Learn how infant massage will not only relax your baby, but also can help soothe your baby’s minor ailments.

Pretty much everyone knows that massages feel great. But as the health benefits of massage become clearer, hospitals have started to prescribe a professional backrub as standard therapy.

Massage can be a great way to soothe the muscle aches that come with pregnancy. Massage therapist Claire shares a few hints that moms-to-be should be mindful of.

It’s time to get up off the couch, open your mind and take a journey into a new sense of health and wellbeing with Mind, Body & Soul. This series is your passport through an array of natural health practices, spiritual beliefs and alternative therapies.

You can't help others until you help yourself, and the same applies (or should) to gift giving. But self-directed gifts needn't be about greed or even self-indulgence. Below, LIME proposes five intentions, or novel ways to think about self-giving, plus 10 tangible gift suggestions that might help you lead a greener, more balanced, and more conscious life.

 

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Chinese massage isn't just good for relaxing and reducing stress and tension, it can heal minor ailments in the human body.

Aromatherapy massages. Filet mignon dinners. Spa pedicures.

Lately, it seems that some pampered pooches live better than I do.

Learn how infant massage will not only relax your baby, but also can help soothe your baby’s minor ailments.

The Mind, Body and Soul series focuses on natural health practices, spirituality and alternative therapies.

The big day is near! Dr. Andrea Pennington is at the end of an incredible nine-month journey, and at the beginning of a whole new life. Have her alternative methods for pain relief, relaxation, spirituality and exercise helped her pregnancy? And will they work when she’s in the delivery room? Find out if everything goes as planned!