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With so many nerve endings that covers the area of the scalp, head and scalp are a great place to practice massage. Massaging this area may also help relieve tension in the face and neck, and can help promote sleep, lower stress load, making the experience even more beneficial.

Instructions
1. Sitting or standing head up the receiver, you should be reclined or lying down, standing or sitting behind the receiver.
2. Make sure the hair is not wet. You may prefer to use a lotion or oil during the massage. Always ask the person if this is right first, as some do not want, because the hair may be dirty.
3. Begin the massage slowly, gently running his fingers yolks through the hair and face.
4. Stroking along the scalp from the forehead to the back of the head, with a repetitive motion. Repeat this step, this time from the sides of the head to the top.
5. Place your thumbs on the top or back of the head. Massage with your fingers in small circles move across the scalp.
6. Use both thumbs to rub alternate vertically along the back of the neck, placing each thumb on each side of the spine. Alternating pressure to do so.

Give a massage on the shoulders can help relax the central nervous system, and the same sore muscles of the upper back. This can be a sensual experience. However, most of the time, this process is to help another person to relieve their stress.

This is especially for people who work with their arms all day, or for people who sit behind the desk. In a few simple steps, you will be able to give a shoulder massage effectively.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1 Start with the sitting position. This should be a vertical position. A chair or sofa back might work very well.

2 Start the massage at the neck. Both hands should be used. Take your finger and apply pressure on either side of the neck. Then, move in a circular motion until the fingers of both hands touching. Make sure you apply good pressure, but not to press for pain.

3 Move down to the base of the neck. Continue in a circular motion with just your fingers. Once you have reached the base of the neck, returned with the same exercise up.

4 Massage the shoulders to the back side. Use your fingers in a grasping motion. This should be done with both hands. Be sure to massage only back muscle.

5 Massage your shoulders to the sides by the biceps and triceps. Use your fingers in a soft grip movement. This should be done with both hands.

6 Repeat steps 1 through 5 until you are completely relaxed and your muscles are loose.

The foot massage has been used for thousands of years throughout the world.
It’s almost a natural process after a long day at work enjoy a foot massage and a natural way to relieve pressure and pain of the same.

The foot massage is a basic that no one can doubt, because after this, one feels much better and often worked the least and the most neglected of our body.

Scientific data demonstrate specific levels of benefits that occur when massaging this area. The feet are a greater circulation of blood, the blood being the life of every cell in our body, these are oxygen and remove toxins accumulated during the day.

A scientific study conducted among cardiac surgery patients showed that there was a significant decrease in stress levels after a foot massage. Reducing stress levels can help the body in many ways, mentally and physically as well.

Certainly the benefits of massage on the feet are much higher when performed by a professional therapist, which does not mean you stop caring and pamper them with a good bath and a massage will bring you home which also benefits if the optimal daily care.

There are four basic massage techniques are used depending on the area: percussion, kneading, friction and pressure.

The percussion technique involves applying short, gentle strokes to stimulate the muscles. It is highly recommended when the subject performs a sedentary job or does not perform any physical activity regularly. Although work and domestic obligations do not always allow the body to exercise, an effort is necessary because otherwise dormant muscles becoming harder and more flexible. Through quick slap and shock to the edge of the hand blood vessels dilate and cardiovascular tone is restored.

The technique of mixing is exactly as its name suggests. It involves using the fingertips to exert some pressure. This will warm the muscles, which is the correct way to begin and end a massage.

As for friction, is to rub with outstretched hands massaging the area you want. First you use a hand and then the other, always exert some pressure.

Finally we have the pressure technique, which is very beneficial when the pain is located in a particular area and requires quick relief. The right way is to use the fingertips and rely on the thumb to get a little harder. Another option is to use the knuckles. The pressure can be exerted in the form of kneading, or muscle pain holding five to ten seconds before releasing.

Superficial rub or massage is done by moving the hand so the skin surface is a soft caressing rubbing the surface of the skin trying to be in the same direction .. The rub is usually done with the palms of the hands or the pads of the fingers. The therapist s hands roam many times the localized area of ​​massage and gently raise when the end of the tour, to begin again at the starting point. Need to be applied this type of massage gently, not abruptly stop moving rub, trying to diminish the sense of beginning and end of motion, making it insensitive everything we can.

The main feature of this technique is to start gently massaging, to progressively use other techniques that surely could not be supported by the patient without the prior friction. It has, because of its softness and slightly sedative effect a slight effect of drainage in the upper layers of the skin.

In the lower limb begins this technique in the plantar surface, then the dorsal area of ​​the foot, which is followed by the ankles, the inside of the tibia and soleus, and climbed up to the root member, repeating the massage 2 or 3 times.

In the upper limb started by the palm of the hand, followed by fingers, one by one, then the thenar and hypothenar region, styloid process of radius and ulna and forearm. Found in the lower limb girdle and a number of sensitive points because they store fat.

Massage therapy and massage therapy are from the set of operations, usually performed without the aid of instruments, in part or whole organism, in order to mobilize tissues or segments of the members to cause changes in the body directly or indirectly to obtain therapeutic effects. Massage is an integral and important part in physiotherapy

The therapeutic effects of massage will depend on several aspects: the sensitivity of the subject receiving the massage, the region where it applies, the intensity, frequency and timing of this application and of course the time applied in the session.
We found two types of effects that occur in the application of massage: the direct and indirect costs. Direct effects are caused by the mechanical action of massage.

On the skin causes a stretch of the elastic fibers and increased sebum. All this helps to skin softness and elasticity, which invigorates and improves the nutritional status of it. On the tissue there is an increase in elasticity, in addition to stretching of the structures that shape can produce a detachment or release of the structures that are incurred and / or attached. The subcutaneous tissue increases your metabolism and circulation, which promotes a decrease in fatty tissue. The muscle, there is better nutrition and increased metabolism, which helps prevent lactic acid concentration and enhances muscle excitability, thus increasing the tone and muscle performance.

Metamorphic massage, a technique that aims to reactivate the body’s vital energy. It is based on self-healing and that the body has a vital impulse that is what gives you strength and health to the body. This massage works on the memory cell to the point of returning to prenatal life through massage of the feet, hands and head.

Metamorphic Massage Therapy also called Prenatal and Metamorphosis, was created by Robert St. John, reflexologist and naturopath English, who discovered a psychological map of the human being which is reflected in the foot. The two most important reference discovered by St. John are the “father” and the “mother.”

Phalangeal joint in the big toe is located the “zone of the Father” which is what is linked to the time of formation of the first cell embryo at the beginning of the cervical spine. The place of the “healthy mother is the one in the Achilles tendon and heel edges.

This type of massage works on a temporal plane beyond the symptoms of the disease in particular, and is most effective when we do this massage someone emotionally attached to us. When parents give their children this massage to connect with the true life force. Read the rest of this entry »

Touching is a basic human experience: touching, hugging, shaking hands and kissing up a fraction of the repertoire of tactile contact has our species. Whether to insult, expressing affection or repression, the sense of touch provides us with a broad form of communication that goes from the deepest recesses of human beings as sexual contact, even the most social or comforting as massage.

For reasons of stress, muscle pain or other discomfort, massage is becoming increasingly popular. From those that cause pain to those who do not even touch the body with the same objective: to feel good.

Without falling into the purely private or its opposite, massage involve different social ranks and their use can be focused to eliminate discomfort left by the extra effort in a sport, back pain or to stimulate your partner sexually. Read the rest of this entry »

Massage eliminates muscle spasms, only to stress, tension, and in many cases, improve mood. Are health benefits for both physical and mental health.

Body massage is applied since ancient times and has many benefits. They are good for the skin, blood and lymphatic circulation, muscles and tendons, respiratory and nervous systems, and even help improve mood. We have the possibility in this field is very different and each is suitable for each case.

Self-massage

Self-massage is a massage with a technique similar to Japanese shiatsu. This consists of exercises focusing on the head and neck, accompanied by breathing, stretching, and pressure taps on specific points. With the increasing practice of bone and muscle problems, anxiety, insomnia, stress, hypertension and digestive disorders. Read the rest of this entry »

HOLISTIC HEALING MASSAGE

Holistic Healing Massage is a massage that integrates both body massage, body energy cleansing, chakra cleansing and subtle bodies and reenergetizacion of the whole body besides cleaning and balancing chakras as well as active listening therapy.

For serving the Holistic Healing Massage?
Holistic Healing Massage is used to cleanse our body of stagnant energy to destensionar, to unlock emotions serves to cleanse the chakras and to balance and integrate the body mentally, physically and emotionally and also the subtle bodies, the Healer Holistic Massage also serves , to cleanse, balance and reenergetizarnos to open ourselves to new challenges, to open ourselves to the abundance and prosperity as well as something very important to unconditional love helps us to obtain peace and serenity of mind and emotional … and so on.

How is the Healer Holistic Massage?
Holistic Healing Massage is done at three levels of intensity: the first level or making contact is a very soft surface to relax the body part where you are applying and then move to the second level where you unlock and search destensionar the body and remove stagnant energy and either muscle tension or emotional block as well as the dead cells with the third level is swept and cleaned, leaving a feeling of lightness …!!! To continue with the second part of massage:

The whole body reenergetizacion of peace através energy … giving way to a quarter: the balance of farms by different methods.

And last a little guided meditation.

Before and after the massage you have an active listening session.

Elements that accompany the Healer Holistic Massage?
The elements are: sea salt, candles, oil, music, different colors, stones, aromas, and all my unconditional love! All this in a relaxed, calm and full of peace and harmony