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5 Reasons to Learn Full Body Massage

The therapeutic value of a truly good full body massage has been known for centuries

Massage is still recognised today by medical experts worldwide as an excellent way to fight pain and strengthen resistance to disease

5 Reasons to Learn Full Body Massage

Medical research now provides strong evidence that massage:

◦ Drastically reduces stress and related illnesses

◦ Boosts the immune system

◦ Gives you an all-over body detox

◦ Reduces anxiety, lowering blood pressure and heart rate.

◦ Alleviates neck, shoulder and back pain

8 Massage Tips to Soothe and Relax

The following slides show 8 full body massage tips that you can learn to:

◦ Stretch and knead the skin, muscles and joints of the neck, shoulder and back to get rid of toxins

◦ Release trapped tension in tight knotted muscles in the upper and lower back

◦ Soothe muscular aches and pains in the neck and shoulders that cause the majority of headaches and migraines

The Neck and Shoulders

Effleurage movement over top of chest to back of neck:

◦ With fingertips move hands from centre of upper chest out to shoulders

The Neck and Shoulders

◦ ...then move fingertips up each side of the neck and round to the back of the neck before returning to mid upper chest and repeating

The Neck and Shoulders Knuckling movement over top of chest to

back of neck:

◦ Follow the same path as the previous effleurage stroke but use the front part of your knuckles instead of fingertips

The Neck and Shoulders Finger vibrating movement over top of

chest to back of neck:

◦ Cover the same area again but spread out the fingertips, press and move in rapid side-to-side movements from the upper chest to the back of the neck

The Neck and Shoulders Knead the back of the neck:

◦ Starting at the trapezius muscle at the bottom of the neck, use the front part of your fingers to make small circular movements that knead the skin

◦ Work up to the upper part of the back of the neck

The Neck and Shoulders Knuckling of the neck and shoulder muscle:

◦ Starting by massaging and kneading the trapezius muscle with your knuckles from the outside of each shoulder to the top of the neck

The Back Spider walk up the back from the buttocks

to the shoulders:

◦ Starting at the left side of the back, use the top of your fingers to walk like a spider up the back, dragging your thumbs behind and gently grabbing skin and muscle to drag to the top as you move up

◦ Repeat until you’ve covered the whole back

The Back Circular movements on the coccyx:

◦ Using your thumbs press down in circles on the lower part of the back using medium to heavy pressure

The Back Track the hip bone:

◦ Using the palms of your hands with your fingers as an anchor, move your hands up and down tracking the hip bonefrom the spine all the way to the bottom

Learn To Full Body Massage This is only a sample of the full body

massage techniques that you can learn to use to fight pain naturally

Massage offers many more therapeutic qualities through the ability to stimulate the body’s in-built healing mechanisms

Learn To Full Body Massage When you learn to massage, you are

actually encouraging the body to:

◦ Depend on itself to fix nagging pains and recurring ailments and illnesses, even long-term and chronic conditions

◦ Rather than resorting to sole dependence on prescription medicine or over-the-counter painkillers

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