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10 Principles of a Great Massage
By Massage Massage of Massage
1. Be centered and focused.
2. Respect the recipient fully: have clear intention.
3. Listen to the client's body and breath with your hands, heart, ears, and intuition.
4. Massage to create more space (length and breadth) and breathing room.
5. Massage to facilitate movement. Include secure range of motion work.
6. Massage toward the heart to improve blood circulation and lymph return.
7. Massage muscles thoroughly: body, tendons, insertions.
8. Start gently, then massage deeper.
9. Massage as deep as is comfortable for the client. Deeper means slower.
Listen very carefully to the recipient's body and breath.
Cool down after deep work.
10. Don't over-massage an area. Some ways to massage In the direction with the muscle fiber: * Long strokes (efflurage)
* Local short strokes (petrissage)
* Circles:
o back and forth
o pointed pressure against the muscle fibers (cross fiber), especially the tendons.
* Others:
o Pinching
o rolling the skin and muscles
o puffing the muscle to gain access
* Stretching:
o pulling
o pushing
o rolling and rocking
o jostling
* Gentle:
o superficial stroking
o insubstatial stroking (nerve strokes)
o tapping
o holding still (listen and follow breath) |
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