Massage For Relaxation

The Ultimate Guide to Loving Your Body & Spirit

Cast & Crew

Actors: Cleo, Maya Campos

Directors: Patty Mooney & Mark Schulze

Studio: New & Unique Videos

VHS Release Date: 1985

Run Time: 43 minutes

Watch it at Vimeo On Demand

Wikipedia Article

Award – ITVA Medallion

IMDb

ISBN #0-944060-01-3

This instructional video was originally released on VHS and is now streaming on your favorite platform.

Description

Massage for Relaxation (1985), produced by Patricia Mooney of New & Unique Videos, holds the distinction of being the world’s first instructional massage video. A pioneer in its genre, this elegant and accessible program transformed the way people learned the art of massage, making professional techniques available to anyone with a desire to ease stress and promote well-being. In this sensual and tasteful guide, Cleo Mooney demonstrates how to give and receive a full-body massage using timeless techniques that relieve tension, soothe sore muscles, and awaken the body’s natural healing power.

Viewers are taught how to massage themselves as well as a partner, with clear, step-by-step instruction covering the neck, shoulders, back, arms, legs, hands, feet, and face. Special segments include how to locate and treat “trigger points” for deeper relief, how to reduce headaches, and a unique Glowing Salt Rub treatment that leaves the skin smooth and rejuvenated. The video also addresses cellulite care and offers guidance on integrating massage into a daily self-care ritual.

Award-winning and widely regarded as a collector’s classic, Massage for Relaxation remains a foundational work in massage education. Patty Mooney’s vision and Cleo’s gentle instruction have helped countless people discover the restorative power of touch—an experience both intimate and empowering.

There are lots of massage videos on the market, but this one’s special. Not only does masseuse Cleo explain techniques – including Swedish massage, Shiatsu and Reflexology – while demonstrating as she massages Maria, she also teaches Self-Massage techniques. So you can recap your investment with the first massage you give yourself… a great self-help tool in reducing stress, relieving pain, and channeling your healing energy.

Ladyslipper

Cleo Mooney does more than demonstrate the proper techniques for massaging others; she also devotes an extended section of the program to the art of self-massage. Briskly paced and modestly priced, this program just may make a dent in the sell-through market.

Billboard Magazine

Relaxation is the key word in today’s stress-filled life, and more health-minded persons are discovering the benefits of relaxing with a massage. This is a unique video because it is both instructional for someone learning to be a masseur and instructor Cleo demonstrates how to give yourself a massage. Techniques are plainly shown how to relieve tension in neck, shoulders, back, hips, chest, abdomen, legs, arms, feet, face and head.

Total Health Magazine

Learn how to relieve tension from your head to your feet, locate trigger points for best results, select the best oils for your skin, and more. You can reduce stress and pain, at your own pace.

Health World

Winner of the ITVA Medallion Award, this excellent video with a soothing score makes it easy to relax while learning how to massage oneself or another. In the first segment, Cleo demonstrates a body massage with practical tips on how to select the right oil, ease aching muscles, and locate trigger points for deeper releaf; the techniques are amazingly easy to learn, and there are many helpful close-up shots. Segment two’s self-massage section can be put into immediate use; exclusive spas have used these techniques to pamper arms, legs, hands and feet, treat cellulite, improve the complexion, and soften skin for years. Now the secret of the glowing salt rub is available to everyone! Highly recommended.

Nexus

Here’s yet another massage video. This one is the most exotic and least medically-oriented of the titles reviewed here. Host Cleo acts like a sort of mystic as she demonstrats massage techniques. A bonus: She also demonstrates how you can massage yourself.

Video Insider

An attractive and provocative jacket photograph conceals what is otherwise a highly professional, nonpornographic treatment of whole body massage, beginning with extensive instructions on back strokes, contuing with upper legs, then calf, hips, feet and stomach. “Knead the flesh as if it were bread or clay,” the instructor recommends, “and never force, but improvise and be gentle!” The camera angles present excellent focus on various techniques of massage, showing hand movements in close detail… Included in the presentation is a long, detailed description of self-massage techniques which, because they are not widely known or undersdtood, should interest and benefit a general audience. ****

Video Rating Guide for Libraries

What is more relaxing than a massage? Reading books is a way to learn the techniques of manipulating your own or someone else’s body to help release tension, tone up muscles or simply relax. Massage for Relaxation presents a masic massage video primer that provides the viewer with an overview of techniques and methods for working on yourself or another. This production gets its point across effectively.

Body, Mind, Spirit