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Massage.
This is Athena Jezik and
we thought it would be nice to show you how oftentimes you're gonna end up doing this
especially if you work
in an office
or you just have a friend over and they are sitting at the table. There's ways of
working just to give a little relief just from sitting in a chair without
any cushion.
Now here she's holding herself up. She is leaning back on the chair
and everything is as relaxed as possible.
So when you're doing this you have to remember if you're going to give a lot of push forward
you might want to be able to hold them back this direction
but we will just see how that works. Okay so how you work it from here oftentimes if
you're at work that person will have their clothes on.
So this is going to be a little bit different technique.
you will not use any oil with clothing. Sometimes the fabric is a little rough
to work over especially in a
longer
stroking type movements. So we'll start out by just rotating this part
here and
taking your fingers up and giving kind of a ringing action
to the upper shoulder, the trapezius,
coming across here
and doing it on both sides.
And then
because she doesn't have any
cloth to deal with I'm gonna
work into the skin a little bit more. If you are working over clothing take more
circular kind of movements.
You can see she's kind of moving forward. I'm kind of pulling back on her with my fingers while I'm
pushing forward
with my thumbs, down into the shoulder blades a little bit.
This is just a very very
upper back, neck
kind of thing.
This will give enough relief to feel better.
Up the neck. Of course usually their necks are not covered with clothing. Now if you do
have clothing on this next part you wanna hold of the fabric tight
while you're
working along this way. You don't want it to bunch underneath. So oftentimes you'll just
have to figure out ways
to hold and
just run your thumb across that way
on either side
and then some more of the
rotations.
And then getting into the neck
it would be required to
just run those thumbs up.
Holding yourself as steady as possible and
now here is a nice position to be in to be able to work
into the base of the skull.
And little circular motions along the side of the vertebrae.
If they're sitting at a desk they can kind of lean their chin into their hands
if it's not going to take the shoulders too far out of position.
You don't wanna
take the shoulders up in any manner but
sometimes if the desk or table isn't very high
you can get away with
letting them rest
their head in their hands.
If it's going to bow them over too far, you probably don't wanna do that.
And then across here
and you can take it down into the
upper thoracic vertebrae as well.
You know, you could do this 5 minutes or so to somebody at work and it will
really make a difference. It will relax them out just enough
to feel like they can make it through the rest of the day.
I used to have a job where I would go onsite and do these massages
and it was really helpful.
If you're a therapist, it's not the easiest work to do from the
chair.
I personally don't like it as well as I like it from the table
but I know the benefits of having are some work done from a chair.
Okay
and into the neck and here
you can stretch the head upward and
make some locations
of the head.
I'm tractioning up a little bit,
mainly holding her skull
balancing the front part of the face with my fingers
but the main pressure is right behind the ears.
I'm stabilizing it.
When you go to the back be very careful.
If you're rolling it be sure to support the head when it gets to the back.
Ok.
And there we go and you can just brush them off.
There you are.