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This is Athena Jezik and we've had some requests in for
massages if there's no table available and
how we could seat the person in order to
accomplish a massage.
What we have here is just a regular
chair with not a really high back, but a back
that's fairly high
and we have a pillow in front of that and then a pillow for the head
so that they're comfortable leaning forward
you wanna have everything comfortable you don't wanna have
them having to hold anything.
So she's just leaning into the chair and
not having to hold herself up in any way.
So these massages are basically..
These also called on-site massages or seated massages. And I did, for a couple of
years, went to businesses and
gave the employees these kind of massages.
Typically
they're not done with bare skin.
They're done through clothes and
after doing them like that I just asked everyone to take their shirt off
in the office and they did it
because it was a much better massage than doing it through clothing.
But when you are at the airport and there is somebody doing this, you might
want to keep your clothes on because you'll miss your next flight.
Okay so basically you just want to do similar things you wanna
start up at the neck.
I'll just work from this side. You can work from either side.
Now, the neck in this position has a nice stretch to it
a nice advantage
and you can get a
much bigger pull on the shoulders in a seated position than you can
when they're laying on the table unless the face cradle is pointed downward
pretty far.
And of course you can't get this if somebody needs to turn their head
one way or the other if you are
on the floor working
and
really just go around and work the muscles and
find the bones. It's the same
type of thing
you just have to be
flexible enough and
know how to modify and change it a little bit, but still cover the same
bases. Maybe change the routine up a little bit because of the positioning.
Just whatever it takes is the important thing.
So
here we are
Okay now I am going to move to the other side. And I do sit and stand through these because when
you get farther down in the back
it's kinda *** the therapist's back
and therapists' number one rule for all of you out there is take care yourself
first.
Your own positioning, your own biomechanics is
really really important
because if you don't then you're not going to be doing this for very long.
It's a lot harder work than it may seem
but it doesn't have to be if
that time is taken to learn
the proper posturing for this and
also just space yourself between people.
You know what you can handle.
Of course any work that you do on your friends and family isn't going to be demanding
like the professional is that you're
required to do.
I'm making circular motions here down the spine because
I don't do this particular way down the spine
when they are on their stomach.
But it just feels like this is a good thing to do so that's how much the
modification can be.
Think about what it is you would like and what would feel good to you,
the person doing the massage,
and
then transfer that onto the person that you're working on
and that's a good
way to think about it.
What feels good...
You can still do some shoulder work here even
and get up under...
shoulder work here.
So,
you can wrap the body
by moving this direction.
You can also get inside the rib cage just each rib,
not really inside the rib cage, but you're going between each rib into those
intercostal muscles
that always feels good but you do run into a scapula there so you can't
get
into all of them.
It helps breathing.
Okay.
You can even bring it back down this way. So there's a lot of ways that you
can
modify this.