearm and Olecranon as tools. Val Guin’s Forearm Dance™ is a NEW practitioner-friendly, instructional massage program that focuses on giving a full body circulatory massage combined with the depth and muscular separation found in deep tissue work. Throughout the DVD, Val demonstrates the importance of self-care for massage and bodywork practitioners, and she states, “it is absolutely essential that we enter each day, each session, each moment, with openness, compassion, empathy and freedom for our clients and ourselves.”

DVD content

Menu 1: Forearm dance

• Forearm Dance Instructional, Run time 49:30

An In-depth comprehensive session training

Detailed explanation of stances, body mechanics and tools for each stroke, concept and technique of Forearm dance for the entire body. Includes nine chapters.

• Forearm dance Demo, Run Time 44:34

Val demonstrates a full body Forearm dance covering the back, legs, abdomen & chest.

• Forearm dance Demo 2, Run Time 44:34

Val demonstrates a full body Forearm dance with voiceover.

Menu 2: Special Features, Run Time: 54:30

• Includes: Tools & Positions, Glossary of Terms, Q& A with Val Guin, Workshop classroom footage, and more.

Menu 3: Spiral, Run Time 13:05

• Val teaches the "Spiral" exercise, which opens the body, allows Chi (Qi) to flow and grounds energy, enabling practitioner to sustain their work and health.

Val designed the massage techniques in Forearm Dance to benefit therapists with varying degrees of experience in their own massage careers, regardless of their personal health status. Practitioner benefits include: Saving your hands by using the forearm and olecranon as your massage tools. Supporting your health and well-being through the use of improved body mechanics. Opening your body and increasing your energy with Val’s step-by-step, ‘Spiral’ exercise.

Client benefits include: Customized techniques are individualized to meet client needs using the the forearm for broad superficial work and the olecranon for deep work. Continuity of strokes encourages client to de-stress, relax deeply and enjoy the healthy benefits of massage and bodywork.

SPIRITED AND INSPIRING TEACHER
Forearm Dance is about getting in touch with yourself so you can go deeper into your work by channeling your chi. Val Guin runs a healing center in Santa Monica, California, and teaches at the Institute of Psychostructural Balancing, International School of Bodywork. She began to develop this form out of necessity after a severe injury limited the use of one of her arms. After she healed, she found working this way gives her more freedom of movement, saves her hands, increases her strength, allows her to work on more clients and have more fun every day.

On this beautiful DVD filmed by the ocean, she shows you how to use the concepts of yang action, yin support, elongation and self-awareness with a little Hawaiian hula so you put less strain on your body and work more deeply. She offers a class in “forearm dance,” showing step by step how to work both broadly and with specificity, how to “hook and release” a muscle using forearm and olecranon as your tools. She shows two complete sessions, one with explanation and one with music. And she leads a practice she calls “the spiral,” incorporating the horse pose, the lunge and “hula hands,” that raises chi and makes the “forearm dance” as invigorating for the practitioner as it is healing for the client. Guin is a spirited and inspiring teacher. She generously offers a portion of the proceeds to charity.

LISA MERTZ, PhD, LMT. Massage Therapy Journal, US, Summer 2007

The Forearm Dance Technique This joyful, creative massage technique incorporates the forearm and olecranon for both deep and superficial work. The result? Relaxed clients and energized therapists.

HAND-SAVING TECHNIQUE
Val Guin, CMT, developed FOREARM DANCE to combine efficient body mechanics with the use of the forearm and olecranon as tools. This DVD includes instructions for and demonstrations of this hand-saving technique, and also provides a glossary of terms, energy exercises, and more, for a total run time of more than three hours.
Massage & Bodywork Magazine, February/March 2007

I TURNED A CORNER Thank you Val! I really feel that I turned a corner in my bodywork. I feel as if something “clicked” and it all has come together gracefully and easily. EMILY J., Venice, CA

MORE SOPHISTICATED AND REFINED Every time I see the FOREARM DANCE video I learn something new. My skills continue to improve, much to the delight of my clients. I feel I am evolving to a more sophisticated and refined level of bodywork. RICK O., Los Angeles, CA

INVALUABLE TO BODY WORKERS As a therapist, my body thanks you ! I was amazed at how much energy I had. The energy generating techniques that Val taught us, and the nature of the FOREARM DANCE itself, is tremendous in allowing a massage therapist to work far beyond the usual limitations. I think that this technique will be invaluable to body workers and extremely efficacious to clients. MILLY J., Long Beach, CA

About Val Guin

Val Guin is an internationally-known, certified massage therapist who has been doing bodywork for over 23 years. She is a founding member of the Santa Monica Center of Healing Arts where she maintains a private practice. She is also a Director of Education for the Institute of Psycho-Structural Balancing (IPSB) and she has been a presenter for the AMTA. After suffering severe injuries in her back and arm after being hit by a drunk driver, Val created Forearm Dance as a self-healing and practitioner-friendly form of massage.

See Val's website http://www.valguin.com/

During my massage career of over two decades, I had to develop an effective way to sustain my clientele, teaching schedule, and my own health. – Val Guin